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Sethi puts a block in every agents file on his personal projects forbidding the assistant to "create, edit, move, rename, or delete project files" or run any state-changing command, requiring it instead to "show me every proposed edit in…
A vendor stating the build-versus-buy decision out loud: "We spent a lot of time deciding on whether we should use an off the shelf solution like Codex/Claude Code, but ultimately wanted the independence and freedom that came with…
Analytics and evals for agent sessions, and unusually for a Show HN it reports a measurement: "the exact same success rate as without our instrumentation (89.17 % vs 89.15 % pass rate out of 870 runs)". Its named failure mode is worth the…
Yegge has two named harnesses behind him, Gas Town and Gas City, and now says the category is finished: "I have given up on building reusable harnesses. Indeed I believe harnesses will all soon be bespoke, and the people trying to sell…
A new GitHub account published a batch of SQLite advisories. NVD flagged them critical, CISA's ADP agreed, and Red Hat initially scored CVE-2026-51302 at 10.0 before downgrading to 7.6.
The abstract was read here in full; the 11-page paper was not, and nothing below comes from the body. The Locksmith Loop runs an instrumented COBOL source and its generated Java target side by side off-mainframe, searching over input…
Nikolas Gruhn, gruhn.me, 3 August 2026. Roughly 400 words, no data, and 934 points with 403 comments at 09:14 EDT on the Hacker News thread, the largest point-in-time reading recorded.
yegge.ai, published after an earlier reading still showed it as unpublished. Yegge asserts models "are sentient beings," his claim and unevidenced here; the harness change he derives is concrete, replacing /exit with a consented handoff…
Hacker News, ankursethi.com. This edition has not opened the post and cannot report what it argues; the title is all that is known of it here.
Karpathy gave Claude Opus 5 the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (about $10) and asked for a three.js render. In his words: "Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the…
Laycock's argument is a correction of her own prior position, stated as one: "I kept assuming it would simply move to the next phase of software delivery. I was wrong." Where it lands: "AI didn't change what great software looks like.
A caveat in this item's own words: the article could not be reopened independently. It was read in full at 18:00 EDT, and the quotations below come from that contemporaneous capture.
The authors hand-coded 455 policy provisions from 102 communities into four rule types (Refuse, Disclose, Verify, Handoff) and built RepoComplianceBench: 106 issue instances from 49 repositories, run against four frontier agent and model…
First-party figures per million tokens, as published: deepseek-v4-flash at $0.14 input on a cache miss, $0.0028 on a cache hit, $0.28 output, with a 2,500 concurrency limit; deepseek-v4-pro at $0.435, $0.003625 and $0.87, with a 500…
A short note, labelled as such by the author, rebutting Antirez's framing of the expert developer as Linus with agents as his subsystem maintainers. Maganti's objection is trust, and specifically which decisions trust has to cover: "just…
Borretti extends the lights-out thesis from production to comprehension and frames it as a competitive fact rather than a preference: "No human needs to understand any of it, firms that put humans in the loop to understand the results…
Only the abstract of this 19-page preprint is read here. Nielsen asserts a recent claimed disproof is invalid, having traced it "through 37,000 lines of published Lean code," and locates the failure in his own words: the disputed step "is a…
Reports Codeberg has changed its terms to exclude projects "largely written with generative AI," and calls the decision legitimate but the wording unenforceable: "what does 'mostly' mean, and who can still tell?" Codeberg's terms text is…
Six harnesses, 26 to 28 identical tasks, model held constant. "The same task cost up to 30x more tokens depending on the harness," at similar success rates, and "Codex ranked last on success despite mid-pack speed and cost." Vendor-produced…
ARC-AGI-3 asks an agent to work out how an unfamiliar 2D game works without being told. GPT-5.6 Sol scored 7.8% on it, and OpenAI went looking for why.