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New comment by vagrantJin in "Show HN: Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API"

vagrantJin — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:30:59 +0000

Dubious at best. When you remember that there are open models with performance just as good as Sonnet that cost $2.50/M - $5/M output tokens. They don't have magically cheaper energy or compute costs. Anthropic premium pricing the API is just vibes. Like Starbucks. Like Lululemon. Like Apple.

New comment by vagrantJin in "The Art of Money Getting"

vagrantJin — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:02:31 +0000

I have to strongly disagree with this one. People should strive to do hard things, solve uniquely hard problems. SWE is not hard or particularly unique.

New comment by vagrantJin in "The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12M token window"

vagrantJin — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:02:39 +0000

I use a tool called context-mode. Update agent to save session summary every 100k tokens

New comment by vagrantJin in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

vagrantJin — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:54:54 +0000

Now we get to the nub. American anti-Chinese rhetoric. Very good.

New comment by vagrantJin in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

vagrantJin — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:08:50 +0000

I made no such claims. Maybe you have something to share about why we need to have a negative view of free and open models based on publicly available frontier research.

New comment by vagrantJin in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

vagrantJin — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:21:12 +0000

You definitely have a bone to pick. Chinese researchers usually have given the world the most cheap and consistent high quality research around LLMs. They don't pretend, they do the work and release the goodies. Mostly so cheap, every one in the world has a chance to use close to frontier models. Why would you respond with "Anger"?

You let us know what your real complaint is about and let's not feign indignation at open models and research.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

vagrantJin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:00:35 +0000

Not their data.

New comment by vagrantJin in "US Army chief of staff fired by Hegseth"

vagrantJin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:38:49 +0000

Civil war is always an exception because of the special circumstances. Its not an act of war but a state of emergency which has it's own protocols regarding presidential powers.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Pool spare GPU capacity to run LLMs at larger scale"

vagrantJin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:51:42 +0000

This is very promising, definitely looks more user friendly than exo. Can't wait to try it out.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

vagrantJin — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:45:25 +0000

Shrimp charities is a genius angle.

New comment by vagrantJin in "The Brand Age"

vagrantJin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:26:47 +0000

I think this is the age of craftsmen.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

vagrantJin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:30:20 +0000

Why would anyone care if its Chinese? No one uses ChatGPT because its from the US.

New comment by vagrantJin in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

vagrantJin — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:04:24 +0000

Of democracy, thats a feature, not a bug. The people spoke, the people received.

There is no flaw in the principle of that process. Its as old as time. Pontius pilate, 2000 years ago, had the exact same headache.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

vagrantJin — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:58:50 +0000

I know its well meaning, but 14 dollars US a month is not cheap globally. The people who do block are probably not the group google wants to advertise to anyway.

New comment by vagrantJin in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"

vagrantJin — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:46:17 +0000

Forum of react developers is wild. I, for one, appreciate the humor

New comment by vagrantJin in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

vagrantJin — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:53:52 +0000

Its a war between two organized armies, however lopsided, with one army recieving support openly to defend against a larger state. Isreal is not only a belligerent state, it openly commits war crimes from every single human war convention in existence, if not outright genocide, what is it?

New comment by vagrantJin in "AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you"

vagrantJin — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:39:24 +0000

Funny thing. No need for drama. Just give people education and a wage, and a grind, and populations will go down on their own. While we pretend that the value of money still means something.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud"

vagrantJin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:01:14 +0000

Thats a skill issue. Maintainers can get through a whole lot more than ever before because they can review PR much faster. Thats great for velocity. Features still need that expert touch since no software system is simple but it is getting easier.

New comment by vagrantJin in "NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy"

vagrantJin — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:00:31 +0000

This is wholly unhelpful.

New comment by vagrantJin in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

vagrantJin — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:38:26 +0000

On the videogen, one would expect small, scrappy studios to get some tools to get further on their projects. What one has observed is that it is the large behemoths that are overzealous in their use of AI tools, despite the fact that they can produce work, have the budget and expertise to make it happen.

Baffling.