robbomacrae

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by robbomacrae 28d ago
Yep. OrcaBot has all these features. Free on desktop. It's been out for 6 months.
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
Most of the open weight models are can be used on device: https://orcabot.com/benchmarks/open-weight-tts
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
Open weight models are getting really good. Specko appears to be focussing on paid services which has its role to play but I have a benchmark in development for Open Weight models here if that is helpful: https://orcabot.com&#x2F
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
Then why (and I'm not saying I like the guy) did JD Vance come out so publicly against it? I mean you could certainly argue that was all theater and the UK was indeed doing the US's bidding but at some point you have to apply Occa
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
We were demanding the ability to spy on the citizens of our closest allies.
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
I’m not a single issue voter but the sheer incompetence of this particular decision is just too damning. It rightly caused friction with our 5 eyes partners. I would expect readers of hackernews to appreciate how dumb and impossible the req
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
“Kier Starmer seemed to actually be doing OK” as someone who voted for his Labour I was immediately regretting it when they tried to force Apple to open a backdoor and they are still trying! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks&#x
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
Benchmarking public agent skills: Oh My ClaudeCode, Superpowers, Git Ship Done, (previously Get Shit Done), and the Karpathy ones against Swebench-Pro and SlopCodeBench. I have a July vs June breakdown. It's been an interesting learnin
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by robbomacrae 1mo ago
FYI the GitHub URL is 404ing I’ve been integrating benchmarks into OrcaBot either locally on the app or online at orcabot.com. Mostly as a way of giving an easy way to verify my own posted benchmarks. There is a template for running SlopCod
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by robbomacrae 2mo ago
Thats right and to go even further I'm judging them on a metric they didn't necessarily target. A client I work with uses skills such as these to apply their own processes on the agentic development lifecycle. But users should als
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by robbomacrae 2mo ago
Yep that was interesting but imho not completely unexpected. My original hypothesis was that these agent skills are castles built on sand and that the models would quickly adapt and make them redundant. Also the skills use up context and I
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by robbomacrae 2mo ago
SCB is definitely an underrated benchmark. For me the unique selling point is that it more closely mirrors software development by not stopping after a single task. The agent has to keep code clean. The only disadvantage is all the problems
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Do Skills Improve Coding Agent Accuracy?(orcabot.com)
2 points by robbomacrae 2mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Free Desktop OrcaBot for macOS(orcabot.com)
2 points by robbomacrae 2mo ago|0 comments
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by robbomacrae 2mo ago
I think I'm more on your side on that rather than letting agents go wild like Steve Yegge/Pete Steinberger do. In fact OrcaBot quickly adapted into a knee jerk reaction to OpenClaw because I saw that as inherently dangerous. But w
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by robbomacrae 2mo ago
This looks really interesting and a unique take on the AI agent orchestration. I think we need a bunch of experiments in this area as it's clear we are entering a new paradigm and the tools for it are lacking. The session tree in parti
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by robbomacrae 2mo ago
https://orcabot.com OrcaBot was my Jan+Feb attempt to defeat the lethal trifecta whilst offering all the bells and whistles of a claw like sandbox: https://orcabot.com/blog#breaking-the-lethal-trifecta This mont
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by robbomacrae 4mo ago
AAPL and MSFT have a P/E an order of magnitude lower than TSLA whilst both having revenue growth % yoy in the teens. They both make over a $100b in PROFIT a year. TSLA's? $4b and shrinking btw. Their highest P/E's since
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by robbomacrae 4mo ago
I've been working on addressing the exfiltration leg as well as the other legs of the lethal trifecta in my OrcaBot [0][1] platform and I thought I had it mostly covered with the help of a network snitch and egress allowlist until I re
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by robbomacrae 4mo ago
I believe it's the way the HN algorithm works. In order to give new and obscure posts a shot, it will add them to peoples feeds in their front page and see how they measure. Otherwise new posts wouldn't get seen and the flywheel w
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by robbomacrae 4mo ago
I'm trying to do this with orcabot.com A figma like dashboard for turning ClaudeCode, Gemini Cli, Codex into an OpenClaw but with security measures to break the lethal trifecta while running on a VM. But it's not quite there in te
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by robbomacrae 5mo ago
I don't think that is entirely fair.. I don't see them stating anywhere they are measuring coding capabilities... "Using complex games to probe real intelligence." And this seems very much in line with the methodology in
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by robbomacrae 5mo ago
You could have the actual output of the agent turned into TTS using the model of your choice with TalkiTo… or listen to whatever weird sounds this makes. Seems like this is copying that viral Mac moan app. 2026 is weird.
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Printed neurons communicate with living brain cells(news.northwestern.edu)
2 points by robbomacrae 5mo ago|0 comments
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by robbomacrae 5mo ago
You sound like you’ve never been disdainfully stared at by a cat.. Really interesting article though. I’m very hopeful AI can help work out how all these things interact.
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by robbomacrae 5mo ago
"Let's be honest here: there is no benefit to alcohol (for example wine) and is only detrimental." - That is a pretty extreme statement and easily falsifiable. There are many studies a quick google away that show a much more
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by robbomacrae 5mo ago
OrcaBot does this with the VM but whereas the author mentions the risk of GitHub keys being leaked, OrcaBot uses a key broker to ensure the LLM doesn’t have access to any keys. It even works on the API keys to the LLMs themselves. https:&
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by robbomacrae 6mo ago
Genuinely surprised they didn't try to get away with department of peace.
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by robbomacrae 7mo ago
Thanks for mentioning that. The bot filter has been causing trouble so I def need to go and look at it. Debated disabling it but any basic bot that starts a dashboard is spinning up a VM I pay for! Changing browser might be a workaround?
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by robbomacrae 7mo ago
Really cool. A tangential task that seems to be coming up more and more is masking sensitive data in these calls for security and privacy. Is that something you considered as a feature?

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