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Both were great. Z.ai\u2019s subscription doesn\u2019t look very good versus the others. I burn through my current Google AI pro sub for the week in about 2 and a half days so wanted something extra to add to it, but don\u2019t want to buy any expensive ultra plan. Flash models have got me about 98% of what I need, but quotas ar", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"}, {"id": 791171600, "item_id": 49448225, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448225", "by": "_pdp_", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Very impressive model.", "excerpt": "Ox Alpha has been running on auto-pilot for the past 5 days on various experiments. Very impressive model. Here are some examples, open-source documented and the data available in HF datasets: https://openzot.github.io/whetstone/ - https://github.com/openzot/whetstone https://openzot.github.io/arcade/ - https://github.com/openzot/arcade https://openzot.github.io/machinery/ - https://github.com/openzot/machinery", "context": "", "use_case": "autonomous experiments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"}, {"id": 791157456, "item_id": 49447341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447341", "by": "freakynit", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It one-shotted generation of Java bindings for this project", "excerpt": "It one-shotted generation of Java bindings for this project: https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb Related PR: https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb/pull/5 The session used ~100K input tokens, ~60K output tokens, and ~80K thinking tokens. 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Here are some examples, open-source documented and the data available in HF datasets: https://openzot.github.io/whetstone/ - https://github.com/openzot/whetstone https://openzot.github.io/arcade/ - https://github.com/openzot/arcade https://openzot.github.io/machinery/ - https://github.com/openzot/machinery", "context": "", "use_case": "autonomous experiments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"}, {"id": 791157456, "item_id": 49447341, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447341", "by": "freakynit", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It one-shotted generation of Java bindings for this project", "excerpt": "It one-shotted generation of Java bindings for this project: https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb Related PR: https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb/pull/5 The session used ~100K input tokens, ~60K output tokens, and ~80K thinking tokens. 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