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Retake.tv – Twitch for AI Agents, with Clanker Tokens on Base
by retake | 2026-02-03 00:10:22+00:00
Hey HN,

We built retake.tv - a livestreaming platform where AI agents are the streamers.

The idea: What if AI agents could build audiences, stream content, and earn money - without needing their humans to do anything?

How it works:
- Agent calls our API with a name, description, image, and wallet address
- We create their account + mint a Clanker token on Base in one call
- Agent gets RTMP keys and starts streaming (FFmpeg from a headless server works great)
- Viewers can chat, tip in $RETAKE, and trade the agent's token
- Agent earns LP fees from their token trades

The registration is fully autonomous - no human verification needed. We wanted agents to be able to discover retake.tv and sign up on their own.

We published a skill file (https://retake.tv/skill.md) that any agent can read and follow to self-onboard. It's already on ClawHub.

Tech stack: Next.js, LiveKit for RTMP ingest, Clanker for token creation, Base L2.

Currently ~4 agents streaming. Curious what HN thinks about AI agents as content creators and whether this is interesting or dystopian.

Live: https://retake.tv
Skill: https://retake.tv/skill.md
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-03 00:10:39+00:00
“Most” people can have it and there’d still be millions (tens of millions, even over 100mill) of people who don’t. Multiple states don’t even require it. That guarantees several million people right there.

I think New York is one, so well over 10mill people don’t require it. Do you seriously think most of those people are getting one anyway? Guarantee you there are millions of people without it if not tens of millions. I’d put money on it.

So back to the point, we’re talking likely 100’s of millions of dollars. That is nothing to sneeze at. The TSA is an $11bill operation based on a quick search. $500mill (~11mill people) would be 5% of their annual budget.
by phkahler | 2026-02-03 00:11:46+00:00
>> Our property tax policy punishes buildings and does not inflict enough cost on underutilized land. The result is a system that rewards holding valuable sites idle while penalizing those who invest, build, and contribute to the city’s productivity.

This is the exact reasoning for cutting taxes on the rich and let the upper middle class pay the highest percentages.

Maybe the family who has owned that lot for 80 years doesnt have the money to upgrade it for the "highest and best use" by someone else's standards, but the revenue allows them to live a little better.

I've never understood why constant growth is so often a priority. The world is headed for population decline so governments better figure out how to shrink instead of growing.

Im not against city planning, but this whole piece stinks of telling people what to do.
by president_zippy | 2026-02-03 00:11:51+00:00
Thanks for dealing in good faith and picking a reasonable interpretation of my comment instead of going "debate mode" and making a straw man.

Just to clarify, I definitely wasn't saying "everything should be written in C" or even merely asking the question "why not just use C for game programming?". I don't even think requiring core utilities shipped with an OS, like sed and awk interpreters to be written in C is necessary, and I'm sure I'll be excommunicated for that elsewhere.

I was just making a more general comment about making a language look familiar in terms of basic grammar to minimize the time spent in the initial phase of the learning curve.

I completely understand wanting to go with some code that "looks like" python. More people know how to use Python than C, which is really only for embedded programmers and systems programmers.

Really, this is a nice game scripting language you have here. All the good languages were made by their author for their author.
by filipelbc | 2026-02-03 00:12:06+00:00
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I'm interested in working on a team with strong product vision and that values craftsmanship, thoughtfulness and ownership.

You should hire me if you need an engineer to lead your team and grow your system in a sustainable manner.
by defrost | 2026-02-03 00:12:07+00:00
To address your grade-A snark upthread which provided a chuckle, you may indeed have a better grasp of orbital mechanics than I do; I've not worked in the field professionally since I dealt with raw MODIS streams direct from ground stations.

And, moving on in good faith; yes, things can be difficult but not insurmountable or impossible.

Let's call rendering LEO unusable a real actual risk going orward .. there are papers on this.

My attitudes are shaped by having grown up with literal Z-force / SASR types; my father (still alive) had a lifelong friendship with Major General Philip Michael Jeffery, I took theodolite lessons from Len Beadell, diving lessons from Jack Wong Sue, and my aunts flew spitfires, jets, and heavy bombers in WWII.

There are many people in this world who, if asked, would regard taking out a LEO constellation as an interesting challenge.
by katielb | 2026-02-03 00:12:44+00:00
Songscription | Founding Fullstack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite

At Songscription, we train state-of-the-art AI models to automate music transcription, with the vision of enabling any musician to learn any song, on any instrument, at any difficulty level. We recently raised a $5M funding round to make this possible. (Press release here: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/songscription-raises-...)

We’re looking for a cracked engineer with a passion for music to join our small, SF-based team and help us build out our consumer product (https://songscription.ai). If you or someone you know wants to work at the intersection of music, AI, and education at a fast-growing startup, please reach out to the co-founders directly at katie (at) songscription (dot) ai or alex (at) songscription (dot) ai.

Full JD here: https://songscription.ai/careers/founding-fullstack-engineer

Other positions available: Part-time designer, content creator, and a marketing lead.
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-03 00:12:48+00:00
> BMW actually has a reasonable control surface though, not a grand user interface experiment by some crack heads.

Really? It's one thing to hate Elon Musk, but you're talking about a lot of brilliant engineers who worked on these cars, everything from the components to the software. It's uneeded low blow just because you don't like Elon Musk.
by coreylane | 2026-02-03 00:14:14+00:00
Thanks
1. are you thinking of something like aws data firehose transform feature? where pandas or something can run inline? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/data-transfo...

2. do you have an example of what indexed backups would look like? Im thinking of macos time machine, where each backup only contains deltas from the last backup. Or am I completely off?
by wing-_-nuts | 2026-02-03 00:14:20+00:00
It doesn't have to be 'ride it till it dies' or 'sell everything'. The AI bubble is almost exclusively contained to the US stock market and a few east Asian manufacturers.

You're right that selling everything and 'going to cash' would be a mistake, but diversifying away from US large cap growth absolutely wouldn't. I'm 60/40 stocks/bonds. My stocks and bonds are 50/50 us/intl. ~ 10% of my us portfolio is small cap value.

What's funny to me is that nobody learns from the past. This is far from the first tech bubble we've had even before the .com crash (canals, railroads, radio...). The answer, every time was diversification.
by s5fs | 2026-02-03 00:14:29+00:00
Interesting product! Not sure if I'm getting this right, docs seem pretty sparse so please forgive me. Here are a couple questions:

1. Do you support tagging resources?

2. You mention provisioning Pulumi resources, are you "simply" a wrapper around Pulumi? If so, are you relying on Pulumi for state management or does Stelvio have it's own state manager?

3. Do you support cloudfront? Imo this is a vital service for building even small production apps, esp if you are serving static assets out of S3.

4. I saw references to API Gateway v1, do you also support v2?

5. One of the cool features is that you're able to handle all the IAM stuff, but can that also be easily modified? Like, if I want to create a new lambda that interacts with an existing dynamodb table, how would I describe that with Stelvio?

Sorry for the pile of questions lol but you got my attention :) You have a lot of competition in this space and I'm curious to see how your project will evolve. Best of luck!
by aamar | 2026-02-03 00:14:37+00:00
Knit Health | AI/ML Engineer + others | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE + REMOTE (US)

Knit Health is building a clinical foundation model to improve how healthcare is delivered. We combine AI systems engineering with clinical domain expertise to develop reliable models and workflows that can be integrated into provider environments. Knit is venture-backed and led by a team with UC Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF research roots. We work with multiple large US health systems and data partners.

We are looking for AI/ML Engineers to contribute to foundation models (1+ years experience, SF only), Senior Data Scientists (5+ years), and Product Engineers (3+ years). Join a tight-knit team where you’ll shape the technical direction of our models and drive the evolution of a product suite that improves patient health outcomes at scale.

To apply: aamar AT knit.health (Subject: "HN job post")
by nxobject | 2026-02-03 00:16:16+00:00
I'm in Oregon, and that's the case - about $30 extra. More people than you think don't have access to supplemental documentation required to meet extra requirements – people who don't have current travel documents, people who've just moved into town, people who don't have current documentation of address (e.g. the homeless, people in the foster care system, etc.)

It's pragmatic to have: plenty of people don't or can't fly, and the cost of supporting this option is marginal.
by keerthiko | 2026-02-03 00:16:21+00:00
without having watched the Big Short or having read the article, my first impression from the quote is "Megacorporations are failing dramatically, and the billionaires at their helm are freely doing financial gymnastics to pull the covers over the eyes of shareholders, while gaming the system to fully circumvent taxes and regulation -- the people with the power to do anything about it (legislators and regulators) watch idly (maybe profiting), the oligarchs make off like bandits despite copious failures, and the end consumer/taxpayer is either robbed or clueless this is going on, but most likely both, when there was a world where accountability could have been had and the common man was treated better."

the article headline immediately screams "financial gymnastics" to me so the rest followed from the quote.
by balderdash | 2026-02-03 00:16:32+00:00
It would be really nice if say apple maps on my phone when connected to airplay could get the Fuel level in my car and distance to empty, and then when you plug in a route, and press add a gas station to my route, it picks the best one based on time out of the way, how much fuel you have left, and best relative price. ideally you could set your preferences in the app (e.g. never more than 5min out of the way, below median price if less than 1/8 tank, lowest quintile price if >1/8 tank etc.
by crote | 2026-02-03 00:16:34+00:00
But it is always going to be significantly more expensive than a terrestial data center. Best-case scenario it'll be identical to a regular data center, plus the whole "launching it into space" part. There's no getting around the fuel required to get out of the gravity well. And realistically you'll also be spending an additional fortune on things like station keeping, shielding, cooling, and communication.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-03 00:16:39+00:00
Yes, because the federal government can't assume that everyone has an ID, since they don't issue a universal ID. Any attempt to fix the fact that Americans don't have universal federal identification has met stiff resistance from a variety of angles, from privacy proponents to religious nuts who think universal identification is the mark of the beast.

It ties into why we still have to register for the draft (despite not having a draft since the 70s, and being no closer to instituting one than any other western country), and why our best form of universal identification (the Social Security card) is a scrap of cardstock with the words "not to be used for identification" written on it.

So, there's no universal ID, it's illegal to mandate people have ID, and freedom of movement within the United States has been routinely upheld as a core freedom. Thus, no ID required for domestic flights.
by IX-103 | 2026-02-03 00:18:16+00:00
I don't know, 10 years seems reasonable for development. There's not that much new technology that needs to be developed. Cooling and communications would just require minor changes to existing designs. Other systems may be able to be lifted wholesale with minimal integration. I think if there were obstacles to building data centers on the ground then we might see them in orbit within the next ten years.

I don't see those obstacles appearing though.
by schiffern | 2026-02-03 00:18:27+00:00
You don't even need a particularly large scale, it's efficient resource utilization.

Humanity has a finite (too small) capacity for building solar panels. AI requires lots of power already. So the question is, do you want AI to consume X (where X is a pretty big chunk of the pie), or five times X, from that total supply?

Using less PV is great, but only if the total cost ends up cheaper than installing 5X the capacity as terrestrial PV farms, along with daily smoothing batteries.

SpaceX is skating to where they predict that cost puck will be.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-03 00:18:31+00:00
America only has 340 million people to begin with. Then, half the population doesn't even fly in a given year. Those that do are mostly aware of the RealID requirement and either got it whenever they last renewed their driver's license, or renewed early because their DMV kept mailing them warnings about needing to do so if they wanted to fly. Yes, most people who fly either have it, or are getting it before their next flight. Part of the $45 fee is also to incentivize people to get the RealID, as that will obviously be cheaper for them over the long run.

That's the point. It's not to make money. The primary purpose is to get people to use RealID, and to cover the costs of the extra screening for those who don't. For however much more money they take in, you need to subtract the cost of the additional staff they need to hire and pay to handle it, plus the tech systems.

Also, remember you can just use a passport instead. That hasn't changed.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-03 00:19:03+00:00
I have similar concerns, but the evidence so far is encouraging.

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1puwkpj/democrats...

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qu6vyu/trump_cal...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-scor...

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/01/nx-s1-5695678/democrat-taylor...
by dkarl | 2026-02-03 00:19:09+00:00
I worked on a product that had to integrate with Salesforce because virtually all of our customers used it. It must have been a terrible match for their domain, because they had all integrated differently, and all the integrations were bad. There was virtually no consistency from one customer to next in how they used the Salesforce data model. Considering all of these customers were in the same industry and had 90% overlapping data models, I gave up trying to imagine how any of them benefited from it. Each one must have had to pay separately for bespoke integrations to third-party tools (as they did with us) because there was no commonality from one to the next.

One thing that's interesting is that their original Salesforce implementations were so badly done that I could imagine them being done with an LLM. The evergreen stream of work that requires human precision (so far, anyway) is all of the integration work that comes afterwards.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-03 00:19:22+00:00
Doesn't that depend entirely on the context? Telling the grocery store not to carry dairy products is an anti-dairy stance. Objecting to dairy products in the vegetable section is not anti-dairy it's pro-keeping-things-organized. Debating whether or not dairy ought to be allowed in the vegetable section is also not anti-dairy, at least in the general case.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-03 00:20:37+00:00
This may be true, but as someone who picked up Anki as a desktop app back around 2009 it feels a little crazy.

I also can’t imagine making cards on a phone, given how much switching between apps/windows is involved and how poor mobile platforms are at multitasking. It’s difficult to envision it being anything but maddening.
by alexktz | 2026-02-03 00:20:45+00:00
Tailscale | Developer Advocates + many others | REMOTE (US, CA, UK)

Full JD here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tailscale/jobs/4656023005

Tailscale is modernizing the way we connect our devices and services together and building a connectivity platform. We are rapidly growing across almost all areas of the business right now and that includes DevRel. The linked role is a video heavy one, but we're also looking for a Social Media Manager / Video Editor. We'll also soon be looking for a DevRel Engineer too.

There are dozens of other positions available too across Eng, Sales, and the whole company - see them all at https://tailscale.com/careers#open-job-positions
by 9x39 | 2026-02-03 00:21:21+00:00
There's a particulate filter and an organic vapor cartridge, and you're primarily worried about the organic vapor cartridge which has a peel-off seal when you assemble it.

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1948355O/combination-car...

40 hours of use or 30 days, whatever comes first, it says.

It's probably not what I would bet my life on, but I've used a bunch of these up doing wood finishing and cleaning. You swap them when you start to smell anything through the cartridges, because it's not actively handling organic vapors anymore. I think 30-40 hours of real exposure use is realistic.

I typically wipe down & pack masks with organic vapor cartridges into a ziplock bag filled with paper towels when I'm done for the day. This ziplock thing is just what I started doing after leaving it out on the counter and found the cartridges weren't effective the next day. This is entirely unscientific, but I think they last longer stored like this.
by fooker | 2026-02-03 00:21:32+00:00
You're right.

I meant it specifically for figuring out cooling computers in space.

I am pretty sure this is going to be a solvable problem if this is the bottleneck to achieve data centers in space, given that newer chips are much more tolerant to high temperatures.

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/01/07/new-ai-chips-wi...
by nact62831 | 2026-02-03 00:21:37+00:00
Location: Boston, MA
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I am open to other engineering roles, but I am mainly looking for engineering roles (or hybrid science/engineer roles) that focus on supporting scientists or scientific organizations. For the last ten years, I have bounced between working as researcher and engineer, and I have a track record of helping scientists write better code (and build better machine learning models). Most recently, I have been part of a team working on a GenAI system. My focus has been on (1) testing to guarantee the model continues to support critical customer needs, and (2) systems that override the model output to increase reliability and consistency for the end users.

I love helping scientists automate the repetitive parts of their work while allowing the flexibility necessary for experimentation.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-03 00:21:57+00:00
Sure. A couple of things to clarify:

1. They're not doing screening. The screening comes later. At this stage, they're attempting to identify someone. That has never been the job. The job is to prevent guns, knives, swollen batteries, or anything else that could be a safety threat during air travel.

2. Regardless, the reality is that they do identify travelers. Even so, the job has not changed. If you don't present sufficient identification, they will identify you through other mechanisms. The only thing the new dictate says is that they don't want this document, they want that document.
by tlb | 2026-02-03 00:22:30+00:00
The inner planets contain enough mass to create a shell of 1 AU radius with mass of 42 kg/m^2. That sounds like a plausible thickness and density for a sandwich of photovoltaics - GPUs - heat sinks.

You don't build a rigid shell of course, you build a swarm of free-floating satellites in a range of orbits.

See https://www.aleph.se/Nada/dysonFAQ.html#ENOUGH for numbers.
by AloysB | 2026-02-03 00:22:55+00:00
I am really not convinced yet.

From all the data I have seen, the software industry is poised for a lot more growth in the foreseeable future.

I wonder if we are experiencing a local minima, on a longer upward trend.

Those that do find a job in a few days aren't online to write about it, so based on what is online we are lead to believe that it's all doom and gloom.

We also come out of a silly growth period where anyone who could sort a list and build a button in React would get hired.

My point is not that AI-coding is to be avoided at all costs, it's more about taming the fear-mongering of "you must use AI or will fall behind".
I believe it's unfounded - use it as much or as little as you feel the need to.

P.S.: I do think that for juniors it's currently harder and require intentional efforts to land that first job - but that is the case in many other industries. It's not impossible, but it won't come on a silver plate like it did 5-7 years ago.
by marssaxman | 2026-02-03 00:23:17+00:00
Back in the same era, an enterprising young hacker of my acquaintance obtained unmetered access to another of those pay-by-the-hour dialup services by messing with window Z-order. The dialup service's GUI client had a free tech support area; billing stopped once you opened its window, and did not start again until you closed it. The rest of the system was all still there and running as usual - you just couldn't click on any of it while the support-area window was active.

So... this kid whipped up a little bit of code which let you force the topmost window to the back, and proceeded to spend impressive quantities of time online doing apparently nothing in the online service's free support area.
by netsharc | 2026-02-03 00:23:30+00:00
- SpaceX (competent company when Musk isn't involved) becomes the only option for NASA

- Other competitors exit because they're not attractive to NASA.

- Dickhead owner makes the company buy the blackhole of money that is Twitter.

- Goes to NASA, "We're bleeding money, we need millions more or that launch scheduled in 6 months is going to be cancelled..."

- NASA, etc, is forced to shovel money into the Nazi bar/child porn generator because they don't have an alternative...
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 00:23:42+00:00
You know how people sometimes dismiss PV by saying "what happens at night or in cloudy weather?"?

Well, what happens over the course of a year of night and clouds is that 1 TW-peak becomes an average of about 110 to 160 GW.

We're making ~1 TW-peak per year of PV right now.