Hacker News: opsnooperfaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=opsnooperfaxHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 20 May 2026 07:42:24 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by opsnooperfax in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"]]>I think the big 3 are cartelizing and starting to ratchet up costs. GPT5.5 is not easily distinguishable from 5.1. I would it be shocked if we hit the ceiling and everyone is quietly positioning for the exit.

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 02:00:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202182opsnooperfaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202182<![CDATA[New comment by opsnooperfax in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"]]>50K FTE global firm. We’re still piloting ChatGPT. AI is a four-letter word and there are ridiculous ceremonies and hundreds of hours of overhead for every trivial use case.

Amusingly, Enterprise credits are more expensive than just paying a zero-commitment on-demand API fee. Personal accounts are still the best value.

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:56:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202152opsnooperfaxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202152<![CDATA[New comment by opsnooperfax in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"]]>Extraction and metallurgy are different problem domains. Vertical integration can be more profitable, but not when regulatory burden is high. What you’re seeing is an arbitrage of regulatory costs. The government is much more tolerant of ecologically hazardous in industrial processes in the Australian government. I don’t want to go into why that is, but I think most would accept that as true.

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