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New comment by hopechong in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

hopechong — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:15:51 +0000

Time flies! Can't believe it's been 15 years already. Congrats on publishing your new book!

New comment by hopechong in "[dead]"

hopechong — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:03:45 +0000

We ran hundreds of benchmarks to tune storage systems for distributed training

New comment by hopechong in "GPU Compass: Navigate the GPU Frontier Across 20 Clouds and 2K+ Offerings"

hopechong — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:01:25 +0000

Hi HN! We built GPU Compass to make the cloud GPU landscape browsable. The data comes from SkyPilot Catalog, open-source, auto-updated every 7 hours from 20+ cloud APIs. Feedback welcome.

GPU Compass: Navigate the GPU Frontier Across 20 Clouds and 2K+ Offerings

hopechong — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:01:25 +0000

Article URL: https://gpus.skypilot.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866256

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by hopechong in "Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes"

hopechong — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:58:49 +0000

Coding agents that read papers before writing code find optimizations that code-only agents miss.

We added a literature review phase to Karpathy’s autoresearch loop and pointed it at llama.cpp. The agent autonomously read arxiv papers, studied competing forks and spun up VMs to run parallel experiments.

Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes

hopechong — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.skypilot.co/research-driven-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706141

Points: 214

# Comments: 54

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

hopechong — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:55:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.skypilot.co/scaling-autoresearch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442435

Points: 237

# Comments: 94

New comment by hopechong in "Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM"

hopechong — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:06:26 +0000

We've been seeing a lot of people run OpenClaw directly on their main machine, which is a bad idea for a few reasons: it needs broad system access, it's noisy on resources, and if something goes wrong you want a clean blast radius. The obvious answer is "just isolate it," but isolation has real friction. You need to provision a machine, handle SSH keys, configure security groups, and remember to tear things down so you're not leaking money. This post walks through the three realistic options:

Docker – lowest friction, but shares your kernel and has limits depending on what OpenClaw needs to do Dedicated hardware – best isolation, but you're paying 24/7 and it takes time to set up Cloud VM – the sweet spot for most people: true isolation, pay-per-use, tear it down when you're done

For the cloud VM path, we show how to launch a hardened OpenClaw environment on AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other cloud with a single command, handling provisioning, SSH, and auto-teardown for you.

Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM

hopechong — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:06:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.skypilot.co/openclaw-on-skypilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183503

Points: 84

# Comments: 62

New comment by hopechong in "Zookeeper to Raft: Distributed File System Evolving for Ha and Fault Tolerance"

hopechong — Mon, 16 May 2022 22:01:58 +0000

Zookeeper-less trend. Cool Stuff.