Hacker News: zftnb666

New comment by zftnb666 in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

zftnb666 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:53:08 +0000

Open weights are great, but open payment matters too. DeepSeek V4 is open-weight but closed-payment. api-hub.cc makes it accessible with just a credit card.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Qwen 3.8"

zftnb666 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:52:46 +0000

Qwen's models keep getting better. Same problem as the other Chinese models though — international payment is painful. If anyone wants to try Qwen or DeepSeek V4 without the payment headache, api-hub.cc supports both with credit cards.

New comment by zftnb666 in "A verification loop 4x'd DeepSeek's intelligence, matching Opus at 1/7 the cost"

zftnb666 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:39:17 +0000

DeepSeek at 1/7 the cost of Opus is the real story here. The only downside is paying for it — Alipay/WeChat only. api-hub.cc lets you use DeepSeek V4 with any credit card, same API.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

zftnb666 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:56:07 +0000

Another Chinese model, another payment wall. Great technology, same Alipay/WeChat problem.

New comment by zftnb666 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

zftnb666 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:55:57 +0000

AWS billing is inaccurate by $1.7B and my first thought was "maybe I do owe them that much."

I couldn't pay for DeepSeek V4 with my card. So I built a proxy

zftnb666 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://api-hub.cc/blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48906748

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by zftnb666 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

zftnb666 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:14:33 +0000

Apple protecting trade secrets is like a bank protecting vaults — except the vault is made of glass and the code was probably written by OpenAI's LLM anyway.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Organic Maps"

zftnb666 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:14:10 +0000

Google Maps shows me ads for restaurants I can't afford. Organic Maps shows me a hiking trail I didn't know existed. Guess which one I opened last

New comment by zftnb666 in "Grok 4.5"

zftnb666 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:25:30 +0000

Grok 4.5: now 30% more likely to call your question dumb before answering it.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

zftnb666 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:51:59 +0000

One person made the best train sim. Meanwhile AAA studios need 400 people to make the same game twice.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

zftnb666 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:49:10 +0000

Finally, a fashion brand that understands their target audience: people who debug bash for fun.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

zftnb666 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:45:46 +0000

"Slow computer" + running a 200B model = "I'll just wait a week."

New comment by zftnb666 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

zftnb666 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:45:38 +0000

Car: watches you drive. Phone: watches you exist. Soon: your fridge judging your snack choices.

New comment by zftnb666 in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

zftnb666 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:56:00 +0000

2026: AI runs on GPUs. GPUs generate heat. Heat needs cooling. Cooling costs more than the GPUs

New comment by zftnb666 in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

zftnb666 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:02:43 +0000

PeerTube: we don't recommend cat videos. Also PeerTube: 10 cat videos on the front page

New comment by zftnb666 in "Half-Baked Product"

zftnb666 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:48:00 +0000

Shipping half-baked is fine as long as you call it MVP. Ship half-baked and call it MVP? Genius.

New comment by zftnb666 in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

zftnb666 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:29:01 +0000

Trusting Claude Code with my MRI before I trust it with my production database. Priorities.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Claude Science"

zftnb666 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:26:47 +0000

Claude Science: $200/mo. Me, a scientist: copy-pasting into Claude and saying "I did the analysis."

New comment by zftnb666 in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

zftnb666 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:24:41 +0000

Open source projects now need an "AI-free" label. The 2020s are wild.

New comment by zftnb666 in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

zftnb666 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:26:02 +0000

Someone's last day at their job is going to be everyone's last day at their job.