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New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"

xur17 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:01:12 +0000

I am hunting for houses - I've used it as an assistant that catalogs them (but it has this stored in multiple places and will give me the wrong list a lot). I also had it read through my emails and create a doc with my upcoming trips.

I'd say it's right on the edge of being useful, but given the number of bugs, it's not really that practically useful. It's moreso a glimpse into the future.

New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"

xur17 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:50:15 +0000

I have it installed in a VM, and overall it's fairly useful, but very buggy. Right now I can send it a message asking it something, and it won't answer. I typically have to follow up 2 or 3 times before I get an actual response. This weirdly used to work fine.

New comment by xur17 in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

xur17 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:30:17 +0000

More broadly, I'd say if you don't have something to retire to (kids or otherwise), don't.

New comment by xur17 in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

xur17 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:54:03 +0000

I've found this to be the case as well. My typical workflow is:

1. Have the ai come up with an implementation plan based on my requirements

2. Iterate on the implementation plan / tweak as needed, and write it to a markdown file

3. Have it implement the above plan based on the markdown file.

On projects where we split up the task into well defined, smaller tickets, this works pretty well. For larger stuff that is less well defined, I do feel like it's less efficient, but to be fair, I am also less efficient when building this stuff myself. For both humans and robots, smaller, well defined tickets are better for both development and code review.

New comment by xur17 in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

xur17 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:47:33 +0000

> It even has a sprinkle of the silly "wow very technology!" aesthetic pandering that's typical of EVs.

I've never heard it referred to that way, but you nailed the description.

New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

xur17 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:08:15 +0000

Back in 2019 I created a Google Spreadsheet titled "family debts" that allows my family (4 siblings and my parents) to record when we owe each other money, and periodically settle up. I later learned that I recreated Splitwise, but having something like this with trusted folks has been hugely useful. We have over thousand entries, and use it constantly for splitting gifts, buying something at the store for someone, etc.

Om Friday after Thanksgiving I spent half a day building a telegram bot that accepts an address and a list of Amazon links, and in turn orders the item (at a discount since it uses my Amazon credit card), and adds it to the above "family debts" spreadsheet.

I really like the idea of programmable, trusted lending like this, and feel like it could be extended to other groups that you implicitly trust.

New comment by xur17 in "Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets"

xur17 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:01:17 +0000

Yeah, if the telegram and whatsapp spam I get is any reading, limiting by phone number is not sufficient.

New comment by xur17 in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

xur17 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:36:18 +0000

If it's an all out race between the different AI providers, then it's logical for OpenAI to hire employees that are pre-trained rather than training up more internally.

New comment by xur17 in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

xur17 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:15:15 +0000

A lot of airlines have started doing this by "gate checking" bags.

New comment by xur17 in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

xur17 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:02:08 +0000

Switzerland's wealth tax is a lot more reasonable though. UK is 2%, Norway is 1.1%, the Swiss ones are all below 1% (depends on your canton), ex the Zug canton is 0.21%.

New comment by xur17 in "Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code"

xur17 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:13:39 +0000

Require a phone number for free tier, make stablecoins a path for paid only access.

New comment by xur17 in "Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code"

xur17 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:43:42 +0000

Then accept stablecoins.

New comment by xur17 in "Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files"

xur17 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:05:24 +0000

Something like a `/raw` suffix would be amazing. Example: `https://www.dum.pt/dump/302460a1-1ed0-40b0-b637-e9d04a168678...`.

New comment by xur17 in "Apple Watch Ultra 3"

xur17 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:19:22 +0000

In normal cases I mostly agree - you can just charge it while taking a shower or something that you do every day. That said, Garmin's battery life shines when you are using it on a non-normal day.

Overnight camping, and sleeping in a tent for a few nights is a good example. I'm not "taking a shower" and hence don't really have a great time to charge it. With my garmin I just leave it on, and it keeps working for the entire trip.

Same thing with other "adventure" travel, flying overnight, etc.

New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

xur17 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:44:18 +0000

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New comment by xur17 in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

xur17 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:09:21 +0000

Not sure I follow.

New comment by xur17 in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

xur17 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:43:13 +0000

This has mostly been solved. Bitcoin's lightning network, ethereum layer 2 networks, etc all have sub-cent fees.

New comment by xur17 in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

xur17 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:42:04 +0000

No. You can route through other people on the network, so you just need a path to the person through others.

New comment by xur17 in "Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford"

xur17 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:07:16 +0000

> Can't your friend buy and then sell when they are ready to move?

They can, but because of realtors these 2 transactions will end up costing 12% of the cost of the house.

New comment by xur17 in "Google can now read your WhatsApp messages"

xur17 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:45:35 +0000

How do banks do this?