Hacker News: rbren

New comment by rbren in "Who owns your ATProto identity?"

rbren — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:01:14 +0000

Who owns your domain name? Hint: it’s probably not you. Your hosting provider could take down your domain, or even steal traffic and direct it to their own IPs

New comment by rbren in "Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]"

rbren — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:47:31 +0000

This should be labeled humor or taken down. I did laugh though

New comment by rbren in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

rbren — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:24:51 +0000

If you're interested in driving coding agents with code, check out the OpenHands Software Agent SDK [1]

We need to define agents in code, and drive them through semi-deterministic workflows. Kick subtasks off to agents where appropriate, but do things like gather context and deal with agent output deterministically.

This is a massive boost in accuracy, cost efficiency, AND speed. Stop using tokens to do the deterministic parts of the task!

[1] https://github.com/OpenHands/software-agent-sdk

New comment by rbren in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

rbren — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:29:18 +0000

Some people seem to be convinced by logical reframings, like "if you jump into a woodchipper you die, but if 50% of people jump into the woodchipper they all survive"

A logical reframing is not equivalent though! We know everyone else gets the same frame, and most of the problem is predicting what other people will do when presented with this particular two-button frame.

New comment by rbren in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

rbren — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:25:26 +0000

Considerations:

* many people (at least toddlers, people with dementia) are going to press blue roughly by accident. See the lizardman constant

* other people will not want to be responsible for any deaths and will press blue out of a sense of moral imperative

* many other people are going to take this into account and vote blue out of hopes we can save everyone

You should vote blue.

New comment by rbren in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

rbren — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:19:40 +0000

Forgetting how to code is not a bad thing. Forgetting how to make software is.

New comment by rbren in "I am building a cloud"

rbren — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:44:19 +0000

Lots of negativity towards k8s in here. It's always funny to me when $WILDLY_POPULAR_TECH gets ripped apart like this, as though no one has ever had a positive experience with it. I've seen similar pile-ons for React, microservices, git, PHP, JavaScript, cloud services, really anything that's been adopted at scale.

New comment by rbren in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

rbren — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:41:58 +0000

Good reminder to choose model-agnostic tooling!

New comment by rbren in "Components of a Coding Agent"

rbren — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:09:51 +0000

Strong article! I’ve been using the engine/car analogy for a while now.

If you want to play with the basic building blocks of coding agents, check out https://github.com/OpenHands/software-agent-sdk

New comment by rbren in "Cursor 3"

rbren — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:51:58 +0000

I still think every developer should be building their own IDE

https://github.com/rbren/personal-ai-devbox

New comment by rbren in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

rbren — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:00:18 +0000

It's probably just as hard to secure OpenClaw as this, but you'll find better tutorials for securing OpenClaw

New comment by rbren in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

rbren — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:59:42 +0000

The prompts contain e.g. a terminal UI, which gives you root access to the machine. If someone can access that UI and its backend, the can do whatever they want! So make sure to put it behind a firewall or basic auth or something else.

New comment by rbren in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

rbren — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:21:36 +0000

I still strongly believe every developer should be vibecoding their own cowork/openclaw/devin

Here are the prompts I use for my AI environment, though it's changed a bunch since the last snapshot

https://github.com/rbren/personal-ai-devbox

Show HN: My personal AI-powered dev workstation

rbren — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rbren/personal-ai-devbox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367214

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rbren in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

rbren — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:20:56 +0000

Funny, I just released my dev setup as “Open prompt”

https://github.com/rbren/personal-ai-devbox

New comment by rbren in "MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified"

rbren — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:04:07 +0000

A reasonably sized OSS model that's this good at coding is a HUGE step forward.

We've done some vibe checks on it with OpenHands and it indeed performs roughly as good as Sonnet 4.5.

OSS models are catching up

OpenHands Index of Coding Agent Performance

rbren — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://index.openhands.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818572

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rbren in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

rbren — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:46:30 +0000

This is why it's worth investing in a model-agnostic setup. Don't tie yourself into a single model provider!

OpenHands, Toad, and OpenCode are fully OSS and LLM-agnostic

New comment by rbren in "Agentic AI Foundation"

rbren — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:49:15 +0000

The OpenHands CLI has had some major improvements since v1: https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands

MIT license and model agnostic

I’d also keep a close eye on Toad which is launching this month:

https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/

New comment by rbren in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

rbren — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:42:53 +0000

I use lychee. It’s been great. Uploads could be a bit rough a few versions back but they’ve been seamless for a while