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New comment by oceanwaves in "Identity verification on Claude"

oceanwaves — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:58:52 +0000

I wonder how this will work for third-party providers' enterprise customers. E.g. Vertex, Bedrock

New comment by oceanwaves in "MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks"

oceanwaves — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 03:19:09 +0000

Yes, that's what I'm finding too. There seems to be a concerted promotional pricing campaign tied to M3's release across providers. Since their differences are subtle, it makes a lot of sense to fan-out to M3.

New comment by oceanwaves in "MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks"

oceanwaves — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:54 +0000

GLM 5.2 edges as the safer pick when tasks are more challenging from-scratch builds and the result needs to arrive as a complete, runnable project. MiniMax M3 is the value pick for a lot of worker traffic.

MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks

oceanwaves — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkwright.ai/minimax-m3-vs-glm-5-2-coding-benchmark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600531

Points: 55

# Comments: 19

Defensible Deep Research from Open-Weight Models

oceanwaves — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkwright.ai/two-phase-research

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530079

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by oceanwaves in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

oceanwaves — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:50:05 +0000

This submission's reference URL is not affiliated with Nous Research

New comment by oceanwaves in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

oceanwaves — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:48:10 +0000

This was not a pleasant experience to register with and evaluate. Nowhere is a Linux-deployable harness mentioned. It seems to be a Perplexity-like offering.

On top of that, users logging in with Google OIDC cannot delete their accounts. Eve asks for the login password to confirm account deletion. Broken.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:27:14 +0000

Even in my plugins, I don't actually use JUCE DSP primitives. It's mostly a product shell and distribution framework, two things I have no need for in this codebase.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:44:15 +0000

I've actually fixed the page based on your feedback. Not sure why you continue to be bothered by my open source hobby's landing page.

https://brume.aftertone.co/lcxl3.png

Cheers.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:42:43 +0000

Yeah, I understand the lens through which you're probably evaluating this. Wouldn't be for you.

I wanted to design, learn, build, and have fun with something physical on my desk that I could swipe, turn, twist, and make sounds with.

https://brume.aftertone.co/lcxl3.png

Just a hobby project I'm sharing.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:06:17 +0000

Oh man, the prices of these components have skyrocketed since I began this project. It has been depressing to watch.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:48:32 +0000

Yeah that's by design, and kind of a nifty byproduct. The demo tune on the landing page was actually generated by the DSP engine running on macOS. For me, it's mostly a development aid but you can use it that way if you wanted.

Just wasn't part of the motivation. I wasn't looking for another standalone macOS app or VST. Wanted something tactile (controller I already have muscle memory with) and a touchscreen UI.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:43:32 +0000

For the DAW-less use case, I actually prototyped this with a DAC hat before deciding to go the Overbridge route. I might resurrect that support some day...

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:36:10 +0000

It should run ok on a CM4, but with some limitations.

Less DSP headroom; swatcoder's optimization suggestions in this thread become more important. Simultaneous 4-part polyphony might push things. You'd probably want at least a 4GB board.

Also, the brumectl installer will not attempt to set up the USB audio/MIDI bridge (Meridian) on a CM4. That auto-configures only on a CM5 for now.

Would be a pretty light lift to get that working if you are interested.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:12:03 +0000

I do distribute VST/AU plugins that are built with JUCE, but this is an application that runs on the Raspberry Pi platform.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:37:37 +0000

And yeah, line-out audio on a Pi is a non-starter.

This was really designed to be surfaced in a DAW via USB.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:34:58 +0000

Thanks, I'll try to improve the reader experience.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:14:33 +0000

The copy makes it pretty clear this is firmware for a CM5.

Rest assured, if you click the "READ THE MANUAL" button on the landing page you will see screenshots of all synth engines and configuration screens.

The repo's README also starts with a screenshot.

Thanks.

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:11:28 +0000

A -ton-

No hesitation to enthusiastically share that it was actually a parallel goal to see just how deeply I could go while keeping it stable, performant, and extensible for the long term.

I ended up building a lot of ancillary agent infrastructure to push the determinism in all the fanned out work slices, too.

https://thinkwright.github.io/threadmark/

Also: https://brume.aftertone.co/develop.html#agents

New comment by oceanwaves in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

oceanwaves — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:03:14 +0000

Exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for, since this is an educational, hobby-class project for myself. I'm just treating the development of it formally as a product to stay disciplined.

Make no mistake, I'm not promoting this thing like a product, though. I'm aware there's a big gulf between this and a commercialized purpose-built product.

That said, there is a ton of headroom right now on the 8GB CM5 reference platform and I felt some of these optimizations were overkill in this pre-1.0 phase. The FX bus is already block-based, but the voice synthesis path remains pretty simple. Some of the block scaffolding for the better approach exists and I'll plan to evolve in that direction.

Thank you.