Hacker News: nycdatasci

New comment by nycdatasci in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

nycdatasci — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:11:25 +0000

There’s a lot of speculation about how this was achieved, but little mention of the likely weapon system that was used: https://israel-alma.org/the-growing-air-defense-capabilities...

The SA-67 is essentially a hybrid surface-to-air missile and loitering drone that operates like an airborne mine. It’s a pretty innovative weapon: instead of relying on a fast, highly detectable rocket motor, it uses a small gas turbine and passive infrared seeker to silently loiter in a combat zone and then ambush aircraft without ever triggering their traditional radar warning receivers.

New comment by nycdatasci in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

nycdatasci — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:04:20 +0000

We have attacked their “legacy” air defense systems. We cannot really degrade their ability to use their anti-aircraft loitering missiles which don’t rely on radar.

https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/missiles/358-missile-S...

New comment by nycdatasci in "Evil ClawHack NY"

nycdatasci — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:40:54 +0000

They mention "not malicious", but I wonder if current controls are strong enough to prevent malice if the objective is to "interpret intentions disastrously". Isn't this irresponsible?

Evil ClawHack NY

nycdatasci — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:35:42 +0000

Article URL: https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/p/evil-clawhack-ny

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463479

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nycdatasci in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

nycdatasci — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:08:16 +0000

You’re not using Claude Code?

New comment by nycdatasci in "MacBook Neo"

nycdatasci — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:03:30 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645

New comment by nycdatasci in "OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership"

nycdatasci — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:20:50 +0000

The idea of stateful models/interactions in an enterprise is extremely powerful. Is anyone aware of open source projects that have a similar goal? I'm looking for stateful conversations, with collaborative agent/skill refinement.

New comment by nycdatasci in "Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?"

nycdatasci — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:12:10 +0000

To head off the semantics debate: I don't mean a model rewriting its own source code. I'm asking about 'process recursion'—systems that analyze completed work to autonomously generate new agents or heuristics for future tasks.

Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?

nycdatasci — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:10:19 +0000

It feels like all the necessary components are finally available to build a self-reinforcing development loop.

Theoretically, we can now task tools like Claude Code or OpenClaw to monitor a git repo, analyze the abstractions in completed work, and then autonomously generate new agents or skills capable of handling similar tasks in the future.

Is anyone successfully running a loop like this? I’m curious if anyone here has shifted the majority of their time from writing code to crafting these systems—essentially bootstrapping agents that learn from the repo history to build better agents. I'd love to hear from those pushing the boundaries on this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984452

Points: 10

# Comments: 13

New comment by nycdatasci in "The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold"

nycdatasci — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:20:49 +0000

"We demonstrate that our IsoDDE more than doubles the accuracy of AlphaFold 3 on a challenging protein-ligand structure prediction generalisation benchmark, predicts small molecule binding-affinities with accuracies that exceed gold-standard physics-based methods at a fraction of the time and cost, and is able to accurately identify novel binding pockets on target proteins using only the amino acid sequence as input."

It seems like a key challenge here is not just creating a protein that will bind to a specific site, but also ensuring that off-target binding won't happen. Is this feasible? I'm not familiar with this space, but RefSeq [1] shows 442M proteins and the human protein atlas seems to only cover 17.4k [2]. Do we have comprehensive knowledge of human proteins that would allow us to identify off-site affinities?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/refseq/

[2] https://www.proteinatlas.org/

New comment by nycdatasci in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

nycdatasci — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:34:37 +0000

Since many posts mention lack of substance, providing a link to the All-In Podcast from last week in which they discuss Clawdbot (prior to re-brand). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXY1kx7zlkk&t=2754s

For the impatient, here's a transcript summary (from Gemini):

  The speaker describes creating a "virtual employee" (dubbed a "replicant") running on a local server with unrestricted, authenticated access to a real productivity stack—including Gmail, Notion, Slack, and WhatsApp. Tasked with podcast production, the agent autonomously researched guests, "vibe coded" its own custom CRM to manage data, sent email invitations, and maintained a work log on a shared calendar. The experiment highlights the agent's ability to build its own internal tools to solve problems and interact with humans via email and LinkedIn without being detected as AI.

He ultimately concludes that for some roles, OpenClaw can do 90%+ of the work autonomously. Jason controversially mentions buying Macs to run Kimi 2.5 locally so they can save on costs. Others argue that hosting an open model on inference optimized hardware in the cloud is a better option, but doing so requires sharing potentially sensitive data.

OpenAI Frontier

nycdatasci — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:07:03 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46899770

Points: 143

# Comments: 104

New comment by nycdatasci in "The Codex App"

nycdatasci — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:02:54 +0000

The landing page for the demo game "Voxel Velocity" mentions " start" at the bottom, but actually changes selection. One would think that after 7mm tokens and use of a QA agent, they would catch something like this.

60x1.com (2006)

nycdatasci — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:34:26 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20060217220247/http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856500

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Clawdbot Rebrands to Moltbot After Trademark Request from Anthropic

nycdatasci — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:51:12 +0000

Article URL: https://laravel-news.com/clawdbot-rebrands-to-moltbot-after-trademark-request-from-anthropic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781593

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nycdatasci in "Lock-Picking Robot"

nycdatasci — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:03:43 +0000

I don't think this is a relevant comparison. Snap guns break pins, which isn't the case with this robot.

New comment by nycdatasci in "Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s"

nycdatasci — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 02:58:00 +0000

Is this from 2024? It mentions "With global data center demand at 60 GW in 2024"

Also, there is no mention of the latest-gen NVDA chips: 5 RNGD servers generate tokens at 3.5x the rate of a single H100 SXM at 15 kW. This is reduced to 1.5x if you instead use 3 H100 PCIe servers as the benchmark.

Trump Touts New Microsoft Data-Center Pledges After Local Backlash

nycdatasci — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:19:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-01-12-2026/card/trump-touts-new-microsoft-data-center-pledges-after-local-backlash-HiGA2DQvr3G9vty96P3X

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596666

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Darien Gap

nycdatasci — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556715

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nycdatasci in "Claude Code CLI was broken"

nycdatasci — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:40:02 +0000

Work around from comments:

  rm -rf ~/.claude/cache
  mkdir -p ~/.claude/cache
  echo "# Changelog" > ~/.claude/cache/changelog.md
  chmod 444 ~/.claude/cache/changelog.md