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New comment by djsavvy in "Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement"

djsavvy — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:31:48 +0000

Agree with the sibling comment that an example would be useful. I'm also curious what kinds of tasks you have in mind. Theoretically almost every knowledge work task boils down to the file editing that agent harnesses already are built around (which probably explains the second half of your comment).

New comment by djsavvy in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

djsavvy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:13:18 +0000

only through July 19

New comment by djsavvy in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

djsavvy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:22:30 +0000

I did some math research in high school where the proof boiled down to dozens of cases of ugly polynomial inequalities. I can't find the PDF now, but the final paper was something like 70 pages, and several of those were full-page polynomial expressions expanded out. The actual prose was probably 5 pages or so.

It was categorically the least elegant proof of anything I've ever seen.

I'm incredibly grateful to for the opportunity to have done the research and gotten my feet wet early on, but boy do I cringe when I look back at that paper.

New comment by djsavvy in "Has_not_been_viewed_much"

djsavvy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:04:41 +0000

This is awesome. It's interesting to me how it messes with my incentives. At first I was just pulling the lever on the slot machine, then I went back and clicked on the pieces I really liked (to mark them as "viewed" for the Art Institute and show some love), but finally realized that I was systematically working to remove my favorites from the pool of images people would see.

In the end I just clicked on the "refresh" button a few more times.

New comment by djsavvy in "Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base"

djsavvy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:07:39 +0000

Not justifying it by any means, but the first one could have been done on a risk assessment of how it would affect recruitment, retention, and morale. There are some worlds in which that could have been the rational choice, especially with knowledge that it would likely get rolled back in time.

New comment by djsavvy in "macOS Container Machines"

djsavvy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:49:34 +0000

Why try to circumvent W^X page protection? Some sort of self-modifying program without extra pointer indirections?

New comment by djsavvy in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

djsavvy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:12:39 +0000

It's quite fun and I'll drop into it from time to time, but it's mostly a novel plaything for me. I do have a friend who has used it for full-time work for years though.

New comment by djsavvy in "The user is visibly frustrated"

djsavvy — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:58:02 +0000

I 100% agree with you, which is why I try to be polite to the LLMs. Also, on a practical note, I've never seen an agent session go right-side-up after I crash out; the model seems to perform worse than if I just gently guide it.

New comment by djsavvy in "The Visible Zorker: Zork 3"

djsavvy — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:19:53 +0000

Description for those who were confused, like me: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/

New comment by djsavvy in "Auto Polo"

djsavvy — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:19:38 +0000

This is absolutely incredible!

New comment by djsavvy in "Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight"

djsavvy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:45:21 +0000

I’ve long suspected as such. Is there a way to power limit what my macbook pulls from the outlet?

New comment by djsavvy in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

djsavvy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:29:51 +0000

See superscript 6 on the article. Apparently NAC might has side effects of its own.

New comment by djsavvy in "1D Chess"

djsavvy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:35:21 +0000

Same here, oddly enough, and every time besides this one was without anyone else mentioning it.

New comment by djsavvy in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

djsavvy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:07:50 +0000

I'm shocked that the Wii only has 88mb of RAM. The programmers of that era really knew how to make a lot from a little!

New comment by djsavvy in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

djsavvy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:11:59 +0000

Yes it is

New comment by djsavvy in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

djsavvy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:29:05 +0000

yeah, how can I view the settings on my own personal account if my employer is managing the copilot settings?

New comment by djsavvy in "Goodbye to Sora"

djsavvy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:22:22 +0000

I just use elevenreader for this. I copy in essays or whatever text I want to listen to and it works decently well. It's far from perfect, but certainly good enough.

Sometimes I'll take deep research output and listen to it too that way.

New comment by djsavvy in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

djsavvy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:20:19 +0000

Talk about a misleading title XD

New comment by djsavvy in "Waymo Safety Impact"

djsavvy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:28:02 +0000

That would make sense a while ago, but definitely not in SF for locals who have lived here a while. For me as a pedestrian/bicyclist/motorcyclist I actually feel safer around them than any other car.

New comment by djsavvy in "Waymo Safety Impact"

djsavvy — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:26:22 +0000

How are you saying that so confidently? Waymos respond to traffic cops directing traffic manually