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Show HN: Jabsco – agent harness that works remotely through RDP

jrecyclebin — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:57:56 +0000

Hi - have wanted this for months but searches keep coming up empty. For having agents create and connect to local test VMs - build me a Windows VM, try out this script/software on it, give me back results. The agent can create VMs in Hyper-V and manage them through RDP. Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Strictly Claude API at the moment.

Would love to branch out to other VM hosts, remote desktop protocols and LLMs. Thanks for checking it out!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365842

Points: 4

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New comment by jrecyclebin in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:51:32 +0000

Was always my first tweak to a new machine - such an obvious change. Moving to a split keyboard gave me three keys at each thumb - the same kind of realization. We have two thumbs that most keyboards map to a single space bar. The thumb is a really solid finger for modifiers.

Another nice thing about a custom keyboard is not needing to map the keys - it's in the firmware.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:46:21 +0000

Was always mystified about custom keyboards - until I got the idea to do an emoji layer: https://poggers.institute/@j/the-emoji-layer/

Also: swapping colon/semicolon, using fn+hjkl for arrow keys and having Enter at my right thumb.

Once you open that door.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:24:48 +0000

Not a bad idea - however

> Caveman only affects output tokens — thinking/reasoning tokens are untouched.

The problem is the thinking. But could help to tune my system prompt for Kimi.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:11:01 +0000

I absolutely love Kimi's personality - some of the things it says are so out there! And it's been great for very focused, iterative work.

Its weakness is that it seems to yak on-and-on when it needs to plan out something big or read through and make sense of how to use a niche piece of a complex library. To the point where it can fill up its 256k window - and rack up a build. (No cache.) I have had better experience with GLM 5.1 in those cases.

Anyone out there relate?

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

jrecyclebin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:53:13 +0000

Well, yeah, it's all subjective - and actually quite tenuous - so you won't know good and bad until you actually make the call on it. Maybe you've had the experience even of coming around on some music you previously thought was bad.

Or like: one time I listened to a bunch of new music I had dug up and wasn't sure there was anything I liked. Two days later, I had a song in my head. Turned out to be one of the ones I had listened to. But I had to listen to everything all over again to find it! ദി(ㅠ﹏ㅠ) Glad I did - there were other gems in there.

Anyway, great quote.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

jrecyclebin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:44:53 +0000

Found a favorite band through a similar technique: pile of CDs given from a friend who worked at a music store and no one wanted them.

You have to be willing to sift through junk. Which I think is hard for many to accept. However, the algorithms are often giving you junk anyway. Kind of no way around it.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

jrecyclebin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:13:43 +0000

This is not true though. My two favorite bands from the past year were poorly-attended shows that I stumbled into. You can still seek out good underground, obscure artists - you just have to look for them.

Not trying to be elitist - like what you like. I just really feel like little artists need the support. Plus, it feels like there is a bit more satisfying agency and fate in looking for new things rather than being fed them.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

jrecyclebin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:41:30 +0000

Well, except that, in this case, Copilot really is for entertainment purposes only.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Deterministic Programming with LLMs"

jrecyclebin — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:55:07 +0000

> There is no need for determinism to guarantee the job will be done identically every time if we only plan to do it once.

So can't you just save the conversation transcript and replay it with the tools? Seems a lot more efficient that regenerating the whole thing. And, also, no risk of branching when a tool reply is slightly different. (Of course, errors can occur on subsequent runs.)

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Don't trust AI agents"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:36:19 +0000

Agent can still "forgot password" on many accounts. Or magic link.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:43:10 +0000

Digitize and burn.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:01:00 +0000

Another approach to journal writing is basically the opposite: rather than treating it like a task to fill with very rigid requirements - find a notebook and pen that you'll enjoy spending time with. An easy start is a Midori Ruled A5 (very simple, lay flat notebook) and a Uniball Zento Signature (the most hyped pen in the world right now) and treat them basically like little friends you spend time with. Writing only two sentences is denying yourself quality time writing and reflecting at a leisurely pace if you really come to enjoy it.

I'd also think you're more likely to read back if writing time is a fond memory.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "The only moat left is money?"

jrecyclebin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:03:21 +0000

Kind of ironic - the moat is money...

At the same time, I see the appeal. I feel like 10% of the comments I read lately are "is this an AI response?" - would be nice to be free of that. Probably not possible tho.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "A website to destroy all websites"

jrecyclebin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:59:11 +0000

The weakest part is the last one - and it's a big one. Personalsit.es is just a flat single-page directory (of thumbnails, even, not content - so the emphasis is design.) To be part of the conversation, you'd list there and hope someone comes along. Compare with Reddit where you start commenting and you're close-to-an-equal with every other comment.

Webmentions do get you there - because it's a commenting system. But for finding the center of a community, it seems like you're still reliant on Bluesky or Mastodon or something. (Which doesn't "destroy all websites.") Love the sentiment ofc.

The Emoji Layer

jrecyclebin — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://poggers.institute/@j/the-emoji-layer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398070

Points: 2

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New comment by jrecyclebin in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

jrecyclebin — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:05:57 +0000

Great advertising for vidalias. I simply have to try one now.

New comment by jrecyclebin in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

jrecyclebin — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:48:37 +0000

Skill descriptions get dumped in your system prompt - just like MCP tool definitions and agent descriptions before them. The more you have, the more the LLM will be unable to focus on any one piece of it. You don't want a bunch of irrelevant junk in there every time you prompt it.

Skills are nice because they offload all the detailed prompts to files that the LLM can ask for. It's getting even better with Anthropic's recent switchboard operator (tool search tool) that doesn't clutter the system prompt but tries to cut the tool list down to those the LLM will need.

The Emoji Layer

jrecyclebin — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jrecyclebin/emojilayer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066538

Points: 1

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New comment by jrecyclebin in "Show HN: Recall: Give Claude memory with Redis-backed persistent context"

jrecyclebin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:00:03 +0000

While I totally agree with you, I also can see a world where we just throw a ton of calls in the MCP and then wrap it in a subagent that has a short description listing every verb it has access to.