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by tristanj 4mo ago
Probably because Openrouter is a US based company, and they don't want to be sued by Anthropic/OpenAI.
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by tristanj 4mo ago
I'm not sure. I use Grok for most of my esoteric searches and it does quite well. I explicitly prompt it to search in the language most relevant to that query, and found it does quite well. I also tell it to respond back in English. Of
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by tristanj 4mo ago
They're called 中转站 (transfer stations/proxies). They can be a bit tricky to find on your own, so I'd suggest asking your preferred AI to search in Mandarin for you. I linked a larger operator in the parent comment, or have a
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by tristanj 4mo ago
Not really. I think Anthropic focuses on identifiable distillation attacks rather than the (even larger) industrial-scale token harvesting and reselling operation, because they don’t want people to know how easy it is to get cheap Claude to
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by tristanj 4mo ago
You're right, they're using the $200 Max plan, which I thought was the 5x plan. It's talked about in the article I linked.
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The resellers route requests via one of thousands of Claude Max 5x accounts. When an account reaches its usage limit, they automatically switch to another account.
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DeepSeek permanently cut its V4-pro API prices by 75% because they were too expensive. Without the price cut, Deepseek V4-pro tokens would have cost more than resold Opus 4.8 tokens. Opus 4.8 is a more capable model, so almost nobody was go
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by tristanj 4mo ago
It's very difficult for people to create personal Anthropic accounts from China. Anthropic blocks Chinese bank cards, so people must pay with a foreign bank card, which they likely don't have. And even if they manage to set one up
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by tristanj 4mo ago
Here's what is happening: Chinese resellers are offering Claude tokens at 70-90% below official Anthropic API prices. They achieve this by reselling capacity from pooled Claude Max accounts, payments fraud, and also reselling the model
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This article has a glaring category error. It attributes the past several decades of losses in the college wage premium to AI; yet AI has only existed in its current useful form for less than half a decade. The decline in college wages is l
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The program will track every aircraft flying on earth simultaneously. The level of scope is not comparable.
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This article uses so many words to focus on the political reasons, but completely ignores the primary driver: Cost. Korean weapons systems are 40-60% cheaper than their American counterparts. The Korean K9 Thunder 155mm self-propelled howit
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by tristanj 4mo ago
Shahed drones have increased in altitude from ~500m at the beginning of the Ukraine war to 2000-3000m, which is a 4x reduction in noise on the ground. The higher the drones are, the less noise they make at ground level, and the less effecti
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Programmers will just /goal the LLM to make the code more memory efficient. Then let it run it run overnight.
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Programmers won't, but LLMs will.
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Microsoft had it worse. Bill Gates was openly hostile and dismissive of the US government during Microsoft's anti-trust investigation, he believed anti-trust law was illegitimate and shouldn't apply to tech companies. He did not t
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Anthropic is going through the classic Ideological Resistance phase where they fight with the government on principles, that every major tech company also went through. Google, Facebook, Apple, Reddit, Microsoft (especially Microsoft) all h
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by tristanj 4mo ago
This isn't correct, Claude hasn't displayed the raw chain of thought for any of the Claude 4 series models, which were released in May 2025. Sonnet 4.6/Opus 4.8 only display a summarized chain of thought, which is produced by
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by tristanj 4mo ago
Elon Musk is the chief engineer of SpaceX. If you don't believe this, I'm not sure what to tell you. It's extremely well documented. https://erik-engheim.medium.com/is-elon-musk-just-a-sales-gu... You can wat
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by tristanj 4mo ago
This whole Fable 5 controversy will look quite silly once China releases a comparable model in six months.
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Elon is clearly highly technical as demonstrated by the Starbase interviews by Everyday Astronaut https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLStF4EoZOEFJ6xDx656Ik... You can pick any video and see this for yourself.
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by tristanj 4mo ago
The query in question is "Elon little real technical understanding", which is demonstrably false. Responding to that with the logical fallacy of Moving the Goalposts does not address it.
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> [Elon] has so little real technical understanding This is a common trope, it's been dismantled many times previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555870
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by tristanj 4mo ago
5 million yen is the company capital requirement. They would form a company, invest 5 million yen into it, then the company would lease an apartment and rent it out on Airbnb. Rent would cost ¥60,000–120,000/month, they would list it o
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A large number of Airbnb hosts were using this Business Manager Visa as a way to stay in Japan. People in China realized they could just buy/lease a guesthouse in Osaka / any tourist hotspot, and rent it out on Airbnb. Then they b
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That's a badly misleading framing of the situation. The U.S. intelligence community said for more than a year that Iran was weeks away from enriching uranium further to bomb grade, said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Co
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The 2025 unclassified report does not assess that, but the 2024 one did. Money quote: Iran has greatly expanded its nuclear program, reduced IAEA monitoring, and undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if
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Name the civilian use for Iran's 440 kg of 60% enriched uranium. There isn't one. No power reactor uses it (those run on 3-5%), no research reactor needs it (~20% max), and it sits 98-99% of the way enriched weapons-grade. Iran ha
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Under JCPOA, Iran capped its nuclear program for 15 years in exchange for: * Global sanctions relief * $100-150 billion in frozen assets * Access to the global oil market Iran in 2030 under JCPOA already has access to all three. The US alre

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