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New comment by sams99 in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

sams99 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:01:42 +0000

I did a follow on analysis with got 5.4 and opus 4.7 https://wasnotwas.com/writing/claude-opus-4-7-s-system-promp...

Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source

sams99 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:36:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802233

Points: 225

# Comments: 83

New comment by sams99 in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

sams99 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:09:44 +0000

For those interested, edit is a surprisingly difficult problem, it seems easy on the surface but there is both fine tuning and real world hallucinations you are fighting with. I implemented one this week in:

https://github.com/samsaffron/term-llm

It is about my 10th attempt at the problem so I am aware of a lot of the edge cases, a very interesting bit of research here is:

https://gist.github.com/SamSaffron/5ff5f900645a11ef4ed6c87f2...

Fascinating read.

New comment by sams99 in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

sams99 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:54:05 +0000

Codex requires stuffing a very specific system prompt otherwise the custom endpoint will reject you

The Age of Personalized Software

sams99 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:38:19 +0000

Article URL: https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/11/23/the-age-of-personalized-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039672

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sams99 in "We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source"

sams99 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:22:42 +0000

Author here, thanks heaps for the discussion, I replied to a few of the points in my blog comments:

https://discuss.samsaffron.com/t/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-...

Your Vibe coded slop PR is not welcome

sams99 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:44:23 +0000

Article URL: https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45728124

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

iOS 26 buggy with fixed positioning elements

sams99 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:57:35 +0000

Article URL: https://meta.discourse.org/t/ios-26-bugs-with-fixed-position-elements-in-discourse/382831

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267954

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sams99 in "DeepThought-8B: A small, capable reasoning model"

sams99 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:52:19 +0000

Qwen coder 32b with a JavaScript interpreter

Impressive answer for a model that can run on your own computer

https://discuss.samsaffron.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai...

New comment by sams99 in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

sams99 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:14:25 +0000

I find it odd that is refused me so badly https://discuss.samsaffron.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai... my guess is that I am using a quantized model

It simply did not want to use XML tools for some reason something that even qwen coder does not struggle with: https://discuss.samsaffron.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai...

I have not seen any model including sonnet that is able to 1 shot a working 9x9 go board

For ref gpt-4o which is still quite bad https://discuss.samsaffron.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai...

New comment by sams99 in "Generative AI Is Not Going to Build Your Engineering Team for You"

sams99 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:48:34 +0000

The original was posted at work earlier this week, to me the original missed a bit around explaining what this tech is yes good at... https://meta.discourse.org/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai-con...

New comment by sams99 in "How web bloat impacts users with slow devices"

sams99 — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:26:30 +0000

Highly Gamed === It is better if users with slow devices see a white screen for 30 seconds vs an indication that something is happening, because ... reasons?

New comment by sams99 in "Python: Just Write SQL"

sams99 — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 10:24:38 +0000

For those looking for a rubyish approach to this see: https://github.com/discourse/mini_sql

New comment by sams99 in "Red Sea Dam"

sams99 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 09:04:52 +0000

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

New comment by sams99 in "Show HN: Discourse Announces Chat"

sams99 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:21:03 +0000

This is something we are investigating. We would like it to interoperate with the wider ecosystem.

New comment by sams99 in "Show HN: Discourse Announces Chat"

sams99 — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:11:18 +0000

Link with installation instruction is at the bottom of the blog post:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chat-plugin/230881

You can try it out meta.discourse.org if log in to meta and then join the https://meta.discourse.org/g/chat-testers group (self serve)

Regarding bundle sizes, we hear you and have some long term plans to investigate code splitting, it is a very long journey but we will get there. At the moment you get the majority of the app on first payload, making subsequent clicks very fast.

Show HN: Discourse Announces Chat

sams99 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 22:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.discourse.org/2022/08/discourse-chat-is-now-available-try-it-out-today/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32324827

Points: 35

# Comments: 10

New comment by sams99 in "Oxide builds servers as they should be [audio]"

sams99 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 22:19:57 +0000

Could you include a link to the new podcastified Twitter space in the footer of https://oxide.computer/ ?

And maybe do an addendum 5 minute announcement episode on the “on the metal” podcast?

Love your excellent work, thank you all

New comment by sams99 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

sams99 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:01:29 +0000

Discourse | Remote - UTC+-3 | Full Time | Infrastructure Engineer

Discourse is a profitable, open source company, we host for thousands of public forums and internal team sites.

Our infrastructure team is responsible for taking care of all our hosting concerns including monitoring/deployments/alerting and so on. Much of our work involves amending and improving automation.

We are hosted on bare metal Linux servers and AWS.

To apply and for a full job desc see: https://www.discourse.org/jobs

New comment by sams99 in "Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free"

sams99 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:08:32 +0000

Is there an app on iOS that indexes ubuweb, I noticed Junky read by Burroughs there which would be a fascinating listen, but it comes in lots of pieces and consuming it on the run seems somewhat tricky