Hacker News: cdurth

New comment by cdurth in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

cdurth — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:27:35 +0000

I can't get 3.8 to exit thinking loops. It will just think and think and think on the most trivial topics. I wanted it to port a speed test powershell script to c#. Claude opus 5 completes it under 60 seconds. I let 3.8 churn about 6 different times for 30+ minutes and it never wrote a single line of code to disk. It wrote lots of lines in thinking.

unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF UD-Q3_K_XL DSH (pi)

Any tips?

New comment by cdurth in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

cdurth — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:47:50 +0000

Sure, I understand the subsidization. Their limits are practically unusable and the marketing of "Focused working sessions for regular coding, review, research, and analysis throughout the week." is pretty disingenuous then.

New comment by cdurth in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

cdurth — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:31:44 +0000

I have been using the coplay MCP for Unity.

New comment by cdurth in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

cdurth — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:31:02 +0000

Not sure if you meant Fable/Mythos instead of Opus, but I can comfortable work several hours a day using Opus on Max-Ultracode on the CC 10x.

New comment by cdurth in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

cdurth — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:03:12 +0000

I tried the Fugu models with some real world tales in C# and unity using mcp and open code. I exhausted the $20 plan 5 hour window in one prompt to review my theme system and plan some color changes. So I upgraded to the $100 to see the implementation and result. Well the result was worse than Opus, incredibly slow, and I ended up exhausting the new 5 hour window and have used 35% of the weekly now and it hardly created something opus was able to do at a fraction of the time and cost.

Do what you wish with this info, but it seems to be a complete waste of $$.

New comment by cdurth in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

cdurth — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:48:22 +0000

Yup I run Max only now. It's closer to the "old" Claude but still nerfed in my opinion.

New comment by cdurth in "Why Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay"

cdurth — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:26:24 +0000

Yes they 100% associate the card number with your account if it's on file. I have never used Walmart pay and use my physical card only. The strange thing I've noticed is that there is a failure rate of probably 20% where it doesn't associate me.

New comment by cdurth in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

cdurth — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:55:05 +0000

I'm in a similar boat but with Telegram.

New comment by cdurth in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

cdurth — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:05:22 +0000

I don't understand the jellyfin hype tbh. Every year I spin it up to test and am always disappointed. If you only consume your media on a web browser, then 100% recommend jellyfin. If you consume on anything else the apps are bare bones and seriously lacking, potentially not even existing. I despise the frequent and ugly Plex UI changes they push out, but the app works on every device and TV brand I've had.

The take away is the app ecosystem needs some serious bolstering. That's the holdup for most people I know who are still sticking with Plex.

New comment by cdurth in "Odoo: Open-Source ERP"

cdurth — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:30:59 +0000

Yup, came here to offer the same sentiment on the SMB ERP systems I've worked with.

New comment by cdurth in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

cdurth — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:05:55 +0000

I feel that large corps have guard rails that will limit this from happening. For SMB's, this is not a new problem. Gritty IT guys have been doing this for decades. I inherit these bootstrapped reporting systems all the time. The issue is when that person leaves, it is no longer maintainable. I've yet to come across a customer who has had any sort of usable documentation. The process then repeats itself when I take over, and presumably when I'm finished. With a SaaS product, you are at least paying for some support and visibility of the processes. I'm not really trying to make a point other than this is not a new, but still intriguing problem, and not sure that LLMs will be some god answer, as the organizations have trouble determining what they even need.

New comment by cdurth in "Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing"

cdurth — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:14:00 +0000

Definitely not to skirt auto play and screen off issues ;) fun to see this is still a problem being solved. A friend and I made the same thing 10 years ago. We opted to force the screen on and play the videos to stay "legit". Explored licensing music for monetization and there was a mid 5 figure minimum to bootstrap so the project died.

New comment by cdurth in "Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing"

cdurth — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:41:16 +0000

Ripping the video to s3, naughty naughty. Be expecting your YouTube API key to be revoked and DMCA.

New comment by cdurth in "Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs"

cdurth — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:51:26 +0000

Maybe the few that were WFH prior to AI. I just calculated my carbon output for commuting and going to lunch daily versus WFH and using AI and it's wayyy less. Let's all save earth, stay home and use AI.

New comment by cdurth in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

cdurth — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:14:09 +0000

I might be missing something, but how do you specify color options for the Core Time 2?

New comment by cdurth in "The New York Stock Exchange plans to launch NYSE Texas"

cdurth — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 04:00:53 +0000

Have a link to the episode?

New comment by cdurth in "Show HN: Puck 0.18 adds drag-and-drop for CSS grid and Flexbox"

cdurth — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:00:33 +0000

Not the same. Bootstrap Studio is a stand alone design tool. This is a framework to be integrated into an app.

New comment by cdurth in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

cdurth — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:21:24 +0000

Not just random biloilerplate/framework code either. A framework his dad created. So with this logic his dad did the majority of the project.

New comment by cdurth in "DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years"

cdurth — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:02:10 +0000

Same :( been using it the last few months as my daily driver.

New comment by cdurth in "Query Apple's FindMy network with Python"

cdurth — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:09 +0000

You could definitely use meshtastic devices to do this