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basketblaon Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

I tried this ~ a week ago, tried one of the suggested automations and it pretty immediately started sending my local api keys to an endpoint… afk right now but can share more when I’m back

basketblaon Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

> Claude Code won because of Reinforcement Learning inside the harness

Doesn’t this gloss over the fact that token subsidization is a thing? I assume the reason a lot of people switched from other harnesses to CC was all the weirdness around setup-token and whether third party harnesses would continue to work without api pricing.

basketblaon Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

Is there even a Wichita, Arkansas?

basketblaon An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened

Probably pretty big difference in system prompt from using the apps vs hitting the api, not that that’s necessarily what’s happening here. + I think openclaw supports other models / its open source and it would be pretty easy to fork and add a new model provider.

basketblaon Gradient.horse

The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).

Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.

basketblaon Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases

Still not as bad as Roblox! (but yeah still bad)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249094

basketblaon Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases

Weirdly I agree. After seeing the truly god-awful pay to win gambling-filled landscape of Roblox, Fortnite feels pretty tame and respectful. V bucks aren't shoved down your throat, the battle passes are pretty transparent about what you get, and the whole cosmetics store feels less lootbox-heavy than a lot of games.

Edit: ope literally just saw this in another comment, whoops: https://www.ign.com/articles/as-fortnite-enables-third-party...

basketblaon Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

Fantastic. These descriptions are great too.

Visibility watch (https://anycrap.shop/product/visibility-watch-makes-you-visi...)

Bortle gun (https://anycrap.shop/product/bortle-gun-portal-gun-that-shoo...)

basketblaon Paul Graham Hacker News Archive

After seeing "Do things that don't scale" trending the other day, I thought it would be fun to have a hackernews archive of all the Paul Graham essays.

This was vibe coded pretty quickly so can't vouch for its integrity, if anyone has modifications they want to make here's the repo: https://github.com/basketbla/pg-scraper

Also please let me know if something like this already exists! There was a reddit thread where somebody posted this:

https://www.reddit.com/domain/paulgraham.com/top/?sort=top&t...

But I don't know if there's an equivalent thing for hackernews.

basketblaon Ask HN: How to find mentors while working remote?

That makes a ton of sense, thank you!

basketblaon Building an AI app builder with an AI app builder built with an AI app builder

One of my first posts on HN! It's a writeup about building a bolt.new clone inside of bolt.new and then building another bolt.new clone inside of the bolt.new clone.

Advice/feedback welcome!

basketblaon Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs

Pretty fantastic follow-up to https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton

basketblaon Garfield Minus Garfield

This is hilarious. Reminds me of this old pete holmes Garfield sketch (looks like the original got taken down).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayjz18d8Kpo