Hacker News: m_kos

New comment by m_kos in "Polyend Keys: A Three-Octave Computer Keyboard"

m_kos — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:58:25 +0000

I think a "streamdeck with knobs" already exists :) And if you want knobs and sliders, search for a "midi control service." You would then use something like midi2macro.

Polyend Keys: A Three-Octave Computer Keyboard

m_kos — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:55:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gearnews.com/polyend-keys-synth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449254

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Stemdeck – Free, open-source, local stem separation

m_kos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:49:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371642

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by m_kos in "Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer"

m_kos — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:18:14 +0000

> is it just me, or is delivery weirdly off-beat sometimes?

I played with it for a while and implementation is perhaps not the strongest aspect of this project.

New comment by m_kos in "Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer"

m_kos — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:12:30 +0000

I enjoy Patterning too. One limitation of that representation is that it doesn't seem to lend itself to working with loops that evolve over time. I don't know if it could be accomplished by some isometric view of stacked wheels (patterns) or a slinky, but maybe a Petri Net?

My EP-133 K.O. II boots as an EP-40 riddim now. It took four bytes

m_kos — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://linecross.ing/ko-ii-boots-as-a-riddim/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213893

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

m_kos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:34:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/petri-net-sequencer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158934

Points: 76

# Comments: 23

New comment by m_kos in "Ollama: All Aboard Open Models"

m_kos — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:32:04 +0000

Sadly, I can't run GLM 5.2 locally.

New comment by m_kos in "Ollama: All Aboard Open Models"

m_kos — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:26:53 +0000

I get that people here have reasons to hate on Ollama but it has two genuinely strong points: - it makes it very easy to use open models with a lot of harnesses and assistants via `ollama launch`; Their $20 subscription is very generous, and they claim not to log or train on your data.

I will be curious to see if their subscription ever supports the ~3T open weights models announced this week.

Vibe Pad: A 4-Button Bluetooth Macro Keyboard with a Mic for AI Coding

m_kos — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:47:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instructables.com/Vibe-Pad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912086

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by m_kos in "Show HN: Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE"

m_kos — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:02:04 +0000

Nicely done! Would you consider adding an Agent SDK login for Claude for those who don't have an API budget and want to avoid potential issues with Anthropic's capricious policies around CLI use in third-party apps?

New comment by m_kos in "Launch HN: Agnost AI (YC S26) – Extract user feedback from agent conversations"

m_kos — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:29:41 +0000

> Rageprompting

Lovely name! I implemented profanity monitoring in my Hermes setup to identify "learning opportunities" for my agents. It is quite useful. If you are budget-conscious, one challenge is determining what is the smallest number of previous rounds that Hermes needs to correctly infer what it did wrong. Curiously, Claude Code is horrible at figuring out what it did wrong. I often read its memories, and they are rarely useful.

Interactive Additive Synthesis Comic

m_kos — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:22:46 +0000

Article URL: https://melatonin.dev/additive-synth-comic/what-is-a-harmonic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48290012

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by m_kos in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

m_kos — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:17:25 +0000

$300 is my employer's monthly cap on Claude Enterprise. It lasts me at most a week of moderate use. I would much rather get Codex Pro and Claude Pro or Max, which would cost ≤ $200. For $300, one could also add Gemini Ultra to the mix so I could have all three review each other's code, etc.

Claude can be very good but enterprise pricing doesn't make sense to me.

New comment by m_kos in "ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board"

m_kos — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:48:35 +0000

What price range, if you don't mind sharing?

New comment by m_kos in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

m_kos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:18:12 +0000

Thanks. I will try this! I need to read up on how to work with vision models for both generation and understanding.

New comment by m_kos in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

m_kos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:42:02 +0000

Very useful website. Would you have insight into what models are best at editing existing images?

I often have to make very specific edits while keeping the rest of the image intact and haven't yet found a good model. These are typically abstract images for experiments.

I asked gpt-image-2 to recolor specific scales of your Seedream 4 snake and change the shape of others. It did very poorly.

Feynman: Open-source AI research agent

m_kos — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:28:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.feynman.is/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669193

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

LMMs-Lab Writer: AI-native LaTeX editor. Git built-in, open source

m_kos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:37:29 +0000

Article URL: https://writer.lmms-lab.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652488

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by m_kos in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

m_kos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:59:02 +0000

Neat! I might give it a try.

What do you mean by interfaces in "These interfaces can do literally anything on the host machine. You're responsible for your own security"?

Also, your backdooring image links to a 404.