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I tried this ~ a week ago, tried one of the suggested automations and it pretty immediately started sending my local api keys to an endpoint… afk right now but can share more when I’m back
Re:Why Software Factories Fail on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:48PM (#49027848)
> Claude Code won because of Reinforcement Learning inside the harness

Doesn’t this gloss over the fact that token subsidization is a thing? I assume the reason a lot of people switched from other harnesses to CC was all the weirdness around setup-token and whether third party harnesses would continue to work without api pricing.

Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:35PM (#47078874)
Is there even a Wichita, Arkansas?
Probably pretty big difference in system prompt from using the apps vs hitting the api, not that that’s necessarily what’s happening here. + I think openclaw supports other models / its open source and it would be pretty easy to fork and add a new model provider.
Re:Gradient.horse on Friday February 13, 2026 @08:39PM (#47010524)
The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).

Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.

Still not as bad as Roblox! (but yeah still bad)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249094

Weirdly I agree. After seeing the truly god-awful pay to win gambling-filled landscape of Roblox, Fortnite feels pretty tame and respectful. V bucks aren't shoved down your throat, the battle passes are pretty transparent about what you get, and the whole cosmetics store feels less lootbox-heavy than a lot of games.

Edit: ope literally just saw this in another comment, whoops: https://www.ign.com/articles/as-fortnite-enables-third-party...

Re:Paul Graham Hacker News Archive on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:56AM (#44974350)
After seeing "Do things that don't scale" trending the other day, I thought it would be fun to have a hackernews archive of all the Paul Graham essays.

This was vibe coded pretty quickly so can't vouch for its integrity, if anyone has modifications they want to make here's the repo: https://github.com/basketbla/pg-scraper

Also please let me know if something like this already exists! There was a reddit thread where somebody posted this:

https://www.reddit.com/domain/paulgraham.com/top/?sort=top&t...

But I don't know if there's an equivalent thing for hackernews.

Re:Ask HN: How to find mentors while working remote? on Monday July 14, 2025 @02:51PM (#44563881)
That makes a ton of sense, thank you!

Ask HN: How to find mentors while working remote?

So far in every internship and job that I've had, there's been a more senior engineer whose brain I can pick. Just curious if anyone here has suggestions for finding similar opportunities outside of a job?For context: I graduated college 2 years ago and have been working at a remote startup since. Now I'm going out on my own to focus a little more on some of the side projects I've been working...

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One of my first posts on HN! It's a writeup about building a bolt.new clone inside of bolt.new and then building another bolt.new clone inside of the bolt.new clone.

Advice/feedback welcome!

Re:Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:54AM (#43906542)
Pretty fantastic follow-up to https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton
Re:Garfield Minus Garfield on Thursday April 10, 2025 @01:47PM (#43646361)
This is hilarious. Reminds me of this old pete holmes Garfield sketch (looks like the original got taken down).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayjz18d8Kpo