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I went down this path over 6 months ago and had a variety of custom setups using tmux, cmux, and more. But since using Orca IDE it feels like a leap in usability and robustness.
Re:Fable 5.1 World Modeling on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:17AM (#49595003)
being reductive, causality is the key term for a world model. the rollout is the key action to demonstrate causality. lots of nice LLMs can generate a 3d representation of a "visual world". These days the focus is on sensory data (image, video, etc.), however world models can be more than just 3d spatial representations - they could be tabular. Again being reductive, its how do you predict the next state from the current state (the rollout).
Re:Skimming an AI answer cost me 100 passwords on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:04PM (#48484533)
My sense is yes. Running a small, non-frontier model in a "loose harness" has less guardrails under the hood. However I have no evidence besides my outcomes!

An analogy might be: AltaVisa 20+ years ago vs. Google + Chrome today. There are more layers to filter or warn of malicious links.

Re:Skimming an AI answer cost me 100 passwords on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:12PM (#48483437)
It was my fault, I copied the command and ran it from a search result provided by my OpenClaw that was running on a non-frontier model (I can’t remember which - something small and free).

I’m pretty confident it’s gone, this happened about 6-7 weeks ago. Have been running recurring checks for processes, Malwarebytes, and a PiHole to monitor traffic.

Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:52PM (#48471218)
The Max version gets more details right. The bike frame looks good, the chain, the wings are appropriately styled instead of “arms”, and the knee is bent, etc. Obviously we’re hitting marginal returns now, but I see differences.
Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:08AM (#48442948)
[Take a look at my portfolio site](https://reebz.com), please view on desktop. This is about 3 weeks of effort to date. It is unfinished, but you get the idea.

Just like SaaS boilerplate from the decade prior, there is LLM boilerplate (since it’s trained on the internet).

So if you put in enough elbow-grease anything is (still) possible!

There are certainly simpler solutions, but I love maximum flexibility to pickup and go from my desktop to iPad to iPhone anytime I want with full terminal access

Show HN: My custom Statusline for Claude Code (Python wrapper around claudeline)

https://gist.github.com/Reebz/741c5647c860fe0b5214f39d9d887240

Hey everyone - After lots of tweaking and tinkering to find what I like, sharing my favorite way to see my Claude Code statusline. Hope you like it too.The linked GH gist is a Python wrapper around claudeline that pipes its output through a few transformations and adds custom behaviors like a true-1M context %, and a custom context window alert threshold with some emoji tweaks.

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Re:How Claude Code works in large codebases on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:06AM (#48144759)
The influencer economy trades on hype, on frenzy, and ultimately, eyeballs. The more the better.

They want you feel like you’re missing out. They want you to switch. Being boring is far more productive. Pin your versions. Stick to stable releases and avoid the nightlies.

Significant noise created from 4.6 to 4.7 Opus transition has caused some to interpret this as signal. Excluding certain genuine and real bugs, the noise about perceived quality falling dramatically was noise. Influencers doing influencing turned it into “signal”. The reality was that if you had strong planning and spec driven development it ranged from manageable to non-existent.

The vast majority of the people I know and work with have not switched off CC or their Max sub.

Re:Grok 4.3 on Friday May 01, 2026 @07:53PM (#47981861)
Claude 4.7 is the clear winner to me for manager and formal report updates.

As an ex-senior exec (hundreds of staff), the bolded timeline impact is a particular nuance that I would expect a Lead/Director to format for a VP+ audience. Interesting none of the other models did that. My eyes immediately went to impact statement, then worked back to context to grasp the whole situation.

Yeah fair question - I mainly did this because I’d forget to run /rc to enable remote control and the globally enabled rc flag is buggy.

The 3 main benefits for me are

- full terminal access, not just CC. So I can start CC remotely, not just join

- connection durability, CC sessions will die if network drops 10min+

- i enjoy cmux and wanted its workspace management integrated remotely as I’ve usually got 3-10 CC sessions active at any time

Show HN: My favorite local-feeling remotely accessible Claude Code setup

https://gist.github.com/Reebz/99db98ad4d3c45ebed84989a13710788

I run multiple Claude Code sessions on my Mac at home and control them from my iPhone or iPad while I’m out.I like this because it gives me maximum power and flexibility (I can use any plugin or CLI as if I were sitting there locally).The setup is cmux for the terminal multiplexer UI, tmux to keep sessions alive between connections, Tailscale for zero-config encrypted networking, and Echo app...

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Show HN: Signoff.sh – Claude Co-Authored-By with random fictional characters

https://gist.github.com/Reebz/b3102c6a5de8238d3b60eb63450ee48e

Every Claude Code commit and PR is shipped with Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]> (or similar). It's less fun than I think it should be. So signoff.sh is a 40-line bash script that replaces it with a random fictional character's full legal name - as best as I could figure out :)Preserves the model name and the Anthropic noreply email, so you still get transparency...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:16AM (#47701638)
I enjoyed this! Thanks for the index
Many commentators are, mostly fairly, criticizing the repo due to issues raised on benchmarks. This is reasonable, however many are going further to bash the repo likely due to the authors.

For me, I see a silver lining. I'll be implementing mempalace for a few small agents to have memory portability that's managed locally.

I think the benchmarker who ran independent tests in GitHub issue #39 summed it up best:

To be clear about what this all means for our own use case: we still think there's a real product here, just not the one the README is selling. The combination of a one-command ChromaDB ingest pipeline for Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Slack exports, a working semantic search index over months or years of conversation history, fully local, MIT-licensed, no API key required, and a standalone temporal knowledge graph module (knowledge_graph.py) that could be used independently of the rest of the palace machinery,is genuinely useful, and we're planning to integrate it into our Sandcastle orchestrator as a claude_history_search MCP tool exactly along those lines.

https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/issues/39

Just use opus. A company that has not rejected agreements with a “Department of War” and sanctions reasoning models to enable mass citizen surveillance and autonomous weapons deployment with no human intervention is not really the kind of company I want to give my money too. And opus4.6 is the best model out there. Some people overthink on personality but I just want good code.
Re:Are you team MCP or team CLI? on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:50PM (#47580158)
CLI is a clear choice (right now) for terse, individual use cases, but we need to remember - MCP is a protocol and a new one.

If we think back, even HTTP needed a decade to stabilize and dominate the other early web protocols. Before we throw out MCP, we'll have to see how important stateful vs stateless is for agents. It is still early days of real-world development!

Re:The curious case of retro demo scene graphics on Monday March 30, 2026 @03:51AM (#47571604)
Not knowing the scene and only what I took from the article - it’s precisely this. There is a reverence towards human labour and effort that affords relaxing what are generally accepted social contracts in other areas (e.g. copying). It’s a very interesting social construct where the self-policing is in a very specific are whilst other areas are forgiven.
Re: on Sunday March 29, 2026 @09:49AM (#47563118)
If we fully embrace this generative software concept for the sake of this thread, then the UI/UX, is going to be optimized and personalized to your tastes, skills, affinities, and (dis)abilities. Brand comes into the equation as a proxy for trust, so if this whole scenario were to come true, maybe that's not so relevant anymore.
Do you have plans to port your proprietary library MetalRT to mobile devices? These performance gains would be a boon for privacy-centric mobile applications.
Re:GPT-5.4 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:36AM (#47287523)
Prod model suite: GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4Thinking, GPT-5.4Pro, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.3-Instant, GPT-5.2, GPT-5mini, GPT5-nano, GPT-4.1mini GPT-4o(Omni), o4-mini, o4-mini-high.

Devoid of logic and structure.

They can't even decide where to place hyphens: is it GPT-5.4 Pro or GPT-5.3-Codex?

Re:GPT-5.4 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:25PM (#47270053)
I don’t agree that it’s a nitpick - it’s a fundamental communication tool to users that describes capabilities and costs. Versioning is not the problem, but it amplifies the mess.

To be more direct on the point: Anthropic has nailed that Opus > Sonnet > Haiku.

Re:Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:08PM (#47224878)
People are building for themselves. However I’d also reference www.Every.to

They built the popular compound-engineering plugin and have shipped a set of production grade consumer apps. They offer a monthly subscription and keep adding to that subscription by shipping more tools.

Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:04PM (#47224827)
My iPad Pro must by the model ahead of yours. I just upgraded the OS to v26 and it’s awful - sluggish, jittery, inconsistent typing experience - borderline unusable for a fast work environment. With no downgrade option I’m forced to buy a new one for work and relegate the older device to entertainment or kids use only.

Being stuck on v17 is a feature for the older A-series chipset.

Vibes should be all fixed ;)
Thanks, they're just screenshots and fluff. I'll take them down temporarily.

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