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New comment by entrep in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

entrep — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:48:25 +0000

Coding agent that seems to beat Claude Code on SWE-bench at half the cost.

8/15 on SWE-bench Verified vs Claude Code's 5/15, ~$0.06/instance vs ~$0.12. Small sample, single repo, lots of caveats. But the direction feels right. Event-sourced reducer, no framework deps beyond the Anthropic SDK.

New comment by entrep in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

entrep — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:35:22 +0000

One could try:

> export CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE=50

Which will have Claude Code auto compact at ~500k window size.

New comment by entrep in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

entrep — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:02:01 +0000

One could argue that subscription based inference might differ from per-token billed API usage.

New comment by entrep in "The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car"

entrep — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:17:10 +0000

Not really.

> Z-mode means the front and rear wings are closed which generates more downforce for the corners. In X-mode, the drivers can open the flaps which will reduce drag and increase speed.

Polymer: Development Workflows as Software

entrep — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:43:49 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17679

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184713

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Experimental Support for Quantum Microtubule Theory of Consciousness

entrep — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:22:40 +0000

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf011/8127081

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44003340

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by entrep in "Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools"

entrep — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:22:05 +0000

Clearly, it just leaked the election results from the wrong branch of the wavefunction.

New comment by entrep in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

entrep — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:05:53 +0000

Great, thanks. This is already in my minimum requirements.

New comment by entrep in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

entrep — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:54:38 +0000

Basically I want to build it with focus on speed and work efficiency from start. To not bias myself too much, I will refrain from doing too much market research. First of all I'm building this for myself, and I'm guessing it might translate into at least a tiny market share.

New comment by entrep in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

entrep — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:20:54 +0000

I'm working on a desktop-based, performance- and privacy-first note-taking app that lets you quickly capture notes from any selected text using hotkeys.

I'm curious: what are your must-haves in a note-taking application?

New comment by entrep in "Busy Status Bar"

entrep — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:11:21 +0000

Interesting. Time to create that Pomodoro app I've always wanted to do.

New comment by entrep in "Busy Status Bar"

entrep — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:56:41 +0000

> Use of the terms “Pomodoro®” must be explicitly authorized by us. [1]

1: https://www.pomodorotechnique.com/pomodoro-trademark-guideli...

New comment by entrep in "Tinygrad 0.9.0"

entrep — Tue, 28 May 2024 21:19:43 +0000

Cyclomatic complexity would be a better measurement.

New comment by entrep in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

entrep — Fri, 24 May 2024 23:09:59 +0000

25866259, seems deleted though

New comment by entrep in "Banning open weight models would be a disaster"

entrep — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:08:55 +0000

The author is a collaborator in OpenDevin [1], an attempt to replicate and improve Cognition Labs' Devin.

[1] https://github.com/OpenDevin

Show HN: I had Claude 3 Opus create a novel physics research paper from scratch [pdf]

entrep — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:48:31 +0000

I started by asking what Einstein did not know, but we know today. Then asking Claude to act as Einstein and come up with a novel theory, based on this output. Then, iterating for several hours: outlining, writing chapters, improving, acting as a professor to review, acting on this feedback and adding citations. I know nothing about the math presented here.

Cost: ~$10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610954

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by entrep in "Claude 3 model family"

entrep — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:20:26 +0000

If you choose API access you can sign up and verify your EU phone number to get $5 credits

New comment by entrep in "Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts"

entrep — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:10:57 +0000

This could possibly be attributed to survival bias. I.e. the individuals are more prone to post their results only after a successful attempt.

New comment by entrep in "XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens"

entrep — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:35:27 +0000

With proprietary models: https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard

New comment by entrep in "Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory"

entrep — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:49:15 +0000

The article assumes that the dishwasher needs to be emptied of clean dishes before dirty ones can be put in. This is not the case. The clean dishes will take on the dirty state as soon as dirty dishes are inserted into a machine with clean dishes.