Show HN: Chickadee Bandit – Build private apps for your family
3 by ChickadeeBandit | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
Tell HN: Google Argon on a Pro subscription is worthless
5 by bb88 | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Maybe that was true with Fable as well. But one prompt which took 5 minutes of clock time, used 50% of the resources of a Pro account for the 5 hour window.
5 by bb88 | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Maybe that was true with Fable as well. But one prompt which took 5 minutes of clock time, used 50% of the resources of a Pro account for the 5 hour window.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Endo – A Higher-Order Harness
Show HN: Endo – A Higher-Order Harness
4 by Warren93 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Endo is a Higher-Order Harness (HOH). From the easiest concept to understand to the more complex ones, Endo gives you: * A single, simple UI to use any agent provider with your existing subscriptions, and hot-swap agents right in the middle of a session. * An orchestration layer, which I call HOH, allowing arbitrary composition of agents to achieve any workflow. A fun case I tried was asking Fable and Astra to mock a presidential debate. * An agent protocol that abstracts any agent. The key insight here is that every LLM is an agent—instead of treating the LLM as just one node inside an external ReAct loop. Endo was a concept formed while I was building OpenChart ( https://ift.tt/61icRLF ). To power trading workflows, I needed to support scenarios where strict determinism is required, while still keeping the flexibility of an agent's inference-time decision-making capability. A new form factor was needed between rigid n8n-style workflows and open-ended ReAct loop agents. Thus the creation of Endo. Endo is short for Endomorphism, a term rooted in category theory and functional programming. An endomorphism is a function that transforms an object into another object of the same type. Similarly, Endo itself is built purely on functional programming principles, relying heavily on Effect ( https://ift.tt/PfhQVeM ). ..And if you have patience to speak technical jargons, Endo is: * An agent orchestration layer—Higher-Order Harness (HOH)—where an entire agent is treated the same as a single LLM call, enabling arbitrary composition of extremely complex workflows. * A way to abstract any harness into a standardized protocol, where raw models and agents behave the exact same way, in a KV-cache-friendly manner. * A workflow engine that enables arbitrary composition of agents with a single workflow language. It's completely open source, and if you think this idea is cool, let's build together. Just for the fun of it.
4 by Warren93 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Endo is a Higher-Order Harness (HOH). From the easiest concept to understand to the more complex ones, Endo gives you: * A single, simple UI to use any agent provider with your existing subscriptions, and hot-swap agents right in the middle of a session. * An orchestration layer, which I call HOH, allowing arbitrary composition of agents to achieve any workflow. A fun case I tried was asking Fable and Astra to mock a presidential debate. * An agent protocol that abstracts any agent. The key insight here is that every LLM is an agent—instead of treating the LLM as just one node inside an external ReAct loop. Endo was a concept formed while I was building OpenChart ( https://ift.tt/61icRLF ). To power trading workflows, I needed to support scenarios where strict determinism is required, while still keeping the flexibility of an agent's inference-time decision-making capability. A new form factor was needed between rigid n8n-style workflows and open-ended ReAct loop agents. Thus the creation of Endo. Endo is short for Endomorphism, a term rooted in category theory and functional programming. An endomorphism is a function that transforms an object into another object of the same type. Similarly, Endo itself is built purely on functional programming principles, relying heavily on Effect ( https://ift.tt/PfhQVeM ). ..And if you have patience to speak technical jargons, Endo is: * An agent orchestration layer—Higher-Order Harness (HOH)—where an entire agent is treated the same as a single LLM call, enabling arbitrary composition of extremely complex workflows. * A way to abstract any harness into a standardized protocol, where raw models and agents behave the exact same way, in a KV-cache-friendly manner. * A workflow engine that enables arbitrary composition of agents with a single workflow language. It's completely open source, and if you think this idea is cool, let's build together. Just for the fun of it.
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Demonstrating Skills When Everything Is a Prompt
Ask HN: Demonstrating Skills When Everything Is a Prompt
2 by Brisk4t | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I used to (and sometimes still do) love really thinking about a problem - pen and paper, whiteboards, thinking on the tornado throne, you name it. And before AI, the projects I came up with might not have been the BEST or life-changing but they were the result of me hyper-focusing on something niche for an inordinate amount of time. Which inevitably meant I learned a lot AND anyone who saw that had a predictable reaction "that's so cool, you need a life, but still cool". And I've interpreted that as a recognition of skill and care. On occasion that has even landed me opportunities that I didn't even know existed. These days I find myself wondering if there's anything that isn't a prompt (or a few hundred) away. And if it is, what would make my skills valuable or even visible. Specifically in the context of soon becoming an ex-student, current struggling new-grad, I keep wondering what signals indicate skills to an outsider (and not a SKILLS.MD). A resume by itself is quickly becoming deceptive with most projects just being the product of barking at a model with half-baked ideas until something resembling a working prototype comes out. To be clear, I'm not a pessimist. I don't think its time to till the fields for our overlords. I'm trying to understand what advice people think is still applicable and what is a relic that needs a patch or two. TL;DR: AI projects are impressive but don't always indicate skills. How do i signal skills and not just ideas and prototypes?
2 by Brisk4t | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I used to (and sometimes still do) love really thinking about a problem - pen and paper, whiteboards, thinking on the tornado throne, you name it. And before AI, the projects I came up with might not have been the BEST or life-changing but they were the result of me hyper-focusing on something niche for an inordinate amount of time. Which inevitably meant I learned a lot AND anyone who saw that had a predictable reaction "that's so cool, you need a life, but still cool". And I've interpreted that as a recognition of skill and care. On occasion that has even landed me opportunities that I didn't even know existed. These days I find myself wondering if there's anything that isn't a prompt (or a few hundred) away. And if it is, what would make my skills valuable or even visible. Specifically in the context of soon becoming an ex-student, current struggling new-grad, I keep wondering what signals indicate skills to an outsider (and not a SKILLS.MD). A resume by itself is quickly becoming deceptive with most projects just being the product of barking at a model with half-baked ideas until something resembling a working prototype comes out. To be clear, I'm not a pessimist. I don't think its time to till the fields for our overlords. I'm trying to understand what advice people think is still applicable and what is a relic that needs a patch or two. TL;DR: AI projects are impressive but don't always indicate skills. How do i signal skills and not just ideas and prototypes?
New ask Hacker News story: Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?
Are there any more startups with real technical challenges?
2 by artifix | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a technologist with 25+ years of hands-on experience across all IT roles and hundreds of technologies. I've done it all: from startups to Fortune 500s, from desktop applications to global distributed systems to AI dark factory harnesses. But I'm bored. I want to work with a startup who's taking on real challenges, challenges that require the kind of engineering expertise that gave us the microprocessor revolution and the real birth of Silicon Valley. Yes, everyone is talking about AI. Sure, in the right hands, with the right ring-fencing, AI is great, and there are plenty of great startup ideas around AI. At the same time, there is a lot of disinformation. The risk is that many of these startups will fail because they lack the serious engineering needed to use AI to its maximum potential. But I'm looking for something else. Do you have something that shifts the paradigm? Do you have a startup with a real challenge? I'd like to hear from you. I'd love to see what people are doing out there ... things that my AI agents haven't found yet.
2 by artifix | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a technologist with 25+ years of hands-on experience across all IT roles and hundreds of technologies. I've done it all: from startups to Fortune 500s, from desktop applications to global distributed systems to AI dark factory harnesses. But I'm bored. I want to work with a startup who's taking on real challenges, challenges that require the kind of engineering expertise that gave us the microprocessor revolution and the real birth of Silicon Valley. Yes, everyone is talking about AI. Sure, in the right hands, with the right ring-fencing, AI is great, and there are plenty of great startup ideas around AI. At the same time, there is a lot of disinformation. The risk is that many of these startups will fail because they lack the serious engineering needed to use AI to its maximum potential. But I'm looking for something else. Do you have something that shifts the paradigm? Do you have a startup with a real challenge? I'd like to hear from you. I'd love to see what people are doing out there ... things that my AI agents haven't found yet.
New Show Hacker News story: Show HN: Keep your eyes in one place while typing
Show HN: Keep your eyes in one place while typing
2 by willthefirst | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I wanted a way of typing that's tuned towards stream of consciousness/get down a bunch of words quickly. And I'm too lazy to move my eyes, so I wanted something where I could relax my eyes/brain and just get words out.
2 by willthefirst | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I wanted a way of typing that's tuned towards stream of consciousness/get down a bunch of words quickly. And I'm too lazy to move my eyes, so I wanted something where I could relax my eyes/brain and just get words out.