Hacker News: sekai

New comment by sekai in "DeepSeek v4"

sekai — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:31:34 +0000

> I’d like somebody to explain to me how the endless comments of "bleeding edge labs are subsidizing the inference at an insane rate" make sense in light of a humongous model like v4 pro being $4 per 1M. I’d bet even the subscriptions are profitable, much less the API prices.

One answer - Chinese Communist Party. They are being subsidized by the state.

New comment by sekai in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

sekai — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:28:09 +0000

> Instead of fixing the UI they lowered the default reasoning effort parameter from high to medium? And they "traced this back" because they "take reports about degradation very seriously"? Extremely hard to give them the benefit of doubt here.

They had droves of Claude devs vehemently defending and gaslighting users when this started happening

New comment by sekai in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

sekai — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:25:03 +0000

The same company that claims they have models that are too "dangerous" to release btw.

New comment by sekai in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

sekai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:51:02 +0000

> I've been increasingly "freaking out" since about 3 - 4 years ago and it seems that the pessimistic scenario is materializing. It looks like it will be over for software engineers in a not so distant future. In January 2025 I said that I expect software engineers to be replaced in 2 years (pessimistic) to 5 years (optimistic). Right now I'm guessing 1 to 3 years.

Tell me how this will replace Jira, planning, convincing PM's about viability. Programming is only a part of the job devs are doing.

AI psychosis is truly next level in these threads.

New comment by sekai in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

sekai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:31:59 +0000

> That people thought the sovereign waters of a nation were not their sovereign waters absolutely blows my mind. Is it poor schooling, some kind of warped world view?

Because they are not? Oman clearly shares a part of it.

New comment by sekai in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

sekai — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:59:00 +0000

Just more Microslop, amazing...

New comment by sekai in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

sekai — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:50:09 +0000

> China is copying them though. They are still behind, but they are catching up.

They have been "catching up" for the past 20 years.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:23:20 +0000

> Did you miss the absolute massive amounts of aid US has given ukraine?

I missed US bombing Moscow, like they are bombing Tehran at this moment.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:07:34 +0000

> Tell that to the 30k+ iranian protestors that were killed. > Are you actually using "in good faith" and the current horrendous iranian regime in the same sentence?

If US needs to intervene, why are they are not intervening in Ukraine? Far worse things has been happening there for 4 years.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:30:12 +0000

> The previous campaign lasted a whole 13 days and WW3 didn't start. I'm not sure why anybody thinks it'll be different now or why Russia or China would bother going to war for Iran. That makes zero sense.

We did not move 1/3 of operational USAF capacity and 33% of our deployable Navy for limited strikes.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:50:31 +0000

> However i would say that yes, humanitarian intervention is one of the only non self-defense justifications for war that anyone has ever accepted in the post-ww2 era

So when is the US intervening in Ukraine then? Russia is literally doing human safari with drones hunting down civilians in Kherson.

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:21:31 +0000

> Otoh, what russia desperately needs in the short term is oil prices to go up, so there is probably a major silver lining for them.

And they will again appear weak and incapable, unable to help their allies

New comment by sekai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sekai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:19:27 +0000

Just now:

Trump: "The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties - that often happens in war."

Another republican president starting a war in the middle east, once again sacrificing American lives.

New comment by sekai in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sekai — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:31:38 +0000

> It can also backfire. AI slop ads and marketing material imply cut corners and poor quality products. If a bakery isn’t going to bother touching up its AI slop banner, I don’t expect their cookies to be great either.

Average person won't notice, and would not care either way.

New comment by sekai in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sekai — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:29:09 +0000

> Soon many real OF models will be out of job when everyone will be able to produce content to their personal taste from a few prompts.

net positive to society

New comment by sekai in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

sekai — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:56:10 +0000

> This is coming from an insane demand spike, not some nefarious plot by the RAM manufacturers.

Something something, 2000 dot-com bubble, something

New comment by sekai in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

sekai — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:40:05 +0000

> Don't worry, China is coming out pretty far ahead so I'm sure we'll still be in a unipolar world when this is all over, and you can sleep safe at night. I imagine you didn't know.

With their current demographics? Doubt it.

New comment by sekai in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

sekai — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:16:19 +0000

> dead on the streets.

Iran regime already does that, they gunned-down thousands just last month, including 100's of public hangings.

New comment by sekai in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

sekai — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:38:14 +0000

> well, it's basically existential, so the incentive is there to not only get it very right but also to limit the delta with how right anyone else gets it. The same can't really be said of the long tail of products Google have done.

I've yet to see anything that threatens Google's ad monopoly.

New comment by sekai in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

sekai — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:29:47 +0000

> I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that we may be only a single digit number of years away from the singularity.

We're back to singularity hype, but let's be real: benchmark gains are meaningless in the real world when the primary focus has shifted to gaming the metrics