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Re:Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:10AM (#49797017)
Related, have found this handoff skill invaluable for moving tasks between harnesses: https://gist.github.com/ammario/cd57a1d7f6c911e079378c540b38...
Re:An Update on the scraper situation on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:47AM (#48868828)
There are PoW approaches that even the playing field between data centers and desktops. RandomX is my favorite.
Similar phenomena consistently reported in high doses of Benadryl: little spiders.
Re:Electricity use of AI coding agents on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:04AM (#46706671)
Lol, this is my PR. That cost is misleading. That workspace did far more than that change. In reality I spend ~$1000/week in tokens for all of my development work, and I'm quite happy with the exchange.
Re:A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:24AM (#46035800)
Curious to hear more.. why is random port selection not working for your case? The other issue we've seen is machines tend to get overloaded with tons of agents running tests concurrently, hence the SSH remote isolation mode.
Re:A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:19AM (#46035728)
Author of Mux here:

I started building it out that way but found it very challenging to create parity between the models. E.g. they have different tools, system prompts, interruption semantics, cost tracking etc. The spirit of the product is decoupling the LLM from the UI, so we went with a custom loop / tools that can perform decently across all models.

Re:Show HN: Cmux – Coding Agent Multiplexer on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:16PM (#45600036)
I wrote up some tips on that here: https://cmux.io/prompting-tips.html — most of it is generally applicable outside of `cmux`

Show HN: Cmux – Coding Agent Multiplexer

https://github.com/coder/cmux

HN,I'm stoked to share this product I've been working on non-stop for the past few weeks. It's an immersive GUI experience for working with many coding agents in parallel. The UX should be familiar to Claude Code users, but we took advantage of the GUI nature to add in a bunch more.cmux is early but certainly usable—almost all of our internal cmux development rolls through cmux itself. Please...

( Read More... | 4 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Fine-grained HTTP filtering for Claude Code on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:49PM (#45339993)
I meant read-only there in the sense of mutability, not exfiltration.

Of course, some websites may permit mutations through GET so it’s probably only sensible to use alongside known hosts.

Re:Anyclaude – Claude Code with Any LLM on Sunday August 10, 2025 @12:03PM (#44856096)
/shrug

The implementation is so simple it's quite the cat and mouse game if they want to become litigious

Re:Making Markets on Kalshi on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @08:14PM (#43097372)
Unfortunately collaboration here would kill my alpha ;)
Re:Making Markets on Kalshi on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:34PM (#43085820)
I've been recording every trade across the platform for the past 3 months, which is when I began my operation.

Median Daily Volume (M$)

Dec 2024 - 10.2

Jan 2025 - 5.04

Feb 2025 - 5.89

So, in short, my data is inconclusive. I've been impressed with their marketing and business development though. They seem to be cozy with the new administration and I imagine any headwinds they had from the CFTC are disappearing.

Re:Making Markets on Kalshi on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:02PM (#43083269)
Cool to see. I'm currently #1 on the Kalshi volume leaderboard (https://kalshi.com/social/leaderboard) with a proprietary market making algorithm.

There is plenty of money to be made on Kalshi, but I had to rethink the math from the ground up as most of the literature describes highly liquid, somewhat stable markets.

One small change you could make to your algorithm is to calculate the skews/spreads in log-odds space. A change in price from 50c to 49c represents a very small delta in expected return whereas 2c to 1c is a doubling. Dealing with probability contracts in log-odds controls for this effect.

Re:Making Markets on Kalshi on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:54PM (#43083203)
Daily trading volume is about ~$5m
Re:Don't defer Close() on writable files on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @12:55AM (#41508129)
I think this post overhypes the issue. So many writes we do just aren’t that important (e.g. logs, cli config, blah), Close fails rarely, and it’s pretty standard for casually developed application software to misbehave once the disk is full or breaking.

This is a classic safety / performance trade off that was properly selected in favor of performance.

The defer Close() is still quite useful as a way to avoid fd leaks.

Re:Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:22PM (#41429265)
To scale such an approach you could have the LLM generate JS to walk the DOM and extract content, caching the JS for each page.
It makes them better, up to a point. Many commits (esp in private repos or WIP branches) are barely descriptive and of the form "stuff broke" "i got test to pass" "yay", etc. These commits don't make it into mainline, and I don't really want to spend time carefully writing them. In this case, a tool like this may be useful.

Also, the `aicommit` tool has a -c flag for accepting context and the "why". I have only been playing with it for a couple of days so I'm not sure how effective it will be.

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