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epsteingpttoday at 1:06 AM6 repliesview on HN

How are they 'streaming' the responses and 'pooling' the tokens?

Do they have MacBooks in the US that run the queries and stream the outputs back to China?


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paxystoday at 1:08 AM

Why do you need macbooks? Just rent servers from any hosting provider.

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tristanjtoday at 1:53 AM

The resellers route requests via one of thousands of Claude Max 5x accounts. When an account reaches its usage limit, they automatically switch to another account.

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teravortoday at 1:08 AM

    > Do they have MacBooks in the US that run the queries and stream the outputs back to China?
why would anyone do that? you do realize the laptop farm case was work computers?

the answer to your question is containers/VMs + residential proxies

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bagelstoday at 1:07 AM

They probably asked claude how to do it.

chewstoday at 4:16 AM

ask your gpt how does openrouter work, then ask, how do proxies work.