I was curious and checked it out: Opus 5 on the API at normal working intensity lands at 0.9×–1.3× the minimum wage in South Africa - at an average of ~$13 per active developer-day works out to R27.33/hour against a R30.23 floor (SA min wage). I just found that interesting and curios. I wonder how it holds up around the world.

I have started getting daily LLM-written outreach emails. They all follow the same exact pattern, but come from different people pitching different vibe-coded things. The authors are real people with LinkedIn profiles, usually AI gurus, rarely experts in their niche. The message is usually targeted compliment > pitch > call to action. The compliment is the biggest tell because it's so neat and specific.

My question: which tool are they all using? Why has it become so popular almost overnight? How do I reliably block those emails?

Hi HN,

I've been working on ThorVG, an open-source vector graphics engine. It started as a lightweight SVG renderer and has gradually evolved into a rendering engine supporting SVG, Lottie, and modern GPU backends.

This demo showcases the latest ThorVG 1.1 running entirely in the browser.

Try it here: https://thorvg-janitor.vercel.app

ThorVG v1.1: https://www.thorvg.org/post/thorvg-v1-1-rising-the-standard

Hey, I was wondering whether the tech industries require deterministic ML training or is non-determinism acceptable? As in, I know in case of LLMs, small float differences while training are generally tolerated as the model converges to similar quality regardless. But in more specific domains like medical device certification or autonomous vehicle safety validation or financial model auditing, I feel like whether two training runs producing bit identical models would be critical whether two training runs producing bit-identical models is critical, on the same hardware, let alone across heterogeneous hardware. I have read how in certain cases like HFT or Quant, people would just use integers to make deterministic actions, wondering if its the same case here too?