Hacker News: 3uler

New comment by 3uler in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

3uler — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:22:49 +0000

Idk I’m starting to have have trouble with the frontier models and a couple how to write like a human skills…

New comment by 3uler in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

3uler — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:48:32 +0000

Calling per token usage of the US closed source labs has always been funny to me, we have a clear model of what it actually costs to host these models from open models.

Your subscription is not subsidised, it is just closer to the actual cost of the model…

New comment by 3uler in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

3uler — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:29:07 +0000

Half decade? Its been getting worse for as long as I’ve been conscious.

New comment by 3uler in "Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP"

3uler — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:13:30 +0000

I feel like a lot of the trade-offs forced on you by dsql, you are forced into when scaling Postgres.

Like if I’m an SRE/DBA and you running massive update queries in a single transaction, that is the first thing I’m getting rid of.

New comment by 3uler in "Our position on open-weights models"

3uler — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:17:57 +0000

> industrial scale distillation attacks

You mean the industrial scale distillation attack you perform on the entire corpus of human knowledge… idk, call me cynical but you reap what you sow.

New comment by 3uler in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

3uler — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:21:50 +0000

American dates are sooo fucking annoying…

New comment by 3uler in "Ask HN: How would you harden AI changes to a 1M-line legacy SaaS before review?"

3uler — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:36:10 +0000

idk, I'm of the opinion that you own the code you wrote with AI.

New comment by 3uler in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

3uler — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:23:25 +0000

Markdown instructions are useful as durable context, but they do not replace programming. Their job is to keep intent out of a transient chat so both the developer and agent can revisit it. The actual constraints still belong in code: types, tests, linters, and dependency rules. Natural language can explain why a boundary matters; executable checks determine whether a change respects it. That feels more like a persistent layer around the programming workflow than a new programming language.

New comment by 3uler in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

3uler — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:20:16 +0000

I agree. I keep agent memory off. In my experience, it remembers the wrong details and applies them in the wrong places. Project context should live in the repo, where the whole team can find it, review it, and correct it.

It should be treated as an explicit artefact of the codebase for Humans and Agents to work with.

New comment by 3uler in "The interesting part of an Agent Harness is what you add on top"

3uler — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:28:29 +0000

I’ve never felt comfortable with how people use Claude Code or Codex as synonyms for Harness. It’s not wrong, it just reduces the harness to the least interesting part: the runtime. It’s the part you have the least control over. Most of us use what ever subscription makes most sense or whatever our company has settled on.

To me the interesting part of the harness is what you add on top, Brigitte Böckeler calls it the outer harness. I prefer the term Your Harness, your harness breaks down into two things: Skills and Loops.

Skills change what the agent knows and the loop changes how it works and checks itself. Both can mostly be encoded in Agent Skills

Your Harness should mostly agnostic to the agent you use.

The interesting part of an Agent Harness is what you add on top

3uler — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.martinrichards.me/post/whats_inside_the_harness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045682

Points: 3

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New comment by 3uler in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

3uler — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:39:33 +0000

In my experience, having worked at several large PSPs, it is Mastercard and Visa who are the morality police. Stripe are just enforcing the rules insisted on by them, and PayPal forgot about them 3 layoffs ago.

New comment by 3uler in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

3uler — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:06:28 +0000

Your tells, are just someone’s good writing now in the training set. It’ll be a moving target with each model.

I use the humanize skill to clean up AI written work before handing it over to colleagues.

https://github.com/blader/humanizer

New comment by 3uler in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

3uler — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:31:07 +0000

For me quickly scanning over the article, the fact that floating points were even presented as a possibility was an immediate red flag. And I pretty much stopped taking the rest of it seriously.

New comment by 3uler in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

3uler — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:58:20 +0000

Sure but I would expect an exit of like 20b or just list and go public…

New comment by 3uler in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

3uler — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:44:57 +0000

What the hell? That is so cheap? I would value this at least as much as cursor? What gives?

New comment by 3uler in "How to earn a billion dollars"

3uler — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:11:07 +0000

I don’t know if this take is just naive or dishonest…

building something people love can make you a billionaire, but most billionaires did not build something people love, and most people who’ve built something people love are not billionaires.

New comment by 3uler in "Doing nothing at work"

3uler — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:44:51 +0000

This makes me never want to work on large engineering teams ever again.

New comment by 3uler in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

3uler — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:20:29 +0000

Makes the Framework Desktop look like a bargain.

New comment by 3uler in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

3uler — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:53:16 +0000

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/14743