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> In the long termIn case anyone is wondering how Tesla’s stock price remain wildly detached from its business reality, keep these four words in mind. If you can convince people that anything about you and your business has to be evaluated on a literally astronomical timescale, you can justify any valuation you desire, because your believers will give you infinite time to realize their investment returns. It has nothing to do with business. They are selling you a vision — which can also come inview on HN →
I don't think it ever has. For a very long time now, the reasoning of Claude has been summarized by Haiku. You can tell because a lot of the times it fails, saying, "I don't see any thought needing to be summarised."view on HN →
Actually, it is. We're currently leading a conversation among several players in this space to agree on a metadata standard that helps make attaching, collaborating on and transmitting information like this simple, extensible and scalable.Keep an eye on our blog to see how we're doing this, and how we're doing it in a way that hopefully the entire community joins us in a way where we're not all reinventing the same wheels.view on HN →
Thinking / reasoning + multimodal + tool calling.We made some quants at https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/gemma-4 for folks to run them - they work really well!Guide for those interested: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/gemma-4Also note to use temperature = 1.0, top_p = 0.95, top_k = 64 and the EOS is "<turn|>". "<|channel>thought\n" is also used for the thinking trace!view on HN →
Guess where the midlle-east mass migration comes from? Surely not from the US bombing the everliving shit out of folks living there and leaving us to deal with the fallout?The only thing the US shows Europe is a cautionary tale of social decay and the consequences of letting Capital run their society.view on HN →
> they're considerably freer and richer than the EUFreer to bend over for ICE thugs, or is there some other definition of freedom that you’ve meant?> especially when Europe is currently fighting a war in UkraineUkraine is fighting war in Ukraine with financial support of Europe. Big difference.> and struggling to handle mass middle-east immigrationCaused by US bombing.view on HN →
If you pay 10B for options at 60B and the strike is 8B you ... just lost 10B. Thats it.Add emotional hedges if needed but they are just emotional not financial.Your argument is based on an assumption that cursor cannot lose value. Even if the market says it has.No free lunch: an option is a bet for both sides. Zero sum.view on HN →
The "Hetzner is 5-10x cheaper" framing is real but the comparison that actually matters is egress, not compute. A $5 DO droplet and a €4 Hetzner CX22 are both fine for a side project. What kills you on AWS/GCP at small scale is the per-GB egress - once I was pulling ~300GB/mo out of an eu-west-1 ELB and the egress line was 6x the EC2 line on the bill. Moving the same workload to Hetzner or even a single Fly.io region dropped it by >80% without touching the app.One thing people skip: you also losview on HN →
But Linux is US tech? Isn't the main guy American?view on HN →
Not sure I’ve ever seen a real life business man go from boyking god emperor to clearly incompetent scam artist quite like Mr Altman. Closest analog might be Zuckerberg but this crash and burn has been orders of magnitude worse.Just go away Sam, nobody even listens to you at this point lol.And more importantly the investors are all gone gone.view on HN →
Go back to Reddit where you belongview on HN →
> I love that we're still learning the emergent properties of LLMs!TBH, this is (very much my opinion btw) the least surprising thing. LLMs (and especially their emergent properties) are still black boxes. Humans have been studying the human brain for millenia, and we are barely better at predicting how humans work (or for eg to what extent free will is a thing). Hell, emergent properties of traffic was not understood or properly given attention to, even when a researcher, as a driver, knows whaview on HN →
Yeah Europeans are going to stick to their little diesel city cars.Many Europeans cannot afford iPhones as they are an overpriced costly luxury there, yet I'm supposed to believe they're all going out tomorrow to buy solar panels. Right.Heat pumps? They're famous for hating air conditioning and mostly heat their homes with hydronic, but whatever.view on HN →
It's incredible how social media addiction warps peoples minds. The US is not only the EU's largest trade partner but they're considerably freer and richer than the EU, showing a path forward for the continent. The US is not a "threat for their way of living" lol, especially when Europe is currently fighting a war in Ukraine and struggling to handle mass middle-east immigrationview on HN →
If your energy policy was "hope the Ayatollah doesn't have a bad hair day", you didn't have an energy policy.Europe could have left their nuclear power plants turned on. Or drilled in the north sea. Or built LNG import terminals. These were all policy choices that had nothing to do with the US or Israel.view on HN →
Ukrainians are unimpressed that US no longer supports war to exhaustion. US in unimpressed that Ukraine supported other side in electionsProblem is that US wants to distance itself instead of ending the conflictview on HN →
Cheap airborne weapons have irreversibly changed warfare. IIRC a Patriot missile costs something like $4 million. Using them to shoot down $50k Shahed drone is a losing proposition. That's not only because of the price, but because the drones can be produced a lot faster. Even Iran's ballistic missiles are a lot cheaper and faster to produce than any defense system that can reliably destroy them.view on HN →
A big mistake here was simply underestimating the scale of Iran. Iran has 90,000,000 people. More than 2x Ukraine. More than 2x Germany. More than 2x Iraq. More than any country in Europe. About 2/3 of Russia. Expecting to win a war on the cheap was a fantasy. Especially since Iran has been fighting Israel for years.On the naval front, Ukraine sunk the Moskva with a few truck-mounted missiles. That finally made it undeniable that sending naval vessels anywhere near a hostile shore is a thing ofview on HN →
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