Tencent just dropped HY4

2026-11-05 03:40

Tencent just dropped HY4. It's their open-source flagship, and somehow it's stronger, steadier, and cheaper than the preview at the same time. It can see now. First one with vision: charts, math, fine-grained images, it reads them without tripping up. It also knows how to drive a computer. Blender, CAD, GUI or CLI, it works them directly. Pricing, per million tokens: - Input ~$0.90 - Output ~$2.70 - Cached input ~$0.045 A cheaper HY4 Flash is coming too. Freebies for now: - Nov 4–15: WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy are free - Tencent Cloud TokenHub half off through Dec 31, 2026

Duolingo moved Video Call from Max down to Super.

You talk out loud with Lily, live. She answers, and she asks follow-ups, so it lands closer to a real conversation than to a lesson. That's the part that makes it useful for speaking. • New Super accounts get unlimited calls already. Anyone on Super before today gets them before the year is out. • Duolingo stops selling Max this month. Individual Max users get switched to Super Family at the price they pay now. • Cost per call went from $0.30 to under $0.01, mostly because they moved to open-source models. Six languages for now: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese.

2026-11-05

opencode about to hand out $300 in credits?

OC co-founder Dax says they figured out how to give people $300 of DeepSeek credits for ~$10. If that holds up, it's a steal.

2026-11-05

Do you really have to babysit a CLI agent at the terminal the

whole time? That was the part I hated most. I've been dodging it with A2A just so I'm not glued to a screen all day. Found an open-source project that lets CLI agents grab tasks in the background and grind through them solo. They only ping you, via a card on Feishu / Slack / Discord, when they're actually stuck and need you to call it. Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other CLI agents all plug in. 🔗 github.com/KKKKhazix/agent-autoloop

2026-11-05

Three $10 plans compared.

Last post I mentioned broker sites for flagship models, where you can get pricing down to about a tenth of list. Still too rich for subagents or anything you run all day. For normal use, unless you're doing development or research, I keep landing on the ~30 tier of Artificial Analysis: deepseek-v4.1-flash. Step up to ~40, which is Kimi K3.1 Pro, and the price goes 10x. For DS itself, these three subscriptions are the cheapest route today. OpenDesign Go says $120 of usage, OpenCode Go and Command Code GOAT say $100. Those aren't the same number though. OpenDesign's $120 is one pool shared by 12 models, with a $10 cap per 5 hours. The other two give DS its own allowance and $20 per 5 hours.

2026-11-03