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Ask HN: Is GPT-6 Astra worth the 2.5x cost increase over GPT-5.6 Sol?
7 points by minimaxir 1mo ago|4 comments
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
For posterity, you can only downvote comments, you can't downvote posts.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Discussion on the ouster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636283
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Don't use Hacker News self-posts to obfuscate blogspam, it doesn't work.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
They will if it becomes a political issue that causes regulation, which is looking likely.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
tbh I don't think it's a Matt sockpuppet; Matt would definitely comment himself.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
In World of Warcraft, gear tier is an ordinal representing the raid tier the gear was made accessible in, not an indication of its importance/power.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
You are not required to read every comment on a HN submission.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
IMO GLM 5.3 Flash's vision support beat this model to the punch, but this model is still pretty good if you need vision.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
The entire saga started due to WP Engine "forking" WordPress.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
It never ended.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Here's the Tech Specs page, which is slightly more hidden: https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/specs/ Notably, the inner screen has a nano‑texture finish (which Apple normally upcharges significantly for), which
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
"ultra durable" does not mean "indestructible."
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
The presentation went into extra detail about durability w/ a titanium construction, and the iPhone Air was indeed super durable with it. The hinge at-the-least looks like it could survive the dust test.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
I'll give John Ternus credit: the demos are interesting and fun . Maybe not $2k fun + inherent risk with buying the first generation of an Apple product particularly after the Apple Vision Pro, but still.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
On Hacker News it's generally good form to read the article before making an informed comment.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Both of these features have been on existing models (which I've used) for quite awhile and are not unknown quantities.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Apple Watch is hitting diminishing returns feature-wise. I'm happy with my Series 11 but "it has more accurate heart sensors" isn't really revolutionary, and I believe some of the Apple Intelligence features will be back
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
> For users who want even more, AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case add longer battery life and on-stem volume control for $149 This is a weird product feature versioning. Would people pay an extra $20 for these two features specifical
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
The AirPods 4 has an ANC option which is weaker than the Pro; this new version just has it baseline and cheaper (and better).
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
It has been possible to create convincingly cheap image misinformation for over a year (Nano Banana last August) but civil society has not collapsed. There are also open-weight models of similar quality and functionality without any safegua
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
What is the "horror" in this case?
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
How people derive fun is different from person to person.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
So this is a valid point (and I admit I eat crow on my earlier statement), but not for that reason. In that photo, there are three fingers in front of the cup, but you would not expect 5 fingers because the way humans hold cups, the thumb w
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
It's poor Poster's Bushido to post like that on a throwaway account.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
A big wtf at the LM Arena scores: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image gpt-image-2.5-sunburst: 1421 gpt-image-2.5-flare: 1399 gpt-image-2 (medium): 1381 mai-image-2.6: 1331 Even with LM Arena being flawed, this i
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
> Across all attempted problems, the agents sent 4.9 million messages and used about 300 billion output tokens Don't even try to do the math on how much that would cost at normal API prices. And we don't even know how much more
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
In hindsight, this makes more sense with the release of Astra. The $100/mo is now a more compelling upsell.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Because people were less cynical in the 2010s and there's no way to bring that back.
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by minimaxir 1mo ago
Thinking output is already a relatively small part of the total input compared to raw code/text files.

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