Hacker News: port3000

New comment by port3000 in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

port3000 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:54:36 +0000

It's just much more thorough and spins up a lot of subagents to basically do a lot more E2E testing. Not necessarily smarter, imo you could get the same result with a lesser model by procedurally prompting, but a lot more compute and orchestration.

New comment by port3000 in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

port3000 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:50:16 +0000

Fable feels like a slightly more advanced 4.5/4.6 (less verbose than 4.7 and 4.8) with more adversial work checking. And a lot more compute to be more thorough from the first prompt. I feel it would be possible to get pretty much the same results with 4.6 with enough back and forth iterations. It kind of makes sense to me that this is the 'magic' behind Mythos and its cyber capabilities too. Just a massive iterative loop and really going into a lot more detail on edge cases.

New comment by port3000 in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

port3000 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:51:57 +0000

It feels to me like Fable is just a slightly more advanced Opus 4.8 (or 4.6?) but with this 'adversarial' self-challenging/checking of work and a more compute to really hunt down edge cases or to spin up many sub agents using lesser models. That's what makes it feel like a big jump, but I think the results wouldn't be so different if you manually challenged 4.6 with enough iterations of logs, screenshots, and follow up questions.

New comment by port3000 in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

port3000 — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:10:16 +0000

Even when every site in the world’s 3rd biggest economy goes down it’s still just a ‘Partial’ service disruption :D

New comment by port3000 in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

port3000 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:41:58 +0000

It's a social network that became socially acceptable to browse at work. It has all the negative attributes associated with a social network and none of the upsides (apart from the occasional recruiter message).

New comment by port3000 in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

port3000 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:38:31 +0000

True, found this study fascinating, basically coming to the same conclusion: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11846-020-00378-0

New comment by port3000 in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

port3000 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:37:26 +0000

Nice one! Wish someone would make a browser based version a la Chronodivide's RA2

New comment by port3000 in "Railway (PaaS) global outage"

port3000 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:02:57 +0000

Second complete outage on railway in 2 months for us (there was also a total outage on December 16th), and many issues with stuck builds and other minor issues in the months before that.

Looking to move. It's a bit of hassle to setup coolify and Hetzner but I have lost all trust.

New comment by port3000 in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

port3000 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:57:40 +0000

Great to hear but it's still the same shape. I really want a 'credit card' shaped version I can slide into my wallet.

New comment by port3000 in "Lego announces Smart Brick, the 'most significant evolution' in 50 years, no AI"

port3000 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:18:26 +0000

>> the 'most significant evolution' in 50 years

this is an insult to Lego Mindstorms

New comment by port3000 in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

port3000 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:32 +0000

Thanks - I also turned it off. I guess it's a marketing thing for them, but it feels like it goes against the ethos of the company. Particularly given the fact they are clearly aware of this as they put it in the 'Privacy' section.

New comment by port3000 in "London–Calcutta bus service"

port3000 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:04:20 +0000

My Google Maps algo will be massively confused by my 'Directions' search: Sofia, Bulgaria to Kolkata, India on a Friday afternoon in January

New comment by port3000 in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

port3000 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:24:50 +0000

Good for them. Makes me more likely to consider buying a Bose in future, not just because I know it won't be bricked, but also for the environmental impact of this. Kudos.

New comment by port3000 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

port3000 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:13:57 +0000

Ah thanks, didn't realise it was a 3rd party library, thought it was a claude native command

New comment by port3000 in "Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics"

port3000 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:52:04 +0000

Eat 30 different types of fruits and vegetables every week. There is no 'hacking' your way to a good microbiome via these pills.

New comment by port3000 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

port3000 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:33:30 +0000

How do you manage that? /ccusage and --ccusage no longer work for me, I can only see the usage bars in /usage

New comment by port3000 in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

port3000 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:46:02 +0000

50-100 PRs a week but they still can't fix the 'flickering' bug

New comment by port3000 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

port3000 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:33:32 +0000

Interesting you have this opinion yet you're using Cursor instead of Claude Code. By the same logic, you should get even better results directly using Anthropic's wrapper for their own model.

New comment by port3000 in "AI sycophancy panic"

port3000 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:48:27 +0000

I had completely forgotten about 'Sydney' and its emoji-laden diatribes. What a crazy moment, looking back.

New comment by port3000 in "If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app"

port3000 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:36:03 +0000

The 'flash' / no or low-thinking versions of those models are crazy fast. We often receive full response (not just first token) in less than 1 second via API.