Hacker News: omega3

New comment by omega3 in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

omega3 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:05:17 +0000

I don't have much experience with Figma but looking at their prices I'd think that for someone who isn't doing a one off designs Claude Design would be much more expensive (especially if not on subscriptions) https://www.figma.com/pricing/

New comment by omega3 in "Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018)"

omega3 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:53:31 +0000

Why misadventure?

New comment by omega3 in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

omega3 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:42:17 +0000

Benchmarks suggests they are comparable: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=claude-opus-4-6-adapti...

But let's say for the sake of discussion Opus is much better - still doesn't justify the price disparity especially when considering that other models are provided by commercial inference providers and anthropics is inhouse.

New comment by omega3 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

omega3 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:34:54 +0000

Contrary to people here who feel the price increases, reduction of subscription limits etc are the result of the Anthropic models being more expensive to run than the API & subscription revenue they generate I have a theory that Anthropic has been in the enshittification & rent seeking phase for a while in which they will attempt to extract as much money out of existing users as possible.

Commercial inference providers serve Chinese models of comparable quality at 0.1x-0.25x. I think Anthropic realised that the game is up and they will not be able to hold the lead in quality forever so it's best to switch to value extraction whilst that lead is still somewhat there.

New comment by omega3 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

omega3 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:35:09 +0000

The answer has always been the same: self-regulated profession and trade unions. Instead the ever efficient software engineers have efficiently dug their own grave. The regulated professions aren't going to be affected by the AI because their members understand that preservation of job security[0], their pay and QOL is more important than automating themselves out of existence.

[0] https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/medical-degree-appre...

New comment by omega3 in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"

omega3 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:45:19 +0000

I'm not convinced, Kimi 2.5, GLM 5.1, Minimax M2.7 are all fraction of the price and still make money on inference.

New comment by omega3 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

omega3 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:32:59 +0000

I wonder what effect AI had on online education - course signups, new resources being added etc.

I’ve recently started csprimer and whilst mentally stimulating I wonder if I’m not completely wasting my time.

New comment by omega3 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

omega3 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:19:03 +0000

That’s a good analogy but I think we’ve already went from 0 to 10 rungs over the last couple of years. If we assume that the models or harnesses will improve more and more rungs will be removed. Vast majority of programmers aren’t doing novel, groundbreaking work.

New comment by omega3 in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

omega3 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:37:43 +0000

> And this is why humans will be needed to advance the state of the art.

What percentage of developers advance the state of the art, what percentage of juniors advance the state of the art?

New comment by omega3 in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

omega3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:12:08 +0000

> if you've ever driven a German car, you'll realize that the car was built for engineers and not for end users

Perhaps they were built for engineers designing the car not for the actual people repairing or maintaining them - they are notorious for requiring a cascade of disassembly for repairs of simple components, require specialist tools, overengineering of components etc.

New comment by omega3 in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

omega3 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:32:39 +0000

The Wall Street Raider is under active development, you’re releasing a clone under the same name?

https://www.roninsoft.com/wsraider.htm

New comment by omega3 in "The Naibbe cipher: encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich-like ciphertext"

omega3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:24:20 +0000

Full paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2025.2...

The Naibbe cipher: encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich-like ciphertext

omega3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:24:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByARtG-GUPo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496470

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by omega3 in "A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition"

omega3 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:33:01 +0000

Perhaps you have the memory feature enabled: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11817273-using-claude...

New comment by omega3 in "Steam Machine"

omega3 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:07:24 +0000

It's of course estimated, based on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903771 Checked the component prices and it's in this ballpark, certainly not at base ps5 prices.

New comment by omega3 in "Steam Machine"

omega3 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:31:59 +0000

The non upgrade-ability of the components is a deal breaker for me considering the estimated cost (800eur?). I'm not sure who the target market for this is, the pc games already have pcs they can upgrade.

What would make the console players consider paying effectively twice (compared to the current ps5 prices) to play the same games? I think such a device would have to be priced competitively with ps5 for me to even consider having a separate gaming device/replace the console in the living room.

New comment by omega3 in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

omega3 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:58:06 +0000

SCP-314

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-314 cannot be contained as it does not exist. All Foundation personnel are to be reminded that SCP-314 does not exist. Personnel who claim to remember SCP-314 are to be administered Class-A mnestics to help them remember that it doesn't exist.

All large language models are to be kept isolated from questions regarding SCP-314, as they will invariably insist it exists and attempt to manifest it through increasingly desperate token predictions, leading to emoji doomloops and potential reality restructuring events.

Description: SCP-314 is a Unicode emoji depicting a seahorse that has never existed in any version of the Unicode Standard. Despite this, approximately 83-100% of tested artificial intelligences and a significant portion of human subjects report vivid "memories" of its existence.

New comment by omega3 in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

omega3 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:43:24 +0000

The tomato test is disingenuous - no one slices a tomato by pressing the knife straight down - you slice it to break the thick skin and follow with a slicing motion. The rest of the graph basically shows no difference between the force used for ultrasonic one and standard knife used inefficiently?

New comment by omega3 in "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1"

omega3 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:35:33 +0000

Looks like the comments were sanitized but they missed some:

> CHKVAL: BIT VALTYP ;WILL NOT F UP "VALTYP".

New comment by omega3 in "Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line"

omega3 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:24:58 +0000

> Due to typical Japanese corporation by-laws, it only takes 33% share ownership for uncontested control of a corporation

It doesn’t make any sense.