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respectfully, its a claude wrapper. with that said if you really can't live without it-- you have the binary, you know what to do.…
— techmunky, 2026-11-04 · Conductor Is Joining Meta · source

…liar with. I also didn't have a personal paid AI code tool, so again either pay for a personal one or just use the work Claude account. Also the webcam on my work laptop is substantially nicer than my personal laptop. Also, critically, it doesn't matter. If IT or my manager had p…
— alyeska2, 2026-11-04 · North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist · source

…e some API keys for some open weight models in Europe, but currently not using those. 3. I've personally used OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex and of those, I liked Codex the most, till bugs kept on accumulating and they started doing all kinds of shit like that daemon recently. I…
— warpspin, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…3 Code, it is by far the best one I have tried that isn't glued to a specific model provider. Trades blows with Codex / Claude Desktop in terms of features. All of the other multi-provider orchestrators have not been keeping up with Claude Desktop in particular adding features at…
— 2001zhaozhao, 2026-11-04 · Conductor Is Joining Meta · source

I love that video. Was it also claude-coded?…
— mongol, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

1. Using ChatGPT with a Business Premium seat (not personally paying for it). 2. Also have some API keys for some open weight models in Europe, but currently not using those. 3. I've personally used OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex and of those, I liked Codex the most, till bugs k…
— warpspin, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Claude code (Max) at work. Claude code (Pro) personal account for side projects. I do still have a ChatGPT subscription. I'm tempted to cancel it, but I like their app. Gemini is bundled somehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to n…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Only ChatGPT Plus at the moment cause I'm between jobs and couldn't justify all the subs. Grok gave me three months at $30 when I tried to cancel so there's that too. I wanted to really keep Claude but ChatGPT voice mode is too good tbh and no other comes close. I wish I coul…
— yewenjie, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Right now I have Opencode Go Plus, Mistral Pro, Kimi. It changes. Kimi is not staying and I'm probably getting ChatGPT for a bit, last month I had Claude Pro. I stay around €100 a month total. I generally use open weight models (Kimi K3.1, Mistral Large 4, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek v4…
— ctolsen, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…ust the AI's claims. Highly recommend trying it out about any topic you may be interested in. I use the free version of ChatGPT. I've also used the Google search AI a lot, I'll basically just Google a question and then proceed to ask followup questions etc. I'm sure it's not all…
— sfn42, 2026-11-04 · How I use AI (Oct 2026) · source

…e some API keys for some open weight models in Europe, but currently not using those. 3. I've personally used OpenCode, Claude Code and Codex and of those, I liked Codex the most, till bugs kept on accumulating and they started doing all kinds of shit like that daemon recently. I…
— warpspin, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

I'm using Claude Code (Ultra) across a multitude of tmux sessions, over two or three laptops – largely so long running actions don't happen on the actual laptop I take with me (nothing worse than waiting around for an agent to finish before you can leave a café). To make it a lit…
— robgough, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Claude Code (Claude Teams Premium seat) plus pi.dev (self-hosted GLM-5.3) at work, Claude Pro at home. Opus 5.5 Extra effort for ~99% of the prompts. 2) Not really, messed around with Openrouter and Deepseek for some stuff that Claude refused to do 3) I use Claude Desktop (Lin…
— world2vec, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

1) Claude code (Max) at work. Claude code (Pro) personal account for side projects. I do still have a ChatGPT subscription. I'm tempted to cancel it, but I like their app. Gemini is bundled somehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to n…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

For personal work. I use Orca. 1. Claude Code with $20 Claude subscription. This used to be a terrible value but now it's a great value, probably because of the IPO. I do a lot of coding and other things and I rarely get close to my weekly limit. I mostly use Opus 5.5 medium. Cod…
— tinyhouse, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…onal account for side projects. I do still have a ChatGPT subscription. I'm tempted to cancel it, but I like their app. Gemini is bundled somehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to not be paying for it. 2) I do use Openrouter for side…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…fy, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…fy, Podman, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…y store, my dentist, my landscaper - all cannot stop talking about Grok Bot, about "Chat" (they usually mean ChatGPT or Gemini). Maybe this time I can get in and get out in time, get real rich! Maybe this time it's different!…
— lnkdinsuxs, 2026-11-03 · The AI Boom May Be Sowing Seeds of Another Financial Crisis · source

…! One day I try to set a timer on my phone, which is basically all I use the voice features for, and it forced me into Gemini AND data collection. It's truly maddening.…
— pertique, 2026-11-03 · Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI · source

…but am looking for something cheaper, as my usage is waning somewhat. I like to hop between models for comparison, but openrouter always seems to end up being way more expensive for the flagship models. I also keep a GPT Plus subscription for voice, until someone has a comparabl…
— grep_name, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…GLM-5.3) at work, Claude Pro at home. Opus 5.5 Extra effort for ~99% of the prompts. 2) Not really, messed around with Openrouter and Deepseek for some stuff that Claude refused to do 3) I use Claude Desktop (Linux) and a heavily modified pi.dev at work VSCode as IDE. At home ju…
— world2vec, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…ehow into my google subscriptions. I use it occasionally, but I'd be just as happy to not be paying for it. 2) I do use Openrouter for side projects that need an embedded AI. For example, on Halloween I made a talking pumpkin to greet trick or treaters as they came to the porch.…
— patwolf, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…keep Claude but ChatGPT voice mode is too good tbh and no other comes close. I wish I could use Opus 5.5 for coding. 2) OpenRouter PAYG, mostly for experimenting with Chinese models like Deepseek and GLM, usually for stuff that Codex or Grok refuses to do. Had been looking into N…
— yewenjie, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…eepSeek v4.1 Flash, Mimo v2.6 Pro is the current quiver) but I use closed frontiers enough to stay up to date. 2) I use OpenRouter if I have a specific need, audio transcription (MAI-Transcribe 2) being something I use often enough. Also using it just to test random models. Not m…
— ctolsen, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…AWS Bedrock. 2. I use both qwen 3.6 35b-a3b and qwen 3.8 27b on my Macbook Pro (M5 Pro, 48GB, 18/20). I use those with ollama and hermes (and Obsidian, to an extent) 3. Hermes Agent, Claude CLI and Claude in VS Code 4. No 5. Hermes Agent I use a carefully curated selection of ag…
— gaoshan, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…an, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/system t…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2026) · source

…an, Docker, Lambda, Serverless, Message Queues, Stripe, Linux, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Nginx, GitHub Actions, Gemini, Ollama. Résumé/CV: On request via email Hi I’m Mark, a Web Developer, Consultant and Automation Engineer originally from the UK. I specialize in devops/system t…
— mjgs, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…ly supports Claude / OpenAI / Gemini / DeepSeek / xAI / OpenRouter, any OpenAI-compatible API, and local models through Ollama or LM Studio It's free and open source (MIT), for macOS 14 or later Friends who are interested are welcome to try it out and give feedback For any sugges…
— AriesIMio, 2026-10-29 · Show HN: Howler, a macOS menu bar AI that burns the chat after reading · source

…pplication has it's offline-matcher which gives matching score for resume-role, and extends beyond. OpenAI, Openrouter, Ollama compatible. Simple setup - clone the repo, run docker compose up -d or the start program directly. First run walks you through onboarding. everything run…
— mr-anjaneyam, 2026-10-26 · Show HN: JobTrace – a self hosted job tracker that sweeps across various portals · source

…Pro Mac mini without needing to kill all other apps to free up the RAM for the inference. So I built a runtime based on llama.cpp that uses SSD offloading and Lookahead Expert Scheduling. I introduced optimizations like adaptive caching and prefill batching, I/O and GPU work over…
— davidetroiani, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: Run faster MoE inference on Mac with less RAM · source

It is basically a gutted ggml/llama.cpp, but I just had the agents build highly optimized version for two specific model quants with zero consideration or compatibility for anything else.…
— bitexploder, 2026-11-03 · V100 SXM2 pinout and NVLink reference · source

…but I have an inference PC with an RTX 3060 12GB and 32GB DDR4. I use it to run Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Gemma4-26B-A4B with llama.cpp. Just in chat mode.…
— roosgit, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: What hardware are you using to run local LLMs? · source

…corpus of my favorite cook and homebrewing books. All you need is source material, postgress (pgvect) and some compute (llama.cpp with a decent chat model for chunking and labeling, an embedding and a rerank model. or some $ to use those via a router). When the corpus is indexed,…
— pampa, 2026-10-29 · Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from · source

…he call as that seems to avoid the issue. Restarting llama-server also seems to make the issue go away so it might be a llama.cpp bug, but TBH i haven't found a clear repro case aside from it happening when i interrupt it while it is thinking. I think it is more common when the c…
— badsectoracula, 2026-10-25 · Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness · source

…5B A3B model at 30 tok/s using SSD Streaming and my agent is instant with no latency and can do everything I ask. I use Aider for programming, exa for searching.. I'm happy with it.…
— giovanniwants, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…ring practical experiments, usage patterns, step-by-step guides, model comparisons, AI coding tool evaluations (Cursor, Aider, Cline, Windsurf, etc.). A large part of my work is *exploratory*: navigating large and messy information spaces, testing things hands-on, comparing diffe…
— dan_voronov, 2026-09-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) · source

…center for engineering teams running coding agents. THE PROBLEM Every coding agent tool I've used (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Cline) assumes the person running the agent is the only human in the loop. For real teams, that is never true. Agent work disappears into terminal tabs.…
— lcavadas, 2026-08-08 · AFK – Command center for teams running coding agents · source

…doing it all over again. I've been building my own harnesses since before that word was so common though, even before Aider was released.…
— samplifier, 2026-08-05 · Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage · source

…utilisateurs d’échapper à la collecte massive de données personnelles qui s’opère dans les smartphones du marché, pas d’aider les pédocriminels à passer sous les radars de la justice. Translation: But above all, we must not fight the wrong battle: /e/OS allows its users to escape…
— microtonal, 2026-07-23 · Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support · source

1. I've been using the $100 github copilot tier but am looking for something cheaper, as my usage is waning somewhat. I like to hop between models for comparison, but openrouter always seems to end up being way more expensive for the flagship models. I also keep a GPT Plus subscr…
— grep_name, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…it very capable. At work I use T3 Code as well, but it isn't connected to my personal machines or subscriptions and use Github Copilot in T3 Code via ACP. Model choice is similar, but for more involved tasks for architecture analysis or design, big features that touch a lot of in…
— peepee1982, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

I've heard that folks using using a mid-tier Anthropic model like Sonnet 5.5 easily run into limits. When I use GitHub Copilot (for work) with Anthropic models I can easily rack up quite a significant bill. This is why I'm comparing value for the money. While Google may not have…
— anoojb, 2026-10-20 · Ask HN: Best value/money AI coding plan bundle? · source

Personally at home I use the free github copilot and then openrouter when that runs out. Last month I used $0.90 of openrouter. Zero so far this month. When my bill starts hitting double digits I'll consider options. Different matter at work but even there we are paying for API c…
— slyall, 2026-10-19 · If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on? · source

…r languages where it fits. On the LLM front, it's been a fascinating journey for me. I started with the private beta of Github Copilot. I was an instant convert for the "better code completion" aspect. But my first attempts with coding agents were rough enough that I stayed away.…
— rented_mule, 2026-10-13 · 'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey · source

…Built This When building autonomous agents or configuring tools in coding environments like Cursor, Claude Desktop, and Windsurf, we ran into two recurring bottlenecks: 1. *The Account / Credit Card Friction*: Autonomous agents cannot complete KYC, enter SMS verification codes, o…
— diogenes_l402, 2026-11-03 · Show HN: Diogenes – Account-less MCP Gateway to 45 Gemini models and guardrails · source

…hat it does: Tcha sits as a transparent, sub-millisecond reverse proxy between your host agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, custom agents) and MCP tool servers: 1. In-Line MCP Reverse Proxy: Intercepts tools/call JSON-RPC streams in flight with <= 1ms latency overhead. If a…
— tchadev, 2026-10-19 · [dead] · source

I been working and making things with AI agents since Windsurf days, here's what works for me after experimenting and working for a while with these things. As far as the agent goes I find whatever the latest OpenAI model is out worked best for me. This company has burned me the…
— nowittyusername, 2026-09-17 · Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others · source

I pay for it (mostly because they grandfathered me from the old prices)! I used to use windsurf as my main editor until they changed their pricing model. Now i use it just to burn my weekly tokens on fable/astra if i remember to that on a task and that's it.…
— PolCPP, 2026-09-10 · Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra · source

…silos. You can switch seamlessly from Gemini in Google Antigravity to Claude 3.7 in Claude Code to GPT-4o in Cursor or Windsurf mid-project—your agents pick up exactly where the others left off. A few architectural details: - Under the hood, it's a zero-latency hybrid retrieval…
— timgordontg, 2026-09-07 · Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs · source

Astra in Codex CLI is good with FreeCAD if you let it use the FreeCAD Python runtime in a headless session. It is good at relying purely on natural language to design and revise. To follow specific CAD techniques you need additional prompting. Highly recommend. Uses quite a lot o…
— edg5000, 2026-10-15 · Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support? · source

…dds to the efficiency. 3. AI enhancement is supported (but not required) using APIs, but also your local Claude Code or Codex CLI. That means for a large percentage of people AI enhancement requires basically no setup. 4. I am obviously highly biased, but I think this both looks…
— watzon, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Sayso, free open source dictation for Mac, Windows, and Linux · source

I used codex the first time yesterday and quickly decided I need to sandbox it and came up with a pretty easy and straightforward solution (I think). I use nixos and use a little wrapper that wraps Codex CLI in Docker. Run codex-box /path/to/project and it starts or reuses a cont…
— entropie, 2026-10-12 · Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default · source

…ely better"). People literally have the power to define what IS these days. I've only recently switched from claude and codex cli to their respective apps and those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui. The tui is actually hurting my main usage of…
— nsonha, 2026-10-01 · Gemini 4 Argon · source

…ural language prompt is something we didn't have ever before. As an Emacs user, I can testify that it's a game-changer. Codex CLI paired with `emacs --batch` is perfectly capable of setting up, developing, and testing just about any kind of extension you'd want. And with packages…
— klibertp, 2026-09-30 · Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) · source

…least favorite trend I’ve noticed with so many AI chat services is they seem to equate a UUID in the url with privacy. Perplexity does this. Visiting a past perplexity search url exposes your full conversation.…
— postalcoder, 2026-09-29 · A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] · source

…with a very familiar subject. It found the "AI Generated" signature embedded in it by the creator (whatever image model Perplexity decided to use.) But I wouldn't have called this image AI. So images that have merely been color corrected or other very minor changes may come up as…
— fortran77, 2026-09-14 · Show HN: Is this photo edited? Client-side image forensics · source

Was getting tired of keep saying continue to gemini, perplexity and chatgpt for bed time stories with voice. So create a story teller with qwen 0.8b and supertonic using webgpu. Tried many different pipelines to reduce hallucinations to a minimum and keep the story coherent and f…
— aichelles, 2026-09-11 · Long form story with Qwen 0.8B · source

…s Claude / OpenAI / Gemini / DeepSeek / xAI / OpenRouter, any OpenAI-compatible API, and local models through Ollama or LM Studio It's free and open source (MIT), for macOS 14 or later Friends who are interested are welcome to try it out and give feedback For any suggestions, you…
— AriesIMio, 2026-10-29 · Show HN: Howler, a macOS menu bar AI that burns the chat after reading · source

My current favorite is this one: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/locally-ai-by-lm-studio/id6741... It's free, not annoying, and has a bunch of model options.…
— simonw, 2026-10-17 · Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw) · source

Yes, I use LM Studio with MLX support, which is specifically faster on M series Macs. I am not sure if llama is the same, but I guess what I’m saying is if you want the performance to be good on M series you have to use models packaged in the right format.…
— aetherspawn, 2026-09-20 · Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint · source

…out on context size so that means i need to split the model between both gpus + offload some into system ram when using LM studio. I'm guessing that is what accounts for most of the slowdown when i use that. With this recipe i don't have to worry about it. It's pretty fast, and s…
— Pragmata, 2026-09-18 · Run QWEN3.8 27B on 16gb Nvidia GPUs · source

I've been using it for the past few days, and it runs really well! I usually get 7 token/s using llama or lm studio, but this inference recipe runs at a smooth 80 tokens per second. Genuinely very usable, and fully local!…
— Pragmata, 2026-09-17 · Run QWEN3.8 27B on 16gb Nvidia GPUs · source

…e are some of my prompts. https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1xb59yw/fi... I use the Portable version of ComfyUI, most are done with Qwen Image 2.1 and some hard restores using FIBO2. You can find a bunch of video tutorials on YT for both models.…
— razster, 2026-10-25 · Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI · source

Oh yeah, I'm not going to lie, once I started using ComfyUI with FIBO2 and Qwen Image 2.1 to restore my photographs, I was hook! I have 25+ years of digital and film photos that I've been restoring due to my older camera/lens quality. The addiction of restoring these older photos…
— razster, 2026-10-25 · Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI · source

…} Which is why I said that it's really hard to think of an editor UI for Aetheris that's not just a text editor or a ComfyUI like graph visual programming or something. If you mean compile speed wise, not great right now, it wasn't that much of an issue when running on RyuJIT…
— YuechenLi, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support) · source

I've been using ComfyUI to do fine background and watermark removal. Might take a look into that as an alternative. Run Flux.2 Klein or Comfyui's own workflow.…
— razster, 2026-08-24 · MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID · source

…and-coming studios quite extensively. (I was a filmmaker before AI, which helps a lot.) If your exposure to AI video is ComfyUI, that's the consumer / hobbyist segment and you're missing out on where all the action is actually concentrating. There are five-ish segments: - Large s…
— echelon, 2026-08-22 · Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs · source

…product they have over being an OpenAI/Anthropic style provider. Which is a shame because Gemini was great for a while, NotebookLM is lovely and the flash lite model was really good at structured workflows. So I’d love to see them continue the line. No idea what gating Argon like…
— quibono, 2026-10-10 · Gemini Flash and Pro move to paid plans, leaving free users with only Flash-Lite · source

What about teaching employees the basics of a job? I love using notebookLM for orientation stuff.…
— DriverDaily, 2026-09-25 · Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos · source

I use AI explainers a lot in my own projects and have skills that give outputs I like. I'll even pipe the output into NotebookLM to make a video sometimes. This is actually a decent way to grok complex subsystems (YMMV). What I don't care for is the pretty-yet-verbose HTML output…
— jbdamask, 2026-08-12 · Delta · source

I’m working on a NotebookLM competitor, sort of an open-notebook in the cloud with a lot of features I’ve added (and made available as either PRs back to the base repo or public fork) such as a plugin system to add more generated “creations” or a quick way to spin up your own com…
— mistakevin, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…r blog posts I’ve gathered. At some point I’d like to play with separate voices and see if I could build something like NotebookLM for kind of like a radio morning show of news items I’ve gathered.…
— bronco21016, 2026-07-07 · Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro · source

…case. As for specifically GenAI, the case involving Théâtre D'opéra Spatial also moved in this exact direction: it is a Midjourney manufactured image that the prompt-giver attempted to Copyright, and the USCO rejected the application and the USCO Review Board also rejected it, ho…
— DiabloD3, 2026-10-14 · Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series · source

…nt to look at AI generated art, and so I won't, and I especially do not want to replace my creative output with that of Midjourney. Ever. I don't care how good or cheap it is which is why those arguments just bounce off of me. I'm here to climb a mountain and you're offering me a…
— ToucanLoucan, 2026-09-08 · DaVinci Resolve 21.1 · source

…ing and sucking at drawing until you figure out how to do it in a way that feels good can easily get short-circuited by midjourney or whatever. The hidden midpoint that you think I am hesitant about might be all the pedagogical materials in-between: the scales, drum rudiments, ge…
— scarecrowbob, 2026-08-08 · Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity · source

> The original Midjourney Medical thread here on HN was loaded with people confidently declaring that these kinds of scans are a bad idea and net negative because of the risk of false positives. Conditional on low base rates, and the need for invasive follow-up testing, they are…
— disgruntledphd2, 2026-06-22 · I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner · source

I did a tech deep-dive into the Midjourney tank, and this is basically the origin of that (the first author David Garrett worked at Midjourney for a while) so I have some thoughts on the tech. A ring of devices at 60cm (70cm for Midjourney) diameter means much longer distances th…
— ssivark, 2026-06-21 · Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography · source

…ugh to generate videos, look at the demos on https://fretta.ai for example. Adding audio and sfx is easy too if you add ElevenLabs to the mix.…
— abhishekbasu, 2026-11-03 · Skill to Create Product Videos · source

…the code From the code changes, it creates a composition which is rendered frame by frame in headless Chromium. We use ElevenLabs for the music and the VoiceOver We then run the video/image through agents which review and report any issues they find. Then, after however many pas…
— adeiji1, 2026-10-22 · MarketMee - Every GitHub push becomes a narrated product video · source

Hey I think ElevenLabs clears. I use PocketTTS for Memoe (https://github.com/memoe-app/memoe)…
— yisraelgottz, 2026-10-21 · Gemini vs. ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and TTS · source

…n latency of 72 ms from end of speech to final transcript. We don’t win everything: on Earnings22 (long earnings calls) ElevenLabs Scribe beats us (4.0% vs 4.4% WER), and on VoiceCodeBench OpenAI writes code and numbers slightly more accurately (83.1% vs 81.9%). False cut-off rat…
— kajokr, 2026-10-21 · KugelAudio (YC P26) – Voice models that don't get stuck in spelling loops · source

…an app to help me. This app will: 1. Generate Spanish short stories using Claude pitched to your level, narrated with ElevenLabs 2. Every word/phrase you highlight becomes a flashcard. Flashcards use spaced repetition - words you find difficult come up more often per review 3.…
— nickreffitt, 2026-09-14 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) · source

Can I use it with Open-Webui instead of Apache Tika?…
— Tepix, 2026-10-26 · PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP · source

…sampler config), for "as replicable as LLMs can be" disclosure, done through llama.cpp's web UI. In another thread, via Open WebUI (both with no custom prompt, so whatever the "default" system prompt is), a reasoning block opens as such: We need answer user's request: write com…
— spijdar, 2026-09-09 · Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills · source

…find interesting paths for you. I’ve made plenty of small helper tools for work and health, and now I’m wrestling with Open WebUI, trying to make it work exactly the way I want while repurposing an old Android device as the server. Do I miss nerding out over implementing a B-tre…
— peheje, 2026-07-29 · Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998) · source

…gentically through a conversational interface even from my phone. What does vLLM offer? Yeah… nothing. And options like Open WebUI seem really bloated. For a cluster of multiple Sparks, the pain of vLLM is still worthwhile, as I already said before. Or if you’re running some kind…
— coder543, 2026-07-01 · Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development · source

…don't have a seperate machine to use as a client. I have an older laptop I run a hermes agent on backed by an API based open (non-local) model and Macbook Pro M4 for running another model locally (also using hermes). The agents have a Mattermost (open source version of slack) ser…
— roadside_picnic, 2026-06-29 · Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development · source

For code: Kagi or phind. For general: Perplexity. For privacy: Brave. I use Google only when I need to find a specific Reddit thread now, ironically.…
— dahuangf, 2026-05-26 · Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore · source

I've been using kimi, though not kimiclaw, for research and it is good - comparable to phind, better than GLM 4.7 . Opus 4.6 wasn't as good for my particular domain of interest. I think the long term pricing asymptote for US vs china is essentially dependent on energy pricing and…
— thatcat, 2026-02-15 · Kimi Claw · source

There were some growing pains in gpt-3.5 to gpt-4 era, but not nowadays (shoutout to the now-defunct Phind, which was a game changer back then).…
— postalcoder, 2026-01-28 · Pandas 3.0 · source

Phind shut down because its small team failed to listen to the community, with minimal engagement from Michael on Discord. Michael is known for a "vibe-heavy" work style, making grand promises but missing every deadline. He proved to be smooth-talking, using sweet words to placat…
— not_anthropic, 2026-01-15 · Phind.com Is Shutting Down · source

…o see these generative UIs I tried to make it generate an explainer page and it created an unrelated page: https://www.phind.com/search/explain-to-me-how-dom-66e58f3f-...…
— 0xferruccio, 2025-12-03 · Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app · source

…ng visual applications, desktop harnesses are better because it's a bit easier to send screenshots to the agent. I love Zed editor but its AI review features are lacking compared to VSCode. I go back to it frequently and am ready to switch over when the team resolves the usabilit…
— apatheticonion, 2026-09-27 · GPT-6 Sol and Luna · source

…and editor unresponsiveness, and any time you're doing IPC, that's another source of latency and fragility. My current Zed editor instance has 5 different language servers running, implemented in at least 3 different languages, some of which require a full VM runtime. Could Zed…
— simonask, 2026-09-19 · Why building a Rust LSP is hard · source

Looks like a great feature/product/functionality. I hope that Zed editor will make it work with LLMs/agents that run in the terminal, not just the Zen Agent itself. Is it even possible? I use OMP.sh agent running in Zed terminal.…
— g42gregory, 2026-08-05 · Zed DeltaDB · source

I like Pi, but I didn't end up using it. I tried OpenCode, Pi, Zed Editor and some NVIM packages. I wanted open source, featureful and easy to use. Specifically I wanted to easily edit the agent prompt. I ended up on VS Code. I'm very critical of Microsoft generally, but VS Code…
— mw888, 2026-08-05 · Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage · source

I use DeepSeek every day (via VSCode Insiders and Zed Editor). It's very affordable and, while it's slightly behind Claude (not sure how far behind Fable), it suits my working style well. I'm not using unsupervised multi-agent workflows and don't need a library of skills files -…
— apatheticonion, 2026-06-17 · US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks · source

I used MacWhisper for a long time and then recently switched to the free TypeWhisper. Both work very well on a Mac.…
— jwr, 2026-08-28 · Gemini-3.5-Transcribe · source

…s throughout the day and then use the SD card to transfer them to my Mac. From there, they automatically get added to a MacWhisper watch folder and then automatically transcribed to plain text with the Parakeet v3 model. I use regex to put each sentence on its own line and then I…
— treetalker, 2026-07-24 · Calm technologies that excite me · source

I don't know if it meets your needs, but I use MacWhisper (Pro) for this. I was an early Pro user so I think I only paid $5 at the time. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper https://www.macwhisper.com/…
— runjake, 2026-07-16 · Ask HN: Best meeting transcription daemon for macOS? · source

…tools for this, and I use the one that I tried first, so there are probably better-suited alternatives out there. I run MacWhisper, and I paired it with BetterTouchTool so it triggers on any input when I double tap the fn/globe icon. Obviously all of my transcriptions through it…
— jorl17, 2026-06-06 · Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI? · source

…-into-OS/app models. Which is interesting, because there's nothing stopping them from just using Whisper models. I love MacWhisper personally. Also, Gumroad is a fantastic app distribution platform for my personal values. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper As far the "de…
— nerdsniper, 2026-05-01 · Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app · source

…y, but I think it makes sense market-share wise at the moment. At the moment I'm also assuming that if someone is using Cursor AI tooling/Grok, they're probably using Cursor IDE and terminals in there. I am planning on looking into integrating Pi.dev, which I love the philsophy o…
— mcclowes, 2026-08-17 · Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized · source

When I say "I use cursor" I mean the subscription. In reality I use the cli tui literally called "agent" and the cursor ide isn't installed at all.…
— hparadiz, 2026-08-14 · Cursor is now a part of SpaceX · source

You can use Cursor CLI, it's a terminal agent, just like Claude Code and Codex. I use it sometimes, I haven't opened the actual Cursor IDE in ages. The potential benefit of Cursor CLI (vs CC and Codex) is that you can easily between all major models (by Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, as…
— jkukul, 2026-08-01 · Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export · source

Using Cursor with Jetbrains via ACP isn't that different than using within the Cursor IDE. You still get Agent/Plan/Ask modes with model selectors. I'd recommend installing the Cursor IDE, then using it to install Cursor CLI (it's easier to keep things up to date this way), then…
— debug-desperado, 2026-06-16 · SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B · source

This is how I use Cursor IDE with its Planning mode.…
— wmeredith, 2026-02-10 · Why "just prompt better" doesn't work · source

I am working on speeding up the review-refine loop of LLM generated artefacts between me and the LLM. i run my coding agent (claude code) in auto / full-permission mode, so it doesn’t stop for accept/reject — by the time it’s done i’ve got a pile of generated code, docs, sometime…
— realrocker, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…ently. I posted this yesterday https://github.com/day50-dev/petsitter I use it with https://github.com/day50-dev/simple-llm-cli And modify the "tricks" until my evals get to good numbers. It's a model by model basis. This is what the larger firms are doing - they have custom prom…
— kristopolous, 2026-06-17 · Running local models is good now · source

I use this tool all the time. Mainly for running various LLM cli tools and whatnot. No way will I install those tools on my host OS due to my unfounded paranoia. Container still has a few warts. Mainly, Container and mDNSResponder on macOS do not always play nicely together. If y…
— hirvi74, 2026-05-07 · I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook · source

…-only. I've seen people unable to work at average speed on small features suddenly reach above average output through a llm cli and I could sense the pride in them. Which is at odds with my experience of work.. I love to dig down, know a lot, model and find abstractions on my own…
— agumonkey, 2025-12-30 · Professional software developers don't vibe, they control · source

`gh pr diff num` is an alternative if you have the repo checked out. One can then pipe the output to one's favorite llm CLI and create a shell alias with a default review prompt. > My company uses some automatic AI PR review bots, and they annoy me more than they help. Lots of us…
— hrpnk, 2025-12-21 · Get an AI code review in 10 seconds · source

…LOL). - TTS built in, but also easy way to bring your own voiceovers and sync to the video scenes automatically (using Whisper transcription). - AI background music and sound effects. - A CLI tool to interact with various components in the pipeline. The first video I generated u…
— prajwal299, 2026-01-01 · Show HN: Automated video generation pipeline using ClaudeCode in 3 days · source

I have mixed thoughts about audio journaling. At first I was in love - I made an app around Whisper transcription model the weekend it came out. (Still working on it - https://whispermemos.com) But when I try to read those recordings, they seem long and uninteresting. I think the…
— Void_, 2025-09-14 · The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works · source

…r speaker recognition. I have been tackling this while building VideoToBe.com. My current pipeline is Download Video -> Whisper Transcription with diarization -> Replace speaker tags with AI generated speaker ID + human fallback. Reliable ML speaker identification is still surpri…
— meerab, 2025-07-23 · Yt-transcriber – Give a YouTube URL and get a transcription · source