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New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:23:04 +0000

This is true for any company following an open source strategy. You'll have the weights but you'll need to run inference, figure out your system prompt, sampling, quantization, etc etc. Loads of tuning.

elasticsearch the first example that comes to mind. you can run it yourself but elastic gives you so many lessons learned and tunes ootb that it sings with relatively little effort, though still reqiures some.

about a million dbs i could make the same comparison for

New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:16:21 +0000

Agree but I think they'll spend whatever they can to subsidize and break dependence on US models. Whatever isn't spend on US models will be spent on chinese models. Europe will remain a small single digit % unless they get their act together.

New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:14:53 +0000

Who's got a monopoly though lol?

New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:14:25 +0000

how profitable though

New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:13:14 +0000

> the idea that anyone could own that is obscene

What if china ends up owning it? Do you think that's better or worse for the world? You're commenting your open opinions on a site run by a company that could not exist in china and cannot today. You can ask ant, xai, and chatgpt models questions and get answers that do their best to reflect the world. There's a set of questions you cannot expect trustworthy answers for from chinese models and you think they're stopping at those few questions?

get real bro

New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:08:43 +0000

They're dumping, dude. They subsidize important industries so they can give it way so cheaply that free markets can't compete, and when those companies fail, they swoop in and make a profit. uber did the same thing with taxis! This isn't a free resource - it costs billions to build out the infra and maintain the inference to provide this, and you think they're doing it out of the goodness of their hearts lol.

Come on bro at least admit you're happier giving china your data than the us lol. You're definitely not using european models I can tell.

New comment by mmonaghan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

mmonaghan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:49:22 +0000

People say this but windows and mac won the os wars and consumer linux distros are dead. No one I know uses open weights models to code day-to-day and very few use open weights models in prod for most llm tasks. This is less true for image/video stuff, where I think the competition is more vibrant.

I think the best gauge is company spend. Open weight models are a very small share compared to frontier models, and I'd bet that many companies mostly using ow models would switch to frontier if they could afford it. I also think most companies who are picking ow over frontier probably have deeper financial issues they should focus on.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Micron CEO says low-price push by customers fueled the memory shortage"

mmonaghan — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:18:36 +0000

Flailing. I hope its because he fears for his job and not because he senses yet another price-fixing scandal on the horizon.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

mmonaghan — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:45:04 +0000

ehhhh I'm not a corgi stan but I'd bet they just took the design & copy, which is totally fine imo. Often better to just take another's design instead of spend a bunch of cycles figuring out flow. This is doubly true for secondary pages/layouts/features.

If I were them, I'd have changed copy and probably done some internal testing to smooth rough edges/improve where needed but sounds like they're moving as quickly as possible.

If they did just copy paste code, straight to jail...

New comment by mmonaghan in "Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines"

mmonaghan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:47:36 +0000

The country has changed massively through voting in the last 25 years. I would rather not change to a system where political groups attack others with guns and bombs to change things, because that's the alternative you're proposing.

Touch grass, find a significant other, and build a life.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

mmonaghan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:34:57 +0000

I think there's evolution at play here - if you dislike AI enough to opt out of using any ai-generated code, you will likely suffer. I think there's definitely a conversation to be had about whether to disclose AI use or not but that's a separate issue if you assume that everyone is using it in some respect.

New comment by mmonaghan in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

mmonaghan — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:47:07 +0000

Tried everything and love 1pass. Dont want to have to think about it too much.

I think this is tentatively good for bitwarden - making money means you can more easily invest in the team and product. Counter to the prevailing notion in comments here, I much prefer a vc/paid product for security-critical tools.

Hope they didn't wait too long before deciding to kill the free tier.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

mmonaghan — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:50:10 +0000

Good for them. Much easier to build a great product if you're making money from it. I tried bitwarden a while ago but ended up going with dashlane for a few years. I'm on 1password now and really like it but more competition is always better.

New comment by mmonaghan in "49,000 Lake Tahoe residents will lose power to data centers"

mmonaghan — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:58:24 +0000

This is clickbait meant to make you angry - the move has been planned for more than ten years, well before datacenter power usage was an issue. NV Energy has made it clear that they're ending their wholesale agreement and for some reason, Liberty and Cali/Nevada have made no effort to fill the gap.

If you're pissed or worried about this, write your state reps and demand more power gen. Nuclear, solar, geothermal, whatever floats your boat - we need to build more of it all around.

New comment by mmonaghan in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

mmonaghan — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:44:22 +0000

Kimi nowhere close to opus on extended use but definitely highly competitive with sonnet. I will probably end up using kimi for personal stuff when I find some time to get it running or get a non-anthropic/openai harness set up on my personal machine.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

mmonaghan — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:51:13 +0000

I think its two systems masquerading as one - employed-and-insured and everyone else.

If you're the former, it works great. If you're the latter, it can be mediocre to BRUTAL. Medical debt is our #1 or 2 cause of bankruptcy iirc.

Regardless of which class you are, if you can access the care, our outcomes are the best in the world for most things.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Should you feed child guests dinner?"

mmonaghan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:41:15 +0000

Yes

New comment by mmonaghan in "Show HN: AI connects your health data after a supplement nearly killed me racing"

mmonaghan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:00:15 +0000

If you can successfully integrate with quest/labcorp and one or two of the big ehrs, i will happily pay double what you're charging.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

mmonaghan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:50:58 +0000

after reading it, it's super positive and really great. I wouldn't consider myself the target audience for this, but ill probably work it into my morning practice a little for a couple weeks.

New comment by mmonaghan in "Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return"

mmonaghan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:22:07 +0000

trendslop is a great way to describe it