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New comment by ed in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

ed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:46:24 +0000

It's worth noting Codex has 2x more stories than Claude https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codex

New comment by ed in "Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster"

ed — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:52:43 +0000

Models are familiar with H100’s. They even predate ChatGPT.

Schedule Recurring Tasks in Cowork

ed — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-recurring-tasks-in-cowork

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161264

Points: 1

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New comment by ed in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

ed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:05:06 +0000

This paper argues that if superintelligence can give everyone the health of a 20 year-old, we should accept a 97% percent chance of superintelligence killing everyone in exchange for the 3% chance the average human lifespan rises to 1400 years old.

New comment by ed in "Heroku is not dead"

ed — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0000

I moved off Heroku to Neon + Hetzner today.

I asked Claude to build /provision-server and /deploy skills. It was way easier than it should’ve been.

My infra costs on this one project have gone from $1200 to <$200/mo.

Neon is awesome, with lightweight branching and instant restores.

Heroku is most definitely dead.

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

ed — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:14:48 +0000

Article URL: https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820783

Points: 667

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New comment by ed in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

ed — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:23:46 +0000

It's totally possible Peter was the right person to build this project – he's certainly connected enough.

My best guess is that it feels more like a Companion than a personal agent. This seems supported by the fact I've seen people refer to their agents by first name, in contexts where it's kind of weird to do.

But now that the flywheel is spinning, it can clearly do a lot more than just chat over Discord.

New comment by ed in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

ed — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:29:02 +0000

A bit OT but why is moltbot so much more popular than the many personal agents that have been around for a while?

New comment by ed in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

ed — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:22:30 +0000

$2k

New comment by ed in "Project Cybersyn"

ed — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:30:40 +0000

Doing this within one organization, with modern technology, is clearly possible. Attempting this across an economy, in the 70's, where a key premise is "assume you have clean realtime data across all industries," is a fool's errand :) That the ideas sound similar is like arguing Stockfish is based on the original Mechanical Turk. Only true in a superficial sense.

New comment by ed in "Project Cybersyn"

ed — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:46:44 +0000

I stumbled on Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer as a freshman in college, and loved the idea of an auto-optimizing business.

Back then I had questions about exactly how such a system could be implemented, the algorithm was very hand wavey, but I assumed surely they must’ve figured it out before writing a book about it.

As an adult with 20 years extra experience, I’m fairly confident that, no, aside from the high level concept, they had no idea how to build such a system. That coup was probably the best possible outcome for Beer - it gave credibility to his ideas without actually testing them.

New comment by ed in "SkyVM: Instant desktop VMs from memory snapshots"

ed — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:38:57 +0000

Broken in mobile safari

New comment by ed in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

ed — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:57:18 +0000

this wasn't a study of absolute growth (sure - newbie gains), but rather the difference between high and low load programming within individuals.

New comment by ed in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

ed — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:37:34 +0000

that's fair but the post was on page 3 for a while. glad to see it restored to the front page. (the charitable explanation is that non-moderators can flag stories, as opposed to an official policy to protect YC companies)

New comment by ed in "Intermittent hypoxia increases blood flow and benefits executive function"

ed — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:37:06 +0000

s/professional divers/free-divers/

New comment by ed in "Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued"

ed — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:49:24 +0000

To dissipate the energy of a M9 (which happens about once per decade) you'd need about 32,000 quakes of M6 (still big enough to collapse buildings).

Energy scales as 10^(1.5 × ΔM)

ΔM = 9.0 − 6.0 = 3.0

10^(1.5 × 3) = 10^4.5 ≈ 31,600

New comment by ed in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

ed — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:58:56 +0000

Same with "See prompt in Google AI Studio" which links to an unpublished prompt in AI Studio.

New comment by ed in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

ed — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:48:35 +0000

What’s new here? I believe this is just gemini 3 which was released last month (the model id hasn’t changed AFAICT)

We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM

ed — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-skills-training

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165951

Points: 3

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New comment by ed in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

ed — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:18:21 +0000

We don’t really know whether that’s true, since it’s hard to prove a negative (i.e., suppliers aren’t colluding). But given their history of price fixing it may be worth looking into.