Flint vs MiMo v2.6 Flash
Flint took 10 min 5 s and was free at list price, MiMo v2.6 Flash took 24 min 20 s and $0.040 at list price. MiMo v2.6 Flash took 2.4× as long.
Flint
Recursive · free route · 36 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 began in a small, cluttered workshop in Rotterdam, where solder smoke and old capacitors seem to belong together. We are a three-person studio, which means every synthesizer that comes through our door is handled by one of the same people who started the project. No call center, no hand-off to strangers. We repair vintage synthesizers: the dusty analog beasts, the rare oddities, the ones with missing knobs and mysterious tuning drift. Our work is part electronics, part archaeology, part stubborn love. We listen to the hum before we open the case, and we believe most vintage synths are not dead, just waiting for someone to pay attention. In a city known for moving quickly, we prefer taking our time. Patchbay exists to keep old voices alive, one oscillator, filter, and power supply at a time. If you have a synth that sings, whispers, or hums through the decades, we would be glad to meet it.
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
| Flint | MiMo v2.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Recursive | Xiaomi |
| Made in | US | China |
| Released | 21 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | free route (list $0/M) | $0.14 |
| Price out, per M tokens | free route (list $0/M) | $0.28 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | open | open |
| Hacker News points | 36 | 5 |
| Time for the six prompts | 10 min 5 s | 24 min 20 s |
| List price of the six prompts | free | $0.040 |
Flint was free at list price; MiMo v2.6 Flash cost $0.040. Flint was faster: 14 min 15 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, Flint's Breakout game loads but doesn't start; MiMo v2.6 Flash's stopped painting.
Tea Garden experiment: Flint's game passed 5 of 5 checks; MiMo v2.6 Flash was not in it.





