Hacker News: kmetan

New comment by kmetan in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

kmetan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:37:14 +0000

Instead of reading articles like this one end to end, I ask AI to read them in detail and prepare a new harness for me. The important part is not to do this in a single prompt, but to first create a detailed plan and let the model think deeply about each aspect. This approach lets me build the new harness without the missing didactic information you mentioned.

Basically, I am moving from “I build products without writing or reading the code” to “I build products without writing or reading the harness.”

Once the new implementation harness is prepared, I start it, but I keep the original session open. In that original session, “we” monitor the implementation harness from the outside: how effective it is, where the bottlenecks are, what breaks down, and what could be improved. From time to time, the monitoring session suggests changes to the implementation harness. We apply those changes, restart the harness, and monitor it again.

The overall approach is not to spend X hours understanding an article like this in detail, because another similar article will appear in 3 weeks. Instead, I take immediate action, learn on the fly, and replace the harness when a better pattern emerges. And yes, I still have to spend X hours on setting up, monitoring and fine tuning the new harness, but at the end I have the latest fancy "thing" working for me.

GPT-4.5-preview is deprecated and will be removed from the API in 07/2025

kmetan — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://platform.openai.com/docs/deprecations#2025-04-14-gpt-4-5-preview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43695612

Points: 1

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Non-coders and managers face potential layoffs as Microsoft considers job cuts

kmetan — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:38:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-mulls-more-job-cuts-managers-non-coders-2025-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638309

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by kmetan in "Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta"

kmetan — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:49:06 +0000

Looks good, but i am fine with midas.dll

AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 2 – No Power

kmetan — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:52:07 +0000

Article URL: https://lukaspetersson.com/blog/2025/power-vertical/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752696

Points: 17

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New comment by kmetan in "Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency"

kmetan — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:27:12 +0000

Why is it trying to autofill my payment cards?

https://ibb.co/dp9hW58

New comment by kmetan in "I am starting an AI+Education company"

kmetan — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:00:41 +0000

Tell me the number of successful startups you have founded on your own, and I will tell you the probability of Eureka Labs being successful.

New comment by kmetan in "Adaptive Cards: Platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON"

kmetan — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:43:51 +0000

This brings memories of Object Linking and Embedding...

Adobe renews licenses for Russian users for free if they have problem with card

kmetan — Tue, 30 May 2023 13:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamingdeputy.com/adobe-renews-licenses-in-russia-for-free-due-to-payment-complexity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36124916

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by kmetan in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

kmetan — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:00:43 +0000

I have solved this couple of months ago:

1) dont try to login couple of weeks (this was recommended on multiple boards)

2) try again with the recovery email

My problem was a) I didn't log in during the previous 12 months b) I moved to another country.

Only when I connected via vpn to the country of my previous residence, I got in. Took me more then 4 months to figure this out...

New comment by kmetan in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell"

kmetan — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:15:06 +0000

Thanks for sharing this... How did your paying customers became aware of you?

New comment by kmetan in "Meta sued for £2.3bn over claim Facebook users in UK were exploited"

kmetan — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:38:41 +0000

If I count this correctly, the damage is 0.9 £ per person per month. So this is what the claimant thinks should be an average and fair monthly compensation for being a FB user for that time.

New comment by kmetan in "YK22 bug causing Honda clocks to stop working"

kmetan — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:16:25 +0000

It looks like the gps week number rollover is not handled correctly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover

"Software that is not coded to anticipate the rollover to zero may stop working or could be moved back in time by 20 or 40 years"

New comment by kmetan in "Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31"

kmetan — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:10:40 +0000

So this will also apply to all banks with online onboarding?

E.g. 1) Download an app (N26, Revolut, etc...) 2) Create an account 3) After login, the option to delete the account should be there...

(Of course the bank should respect all data retention policies)

New comment by kmetan in "Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able to quit"

kmetan — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:27:49 +0000

OT: I have quit FB more then 5 years ago, but every time I see a post like this I fear that I am still addicted. Not to FB but to HN...

Bill Gates left Microsoft board during probe into relation with an employee

kmetan — Mon, 17 May 2021 16:57:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/wsj-bill-gates-left-microsoft-board-during-probe-into-inappropriate-relations-with-employee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27185590

Points: 10

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New comment by kmetan in "Production-Oriented Development"

kmetan — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:49:47 +0000

>>The people who designed your car don’t have to change the oil in it.

If the people who designed the car don't care about oil changers' requirements because "its not their job", than a 2am call is absolutely the best kind of feedback they should get, even if they are not on-call.

If they do care, that means they already got that feedback and/or they listen.

So the fredback from the production should be there and it should be ongoing.

New comment by kmetan in "Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more"

kmetan — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:13:13 +0000

I believe that the goal here is also to break the existing unity among publishers.

New comment by kmetan in "Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology"

kmetan — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:24:10 +0000

We could be discriminated (by public and private actors) for not having this app installed. We should be able to convincingly deny the opt out...

Chelsea Manning case: Judge orders release from prison

kmetan — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:51:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51865165

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562182

Points: 6

# Comments: 0