Hacker News: terhechte

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

terhechte — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:45:49 +0000

I've just used it for a fairly complex refactoring of the UI in a SwiftUI / AppKit app. It managed the refactoring in blazing colors, and the resulting UI looked really good. It was also quite fast. I'm impressed.

New comment by terhechte in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

terhechte — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:41:26 +0000

I tried to install this the other day with Altstore and gave up after 30min. I learned there are two altstores, and the one I could install didn't support the "source" listed on that repository. Then I looked into the other options and all required some terminal messing and rooting and what not. I thought in the EU we should be able to just install software now.

New comment by terhechte in "Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized"

terhechte — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:01:45 +0000

I created something similar, fully open source, using the ideas behind scrolling window managers. There's currently no website as I'm actively using it to work on a different project. It has features such as a shortcut (command+.) to open an overlay menu that allows you to switch to any split just by typing a letter and a number. Throughout the app. It also has optional vim bindings, support for different models and agents (e.g Claude, Codex, etc via ACP), and much more. There're bugs, but if you run into any, feel free to let AI create a PR. Goes without saying that it's vibe coded.

https://github.com/terhechte/Cormac

New comment by terhechte in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

terhechte — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:48:09 +0000

Fuck ack. I'm working on a new benchmark that combines strong visual requirements with tool and coding requirements. I haven't even tested Sol yet, but between Sonnet, Terra & Luna I already see much better results from OpenAI's models. I'm not releasing anything yet as I still have issues in my harness that need to be fixed.

New comment by terhechte in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

terhechte — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:40:30 +0000

Which setup did you use? MLX/GGUF, Quant, Engine (e.g. llama.cpp or MTPLX, etc)? There’s so much variety these days.

New comment by terhechte in "Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro"

terhechte — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:03:09 +0000

This is incredible. Even though Apple seems hell-bent on repeating their iPad mistake on Vision Pro ("A baby computer because our users are morons and we have to keep them safe from any theoretical harm. Also, any kind of software development outside of macOS is strictly forbidden"), there is a small tinker community that works on genuinely making iPadOS useful. Another example (also shared here recently) is this:

https://www.lispm.net/apps/uhf-x11/

New comment by terhechte in "Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates"

terhechte — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:21:00 +0000

For any horrible web administration UI:

- Apple Appstore Connect (gazillions of forms of metadata to release an app) - AWS - DigitalOcean - Google Play Store

Whenever I dread logging in because I know the simple sounding task requires me to click through countless menus I use an agent browser. With confirmations of course. However, while the agent clicks through these (oftentimes dog slow) UIs I can do other things. Once it requires permission, I read, decide and act.

New comment by terhechte in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

terhechte — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:43:30 +0000

You can run DeepSeek Flash just fine on 128GB using lower quants. Antirez' DwarfStar supports it really well. The bigger the model, it seems, the less it is affected by high quantization. I know some people are working on quantizing GLM 5.2 so it can fit into 128GB (using additional tricks to select only some experts, etc). There's a lot going on.

New comment by terhechte in "Transcribe.cpp"

terhechte — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:47:11 +0000

I'm using this in one of my side projects, Emyn ( https://github.com/terhechte/Emyn ) a macOS virtual camera app for composing camera video, app windows, backgrounds, effects, notes, and captions into a polished live presentation feed.

It works very well, the integration is much easier than before, users have model choice. So happy that this exists!

New comment by terhechte in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

terhechte — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:05:27 +0000

I'd rather have a ai-written article then no article at all. I think this is a real struggle. Writing an article takes time that could be spent on improving the product. Would I prefer a human article, yes. But if the alternative is "no article", then that's how it is.

New comment by terhechte in "Hy3"

terhechte — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:41:17 +0000

It is really slow on openrouter and I ran into many http errors.

New comment by terhechte in "Giant Floating Victorian Drydock"

terhechte — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:41:12 +0000

There's a couple of great images in this article:

https://nmb.bm/history/look-down-look-down/

New comment by terhechte in "Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop"

terhechte — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:49:51 +0000

Thank you for NeoVim! I also use it every day, mostly for thinking / text / markdown though these days.

Have you compared against MLX? Sometimes I’m getting much faster responses but it feels like the quality is worse (eg tool calls not working, etc)

New comment by terhechte in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

terhechte — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:43:40 +0000

you can also use Claude Code programmatically with the `prompt` parameter in the cli.

New comment by terhechte in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

terhechte — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:51:39 +0000

ChatGPT allows setting a "personality" profile Settings -> "Base style and tone". Try the "Efficient" setting. Its great. no emoji, no clickbait.

New comment by terhechte in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

terhechte — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:55:34 +0000

How is Peter "early in their career"? When he sold PSPDFKit for 100mio in 2020 he had been working on it for 13 years, and before that he'd worked as an engineer.

New comment by terhechte in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

terhechte — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:15:42 +0000

Any proof for this claim?

New comment by terhechte in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

terhechte — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:44:42 +0000

Shuru should do exactly what you want:

https://shuru.run

New comment by terhechte in "Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed"

terhechte — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:59:36 +0000

Did you try an MLX version of this model? In theory it should run a bit faster. I'm hesitant to download multiple versions though.

New comment by terhechte in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

terhechte — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:06:51 +0000

so your definition of consciousness is having petty emotions?