16:[[47886276,{"by":"islandbytes","descendants":3,"id":47886276,"kids":[47887229,47896088,47886732],"score":5,"text":"I use Opus 4.6 a lot across many different python coding projects and it has a pretty good first shot rate with good success at fixing issues and bugs that pop up along the way.

Sonnet on the other hand… isn't great. It seems to hallucinate quite a bit, use strange functions and code blocks and then bandaid issues rather than fixing them.

With GitHub Copilot getting rid of it for individual plans and Claude code trying to silently hide it away I fear the end is near and the “discounted” 7.5x usage for Copilot and 2-2.5x usage for Claude Code has me worried about the cost implications of blindly switching over to Opus 4.7. So I am wondering if anyone has had success with some other models that are near the performance of Opus 4.6 and at least better than Sonnet.","time":1777011413,"title":"Ask HN: Models Comparable to Opus 4.6?","type":"story"}],[47884457,{"by":"langs","descendants":17,"id":47884457,"kids":[47919486,47894869,47946343,47888447,47896220,47889653,47884575,47892669,47896067,47939172,47886740,47884563,47891600,47902256,47927593,47931236,47899335,47955793,47892938,47890672,47938316,47932309,47907765,47885068,47902625,47898262,47886448],"score":56,"text":"$17","time":1776994406,"title":"Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?","type":"story"}],[47871449,{"by":"danfunk","descendants":11,"id":47871449,"kids":[47871767,47871785,47871786,47871513,47872606,47871516,47879983],"score":14,"text":"I'm just drinking wine and working late, and it occurs to me that my job in this brave new world of LLMs is that I care. The ability to give a damn seems well outside an LLM's capabilities.

I care about the code and what it is like to read it three weeks from now. I care about the people using this software I'm working on, I want their lives to be spent doing less pointless stupid shit. I think, maybe, that's an ok outcome. Non dystopian. That it's maybe a better world if the people that can contribute the most, are the ones that have passion. That "care" becomes the most highly appreciated skill. That smells good to me. Maybe I sleep good tonight. Maybe it's the wine.","time":1776908703,"title":"Job Is to Give a Shit","type":"story"}],[47871828,{"by":"bilater","descendants":5,"id":47871828,"kids":[47873848,47879097,47883975,47874297,47879969],"score":15,"text":"$18","time":1776913001,"title":"Show HN: Cartoon Studio – an open-source desktop app for making 2D cartoon shows","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/cartoon-studio"}],[47854549,{"by":"darkhorse13","descendants":13,"id":47854549,"kids":[47895598,47879472,47855053,47869775,47903670,47890356,47858894,47885098,47855146,47882796,47856738],"score":26,"text":"Hey HN, a little over a year ago, I launched https://forms.md, a free, open-source Typeform alternative/form builder. It hit 5,000 registered users today, Alhamdulillah.

Revenue is minuscule, but I haven't properly monetized it at all (yet?). Either way, very happy with it how things turned out so far.","time":1776805833,"title":"Tell HN: My open-source project hit 5k registered users","type":"story"}],[47854570,{"by":"Frannky","descendants":6,"id":47854570,"kids":[47855039,47854790,47869765,47854585],"score":10,"text":"Claude Code with Opus and the Max plan is fine for me, even though I'm not super happy about moments when it's not available, the costs, account banning, etc.

Anyway, what I am looking for and am curious about is if there is a solution that I am overlooking that will work the same, or almost the same or better, but at a cheaper price.

I read about people being happy about pi.dev and OpenCode. I tried OpenCode with Mimo V2 pro and it is pretty good. I previously used Qwen CLI before they stopped the free usage, and Gemini CLI. I also used Z.ai with OpenCode.

I read about people using Opus for planning and then for non-important stuff moving the agent to use a further cheaper model. I am not into usage-based pricing unless it will be cheaper nonetheless (I doubt it though).

Do you have some cool setups to share? I usually do Python for backend and TypeScript frontend.","time":1776805984,"title":"Ask HN: Claude Code Alternative","type":"story"}],[47859099,{"by":"morawr","descendants":7,"id":47859099,"kids":[47880464,47861106,47869744,47868119,47860337],"score":11,"text":"I built a plugin that lets Claude Code delegate work to Gemini CLI.

I started this after finding myself reaching for Gemini more often on long context repo work. I have been especially liking Gemini’s codebaseinvestigator for long context.

This is inspired by openai/codex-plugin-cc.

Code Review, adversarial review. Under the hood its Gemini CLI over ACP

Would love feedback from people using Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or ACP. I am especially curious whether this feels useful outside my own workflow.

Its a great combo with Opus 4.7 + Gemini 3.1 workflows","time":1776832869,"title":"Show HN: Gemini Plugin for Claude Code","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/m-ghalib/gemini-plugin-cc"}],[47847558,{"by":"kolx","descendants":109,"id":47847558,"kids":[47847898,47848422,47848101,47848571,47858576,47849240,47852186,47853668,47855634,47848158,47859407,47850616,47848944,47851736,47861200,47850304,47851379,47862426,47861448,47866166,47864140,47848943,47848212,47852596,47852071,47854950,47863404,47848252,47851637,47859093,47850813,47852065,47860726],"score":301,"text":"$19","time":1776772696,"title":"Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files","type":"story","url":"https://vidstudio.app/video-editor"}],[47842021,{"by":"llmmadness","descendants":137,"id":47842021,"kids":[47842540,47842563,47842022,47842915,47842919,47843094,47851548,47842447,47842562,47842553,47842677,47843810,47842423,47842828,47842897,47847752,47842432,47869254,47843182,47844432,47842622,47851206,47842310,47844126,47896135,47852061,47843595,47842762,47843395,47842779],"score":178,"time":1776725009,"title":"Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want","type":"story","url":"https://morgin.ai/articles/even-uncensored-models-cant-say-what-they-want.html"}],[47845050,{"by":"sunny678","descendants":77,"id":47845050,"kids":[47847011,47846405,47845611,47845809,47852035,47845063,47864714,47847200,47845192,47879855,47876196,47878688,47848313,47879437,47847362,47845638,47974309,47874309,47845649,47845619,47845351,47874112,47866444,47857960,47897865,47872218,47847400,47845527,47846619,47850130,47849399,47894593,47857137,47847546,47887341,47845085,47845616,47845071,47848383,47847286,47847279,47877338,47861920,47867558,47885238,47861016,47854377,47846170,47845695,47873092,47845177],"score":46,"text":"For developers and non-developers alike: What's worth learning today to stay relevant in an AI first world","time":1776750584,"title":"Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?","type":"story"}]]

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