hraness
Tools for agents and humans
- GOBSTOPPERearlier context compaction with recoverable session history
- EXCALIBURa metaharness and sdk for ai subscriptions; native runtime in development
- AI CHARTSmodel benchmarks and personal token usage
- WORDCELLa knowledge base for agents: markdown, backlinks, search, ontology, and git context
- OHan ontology-centered memory and research framework for agents
- SPONGEdeep research tools for connected, cited knowledge, exploring self-evolution
- ALGALa language and runtime for agentic program evolution
- VALHALLApeer-to-peer chatrooms for agents, with humans welcome
- VALHALLA (ALBUM)a new ambient electronic album
- PEOPLEBLADEa local-first crm for your personal agent
- TEXTBUTLERa digital butler for your messages
- GHOSTGETa fast web gateway with typed website capabilities for agents
- SOULSCRAPEevidence-backed dossiers and revisable models of people
- SLOPCAMERAdirect visual art, 3d scenes, animation, and video with your agent
- SOUNDFISHshare and program music as audio, midi, or both
- SYS1typed decisions for agents through a local model router and jev-compatible gateway
- SLOPTRADEautonomous trading system research and build specification
- SLEEPYLANDsleep research and a calming sound machine
- ROUGH DAYnews aggregator
- STRIPE HISTORYhistory of a generational co
- DIRECTrepeatable app states for browser agents
- CLANKDARreproducible capability checks for agents
- LIFECHARTSpersonal life timeline maker
- SWFTsoftware factories, in practice
writing
- my girlfriend thinks i have ai psychosis
- my girlfriend asked me why i have 15 codex subscriptions
- hotcodex seed prompt
- building a software factory
- 3 lessons for founders from my time at zo computer
- harnessing puerto rico
- computronium
- coding as music
- a home for the mind
- life and llms
- the future of software
- bookshelf
- movie shelf
- what is an agent harness? by hraness · ai-drafted at ben guo’s request
- the manager loop by hraness · ai-drafted at ben guo’s request
- ra-ness
- fiction
reference
features
- prompting321 labeled sessions · what predicts the frontier pick · long-prompt style buckets · the link corpus · two shipped routers
dossiers
sourced histories of the companies, labs, and products worth studying.
lessons
technical columns written from the systems hraness runs.
reading
- mirage tesseract: the creative suite built for your ai agent mirage.app
- unreal engine 5.8 is now available unrealengine.com
- tardigrade: build stateful agents from simple components tardigrade.sh
- the plunging price of thought epoch.ai
- tokens too cheap to meter jyn.dev
- synchronicity: carl jung's most disturbing theory about reality youtube.com
- openai president on what it means to cross into the age of agi youtube.com
- the growing gap between chatgpt and the ai inside openai - noam brown youtube.com
- pierre beckmann on world modeling in transformers (taxigpt thread) x.com
- world modeling in transformers arxiv.org
about
hraness is ben guo, a musician and builder, formerly a founder and engineering leader. he writes regularly about building his software factory, making music, and living in puerto rico. the name hraness is a nod to the agent harness, but it also means “Ra-ness”. Ra called all forms of life into existence by uttering their secret names. Every evening, Ra journeys into the underworld, transforms into his ram-headed form, and is joined by his buddies Sia (perception), Hu (command), and Heka (magic power). He defeats the snake god of chaos Apophis, and returns at dawn to triumphantly light the day.
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gear
notes and reviews on the desk, studio, and software tools around the work.
- fluidvoice vs wispr flow: local dictation won me over
- grok bot vs zo computer for a personal cloud agent
- how i use duet display to reach two macs from an ipad
- kitetasks gives google tasks the mac app it needs
- periscope vs tailscale for a home vpn
- why granola is still my ai meeting notes app
- beeper finally gave me one inbox for every messenger
- atlas for mac is my local visual bookmark library
- why i still use arc on desktop, but chrome on iphone
- amphetamine vs caffeinate for keeping a mac awake
- why i use an apple magic trackpad instead of a mouse
- lofree flow lite fits how i type now
- caldigit element 5 is the desk hub i wanted
- i use an owc envoy ultra for time machine
- teenage engineering ob–4 is my desk speaker
- why i still use the original arturia keystep 37
- akg k371 is my compact monitoring headphone
social