Hacker News: theli0nheart

New comment by theli0nheart in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

theli0nheart — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:22:51 +0000

They were never offering actual US models. We tested them extensively and it was clear whatever they were passing as Anthropic were simply mediocre distillations based on Kimi.

New comment by theli0nheart in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

theli0nheart — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:52:44 +0000

I think we have different definitions of “proficient”. :)

New comment by theli0nheart in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"

theli0nheart — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:33:41 +0000

Being proficient in a language is really less about memorizing words than it is pronunciation and grammar. Memorization itself is pretty easy.

New comment by theli0nheart in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

theli0nheart — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:25:19 +0000

They may have good margins, but a few things are still true:

1. Much of those profits have to be immediately reinvested into model training runs to avoid being lapped by competitions.

2. Unit costs are irrelevant when the labs don't price per unit, and instead charge, for instance, $200 / month for $10k worth of tokens.

This isn't a steady state. Whatever the current situation is, I doubt it's sustainable.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

theli0nheart — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:26:51 +0000

I just tested the provider that the OP mentioned extensively yesterday, and the models they're selling are definitely not from Anthropic. The voice "sounds" like Sonnet or Opus at first glance, but the intelligence is definitely not there.

New comment by theli0nheart in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

theli0nheart — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:20:00 +0000

I use Cursor every day.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Ask HN: Is $300/HR too low these days for custom full stack?"

theli0nheart — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:17:57 +0000

You are undercharging.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Why is Inkwell stuck in review"

theli0nheart — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:52:45 +0000

I just looked this up. Instagram currently owns the most relevant live trademark for "INKWELL" [1] (class 009). Apple's registration [2] is indeed dead / cancelled.

You could possibly try to register the "INKWELL" trademark for an RSS reader, since that seems quite differentiated from Instagram's claim, but IANAL, so who knows how successful that process would be.

[1]: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/86733442

[2]: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/78126699

New comment by theli0nheart in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

theli0nheart — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:42:47 +0000

That doesn't make any sense. The entire reason it was undone is because the recipient told GoDaddy support that they transferred the wrong domain to her. So how could this have been an inside job?

New comment by theli0nheart in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

theli0nheart — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:40:26 +0000

Good design is distinctive. No one wants a world where everything looks the same.

New comment by theli0nheart in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

theli0nheart — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:38:58 +0000

Stop using ChatGPT to write your comments please.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

theli0nheart — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:47:03 +0000

Most real-world scenarios aren't so arbitrary, and hardly any have a "right answer". If I had a candidate that broke out of the box of our interview to give a good answer, and that's not the answer I "want", I'd be more likely to believe the interview question is the problem, not the candidate.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Dole Kemp 96 Web Site"

theli0nheart — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:05:23 +0000

Someone please make these.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin"

theli0nheart — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:46:38 +0000

What a crazy coincidence seeing this on HN; I just started reading this today!

New comment by theli0nheart in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

theli0nheart — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:13:20 +0000

This is a temporary situation. Think of it like how Napster let you download any song for free for a few years. For a while, all you heard was how the Internet was going to put all musicians out of business. Obviously that didn't happen.

The same will happen here. It's not like OpenAI has built a search engine; every time they need a live search they hit Bing (please correct me if I'm wrong) and get the results from there. No matter how you slice it, search companies who actually supply the data are going to get reimbursed, and since most users don't pay $20 / month, that likely means ads everywhere.

Also, Google's AI overviews are getting very good. Initially it was pretty inaccurate, but now it's basically 95% as good as ChatGPT, and faster. Most normies I talk to think it's good enough.

Go proposal: spec: sum types based on general interfaces

theli0nheart — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57644

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337813

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by theli0nheart in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

theli0nheart — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:20:35 +0000

I agree with this.

Not everything that a library considers an error is an application error. If you log an error, something is absolutely wrong and requires attention. If you consider such a log as "possibly wrong", it should be a warning instead.

New comment by theli0nheart in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

theli0nheart — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:37:57 +0000

What are you paying?

New comment by theli0nheart in "Mixpanel Security Breach"

theli0nheart — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:12:33 +0000

Yikes, Mixpanel lost a OpenAI as a customer because of this.

> Trust, security, and privacy are foundational to our products, our organization, and our mission. We are committed to transparency, and are notifying all impacted customers and users. We also hold our partners and vendors accountable for the highest bar for security and privacy of their services. After reviewing this incident, OpenAI has terminated its use of Mixpanel.

New comment by theli0nheart in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

theli0nheart — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:01:49 +0000

You can't even turn off caching from Cloudflare because...the Cloudflare dashboard is down.

So everyone who's wrapped their host with Cloudflare is stuck with it.