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hestefisk··on An index site of agent harnesses
I have compiled a list of the most popular agent harnesses in one place. I hope you find it useful. MCP service provided.
hestefisk··on Varela: Neuromancer-inspired self-mutating coding harness
I know there is a lot of AI slop being submitted here, but I will take the chance.

I built a self-mutating multi-agent coding harness, Varela (named after Francisco Varela, the famous researcher of living systems and intelligence).

Varela has two modes - a nice TUI as well as a Neuromancer-inspired cyberpunk 3D world where you interact with the agents with visual animations of sub agents, tool calls, etc.

The latter is probably not very practical, but I see it as a nice tribute to William Gibson's Neuromancer, which I love. Feel free to submit a cyberdeck as a PR.

Comments or code welcome.

hestefisk··on ClawLock: The Control Plane for OpenClaw
I love OpenClaw and what it can do. I have long been wanting OpenClaw to take care of my shopping and purchases online. However, with the current threat of prompt injections, I do not trust it with my credit card details as it stands.

To reduce the chance of breaches, I built ClawLock, a supervisor (sidecar with process isolation) for OpenClaw that injects controls around tool use. The user defines a passport for what the tools can and cannot do and ClawLock governs it. For high-risk transactions like in-browser purchases or shell command, a deterministic policy engine and an LLM-as-judge are used to detect any potential threats prior to execution.

ClawLock is currently in its infancy. It is primarily tested on Linux. I would appreciate any feedback on your experience using it on MacOS and WSL.

hestefisk··on AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox
I am in strategy consulting and I can tell you the productivity gains are real in terms of research, model building, and summarising work. The result is price pressure from our clients.
hestefisk··on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
This is really cool, nicely done. Q: How did you get the WhatsApp integration working? I thought that was completely closed off unless you are in Europe.
hestefisk··on Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
Also Ladybird is quite an interesting alternative. Anyone here using it day to day?
hestefisk··on Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage
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hestefisk··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Not respecting international law?
hestefisk··on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude
Would be interesting to see whether Gemini could crack this problem.
hestefisk··on Slack's 57MB 404 page
No. Everyone is on Teams.
hestefisk··on David Lynch has died
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/16/david-lynch-twi...
hestefisk··on Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS
And the network is the computer :)
hestefisk··on Richard Stallman, su, and the 'wheel' group (2004)
I always thought wheel was a BSD thing?
hestefisk··on Grace Version Control System
Have you registered gracehub.com yet? :)
hestefisk··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
I’m struggling a bit to see why this ad is controversial.
hestefisk··on A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
Firewalls is not where I would argue that BSDs are more consistent. FreeBSD comes with three different choices in base: ipfw, pf, and ipf.
hestefisk··on LLMs approach expert-level clinical knowledge and reasoning in ophthalmology
“What this work shows is that the knowledge and reasoning ability of these large language models in an eye health context is now almost indistinguishable from experts,” said Arun Thirunavukarasu, the lead author of a paper on the findings published in PLOS Digital Health journal.”

FTFA.

hestefisk··on Copenhagen's historic stock exchange in flames
Here is a video clip of the famous rooftop with four dragon tails crashing and burning: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/det-ikoniske-spir-paa-boer...

(Note: in Danish)

hestefisk··on iOS404
I agree with you. Notifications is another “feature” I just want to stay out of my browser. To that extent, I actually don’t mind Safari on iOS being deliberately slow to adopt some of the more intrusive standards.
hestefisk··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
And AI-enable it.
hestefisk··on Big Banks Are "Quiet Quitting" Their Climate Promises
Banks lend to polluters.
hestefisk··on DBOS Operating System
Michael Stonebraker is very smart. I remember using his VoltDB back in 2012 (from memory) when NoSQL is all the rage. I wonder if VoltDB is the core of DBOS?
hestefisk··on Show HN: DBOS – Transactional Serverless for TypeScript Apps
How is Node ridiculously complex? It’s quite sparse.
hestefisk··on Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI
Throttle on the DNS level. I do that.
hestefisk··on Losing two jobs in one year
Aussie here. Very few employers here offer health plans. Medicare is more or less like NHS in the UK. If you earn more than a certain amount, you have to pay for your own private health insurance. It is significantly cheaper than in the US. Source: myself
hestefisk··on Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
Reminds me a bit of icewm. Very nice work.
hestefisk··on Major outages across ChatGPT and API
Bard is weird. It started embedding these weird AI generated images inline alongside text responses, making it very hard to read because of fragmentation. Does anyone know how to turn it off?
hestefisk··on Trabant
No, by putting a chocolate bar in the glovebox.
hestefisk··on Trabant
I recall visiting Budapest in 1989 and going for a ride in a Trabant taxi. As my dad opened the door and grabbed the roof top with his hand to get out of the taxi, a small piece of the taxi roof top cracked off. We still have it at home as a souvenir.
hestefisk··on Thurston Moore Revisits His Sonic Youth
Teenage riot!
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