MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by detroitwebsites | 2026-02-02 13:31:39+00:00
Honest answer: OpenClaw still requires some tinkering, but it's getting easier.

The biggest barrier for non-tinkerers is the initial setup - Node.js, API keys, permissions, etc. Once it's running, day-to-day use is pretty straightforward (chat with it like any other messaging app).

That said, you'll still need to:
- Understand basic API costs to avoid surprises
- Know when to restart if it gets stuck
- Tweak settings for your specific use case

If you're determined to skip tinkering entirely, I'd suggest starting with just the messaging integration (WhatsApp/Telegram) and keeping skills/tools minimal. That's the lowest-friction path.

For setup guidance without deep technical knowledge, I found howtoopenclawfordummies.com helpful - it's aimed at beginners and covers the common gotchas.

Is it transformative without tinkering? Not yet. The magic comes from customization. But the baseline experience (AI assistant via text) is still useful.
by randomor | 2026-02-02 13:31:45+00:00
One way to reframe the question is to ask: why social media took over and what RSS can do to catch up?

I got a theory but curious about others thoughts.

My theory is barrier to entry, network density, lurker effect, UX, dopamine and attention economy loop, content recommendation etc all fell behind.

One hint is how TikTok’s old parent company started as a content aggregator and still runs one of the biggest one in china called Toutiao.

Also plug my tiny contribution to fix the inconsistent reading experience of rss ready blogs without installing an app: https://feedable.doublememory.com
by TaupeRanger | 2026-02-02 13:31:48+00:00
This reads as if written by someone who has never used these tools before. No one ever tries to "fit" the entire project into a single context window. Successfully using coding LLMs involves context management (some of which is now done by the models themselves) so that you can isolate the issues you're currently working on, and get enough context to work effectively. Working on enormous codebases over the past two months, I have never had to remind the model what it changed in another file, because 1) it has access to git and can easily see what has changed, and 2) I work with the model to break down projects into pieces that can be worked on sequentially. And keep in mind, this the worst this technology will ever be - it will only get larger context windows and better memory from here.
by spookie | 2026-02-02 13:32:23+00:00
I believe, as an european, that isn't much of a concern. We are very coupled to one another, plenty have family ties with other european citizens, share similar languages within immediate neighbours, and are culturally similar. Even religion is mostly shared. Of course, each has its own identity, not saying this isn't the case.

But without unity each one of us would just be yet another small country with a declining population, unity gives us strength.

The US leadership today thinks they are powerful enough by themselves. Quite a different perspective. Hence why sovereignty there seems to have a more patriotic meaning. I'm sure the states themselves still see the value of collaborating between themselves however.
by numpad0 | 2026-02-02 13:32:32+00:00
There's no way MS employees at all levels don't know. It only doesn't know organizationally. It's just the boring old incentive alignment problem.

There needs to be more squeaky wheels than anticipated at all times in IT to justify investments in software thereby your compensations and promotions. One easy way to achieve that is to keep throwing in shiny new things with more moving parts so to keep something on fire to keep spotlights on. Webdevs achieve this by wrapping wrappers, Google by pulling plugs randomly off the wall, and various parts of Microsoft for the past few quarters had done so by introducing new GUI toolkits and adding moar AI to Windows.
by dzonga | 2026-02-02 13:32:33+00:00
> faces | sound

before A.I - video calls replaced in-person - coz you could tell emotions from faces

now with A.I - we're going back to an in-person world

you also look at entertainment - what's getting scarce & more valuable - live entertainment e.g Netflix with the skyscraper, live sports, concerts etc - due to live events being more authentic

you also see even Hollywood stars buying into sports team & sports team valuation going up

us humans - we only like the artificial - to a limited extent - however the A.I people lack empathy & don't know shit about how humans work
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-02-02 13:32:37+00:00
They have this to some degree in NATO, the problem is that you have to allow for some exceptions. For example, a design requires a special bolt head because the standard one just won't work. No standard can be absolute and still allow for innovation. Military suppliers just milk this loop-hole and claim they need an exception even when they don't. Being able to evaluate when an exception is warranted and when the design could be altered to accommodate a standard would require enormous technical oversight.
by tromp | 2026-02-02 13:32:48+00:00
Next year:

One solution for too many A+'s?
Harvard considers giving A++ grades.

Here in the Netherland's "energy label" home insulating rankings, we're up to A++++ [1]

[1] https://nieuwbouw.nl/begrijp-nieuwbouw/koop/bouwen/78-de-ver...
Show HN: SlideBot AI – AI presentation generator built from real business needs
by tonyqinatcmu | 2026-02-02 13:33:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I built SlideBot AI — an open-source AI-powered presentation generator that creates professional slides from natural language input.

Why I built this:

At my company, we spend hours every week creating presentation decks. The existing AI tools either generate generic-looking slides or require too much manual tweaking. I wanted something that:

1. Takes a topic/outline and generates a complete presentation
2. Lets you iterate through natural conversation ("make slide 3 more concise", "add a risk section")
3. Supports voice input — upload a meeting recording and it extracts key points automatically
4. Maintains consistent brand styling across all slides

How it works:

- Input your idea (text, outline, or audio recording)
- AI generates an outline → you refine it through conversation
- AI creates a design scheme → you refine it through conversation
- AI generates each slide as a high-quality image
- Download as a ZIP package

Tech stack: React + FastAPI + Google Gemini API

What makes it different from other AI slide tools:

- Fully open-source (MIT license)
- Conversational iteration at every step — not just one-shot generation
- Voice-to-slides pipeline (meeting recording → presentation)
- Born from actual daily business use, not a hackathon project

This started as an internal tool and has been used in production for several weeks. The iterative refinement workflow was the key insight — the first draft is never perfect, but being able to say "add more data to slide 5" or "make the conclusion stronger" makes a huge difference.

Would love to hear your feedback. What features would make this more useful for your workflow?

GitHub: https://github.com/tonyqinatcmu/SlideBot-AI/blob/main/README...
by pawelduda | 2026-02-02 13:33:38+00:00
I use it all the time to SSH into my workstation and check on long-running tasks, code, etc.

- Using vim/neovim is way better than I'd expect on a phone keyboard, because you can move around faster with less keypresses.

- My terminal sessions are wrapped in tmux, so switching between devices is seamless (tmux panes resize without any problems to match your device dimensions/aspect ratio as soon as you interact with the terminal - nothing ever breaks). You can do the pinch gesture to change the text size, depending on what you need to see at the moment.

- Both devices are using tailscale, so all I need is cellular data connection. For low quality network coverage I use mosh, which makes the session truly unkillable and makes sure it will recover when the connection comes back, albeit I ran into some annoying limitations with text scrollback.

With the recent development of agents, it becomes even more effective, since I can just open up claude session, type the prompt and have the agent do the heavy-lifting (mostly writing large chunks of code). This greatly compresses the amount of text you'd have to type and makes phone-only coding more viable than ever.
by electroly | 2026-02-02 13:33:39+00:00
Primarily it's the reason you already know: restic and borg are the same model, but restic doesn't need it to be an ssh-accessible filesystem on the remote end. Restic can send backups almost anywhere, including object storage like your Backblaze B2. I agree with OP: restic is strictly better. There's no reason to use borg today; restic is a superset of its functionality.
by mcnamtm1 | 2026-02-02 13:33:54+00:00
I have not run OpenClaw. The reason is the security risk.
The risk isn't the AI itself—it's the uncontrolled access to external services.

Agentic AI requires more than just conventional security measures to achieve a level of trust that it will act as intended.

Credential Exposure: The agent needs API keys/tokens for Slack, WhatsApp, Gmail, etc.

Action Verification: No human-in-the-loop for destructive operations

Lateral Movement: Compromised agent can pivot to all connected services

Data Exfiltration: The agent has read access to sensitive communications.

I am interested in solving these risks with some new AI Threat Rejection capabilities that are in development.

Here is what I think might work (and would reduce the risk enough to try it). A sidecar proxy on the agentic AI pods to apply authorization and access controls in runtime. This would achieve two (at least) security improvements:

Encrypted Egress Lanes where each SaaS connection goes through a dedicated secure channel at the application layer.

Credential Isolation where secrets stay in individual pods that connect to external apps (connector pods)
by dataviz1000 | 2026-02-02 13:35:27+00:00
I just upgraded to the $100 a month 5x plan 5 minutes ago.

Starting in October with Vscode Copilot Chat it was $150, $200, $300, $400 per month with the same usage. I thought they were just charging more per request without warning. The last couple weeks it seemed that vscode copilot was just fucking up making useless calls.

Perhaps, it wasn't a dark malicious pattern but rather incompetence that was driving up the price.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2026-02-02 13:35:28+00:00
My comment was meant to be an old fogey criticism of giving up on having in-house browser talent and instead just white-labelling chromium, but clearly that's not how it was taken. Another lesson for me in writing clearly (no sarcasm on the internet!), but the last thousand haven't stuck so I'm not terribly optimistic about this one
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-02 13:35:37+00:00
I guess not. Can you specify it in more concrete terms? They're not just buying your project for an arbitrary price, or VC-investing, they're paying your living costs and hosting costs while you create a donation to the public good, that's how grants work.

They give you 500k if you have a really good reason why you need that... and why the result is worth it... and why your project is more worth it than all the other several projects, combined, they could spend the same 500k on. Most of them are one or two people's living cost for 6 months to a year or so.
by ekaryotic | 2026-02-02 13:36:20+00:00
software is a bad example since all the coding is done in english. the translation tools are inexpensive nowadays.
bilingual persons have lower rates of dementia so it's not even sure that standardising on one language would be a net benefit. also it's universally accepted that english is one of the more difficult languages to learn.
If there was a revival of the movement for a single language then english wouldn't be picked by non native english speakers.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-02 13:36:53+00:00
>Does anyone outside America wants to buy an American car?

"Nobody buys American" is a circle jerk meme in white collar parts of the internet where everyone has a $50k Japanese car/SUV/pickup in their driveway they need to feel validated about.

Ford and GM sell small cars, crossovers and midsize trucks hand over fist in "wet equatorial places", roughly speaking, though in GM's case typically not branded as GM/Chevy.

The Daimler Benz and FCA thing was actually really good for Chrysler/Jeep getting their products out there[1]. Due to the inherent multi nationality of Stellantis, those platforms are basically global at this point anyway even if they're not badged as Dodge/Jeep/Chrysler overseas or badged as French/Italian in the US.

That said, the "first world" markets have been so insular for so long due to protectionism that they are in serious danger.
by rizzo94 | 2026-02-02 13:37:00+00:00
Finish the bottle if Marcus claims LLMs are 'unreliable stochastic engines' while ignoring that the real bottleneck isn't the model's logic, but the massive security risk of giving them actual system agency.

He’s not entirely wrong about the risks, though. I’ve been trying to set up more 'agentic' workflows recently and it’s a constant battle between convenience and not wanting to hand over my digital keys to a third-party server.

I’ve been experimenting with PAIO (Personal AI Operator) as a middle ground. It’s the first time I’ve seen a 'Bring Your Own Key' (BYOK) architecture that actually feels like a one-click integration rather than a security compromise. It solves that specific Marcus-critique of 'AI being unsafe for real tasks' by keeping the security layer separate from the LLM’s hallucination-prone logic.

Has anyone else here tried their implementation yet? I'm curious if the 'one-click' ease holds up for more complex custom integrations, or if we're still stuck in the 'manual hardening' era for anything serious.
by tgma | 2026-02-02 13:37:16+00:00
I have tested DFU restore on multiple Mac models including MacBook Air {M1, M2, M3, M4}, MacBook Pros {M1 Pro, M1 Max, M3 Max, M4, M4 Max}, Mac mini {M1, M4}, Mac Studio {M1 Max, M3 Ultra} off the top of my head (at least a bunch of older Intel+T2). I am sure many other people would have noticed if the DFU port was marked incorrectly. You are simply too quick to conclude what could be a bug in macOS updater is necessarily tied to DFU port designation. Just as an example, I have a USB-C flash device that is so flaky that sometimes does not work with a port on one direction and connect/disconnect and flipping the direction works. There's just any number of possibilities aside from DFU.
by ptx | 2026-02-02 13:37:20+00:00
Kay Sievers' Wikipedia page cites a blog post by Lennart Poettering [1] which says that systemd was designed in "close cooperation" with Kay Sievers and that Harald Hoyer was also involved, so it seems pretty clear that he's on the team that develops systemd, the team that Harald Hoyer referred to as "our team". All three of them gave a talk [2] together in 2013 about what they were developing.

Regardless of any hair-splitting about whether this team is the systemd team and when which members were changing what components, if Lennart Poettering "adopted" varlink, he seems to have done so from members of his own team ("our team") who are also fellow co-creators of systemd.

[1] https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html#faqs

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rrpjYD373A
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2026-02-02 13:37:33+00:00
Agreed, they do have to start somewhere. I'm not trying to put out the 'if the solution isn't completely perfect, then we should do nothing' type argument. Only that compatibility/interoperability is a much deeper problem that stems from financial incentive not just for military application but civilian ones as well. Just look at printer ink. But the EU did standardize phone chargers, so its possible to some extent.
by roflcopter69 | 2026-02-02 13:38:14+00:00
Hi! I've been following your work on GodotJS for a while now. Really cool stuff man, thanks for all the improvements you landed in GodotJS!

I think most of the people using Godot are not aware how powerful and ergonomic GodotJS actually is. All the intellisense and completion suggestions goodness when using GodotJS is a godsent.

Can you tell us a bit more about how making breaka club with GodotJS has been going for you?

- Are you using Godot as kind of a rendering frontend while your TypeScript code is rather self-contained and only interacts sparingly with the APIs exposed via GodotJS or is everything deeply intertwined? I'm curious because I'm still looking for a good GDScript replacement. I really dislike GDScript so much :(

- How has performance been? I'd imagine V8 with JIT be a lot faster than GDScript and probably within 2-3x of C#? But I guess one wouldn't be able to use V8 JIT on consoles or iOS? I wonder if the performance hit would be tolerable.

- Do you still have high-performance code you write with e.g. godot-cpp and if so, how's easy is it to make those things interact?

- I saw that there have been thoughts about migrating GodotJS to a GDExtension but it's not easy it seems? Would be a great long-term goal imo because not having to use a custom engine build and instead just plug in a GDExtension would be pretty convenient.

- I assume that one cannot use stuff like the node file system API or such things and one has to restrict themselves to JavaScript/TypeScript code that would also run in the browser?

Sorry for the flood of questions, no need to answer them all. Still curious about all of those things :)
by fredoralive | 2026-02-02 13:38:47+00:00
Replacing Office with Microsoft 365 as the brand is still stupid. I was messing with Windows 11 a while back pre Copilot, and in the start menu was a pre installed spam link for “Microsoft 365 (Office)”. The fact they had to put the old brand in parentheses at the end should have been a hint they’re doing something stupid.
by kakacik | 2026-02-02 13:38:58+00:00
Well if its done in a dumb-as-a-fuck hostile style that whole world complaints for years, such effort and PM is utter failure and their CV should be tarnished with this for next 2 decades. And its up to us as a IT community to make it happen.

They harmed massively their own company, and failed at the most core reason why they were hired - add long term value to the company.

Its a bit the equivalent of architect building huge bridge that then falls, no souls harmed. Such person would have issue finding any other work. Lets do the same, name and shame shouldnt be that hard.
by spookie | 2026-02-02 13:39:13+00:00
> There's a common thread that the EU is some awful unaccountable organisation. This tends to mainly come from the US. It's also the line pushed by Russian propaganda for the last 15 years.

Not sure about the US, haven't seen such sentiment much. But from Russia? Yup, lots of EU skeptic parties have ties to Putin or Russia.

Classic divide and conquer.
by dzonga | 2026-02-02 13:39:15+00:00
> It is generally believed that the next generation of computers will involve
massively parallel architectures.

To this day - we have only taken advantage of parallel architectures in GPUs - a lot of software still runs on single CPU threads. most programming languages- are made optimized for single threads - yeah we might have threads, virtual threads, fibers etc - but how many people are using those on a daily basis?
by solatic | 2026-02-02 13:39:23+00:00
Really don't understand.

Their own cherry-picked example benchmarks show that there is frequently no benefit, after enabling FSST, to query runtimes and sometimes query runtimes are actually negatively affected. Despite hard empirical evidence against FSST, they decided to enable it across-the-board? Not even "hey, we built this cool thing which may or may not improve your workloads, here's how to opt-in", but pushing straight up performance regressions for their customers with no way of opting-out?

Why would I ever trust my data to engineers who are more interested in their academically-interesting resume-driven-development than in actual customer outcomes?
by rizzo94 | 2026-02-02 13:39:32+00:00
This is a killer breakdown. The 'glue work' is exactly where the ROI is right now—moving from simple chatbots to actual agentic workflows that touch production data is the dream.

However, seeing that you gave it access to Stripe and your user DB makes my 'security brain' itch a little bit. The biggest hurdle for us scaling similar OpenClaw setups has been that exact moment: the trade-off between giving a bot the 'keys to the kingdom' and maintaining a hardened perimeter.

I’ve been digging into PAIO (Personal AI Operator) recently for this exact reason. What caught my eye was their BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) architecture. It seems to be the first 'one-click' setup that doesn't feel like a total security compromise, especially for those of us who want that 'agentic' power without the manual overhead of building a custom secure gateway for every integration.

Have you looked into how you're going to audit those Stripe/Gmail actions long-term, or are you planning to keep a 'human-in-the-loop' for every single outbound call?
by acdha | 2026-02-02 13:39:47+00:00
> it seems to me customers are mostly business clients, who would are more inclined to spare the expense of purchasing said licenses, since they're not personally buying it themselves, and would want to have support and liability

Trust the people whose paychecks depend on it, it was extremely common. I knew multiple people at different companies who had endless stories about customers buying a couple of copies for a large department to “share”, and they expected the vendor to support everything because it was “business critical”. This was also a problem for things like student licenses where people would expect enterprise-level support despite the massively-discounted copy they had clearly stating it was only for educational usage.

This has a lot of negative aspects for preservation, downtime due to issues with licensing, challenges around virtualization or hardware replacement, etc. so I don’t love the situation we ended up in but it’s entirely understandable given how pervasive theft was – there were a ton of small businesses which ran entirely on bootlegged software. Software developers have high leverage but if you aren’t in a mainstream market you’re not going to get over the threshold where you’re no longer worried about making payroll.
by traceroute66 | 2026-02-02 13:39:57+00:00
The author complains "For some damn reason, it matters which port your external disk is plugged into when you install or update macOS".

The reason is simple and perfectly understandable.

DFU is very low level. It happens very early in during Boot ROM and before the Mac has even entered Low-Level Bootloader. Which is why its also USB-C with no Thunderbolt support.

Boot ROM code is, by necessity and for robust security, kept to a bare minimum.

Bus 0 Receptacle 1 is designated the DFU port in the Boot ROM.

Hence the limitation to one port.

Widening support to >1 port would mean you would have to introduce extra logic into the Boot ROM code (port iteration, conflict resolution etc.).

Hence the K.I.S.S. principle wins. One port.