Ember-1 vs MiMo v2.6 Flash
Ember-1 took 25 min 56 s and $1.78 at list price, MiMo v2.6 Flash took 24 min 20 s and $0.040 at list price. Ember-1 took 1.1× as long and cost 44× as much.
Ember-1
Fireworks · $15.00/M out · 589 HN pts
MiMo v2.6 Flash
Xiaomi · $0.28/M out · 5 HN pts
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Watch
Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.
Landing
Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.
Breakout
Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.
Logo
Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.
About
Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.
Patchbay is a three-person workshop in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping vintage synthesizers alive. We work on the machines that shaped electronic music — analog polysynths, temperamental drum machines, early digital oddities — replacing tired capacitors, rebuilding keybeds, and coaxing silent oscillators back into tune.
Between us we bring decades of experience in electronics, instrument design, and music-making, but what unites us is simpler: we believe these machines were built to be played, not displayed. Every repair happens by hand at our benches, with period-correct components wherever possible and thoughtful modern solutions where reliability demands it. We test everything the only way that matters — by listening.
Whether your Juno has lost a voice, your 808 has lost its kick, or a flea-market find needs a full restoration, we treat each instrument as if it were heading back to a studio, a stage, and a long life of making noise. Because it is.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam dedicated to the repair and restoration of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have been sitting in attics, basements, and rehearsal rooms for decades — the ones that hum when they shouldn't, lose their voice, or refuse to power on at all. Our approach is patient and detail-oriented. We trace faults through aging circuit boards, source period-correct components when possible, and treat every repair as a conversation with the person who built the instrument, and the musicians who played it before it fell silent.
We believe these machines deserve to stay in circulation rather than end up in landfill. Whether it is a Moog, a Juno, or a machine you cannot name, bring it in and we will tell you honestly what it needs.
Specs and numbers
| Ember-1 | MiMo v2.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Fireworks | Xiaomi |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 24 Sep 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $3.00 | $0.14 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $15.00 | $0.28 |
| Context | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 589 | 5 |
| Time for the six prompts | 25 min 56 s | 24 min 20 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $1.78 | $0.040 |
MiMo v2.6 Flash was cheaper: $1.74 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. MiMo v2.6 Flash was faster: 1 min 36 s less in total, and faster on 4 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Ember-1's Breakout game plays; MiMo v2.6 Flash's stopped painting.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Ember-1's rebuild matched the screenshot at 67%; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Ember-1's game passed 5 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it.