Hacker News: sauwan

New comment by sauwan in "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

sauwan — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:25:19 +0000

Weird. That's definitely not my experience. On the $100 plan and I can burn my entire week's budget in a few hours easily with Astra. It's borderline unusable.

New comment by sauwan in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"

sauwan — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:46:48 +0000

I think the point is that Yud and the rationalist community have put themselves in an awkward position where their lifestyle now depends on "p(doom) is big" being true. Which means they can't necessarily be trusted to give unbiased updates on the true level of risk we're facing as new data and information comes up.

Can "ASI will inevitably kill us all" be falsifiable before we create ASI? If not, then what separates it from religion?

Not sure how much I agree with that position, but that's just how I understood it.

New comment by sauwan in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

sauwan — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:14:35 +0000

I'm guessing they do this to help move people off old models they want to depreciate. It's not a price hike for old models, it's them removing a discount!

New comment by sauwan in "GPT‑Live"

sauwan — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:23:20 +0000

I think you're missing the counterfactual. I now have two choices: 1) sit behind my desk and work, or 2) walk and talk something out.

Before this model, the voice models were pretty dumb and annoying to work with. We'll see if this changes that.

New comment by sauwan in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

sauwan — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:14:55 +0000

Unless the US Gov bans inference companies from serving Chinese models to US customers...

New comment by sauwan in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

sauwan — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:46:46 +0000

Yeah, bummer. I was very excited for this release, but this killed it.

New comment by sauwan in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

sauwan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:31:57 +0000

It's either more expensive or dumber.

New comment by sauwan in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

sauwan — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:14:39 +0000

>My wife and I had a really complicated spreadsheet for tracking how much we owed our babysitter – it was just complex enough to not really fit into a spreadsheet easily. I vibecoded a command line tool that's made it a lot easier.

Ok, please help me understand. Or is this more of a nanny?

New comment by sauwan in "Openwork – MIT-Licensed Cowork Alternative Based on OpenCode and Dev-Browser"

sauwan — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:47:19 +0000

As a Linux and Windows user I'm feeling unseen.

New comment by sauwan in "Floss Before Brushing"

sauwan — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:42:35 +0000

Well, the benefit here is the application of fluoride, which isn't something most people are actively thinking about maximizing.

New comment by sauwan in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

sauwan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:58:34 +0000

For pure text responses, agree 100%. Gemini falls way short on tool/function calling, and it's not very token-efficient for those of us using the API. But if they can fix those two things or even just get them in the same ballpark like they did with flash and flash-lite, it would easily become my primary model.

New comment by sauwan in "I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played"

sauwan — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:43:33 +0000

Hah, I quit Prime and they just gave it back to me. No charge. I can't cancel it. I can't figure it out, but perhaps they realized that their margin on me before I canceled was well over the cost of Prime? I'm not sure, but I still only use it a fraction of what I used to...

New comment by sauwan in "Qwen3-Next"

sauwan — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:16:45 +0000

Long running agents?

New comment by sauwan in "Apple Watch Ultra 3"

sauwan — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:41:01 +0000

Yeah, Apple watches are a non-starter for me. Zero chance I'm charging my watch daily.

New comment by sauwan in "Show HN: VoiceGecko – System-wide voice-to-text that types anywhere"

sauwan — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:47:59 +0000

Does this use a local STT model, or is our data leaving our computer?

New comment by sauwan in "Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription"

sauwan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:49:23 +0000

So, if you don't subscribe, do they pay you to offset the worse gas mileage your car has to carry around but never have access to?

I'm not a lawyer, but is this not a class action suit waiting to happen?

New comment by sauwan in "I'm worried it might get bad"

sauwan — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:32:29 +0000

Presumably, AI has advanced in 10 years?

New comment by sauwan in "Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents"

sauwan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:18:48 +0000

This is perfect timing for me - was just thinking about how to do this. But pricing is a bit steep for a startup currently looking to prove the market. Would you consider a cheaper option (e.g. 1 free inbox, or maybe $20/mo for 5 agent inboxes and a more limited storage level)? I'm building something that I might consider this for, but I don't know how long my runway is before I get sustainable client revenue, so $100/month is a deep hole being burned in my personal pocket before I can prove my MVP out.

New comment by sauwan in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

sauwan — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:56:00 +0000

Would be great to see how our previous months usage stacked up and when, if at all, we would have been rate limited.

I'd be pretty surprised if I were to get rate limited, but I do use it a fair amount and really have no feel for where I stand relative to other users. Am I in the top 5%? How should I know?

New comment by sauwan in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

sauwan — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:16:28 +0000

I liked calling him the "Ope Pope"