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New comment by oh_no in "Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft"

oh_no — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:13:40 +0000

day 1 benchmarks had that for opus and i think also astra but updated numbers have smoothed that out. i can't say for sure what all changed between early runs and now but it seems like max is now the most powerful mode for both models.

that said, with a clock on this benchmark it's very possible that lower reasoning = more iteration = better code.

New comment by oh_no in "Muse Wonder"

oh_no — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:50:03 +0000

please be serious

New comment by oh_no in "Gemini 4 Argon"

oh_no — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:30:40 +0000

also a mess on desktop firefox

New comment by oh_no in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

oh_no — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:54:38 +0000

i mean we use max benchmarks because they have the best coverage, which sucks because very few people use max day to day, but it's what we have. the performance curve is generally pretty similar across models and effort levels, weird outliers are pretty weird. max is generally a big cost bump from most providers (less so from OpenAI)

New comment by oh_no in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

oh_no — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:58:24 +0000

AA shows Luna at 1/4 the price, 1 point behind on intelligence matrix with a 38.

Haiku 5.5 is 23% cheaper with a 4 point intelligence lead.

I'm on subscription usage so I can't compare Flash 4.1 to them directly but the OP has his head up his ass if he thinks Opus 5.5 is the best point of comparison. Why is anyone using Opus if the new Haiku is indistinguishable /s

Just absolutely terrible post, admits to using Opus for review but claims its intelligence isn't needed, why aren't you using Haiku or Sonnet then?

New comment by oh_no in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

oh_no — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:53:18 +0000

Luna is 1 point being on AA's index at 1/4 the cost, yes it "doesn't score as well" but paying 4x for 1 point is crazy if you're going off benchmarks.

AA has Haiku 5.5 as cheaper than 4.1 Flash (both on Max, which isn't ideal but what can ya do) and a 4 point intelligence gap.

Why do people like to think open models are more competitive than they are?

New comment by oh_no in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

oh_no — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:32:20 +0000

then just ask for text-only?

New comment by oh_no in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

oh_no — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:27:45 +0000

no AA benchmarks yet and the last chart in the announcement makes Haiku look useless vs new Sonnet pricing, interesting to see what 3rd party benchmarks show because i think Anthropic are costpertaskmaxxing here and it's going to look more like that bottom chart than the top ones.

New comment by oh_no in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

oh_no — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:42:45 +0000

I'm seeing a lot of this and it makes no sense, the internal model solved these but give one of the papers to Astra and Opus and I'm sure it will have no problem recreating it.

New comment by oh_no in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

oh_no — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:41:30 +0000

no, they did not steal the notes of 100s of people working on these 100s of problems, be serious

New comment by oh_no in "Decisions API is in public beta"

oh_no — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:17:10 +0000

yeah and this isn't a long term solution, stand this up, see what value you get out of it, and in a few months you cans witch to whatever the best decision model is

New comment by oh_no in "Decisions API is in public beta"

oh_no — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:46:39 +0000

I think releasing something like this makes sense even if it's underbaked, it's still very cheap, and if you have existing enterprise OpenAI relationship it's a lot easier to onboard something like this than set up a new Jev contract.

How these models play out is an open question but existing provider contracts and T&C are important for enterprise.

New comment by oh_no in "Mistral Large 4"

oh_no — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:20:32 +0000

Yeah, very similar benchmarks at 1/4 the price. I've been pretty happy with Luna 6 though I still think the gap between small and frontier models is larger than many people want to admit.

New comment by oh_no in "Mistral Large 4"

oh_no — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:15:36 +0000

> Impressive vision benchmarking. If the vision model is truly as good as astra, that would make it best in the world.

Sure, it leads in one unpopular benchmark with internal numbers.

But look at the third benchmark. It only has Sol 5.6 from OpenAI and it shows a 12.8. I don't know this benchmark but AA's GDP.pdf listing has Sol 5.6 Max at a 27, even non-reasoning beats the 12.8. It's extremely weird to cherry pick Sol 5.6 and then also lie about the published third party benchmark score. I'd love AI companies to stop lying about this stuff.

AA - https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdp-pdf?models=cla... Mistral announcement - https://mistral.ai/_astro/multimodal-benchmarks---gdp.pdf---...

New comment by oh_no in "Web Search API"

oh_no — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:08:28 +0000

you don't explain the advantage of workers over pages for a static site

New comment by oh_no in "Web Search API"

oh_no — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:07:34 +0000

i've done this several times recently

however now i just have agent do it with CLI and that works well and I don't have to find the secret link

New comment by oh_no in "Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"

oh_no — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:03:57 +0000

yeah it's 100% the wrong move for them to make, I think there is probably a lot of value in AI driving Figma, and if I can't do that, Figma will fall out of the ecosystem.

New comment by oh_no in "Gemini 4 Argon"

oh_no — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:13:06 +0000

i believe they've got inference issue. the phone app never got past 3.6, and they're going to roll this out to Ultra subscribers before other subscribers. none of this screams they're ready to flip a switch and start serving a ton of traffic as OpenAI/Anthropic routinely do.

nothing about this announcement gives me confidence that google is back on track as a model provider.

New comment by oh_no in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

oh_no — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:18:10 +0000

3.8 flash is more expensive than sol 6.0, google uses a LOT of reasoning tokens

New comment by oh_no in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

oh_no — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:50:32 +0000

Sol 6 is in there? You may be on Enterprise where it didn't roll out by default and comes out in a week or so. (Which is a weird and bad change to their model releases.)