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Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering

https://blog.madhukaraphatak.in/non-destructive-refusal-supression-using-engram
47•phatak-dev•57m ago•6 comments

Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error

https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/09/22/voter-registration-applications-unprocessed-dps-error/
46•hn_acker•58m ago•40 comments

Nokia Design Archive (2025)

https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/index.html
155•pillars•5h ago•82 comments

Enjoy Every Sandwich

https://bradmontague.substack.com/p/enjoy-every-sandwich
77•NaOH•1d ago•27 comments

Jev Is Not a Language Model, but It Breaks Like One

https://blog.checkpoint.com/ai-security/jev-is-not-a-language-model-but-it-breaks-like-one-prompt...
33•patresh•2h ago•6 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux
547•aaronday•16h ago•226 comments

The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?

https://jgeekstudies.org/2026/09/23/the-science-of-monkey-island-can-grog-actually-dissolve-a-met...
23•zdw•23h ago•0 comments

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/
289•signa11•12h ago•332 comments

Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different Protection

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/
203•ReturnoftheHack•4h ago•159 comments

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system
733•raahelb•21h ago•738 comments

Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/tutoring-company-tell-parents-to-save-their-money...
15•theanonymousone•21m ago•4 comments

Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

https://bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com/
79•terryds•1h ago•45 comments

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt
222•rudy6912•12h ago•142 comments

Oracle Cites 'Force Majeure' to Shield Itself on Controversial Data Center

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on...
64•simonpure•2h ago•42 comments

Coulomb's law remains tricky to test at home

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/coulombs-law-remains-tricky-to-test
10•surprisetalk•2d ago•4 comments

Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/
494•pieterr•7h ago•278 comments

RAM: the forgotten history (2024)

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/memory-the-forgotten-history
76•Luc•2d ago•2 comments

ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit

https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/
261•JohnHammersley•16h ago•31 comments

The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

https://www.xda-developers.com/newest-esp32-run-linux-close-to-raspberry-pi/
125•adunk•4h ago•48 comments

When the Debugger Lies

https://danielmangum.com/posts/when-the-debugger-lies/
36•hasheddan•2d ago•13 comments

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-sa...
157•nonfamous•2h ago•158 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/
279•Rapzid•18h ago•175 comments

Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-used-bookstores-see-5...
8•speckx•39m ago•3 comments

Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers

https://medium.com/@arielsimon/dark-sourcery-how-hackers-manipulate-ai-to-scam-you-88df434d2073
76•ArielSimon•3h ago•23 comments

Contrastive Language Models

https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/
126•erichocean•11h ago•35 comments

The "Windows XP Box" (2003)

https://www.mini-itx.com/projects/windowsxpbox/
199•doubletwoyou•2d ago•40 comments

The Year of Internal Tools

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-09-23-the-year-of-internal-tools
43•thecodemonkey•8h ago•10 comments

Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest

https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu
138•WanjohiRyan•14h ago•56 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html
492•avidly•1d ago•111 comments

Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' looks like that

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-opera-doc-looks-like-that
112•CharlesW•23h ago•20 comments
Open in hackernews

Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

https://bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com/
79•terryds•1h ago

Comments

radial_symmetry•58m ago
The coding and math tabs seem to be missing the latest models...
SkyBelow•44m ago
Math in particular is quite far behind. GPT 5.2 is recommended as the best for highest cost. Really?
pelagicAustral•55m ago
Is there a cheaper model than Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) that maybe/kind-of is on-par with it? For me it works really good but hit the limit in two hours tops... last week was the first time I hit the weekly limit and had to wait 4 days... Claude patches OK, but that is also getting drained really fast these days...
TomGarden•54m ago
is this on the $20-ish sub? I hear ultra lasts for a very long time
pelagicAustral•53m ago
Yeah, 20... I was going to try Deepseek later on, just chuck 20 in there and see how good it does, and how far I can go as well...
TomGarden•51m ago
yeah I enjoy the speed of Gemini, but I also just have the low tier one (I use the 20x Claude and Codex subs for most of my work). For iteration, Gemini is so much fun, but Opus 5.5 is quite fast, as is sol. If you're on a budget, deepseek does look great
pelagicAustral•46m ago
Yeah, I mean, I think in theory I could push it to the next tier on Gemini, but at the same time I wouldn't mind trying something else, since maybe my workloads are not really that smart and I am wasting a lot of computational power on something a cheaper model with similar capabilities can do.
montroser•53m ago
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is your answer.
pelagicAustral•52m ago
Ah OK, yeah, I was actually going to go for that earlier, I'll check it out once I get home, thanks!
Tepix•55m ago
1. In real life, most of us use token packages like OpenCode Go etc.

It would be handy to have a site like this one that takes into account the various deals and attempts to calculate the number of tokens per monthly fee for a chosen model. I realize this makes the task a lot more difficult.

2. It would be handy to have a chart like that for the AI hardware that people own. It helps you decide which model to run (resulting in different levels of intelligence and speed). Also difficult to please everyone (preprocessing vs token generation for example) and to keep updated!

I found https://llm-list.com/ yesterday and when I had a detailed look, I quickly found outdated entries, for example looking at GLM 5.3 flash it listed several providers as "free" that weren't free any longer.

TomGarden•55m ago
If you maintain this over time, maybe include other sources than just AA and update the design to look less like zero-shot claude styling (I know that font! I know that color! Lol) it's genuinely useful :)
jwolfe•55m ago
This definition of cost is not particularly useful. You want cost per task, not cost per 1m tokens. Artificial Analysis does a good job of this.
hsnewman•53m ago
I'm sure that local LLM will be far cheaper
mrngld•33m ago
Depends on what level of intelligence you're wanting to use. A vanishingly small number of people can or would want to go to the hardware expense of running something like GLM 5.3 Flash, much less something like K3.

And if you want Astra/Fable/Opus frontier level, then there's no option at all.

But if you don't need that, or you don't need speed... That opens up the discussion. I've been impressed even with how Siri's been doing with the Apple Foundation Models in MacOS/iOS 27 given how small they are.

Edit: I can't even fully spec the M5 Ultra Mac Studio you'd need for GLM5.3 Flash since 512GB isn't available yet, but it's already at $9500 for 256GB RAM.

aslkalska•50m ago
all I ever wanted is an updated website where I can see the best models I can run on my different devices locally, I don't get why people are throwing money at these companies
Brendinooo•16m ago
Guessing that most people don't have machines powerful enough to run good-enough models locally.
jeremysalwen•50m ago
It's missing Opus 5.5 which was released over a day ago (and also is clearly on the pareto frontier).
shakow•46m ago
Don't know if they updated it since your comment, but for me it's on the graph – and on the Pareto frontier indeed.
SJMG•38m ago
For intelligence only as of 8:51 MT
noumenon1111•28m ago
It was expert timing on the commenter's and the developer's part. Opus 5.5 still doesn't show under coding though.
npongratz•28m ago
Opus 5.5 is indeed on the Intelligence tab, but I don't see it on the Coding or Math tabs.
floppyd•45m ago
As the time goes on it only becomes harder to differentiate between model capabilities with just one or two numbers. I would love to see some kind of multi-axis placement of all the models on less objective attributes, like wordiness, willingness to give up, an ability to "think ahead" and pre-solve possible problems in code, for example, that I didn't think of or didn't think of talking about, etc etc etc.

For example I've been really enjoying Deepseek v4.1 Flash, it's very "straightforward" to the point of being almost dumb sometimes, but it's absolutely relentless and would solve almost any problem no matter how inefficient the solution is.

No idea how to measure all that, just average CoT length per task is probably a good approximation for some things, but not others.

jrflo•42m ago
Does anyone actually pay API costs out of their own pocket? It's about 10x cheaper to just get a codex or chat gpt subscription, it's so heavily subsidized compared to the API that I'm sure it would be cheaper to use frontier models on a subscription plan rather than paying API prices for deepseek flash.
h46u5jytyhtg•40m ago
Large enterprises pay per token even through a ChatGPT “membership”, for example.
jrflo•37m ago
Which is why I said "out of their own pocket"
lowercased•39m ago
I do. For local dev work, I'm mostly using jetbrains' Junie, I can swap between a collection of models from google, openai, anthrophic.

I've had more than a few people tell me "oh, it's so much cheaper to use a $20 claude account" or "i've never hit a limit ever using my openai". Inevitably.. I end up reading/hearing "oh, I need to give it another couple hours to start using it again"... I've never hit that with my approach, even if it's costing me a bit more. Being able to work when I want when I have time has some value.

I also have openai and anthropic direct API billing set up for hosted and client projects that need to call out to an LLM service.

the__alchemist•37m ago
I thought Air was JB's multi-model interface? What is Junie? (I see the buttons, but am very confused by JB's AI offerings in general)

Is it worth the ~10x extra cost over the subscriptions? (This is obviously a leading question). Also, I think you can use OpenAI's subcription login with Air, but not Claude's.

ford•37m ago
You're better off going directly to artificial analysis, this is a feature-poor/misleading/outdated repackaging

Ex. this type of price estimation is quite naive - some models can require 2-3x the number of tokens to achieve the same level of intelligence. Artificial Analysis' own cost per task is a more fair estimation of cost.

Xeoncross•32m ago
If you have a 24-64GB mac, consider running Qwen3.8 27B locally at night. It's a bit slower to run locally, but if you're sleeping it's less of a problem.

Depending on your memory, you'll need to use the weaker Q4 versions but they still perform well.

It ranks higher than GPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh) or Claude Opus 4.6 (max) so is great for pairing with https://github.com/kunchenguid/gnhf for nightly experimentation, cleanup, or recommendation lists for in the morning.

ctkhn•8m ago
On my 64gb m3 max qwen3.8 27b has been great for planning and then letting qwen3.6 35ba3b actually implement the planned changes.
newsy-combi•30m ago
Coding and math graphs are very interesting. Extremely cheap models make it into the upper echelon, delivering 90% of the performance for 1% of the price compared to the #1.
verytrivial•30m ago
I find it interesting that with the given metric comparison, for coding at min 50 strength, every frontier model brand is from a distinct vendor: Ling, Qwen, Gemini, Muse, Grok, GPT, and Claude in increasing value.
qwerty2020•18m ago
Cost per token is an extremely naive way to index cost, renders this chart essentially meaningless.
Brendinooo•12m ago
I'd really like something that's more oriented around subscription fees.

If I want to spend $100 on LLMs next month, what should I do? Get Claude because Opus 5.5/Fable 5.1 are scoring well? Get Grok because 4.7 is supposedly a good mix of competence and cost? Try out a Chinese model? Don't do a subscription at all like this site is saying?

danesparza•4m ago
The problem is that subscriptions with AI models get a bit 'vague' on what you get and how (or when) you might be rate-limited.
FrostKiwi•3m ago
The page looks Claude generated and ranks Opus at the top.
barrystaes•3m ago
Fun, but this seems to assume all LLM run on SAAS subscriptions. I would like to compare this to local LLM costs by converting my usage load x hardware costs into a token price. In addition if it games the LLM so often, these eventually are optimized and basically cheat on the score.
someguynamedq•40s ago
Astra worse than 5.6 Sol is crazy work
jrflo•36m ago
Why not use a codex or claude subscription? If you use the entire usage allotment on the $200 plan it's about $2,000 in equivalent API costs. Switching providers may be valuable but it's quite literally an order of magnitude cheaper.
handzhiev•11m ago
I do. Sharing training data with OpenAI gives me a lot of complementary tokens. I go above that but it's still quite economical and I pick the right model for the task (Luna for most).
mmmattt•33m ago
I do, 3-4$ a month of deep seek is enough for my usage
LeBit•31m ago
I use local LLMs on my Mac Mini.

Otherwise DeepSeek Flash 4.1 is dirt cheap (other "Flash" models are not that expensive either). I pay (very few dollars) out of my own pocket.

There are many things where having an API Key is necessary.

Maybe I’ve missed the boat though: is there now a method to use an api key to access a subscription?

jrflo•24m ago
You can't use an API key on subscriptions, but I've gotten around it using the `codex exec` command to run requests outside the CLI or GUI if you're already authenticated on that machine. Won't work for all cases, but I've never ran into a limitation in my use case of not having an API key.
mandeepj•6m ago
> I use local LLMs on my Mac Mini.

which ones do you use?