Hacker News: Multiplayer

New comment by Multiplayer in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

Multiplayer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:02:37 +0000

Great question. I've read that the agent sdk is ok as long as it's not for external use - meaning you aren't selling access to it. Unclear now though!

New comment by Multiplayer in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

Multiplayer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:46:06 +0000

Big Giant Million Dollar Question: Where does having Openclaw using Claude Code via ACP fall? It's using the Claude Code harness, not the model directly.

If you are not aware, ACP creates a persistent session for steering rather than using the models directly.

New comment by Multiplayer in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

Multiplayer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:52:19 +0000

Started using this earlier this week. I built a backtesting benchmark tool to compare a mix of frontier and open-source models on a fairly heavy data analysis workflow I’d been running in the cloud.

The task is basically predicting pricing and costs.

Apple’s model came out on top—best accuracy in 6 out of 10 cases in the backtest. That surprised me.

It also looks like it might be fast enough to take over the whole job. If I ran this on Sonnet, we’re talking thousands per month. With DeepSeek, it’s more like hundreds.

So far, the other local models I’ve tried on my 64GB M4 Max Studio haven’t been viable - either far too slow or not accurate enough. That said, I haven’t tested a huge range yet.

New comment by Multiplayer in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

Multiplayer — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:04:49 +0000

this is great! Incredibly fast and is working pretty well running loads on my m4 max studio.

Weirdly though I'm getting things like this: Apple FM is fast and free but has a hard limitation — it can't process prompts with Spanish/non-English words, which is a dealbreaker for California and Southwest real estate where half the street names are Spanish.

New comment by Multiplayer in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

Multiplayer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:27:52 +0000

My understanding is that the 512gb offering will likely return with the new M5 Ultra coming around WWDC in June. Fingers crossed anyway!

New comment by Multiplayer in "Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw"

Multiplayer — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:10:20 +0000

Ah, the way I read your previous comment was that you were using both your plan and the api. I understand now.

New comment by Multiplayer in "Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw"

Multiplayer — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:40:28 +0000

I've read this and the replies and I don't understand - but want to. I have 6 agents spun up under one openclaw. 4 of them use my claude code max sub. 2 use my codex sub. I am not needing to use any metered API calls. Why are you?

New comment by Multiplayer in "I’m joining OpenAI"

Multiplayer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:12:28 +0000

Sure, single-handedly is doing a lot of work here. :) Anecdotally a fair number of people I know have referenced his thoughts so I just ran with that. Most people seem to kind of equivocate about whatever model they like, Peter on the other hand is very strident about it.

New comment by Multiplayer in "I’m joining OpenAI"

Multiplayer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:08:48 +0000

He's been on a number of podcasts - lex recently, and is really emphatic about Codex as the breakthrough solution he relies on. I just looked and on the handful of podcasts there are about 2,000,000 views this past week and half or so.

New comment by Multiplayer in "I’m joining OpenAI"

Multiplayer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:41:37 +0000

Potentially amazing opportunity for OpenAI to more meaningfully compete with Claude Code at the developer and hobbyist level. Based on vibes it sure seemed like Claude Code / Opus 4.6 was running away with developer mindshare.

Peter single handedly got many of us taking Codex more seriously, at least that's my impression from the conversations I had. Openclaw has gotten more attention over the past 2 weeks than anything else I can think of.

Depending on how this goes, this could be to OpenAI what Instagram was to Facebook. FB bought Instagram for $1 billion and now estimated to be worth 100's of billies.

Total speculation based on just about zero information. :)

New comment by Multiplayer in "Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?"

Multiplayer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:34:10 +0000

Superpowers is from Obra (Jesse Vincent), quintessential hacker and was a leader in the Perl community back in the day (still?).

https://github.com/obra/superpowers

New comment by Multiplayer in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

Multiplayer — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:49:37 +0000

The software industry moat is disappearing. What will happen is 1000 (10,000?) competitors putting price pressure on every saas app.

Software will cease to be a winner take all and be a very long tail distribution!

New comment by Multiplayer in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

Multiplayer — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:48:34 +0000

GM Supercruise on my 2024 Silverado RST is a joke compared to Tesla FSD. It's not even remotely comparable. Supercruise only works on freeways/highways, does not understand ANY navigation. It's a better cruise control, that's about it. I own 2 Tesla model S of different vintages and FSD is a completely different animal. My 2017 model s can navigate from my house to, well, anywhere, with no intervention. I have been very disappointed in how long it took Tesla to get here based on the promises they made 10(!) years ago, but they are there now. Even a year ago FSD used to scare me frequently and cause me to disengage but that never happens now.

New comment by Multiplayer in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

Multiplayer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:21:38 +0000

The math here is mixing categories. The token calculation for a single 1-GW datacenter is fine, but then it gets compared to the entire industry’s projected $8T capex, which makes the conclusion meaningless. It’s like taking the annual revenue of one factory and using it to argue that an entire global build-out can’t be profitable. On top of that, the revenue estimate uses retail GPT-5.1 pricing, which is the absolute highest-priced model on the market, not what a hyperscaler actually charges for bulk workloads. IBM’s number refers to many datacenters built over many years, each with different models, utilization patterns, and economics. So this particular comparison doesn’t show that AI can’t be profitable—it’s just comparing one plant’s token output to everyone’s debt at once. The real challenges (throughput per watt, falling token prices, capital efficiency) are valid, but this napkin math isn’t proving what it claims to prove.

New comment by Multiplayer in "Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally?"

Multiplayer — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:05:25 +0000

Does this do the formatting that wisprflow will do kind of thing?

New comment by Multiplayer in "Facts about throwing good parties"

Multiplayer — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:14:39 +0000

Well done. There are some fun features here! Very polished as well.

New comment by Multiplayer in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"

Multiplayer — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:29:51 +0000

Did you listen to the recent interview with Ben Bajarin? I thought that interview alone justified the subscription. Curious as to whether anyone else felt the same.

New comment by Multiplayer in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"

Multiplayer — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:27:48 +0000

The current AI wave has been compared (by sama) to electricity and sometimes transistors. AI is just going to be in all the products. The trillion dollar question is: Do you care what kind of electricity you are using? So, will you care what kind of AI you are using.

In the last few interviews with him I have listened to he has said that what he wants is "your ai" that knows you, everywhere that you are. So his game is "Switching Costs" based on your own data. So he's making a device, etc etc.

Switching costs are a terrific moat in many circumstances and requires a 10x product (or whatever) to get you to cross over. Claude Code was easily a 5x product for me, but I do think GPT5 is doing a better job on just "remembering personal details" and it's compelling.

I do not think that apps inside chatgpt matters to me at all and I think it will go the way of all the other "super app" ambitions openai has.

New comment by Multiplayer in "Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle"

Multiplayer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:10:46 +0000

This may not be your cup of tea but I'm using stage manager on Mac for the first time after hating on it for years, for exactly this. I've got 3 monitors and they all have 4-6 stage manager windows. I bundle the terminals, web browser and whatever into these windows. Easily switching from project to project.

New comment by Multiplayer in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

Multiplayer — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:17:54 +0000

If you read the thread, the amount of fake accounts supporting the moderator is just insulting to me as a reader. Just bizarre.