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Ask HN: Harness for Learning – Thoughts?

3•arvindm1991•49m ago
I've been thinking about a harness for the learning use case. Current harness objective is to basically take a task and drive it to completion and minimize the need for user intervention. But if you want to learn anything, this is the almost the opposite goal. As I use agents, I'm seeing the task gets done, but I have no new capability or even intuition for solving similar tasks in the future.

If a student asks how to solve an equation, ideally a harness needs to have a state/memory of learner's past understanding, provide hints, use tools like problems/simulations/assessments and end the session with an evaluation to establish mastery.

All AI tutors I see are LLM+Prompts but I think a harness is really the right form factor for this problem. I want to see what others think and if there's an appetite for this beyond the K12 market where adoption would be super slow.

Universal Declaration of the Three Laws of Autonomous Agents

https://huggingface.co/blog/anurajke/universal-declaration-of-the-three-laws-of-autonom
1•anuraj•1m ago•0 comments

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes

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OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI models than on Anthropic models last week

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3•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Intro to voltages and power in computing and possibility of reducing it

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Day 13. Three production applications on AWS down

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Fluid Script: Simple .NET server side scripting with browser breakpoints

https://github.com/jorgeleo/fluid-script
1•jorgeleo•8m ago•1 comments

Hackers say they breached Italian state email to target Revolut 'crypto whales'

https://www.ft.com/content/464142c6-7ba6-4bdb-83ca-6a4f18da4d96
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What we do to the web, we do to ourselves

https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/what-we-do-to-the-web-we-do-to-ourselves
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Is science journalism dying? Comparing a "science crash" 40 years ago to today

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Is Compounding Inference as Powerful as Compounding Interest?

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1•taubek•14m ago•0 comments

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1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

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AI-Based Coding and Alienation

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Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit

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3•jacquesm•20m ago•0 comments

Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to

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An updated look for the Raspberry Pi Desktop

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An Update on Wayback Machine Access

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From Indigenous Loss, a Potent Legal Argument on Climate

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Verification Layer for Any Model

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Public Data for Health at the OpenAI Foundation

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Leaving Proton Mail

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