That's a very naive take of someone who never professionally traded. There are liquidity providing, market making trading strategies that work in absence of insider information.

Expect ⅕ codex quotas after

Downloading this and cancelling Google Antigravity Pro at the same time:

I had a Google Pro account that I inherited from buying a Pixel 9 XL - it's free for a year after a flagship Pixel phone purchase. After a year they started charging for it, and i tolerated it, because Flash was usable in Antigravity for dumb auxiliary tasks that I did not want to waste GPT/Opus on. It had a separate generous quota from Gemini 3.1 Pro. Now with Flash 3.5 they combined the quotas with Pro, such that on a Google pro account you can work 4-5 hours per week in Flash. And by the way, 3.1 Pro is useless for programming, compared to Codex/Opus

same boat. Google Pro AI quota became barely useful for anything meaningful.

I think they envision Pro plan as "just a taste of AI, enough to lure folks into the Ultra plan" but that won't work for me when Codex is half the price and DeepSeek 4 Flash is 1/10 of their price per task.

So I'll downgrade just enough to keep my Google Drive space. And use DeepSeek 4 as workhorse plus Codex or Copilot for advanced stuff.

How do you use DeepSeek 4 Flash? Via a cli?

I use their VSCode extension:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sst-dev....

It adds a button to VSCode to open a tab with opencode loaded. It's a bit better than just opening the CLI because it has some vscode integration.

With their $10/mo opencode go plan: https://opencode.ai/go

For my use it's about endless use of DS4 Flash on high setting. I find high better than max because it's less chatty.

The best thing is the speed. So many tokens per second.

edit: This is how it looks in action https://i.imgur.com/RNDXr07.png

How is that extension compared to, say, DS4 via OpenRouter and the usual VSCode Copilot panel?

Good question.

I haven't tested openrouter but I expect it to be slightly less cheap because it charges per token and opencode Go plan is a $10/mo fixed price model. Economies of scale leads me to think that for heavy use, openrouter will be more costly since opencode Go can subside heavy users like me with money from light users (just like gyms do with people that pay but barely use it).

With that said, I find vscode native copilot chat more pleasant to use, but also more laggy for large sessions.

opencode configuration is less polished and you'll have to grok around for some things. For example opencode CTRL+p conflicts with VSCode CTRL+p. I changed opencode to use Ctrl+L instead.

This should become the new Apple's hardware and software play. I am hopeful about the new CEO

Nothing new about that play. They have been heading in this direction for a very long time now.

Perhaps they would have made the basic spell-checker work on MacOS apple silicon then in this long time?

I think it's quite telling that this comment was written in Brazil. The so-called Third World is the future source of freedom (or Western countries that become third world perhaps). It may not be a bad idea now to start building open compute and banking alternative ecosystems based in those countries, marketed at Western citizens.

The third world is also pushing Digital ID. In fact they would love it even more than the first world as it would allow for even more totalitarianism.

I also noticed that my Google Wallet cards no longer have expiration dates- when a card expires and they issue a new one, the Wallet card works without any intervention on my part

Wallets usually don't store the card information directly anyway, but only a token, which can be re-associated with new underlying card details when the card is replaced.

The token itself does also have an expiry date (it's a mandatory field in most protocols), but that can be updated as well, I believe.

That's very much contrary to my experience just a couple months ago that I detailed in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981956

For comparison, the construction cost of AlBoraq 200mph bullet train in Morroco is $5.3–5.7 billion in today's dollars. The line length is 200 miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Boraq

There is a sudden concerted international push for online age verification, and we do not know where this push originates from. That is the scariest thing about it.

It's not _completely_ shrouded in mystery - it started after Facebook got slapped by the EU for irresponsible handling of underage users, and since began a heavily funded lobbying push to drag competitors down with them. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...

Of course, it's probably also been coopted by the neverending stream of nanny-state political power grabs in both the US and EU.

I asked META itself:

The push for online age verification started gaining momentum globally, with several countries implementing regulations. Here's a brief timeline:

- 2022: The European Union introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA), establishing a framework for digital services accountability and content moderation.

- 2023:

    - *France*: Passed a law requiring age verification for social media and porn websites.

    - *UK*: Enacted the Online Safety Act, requiring "highly effective" age assurance for platforms accessible to children.

- 2024:

    - *Australia*: Announced plans to ban social media for under-16s.

    - *Italy*: Implemented mandatory age verification for sensitive content websites.

- 2025:

    - *Denmark*: Proposed banning social media for under-15s.

    - *Malaysia*: Required social media platforms to ban users under 16.

- 2026:

    - *EU*: Rolling out digital age verification across member states.

    - *Norway*: Proposed banning social media for under-15s.

    - *Spain*: Announced plans to ban social media access for under-16s.

It's true for a lot of things in Western countries.

Evident when the fight against "hate" was suddenly everywhere, and also during covid.

Politicians looks to each other. There’s nothing new in that.

There is only one problem with Meta: Facebook itself is like a TV show that has ran its course. He's riding off what he purchased: Instagram and WhatsApp, but being a product thief he cannot create anything new.

I still feel like he stole the word "meta" from the world. It was ours. Not his.

I wonder if one can start a company selling repairable cars, for example, be it electric or gasoline.