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1. 31.▲
   by fractorial 2mo ago

   Yes, and I use them often in the context of writing adversarial ‘go vet’ style anti-slop analyzers that run pre-commit.
2. 32.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   I’ve rolled a small program to enforce consistency, lint rules, and human-authored files for Claude Memory. It’s insanely powerful when doing by a human 100%. It’s conversely harmful when an agent manages it. There’s several papers about ho
3. 33.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   Opus 5 broke me; I can’t cognitively deal with Anthropic’s bullshit anymore. I am thankful for the kick in the ass for me to switch full-time into my bespoke harness utilizing open weights & GPT 5.6 and discontinue yak-shaving it with C
4. 34.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   Funny how rule #3 is > No nudity, lewdness, or sexually suggestive imagery. If it wouldn’t be appropriate for a workplace or younger audience, don’t post it here. NSFW tags are not an exception, stay classy. Emphasis on the second senten
5. 35.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   Please, no.
6. 36.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   > once the sub-matrices get small enough, the next rabbit hole starts when you try to start lifting F_2 into Z for a given <n,n,n> tensor.
7. 37.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   Now, stuff like _this_ is why I keep coming back to HN.
8. 38.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   tl;dr CLAUDE_AFK_TIMEOUT_MS=2147483647 I built in Human blockers into my agentic workflows with great intention, so naturally this annoyed me deeply. 14d ago, I was elated to see a random blog post that detailed the “fix” [0]. [0] https:&#
9. 39.▲
   by fractorial 3mo ago

   Valid question. If I were further along and had the time to succinctly write up all my contributions, I would just point you at my blog post. I’m generally a poor communicator, so here goes nothing. I designed and stood up a sovereign inf
10. 40.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    My mouth is agape at the fact that this project is basically what I have been working on non-stop for the last three weeks and just yesterday gotten to the point of evaluating; hats off... I only have one novel proof (non-Erdos) and 13 firs
11. 41.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    Even better: you can fork the exeuntu image & make it immediately more relevant to the things you do in addition to just dropping in your programs and such.
12. 42.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    I’m shocked I had to scroll this far to find the first sensible reply.
13. 43.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    You might be interested to learn I am primarily doing proofs & formal methods. I have a couple of novel formalizations using some bolt-on programs I wrote for Claude Code, but I am mainly using it now to build my eval dataset for my cus
14. 44.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    This is truly vindication for my efforts to get off of frontier models and harnesses as much as possible. I won't deny the model is _pretty good_ but it is not worth all of this whiplash.
15. 45.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    "Fable extended until 26 July" obviously.
16. 46.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    Sounds like a perfect fit for a minimal or bespoke harness?
17. 47.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    How is this on the front page with 3 points and no comments?! Also, what is this?
18. 48.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    In my harness, I implemented tool_edit as a subset of Rob Pike’s Sam editor syntax [0]. Only need ~650 tokens of system prompt for it to work. It’s pretty stellar. [0] https://9p.io/sys/doc/sam/sam.html
19. 49.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    Anyone else feel as if HN is healing? I hope this isn't the walking-ghost era of HN.
20. 50.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    I rarely click on things like this, but this was brilliant; I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
21. 51.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    I’d be curious what performance / behavior changes you’d observe with two changes: - planner nodes and topo deepest for rescheduling, no inflight modifications. (repair protocol = redispatch root planner for rare cases where required;
22. 52.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    I rolled my own simple execution DAG program. It’s shockingly effective due to rooting sub-DAGs into Planner nodes which are the only mutators of the DAG. The deepest topological leaf nodes become the blockers to the next Planner node. The
23. 53.▲
    by fractorial 3mo ago

    I still use Opus 4.6 (with later models for subagents only sometimes), but I have been preparing for it to go away.
24. 54.▲
    by fractorial 4mo ago

    Not "local" in the literal sense, but I set it up to serve at half quant for $23/hr and full quant for $35/hr. You don't need to have it always on? This is a far cry from "$200/month," but I do not th
25. 55.▲
    by fractorial 4mo ago

    I’ve been falling back to Opus 4.6 since 4.7 and 4.8. I recently found success in using Opus 4.6 for cheap orchestration and reasoning while Opus 4.8 High/Max agents do the work. I made serious progress towards repairing a proof for a
26. 56.▲
    by fractorial 4mo ago

    I would love to know how many countless others on HN, like me, find themselves reading about a very they have built and have been using for months talked about like it’s a revolutionary new idea.
27. 57.▲
    by fractorial 4mo ago

    I rolled the same thing in Go months ago as I am sure at least another 1000 people have in their own way.
28. 58.▲
    by fractorial 5mo ago

    > Schmidt, who served in various capacities as CEO, Chairman, and technical advisor to Google and its parent company Alphabet across several decades, ... It is gratuitous to say “several,” no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
29. 59.▲
    by fractorial 5mo ago

    I’ll admit it swings back and forth on a six month cycle or so; however, cost-to-output matters. Also, for niche use-cases there are clear winners.
30. 60.▲
    by fractorial 5mo ago

    You’re absolutely kidding yourself if you genuinely believe that.