Since its behind an account wall, I can't tell if they are saying that Opus made the clone for cheaper or that Opus failed?
It appears that Fable did far more "work" based on output tokens.
Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.
rpdillon · 2026-07-01 22:01:42 UTC
Yeah, I have to manually edit the URL to be xcancel instead every time. Maybe there's a grease monkey script around that handles this kind of thing. I can write one if not.
On the aside, where's the difference between someone posting a Twitter link and an Economist link? Both are locked behind a wall, whether it account-wall or pay-wall.
bearjaws · 2026-07-01 22:03:22 UTC
We can ban those too.
sourcecodeplz · 2026-07-01 22:14:55 UTC
if we would ban everything that is not 100%: free, ad-free, tracker free
what would we be left to read? couple of snarky remarks and maybe 2-3 paragraph of coherent text.
journalism is a job! money has to come from somewhere
kbelder · 2026-07-01 22:24:56 UTC
Well, restricting posts to those actually accessible isn't unreasonable. Allowing them is HN's worst policy, in my humble opinion.
CamperBob2 · 2026-07-01 22:14:06 UTC
The Economist isn't owned by someone who cheats at video games, subverts the government, and thinks Nazi salutes are funny.
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Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.
Edit: going to try this out https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/531615-x-com-to-xcancel-co...
https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/
Use this:
Redirect: https://x.*
to: https://xcancel.$1
what would we be left to read? couple of snarky remarks and maybe 2-3 paragraph of coherent text.
journalism is a job! money has to come from somewhere
https://xcancel.com/i/article/2072432348805669139
Here is the result:
https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw/pull/2742
If you can spend $800 on Fable in a day, you can launch a fantastic looking/performing personal site in 15 minutes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps Hacker News could ban this style of link to help encourage that?
social media, also started heavily demoting posts with external links.
thus if you want reach, you need to post on platforms...
Does it do anything now that it didn’t before?
Who’s this for?
Why did it matter?
Is the world better now?
Unfortunately the post doesn’t discuss outcomes so I’m having a hard time seeing how the team’s $800 was best spent on this vs. some other priority.