<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ryanmcgarvey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanmcgarvey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:14:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ryanmcgarvey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it still regulatory capture if it also happens to be true?<p>I'll note that, if it is true,  the only other alternative is to ensure liability is held by whoever trained and/or provided the inference for the damage done by the model. This would effectively shut down open-weight models anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:16:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062369</link><dc:creator>ryanmcgarvey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50062369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good for you guys. I'm happy for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 05:18:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189457</link><dc:creator>ryanmcgarvey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We joke, but I bet this will help to drastically reduce ScamInc's revenue.</p>
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<p>Everyone that is upset about this should take note: you are not a (coding) customer at $20/mo. Their coding customers spend thousands per month (week!) on claude and it's growing faster than they can keep up with (source: I'm one of them, and I know many other like me. We're budgeting 10-20% of engineering salary spend on tokens). It sucks to no longer be able to code on the cheap anymore, but don't fool yourself into thinking you have any leverage here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855541</link><dc:creator>ryanmcgarvey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not the dictating, it's the clicking and the finding and addressing and the formalities. For a transactional email it's a lot, especially if there's substance to it like needing to click a link and make a choice about some options.</p>
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<p>This is doing a bigger number on me than it has any right to.<p>...why are they <i>all</i> skewed, save for the buns that are already lopsided? Those I'll note are perfectly seated. Some are more skewed than others. Like the Big Mac is only slightly skewed.<p>Is there a pecking order to how skewed they are? Some social hierarchy of sandwiches?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:06:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787019</link><dc:creator>ryanmcgarvey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. I had a spare M1 Mini so I decided to set it up. YOLOed the entire thing and connected all the integrations, though I only ever use Opus/Sonnet. I have a dedicated Discord server I use to communicate with it.<p>It really is eye-opening how powerful it is once you connect your life to it. The biggest improvement is actually the trivial stuff — emailing contractors, accountants, etc. I no longer need to open another app, navigate six separate steps, and organize everything on the fly just to send one message. I stay in one place, organize my thoughts about what I’m trying to do, and the execution happens automatically.<p>For example, open claw will find the relevant threads, lookup the relevant details via web search, present them to me, give me a draft, I can review it, edit it, and send. 2 minutes instead of 20.<p>As a software engineer using AI daily, I think this is the real unlock — staying in a single context and not getting lost in the long tail of trivial details that fragment your attention before you ever get to the actual work.<p>The mental model shift is important too. It’s not that AI does all the work and we end up with agents emailing each other. It’s that AI automates the steps required to achieve your goals, so you can focus on the substance — like actually writing the email instead of navigating to the place where you write the email.<p>I also have GitHub and Vercel wired up, which means I can jot down an idea for a little productivity app for me and my family and it just appears a few minutes later, deployed and ready to use. That alone has been worth the setup.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784707</link><dc:creator>ryanmcgarvey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "I’m joining OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI didn't do the work, I did. Building up context is the part <i>we</i> actually have to put work into. I'm not saying it would be impossible, but boy would it be annoying to have to constantly reach a new assistant about your whole life.</p>
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<p>Memory. I have built up so many scripts and crons and integrated little programs and memories with open claw it would be difficult to migrate to some other system.<p>System of record and all.</p>
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<p>The full on dystopian take would be to require anyone receiving welfare or other public funds to fully disclose all of their private details.<p>You want Medicaid? Tell everyone about your hemorrhoids first.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:56:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566206</link><dc:creator>ryanmcgarvey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanmcgarvey in "Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The conversation around GPU lifecycles seems to be conflating the various shear rates within the data center. My layman understanding is that the old 3 year replacement cycle had more to do with some component, not necessarily the memory or the processor, going wrong for half of their units by 3 years, at which point GPUs were cheap enough and advancing faster enough that it was more cost effective to upgrade than to fix. However, that calculus changes completely when the GPU and the HBM are orders of magnitude more expensive than the rest of the system. I suspect that we will see repairs being done on on the various brittle bits of the system and the actual core expensive components will continue to operate much longer than 3 years.</p>
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<p>To be clear, that is the <i>advertised</i> effects, not the side effects. The idea is that if you over eat you feel terrible, but also you won't want to overeat since you'll be full.</p>
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<p>The only reason I want these things to be any smarter is because I need them to do more work over longer periods  screwing up. The only reason I need them to do more work over long periods is because they are too slow to properly pair with.<p>If I could have it read more of my project in a single gulp and produce the 10-1000 lines of code I want in a few seconds, I wouldn't need it to go off and write the thousands of lines on its own in the background. But because even trivial changes can take minutes by the time it slurps up the right context and futzes with the linter and types, that ideal pair programmer loop is less attractive.</p>
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<p>Your description of "little toys" and "immense power of AI" seem to be at odds in your argument. Which is it?</p>
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<p>I don't think it will come all at once. By far the part no one wants to do and is also easiest for AI to tackle is long hauling. Humans will still be required for the last mile and delivery. I can envision a world in which we have "more" drivers because of AI not fewer.</p>
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<p>I presume they mean that distribution is king and they make all the devices.</p>
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<p>Still can't show me a clock that isn't 10:10.<p>Otherwise impressive.</p>
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<p>Is it a political statement if it's also a statement of fact? Sure, the comment has some color to it, I'll concede that, but one can no longer post these kinds of things on Twitter and get the honest engagement from community members one used to. It's no longer a welcoming place for this kind of discussion.</p>
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<p>In America you're free to sign or not sign terrible contracts in exchange for life altering amounts of money.</p>
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<p>Maybe it's worth reevaluating our definition of quality?<p>In a world where AI can read our codebase, ingest a prompt, and quickly output "correct" if not clean and concise code, and then be able to iterate on code with more prompt, do we need all the same patterns we used to adopt when humans were painstakingly writing every line of code?<p>This reminds of of the CISC to RISC migration - now that computers are in the loop writing the tedious parts, we don't need to burden our codebase with patterns meant to relieve humans from the tedium.<p>I find myself, for instance, writing more long form, boring configuration files that once upon a time I would have built some abstraction reduce the boilerplate and verbosity. But now that co-pilot can just auto-complete the next section for me, why bother?</p>
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