Hacker News: Multiplayer

New comment by Multiplayer in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

Multiplayer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:22:11 +0000

I wasn't trying to go point to point - my point was that its enjoyable to play with. As is Hermes!

New comment by Multiplayer in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

Multiplayer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:06:03 +0000

My simple take: Hermes is for the less technical and is more polished. OpenClaw is deeper with more capabilities.

OpenClaw has come so far since its' original launch/craze. I recommend taking a second look if you haven't touched it in a while. If for no other reason than it's just a really fun playground with a LOT of areas to experiment in. Setup a myriad of agents with various models, skills, cron jobs, etc. The control surfaces have come a long way as well.

Hermes is good fun, running that as well but feels like they focused on polish vs features in order to capitalize on the primitive state that OpenClaw was in for its first months.

People that got attracted to the hype of openclaw but couldn't endure the fast pace of breaking changes while they figured out the problem space were well served by going to Hermes.

New comment by Multiplayer in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

Multiplayer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:58:35 +0000

It's still quite fun. The games industry figured out long ago that realism and fun are often diametrically opposed.

New comment by Multiplayer in "Write for One Person"

Multiplayer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:51:20 +0000

I get stuck when I try to post on social and my brain fills up with all the random people I know that have commented or complimented a post. The problem is there are wildly different expectations of what I post. Is anyone else dealing with this?

Lately I've decided to write for ME. What do I want to write about? That has made it a lot easier to get unstuck. That and not looking at the views, likes, etc.

New comment by Multiplayer in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

Multiplayer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:05:24 +0000

fired it up via the $5 opencode go subscription and am stoked. This is an amazing amount of capability for pennies on the dollar. I'm using it alongside my codex and claude max subs. Just fantastic for coding that claude is architecting.

New comment by Multiplayer in "HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter"

Multiplayer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:50:28 +0000

Great name!

New comment by Multiplayer in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

Multiplayer — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:44:18 +0000

I'm using an 8MP camera from freenove on a pi zero 2 - it's great.

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.