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New ask Hacker News story: Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution

Why people chasing after useless token saving plugins and ignoring real solution 2 by yohji1984 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wrote a blog yesterday on how useless RTK and Ponytail are on real coding tasks. And published my agent harness long-horizon task benchmarks on 80% real token saving. I just want to know why people just ignore the fact those pulgins are useless and don't care about the real savings? full reports are on my repo: https://ift.tt/dHDVUxa Arm n Harness score Total tokens Modeled cost Rounds Duration No plugin 2 78.85% 6.660M $5.281946 62.5 895s Ponytail 2 80.77% -7.56% -8.87% -9.60% +13.51% RTK 2 76.92% +13.20% +7.18% +44.00% +40.69% Configuration Passes Pass rate Observed tokens Rounds Estimated cost Tura Balanced High 48/60 80.0% 229,695,477 2,017 $221.138 Tura Direct High 39/60 65.0% 75,108,167 969 $99.620 Codex CLI Medium 38/60 63.3% 333,538,349 3,...
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New ask Hacker News story: Revised Polish Alphabet

Revised Polish Alphabet 2 by poloniaco | 0 comments on Hacker News. Aa Bb Cc Çç Dd Ee Ęę Ff Gg Ɠɠ Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Ǫǫ Pp Rr Ss Şş Tt Uu Vv Ww Yy Zz Ȥȥ Ьь Ɠ W E R T Y U I O P Ç Ǫ A S D F G H J K L Ş Ę Z Ȥ C V B N M Ç ь , . Changes: Some letters were removed as they don't make distinct sounds in the language. One letter one sound: cz -> ç ó -> u ch -> h sz -> ş Makes more sense regarding the sound: ą -> ǫ ć -> çь h -> ɠ ń -> nь ś -> şь ł -> w w -> v ź -> zь ż rz -> ȥ Introducing soft sign will allow for more possibilities (e.g. loaning from languages like russian). Introducing separate letter for every soft sign is redundant. ь is to be read as "miękki znak". With my alphabet the orthography of many words have to be changed a lot: żółw -> ȥuwv tchórz -> thuȥ włóczęga -> vwuçęga wolność -> volnoşьçь wąs -> vǫs bohater -> boɠater Notice how much better does orth...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Fable Credits Are 150x More Expensive

Tell HN: Fable Credits Are 150x More Expensive 7 by yesitcan | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m on a Max 20x subscription and can use Fable for several days before the weekly quota runs out. By contrast, I bought $250 worth of credits and burned through them in an hour. I’m trying to understand who the target customer is.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs?

Ask HN: Are AWS Certs worth getting for experienced Devs? 4 by Gold-Ask-lx | 0 comments on Hacker News. I worked for big tech out of undergrad (mostly frontend/mobile for a few years) moved on to work at a few startups where I naturally switched to do more backend/cloud infrastructure work. I never got a 'formal' education in terms of masters or any kind of certs. Would it be worth it for me to start getting some Certs (like AWS solutions architect - associate/professional) if I want to switch my career towards more solutions design/consultation? I don't know many people personally that went this path. I guess I'm looking to work for reputable agencies or consultancies and get assigned to different clients/projects instead of the usual big tech route of IC for a particular team of a particular company until that company decides to reorg you to another team. Obviously not all Certs have the same value. I think AWS Solutions Architect - Associate would be the most adja...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin?

Ask HN: US Equivalent of Anabin? 2 by xqb64 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if there exists a US equivalent of Anabin[0] -- a German portal and database for evaluating foreign educational certificates. [0]: https://ift.tt/gmi9uDB
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: A DC Powered Home?

Ask HN: A DC Powered Home? 2 by dhosek | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been thinking about the fact that contemporary home electrical wiring is heavily predicated on AC for power delivery which makes sense for power transmission as it’s been done for most of the last century or so, but with the shift to solar and battery storage, I’m wondering whether it makes sense for in-home electric wiring to move from 120V AC to 12V DC or something similar. Since I’m largely ignorant of practical electrical engineering skills, I’m wondering whether this is something that makes sense and what the engineering challenges would be. Certainly, other than my kitchen, it seems like everything in my house is converting its electricity to DC anyway (or could be easily modified to function with a DC power supply, like the lighting). And perhaps there’s no compelling reason why we need AC for the fridge, microwave, stove, toaster oven or other kitchen stuff.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations

Ask HN: AI Agent and harness containerization/security recommendations 2 by dv35z | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN crew - I am seeing the tendency for people to allow AI agents to access local project & user folders, and beyond (operating system files). I thought to ask the question: How can we best use AI tools safely - where the workflow often runs local system commands and network commands - to protect the integrity of our systems & data AND be easy enough to use productively? Comment structure idea: Operating system / Agent harness / Agent / Security strategy & tool stack / Workflow To give some examples: I am currently using OpenCode (+DeepSeek) on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), and I notice that the Agent & harness is frequently asking to create files in /tmp/ - I usually forbid this, and instruct it to only use files in the current folder. I would rather that the tool ONLY have access to a given project folder (~/Projects/PROJECT-NAME) in a system-enf...
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