{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:49:17.113Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story_id":50453453,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50453453","total_comments":4,"returned":4,"scope":"Up to the requested number of top-level comments in Hacker News ranked order. Deleted comments are omitted. Nested replies are not fetched; this is not the complete thread.","comments":[{"id":50455007,"author":"justCallMeOmid","created_at":"2026-11-11T16:06:04.000Z","text":"I maintain a tool that runs coding agents, so I’m closer to an orchestrator than a harness. And I use it every day. I don't care much about the harness anymore because I get most things from that anyways!","parent_id":50453453,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455007"},{"id":50458401,"author":"segmondy","created_at":"2026-11-11T20:43:01.000Z","text":"Yes","parent_id":50453453,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458401"},{"id":50456415,"author":"verdverm","created_at":"2026-11-11T18:03:03.000Z","text":"I started my first harness around this time last year, spent the last 8 months using other harnesses, about to go back to rewrite mine so I can use it from the learnings. Then I have another harness I've been working on to wrap an NES emulator and play FF1.\nWe are so early into Ai, building a harness is a useful and educational experience.","parent_id":50453453,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456415"},{"id":50454506,"author":"spottedmarley","created_at":"2026-11-11T15:22:40.000Z","text":"Yes, it's my main harness and I use it with locally hosted models. It's the best harness for everything I do day to day. I use Claude Code (Opus) to update and improve it but I'm pretty close to RHI (recursive harness improvement) using my local models.","parent_id":50453453,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454506"}]}