MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Host OpenClaw with native template and multi-agent support
by Jacques2Marais | 2026-02-11 15:47:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ClawClaw because currently OpenClaw hosting still requires a lot of manual setup for certain useful features. The plan with ClawClaw is to make OpenClaw ready out-of-the-box for all kinds of different use cases with minimal manual configuration.

Enjoy and let me know what you think :)
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-11 15:47:35+00:00
> it seems like no solution is perfect, and the main tradeoff from that authors perspective is bandwidth requirements for UHD.

The “no standalone switch can give enough bandwidth” issue has generally been solved since that page was written. You can buy 1U switches now off-the-shelf with 160x100G (breaking out from 32x800G). One of the main drivers of IP in this space is that you can just, like, get an Ethernet switch (and scale up in normal Ethernet ways) instead of having to buy super-expensive 12G-SDI routers that have hard upper limits on number of ins/outs.

Of course, most random YouTubers are not going to need this. But they also are not in the market for broadcast trucks.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-11 15:47:52+00:00
You have contradicted yourself within your comment. Either a "privileged port" can be trusted or it cannot.

As I implied in my previous comment, "privileged ports" are no longer a signal of trust on Internet hosts. Literally anyone could have administrator access to a host. The MUD could be running on a Raspberry Pi in a guy's basement. A telnetd server could be on port 23 of a personal router. You could telnet into a print server, a washing machine, or a microwave oven.

In a world where devices are cheap, personal, and accessible, anyone could be an administrator of anything.

You say "privileged ports ... protect you from users who could run arbitrary code" which makes no sense, man! Unprivileged users can always run arbitrary code unless they can't! Administrators must be able to run arbitrary code! Why should you be protected from that? If someone cannot run arbitrary code then chances are that they cannot bind a "privileged port" so is that what you meant?

Again, why does a MUD need a privileged port? Why? No reason. The vast majority of "privileged ports" are occupied and assigned. You do not want to use them. You have no reason to use unassigned, privileged ports for a MUD. It is not a question of "trust" or "arbitrary code" or authenticated users -- it's just a dumb game with no effects on the OS or host system, man! It's a virtual system!

I am afraid that MUD gaming has messed with people's minds more than social media. I myself was psychologically damaged by it. I urge you to seek help, before anyone else posts incoherent comments in this thread today.
by Bender | 2026-02-11 15:47:53+00:00
If the age verification/mandatory ID is the result of new laws, how exactly would switching to an alternative server help? Wouldn't they be forced to implement the same measures as well sooner or later?

Possibly in the UK. Not likely in the USA and even if so most of us will just ignore the laws and if need be just move to a .onion hidden service. In this regard I like the totalitarian aspect of these laws as it will fragment society and push many more people under ground but thankfully I do not think like most people. I like the idea of fragmenting the big services so that governments have a harder time hoovering up all the data in one place.
by jlokier | 2026-02-11 15:48:54+00:00
Good point, though you have to beware that text-aware image enhancement sometimes replaces characters with what it thinks is a more likely character from context.

I've seen my phone camera's real-time viewfinder show text on a sign with one letter different from the real sign. If I wasn't looking at the sign at the same time, I might not have noticed the synthetic replacement.
by Gud | 2026-02-11 15:48:59+00:00
I am a site test engineer. I am also the primary contact for site test related questions internally for our factory and from customer and colleagues.

If your question needs a answer within 24 hours
, give me a call and I will do my best to answer. If you send me an email, without any clear urgency, I will respond when I have time. Typically within a week.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-11 15:49:18+00:00
I don't understand why people care so much. Humanity is not going to go extinct for 1000 years at this rate (which won't continue) and any decline is good for the planet and environment. We can't keep growing as humanity, especially when so many countries are coming up to modern standards. We just don't have the resources for it and a lot of today's problems are a result of that growth. It's really healthy for the human population to shrink a bit.

It'll cause some temporary financial issues like less working people to pay for pensioners but that's only while the largest boom passes. Not a big deal.

I myself am in my 50s and never had kids, never wanted to either. I'm polyamorous and bi, I'm just having too much fun having no ties. I've lived in 5 countries. So I'm not really bound to one in particular anymore.

A lot of the birth rate people seem really right-wing with their replacement theory and that's the real underlying reason.
by useragent42 | 2026-02-11 15:49:33+00:00
This other research points to this type of pattern (sending all URLs to a server to allegedly provide functionality) being used under false pretenses: https://palant.info/2025/01/13/biscience-collecting-browsing...

In particular, look for the diagram provided by a data vendor showing this in action.

As with safebrowsing and adblocking extensions, there is no need to send data to servers.

Many groups of smart people have developed client-side and/or privacy-preserving implementations that have worked with high effectiveness for decades.

Unfortunately, many other groups have also financial incentives to not care about user privacy, so they go the route shown in the research.
by semyonsh | 2026-02-11 15:49:52+00:00
Looks great. I was a user of babybuddy[1] and one the pluses was that I could self-host and be in control + had an API. Now that last bit was a bit overkill.

It had one feature that's maybe essential and that I'm missing here, and that is being able to share the app and data with your partner so both are in control of monitoring, maybe I'm overlooking it but I can imagine that's hard to integrate with a PWA that does not use accounts.

One last thing: "no accounts", but filling in the email field is mandatory, i'd skip that.

Nice job!

[1] - https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy
by randycupertino | 2026-02-11 15:50:12+00:00
This is this administration and RFK pushing their agenda into science. They hate mRNA technology so leaned on FDA to deny this. They're signaling the same thing against Pfizer vaccines as well. On the positive side at least other countries are reviewing and will probably approve it.

This wasn't a rejection of the science or the literature, it was a rejection because MAHA hates vaccines.
Show HN: Turn Strava activities into GitHub-style contribution heatmaps
by aspaindev | 2026-02-11 15:50:26+00:00
I built git-sweaty to visualize my training consistency the same way GitHub shows code contributions.

It syncs Strava activities, aggregates them by workout type and year, and generates a GitHub-style contribution heatmap hosted on GitHub Pages. It updates daily automatically once set up.

- Simple setup for technical/non-technical alike (no coding required)
- No GPS/location data exposed
- Interactive static dashboard
- Free hosting via GitHub Pages

I track primarily via Garmin → Strava, and wanted something that showed long-term consistency rather than routes or maps.

Would appreciate feedback on setup clarity and other metrics worth visualizing.

Live demo: https://aspain.github.io/git-sweaty/
by Divya_A10 | 2026-02-11 15:50:37+00:00
Congrats on the launch — appreciate seeing open-source tools tackling this problem space.Hive is an Interesting project.I didn’t contribute code yet, but I did raise issues while exploring Hive.
Issue: Some parts of the workflow and edge cases weren’t immediately clear from a first-time user perspective.
Action: I opened issues highlighting usability gaps and questions around expected behaviour.
Why it matters: Early feedback like this helps make the system easier to adopt and reduces friction for new users coming in cold.
Curious to see how others here think about balancing power vs. usability in tools like this.
For the authors: how are you thinking about handling edge cases or failures in real-world usage, especially when inputs are noisy or incomplete?
by gkcnlr | 2026-02-11 15:50:48+00:00
By looking at their 2025 shareholder report (Look for the part below "NOTE 18"), Windows is only at the 5th place in terms of revenue source, even below the LinkedIn:

https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar25/index.html#

I can only think that they do not even care about Windows anymore, let alone Notepad...
by Bender | 2026-02-11 15:50:54+00:00
One has still yet to convince me of anything IRC has over XMPP.

I think you should be able to use whatever suits your needs and preferences. The key is removing friction for the potential users. Friction can be overcome by incentives e.g. what it is in for them to jump through a few hoops. The more totalitarian laws become the less that people will object to a little initial friction.

IRC, XMPP, SSH, Radio Mesh ... bring it all!
by alias_neo | 2026-02-11 15:50:55+00:00
What's the use case for Zai/GLM? I'm currently on Claude Pro, and the Zai looks about 50% more expensive after the first 3 months and according to their chart GLM 4.7 is not quite as capable as Opus 4.5?

I'm looking to save on costs because I use it so infrequently, but PAYG seems like it'd cost me more in a single session per month than the monthly cost plan.
by armadsen | 2026-02-11 15:51:01+00:00
To be a little more precise, f is not a camera-specific constant. It's the focal length of the lens. It's a formula that tells you the diameter of the entrance pupil. So at a focal length of 50mm, an aperture value of f/2 means an entrance pupil diameter of 25mm.

But photographers generally just say "f2", meaning an aperture value of two set on the dial of the camera/lens. It's one stop faster (twice as much light) as f/2.8. It'll give you a relatively shallow depth of field, but not as shallow as e.g. f/1.4.
by roywiggins | 2026-02-11 15:51:06+00:00
Thaler v. Perlmutter is an a weird case because Thaler explicitly disclaimed human authorship and tried to register a machine as the author.

Whereas someone trying to copyright LLM output would likely insist that there is human authorship is via the choice of prompts and careful selection of the best LLM output. I am not sure if claims like that have been tested.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-11 15:51:15+00:00
I am confused by both the article and the discussion and I don't mean confused by the discussion on the complex which is all fairly clear but by this very weird idea of essential structure whatever that's supposed to mean. I'm wondering if there is something cultural here (I'm French) and linked to the central place algebra has in our curriculum or if I'm just reading a lot of IA generated convoluted discussion.

To me, the question doesn't even make sense. There is no disagreement here and I don't understand what is an essential structure. All the properties presented on the complex are consistent. They all exist. There is nothing ever essential about mathematics.

I mean, it's just mathematics. As long as you are internally consistent with your axioms, things just are. It's like asking if water is a liquid or a collection of molecules. There is nothing to disagree about here.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 15:51:44+00:00
My point was to have a community effort around it as well if possible and people could say, upload suspicion and people could then confirm it?

I am curious but wouldn't this effort be more better if more people outside who are interested in investing their own resources for the safety of a better internet could help you out in such endeavour? So essentially they can also help you out in such task essentially creating an open source-ish committee/list which can decide it.

I do feel like if resources are something in short, then actually doing such would be even more beneficial, right? What are your thoughts on it?

(Tangent if you actually do this:
This might become a cat and mouse game if the person with malicious extension say reads the github repo and if they see their extension in it before people can conclude its malicious, making the cat and mouse game but I am imagining a github action which can calculate the hash and download link and everything (essentially archiving) a state of extension and then people can get freed from the game and everything as well. So this might help a lot in future if you actually implement it)
by falsework | 2026-02-11 15:52:08+00:00
On infrastructure becoming content:
Bitcoin: Hash linkage becomes the defining feature ("blockchain") rather than disappearing into database architecture. The proof mechanism is the innovation.
GEB: Recursive self-reference becomes the subject. The book about strange loops is itself structured as a strange loop—form equals content.
Bach: Contrapuntal rules become the music itself, not invisible scaffolding. Art of Fugue exposes its own systematic construction.
Same structural move: the mechanism that should enable the work invisibly instead becomes what the work is about.
Happy to unpack the extraction methodology or discuss other pattern instances.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-11 15:52:27+00:00
Because Linux (and other nixes) have their root in multiuser/time-share systems/servers. Protecting the system* from the users was important, and protecting users from other users equally as important. Protecting the user's $HOME from themselves/user-level programs wasn't as much of a concern, the user was assumed to be responsible enough to manage it themselves.
by amenhotep | 2026-02-11 15:52:34+00:00
When you buy, or pirate, a book, you didn't enter into a business relationship with the author specifically forbidding you from using the text to train models. When you get tokens from one of these providers, you sort of did.

I think it's a pretty weak distinction and by separating the concerns, having a company that collects a corpus and then "illegally" sells it for training, you can pretty much exactly reproduce the acquire-books-and-train-on-them scenario, but in the simplest case, the EULA does actually make it slightly different.

Like, if a publisher pays an author to write a book, with the contract specifically saying they're not allowed to train on that text, and then they train on it anyway, that's clearly worse than someone just buying a book and training on it, right?
by CharlieDigital | 2026-02-11 15:53:27+00:00
CTO is typically an executive position, not an IC position.

The CTO at my $500m, YC, series-C startup is not the most technical member of the staff, does not have the broadest technical knowledge, is not the most experienced, nor is he the best in any single technical field in our team.

You misunderstand the role of the CTO in most orgs. His job is to guide technical strategy based on where business is headed. Manage staffing levels, general technical org operations, manage people, be the final arbiter on some org-level technical decisions based on business strategy alignment.
by ljosifov | 2026-02-11 15:54:01+00:00
Everyone should do the calculation for themselves. I too pay for couple of subs. But I'm noticing having an agent work for me 24/7 changes the calculation somewhat. Often not taken into account: the price of input tokens. To produce 1K of code for me, the agent may need to churn through 1M of tokens of codebase. IDK if that will be cached by the API provider or not, but that makes x5-7 times price difference. OK discussion today about that and more https://x.com/alexocheema/status/2020626466522685499
by spmurrayzzz | 2026-02-11 15:54:18+00:00
For inference, even with continuous batching, getting 100% MFUs is basically impossible to do in practice. Even the frontier labs struggle with this in highly efficient infiniband clusters. Its slightly better with training workloads just due to all the batching and parallel compute, but still mostly unattainable with consumer rigs (you spend a lot of time waiting for I/O).

I also don't think the 100% util is necessary either, to be fair. I get a lot of value out of my two rigs (2x rtx pro 6000, and 4x 3090) even though it may not be 24/7 100% MFU. I'm always training, generating datasets, running agents, etc. I would never consider this a positive ROI measured against capex though, that's not really the point.
by palmotea | 2026-02-11 15:54:48+00:00
> The method takes advantage of normal network communication between connected devices and the router. These devices regularly send feedback signals within the network, known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which are transmitted without encryption and can be read by anyone within range.

> By collecting this data, images of people can be generated from multiple perspectives, allowing individuals to be identified. Once the machine learning model has been trained, the identification process takes only a few seconds.

> In a study with 197 participants, the team could infer the identity of persons with almost 100% accuracy – independently of the perspective or their gait.

So what's the resolution of these images, and what's visible/invisible to them? Does it pick up your clothes? Your flesh? Or mosty your bones?
by adolph | 2026-02-11 15:55:39+00:00
> However in premodern times pretty much all cities universally had negative population growth which would imply they weren’t particularly nice places to live if you had better options.

Your point is well taken although I must point out that for the above to be true the cities could never exist in the first place.

Depending on where you put the cut-off point of "premodern" the contact between precolumbian and European cultures in North America had some notion that people on the European side would sometimes immigrate to Indian culture but not vice versa. "The Down of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow [0] goes into transcultural impacts at length. A more original source can be found in a letter by Ben Franklin in 1753 [1]:

When an Indian Child has been brought up among us, taught our language and
habituated to our Customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make one
Indian Ramble with them, there is no perswading him ever to return, and that
this is not natural to them merely as Indians, but as men, is plain from
this, that when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young
by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho’ ransomed by their Friends,
and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among
the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of
life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the
first good Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is
no reclaiming them.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

1. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-peter...
by Bender | 2026-02-11 15:56:01+00:00
being able to join massive servers with 1+ million people

Personally I would never want to join that noise. If an IRC channel has more than 50 people I tend to avoid it unless it is a technical channel that may have some knowledgeable people. If I want to reach millions of people I will find a way to join the conversation of an influencer on their podcast but hopefully such a need never comes to pass.
by thewebguyd | 2026-02-11 15:56:24+00:00
Windows has garbage defaults, but if you read through their documentation on enterprise architecture they definitely do not recommend having admin be the only account. They do in fact encourage separate accounts, multiple level of privileges with login restrictions across different types of machines, etc.

Many Linux distros are also guilty of this, disabling the root account by default and having the only user have sudo privileges, just like Windows.
by NalNezumi | 2026-02-11 15:57:10+00:00
I concur.

Most "geniuses" usually end up surrounding themselves by pretty smart people themselves: example top researcher hanging out with smart people through conferences and coworkers of similar caliber.

On a one-pass of critical thinking the media portrayal makes no sense either. If you're a genius how can you not figure out an efficient way to communicate your thoughts; surely you should've identified that even with your vast intellect you require other people's help or understanding to achieve your goals, and lamenting "they don't get it" is an extremely unprofessional and silly self serving stance.

The media portrayal is clearly to appeal to viewers ego. Just as most scifi aliens are humanoids and not slugs, we all want to relate to a character and the "insufferable genius" trope is popular because there are more people that relate to "insufferable and consider themselves genius" than actual geniuses
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-11 15:57:22+00:00
Why is a solvent that is part of processing but nonexistent in the final product something that anyone should care about?

Your body cannot tell the difference between a chemical that is "naturally" sourced vs one that is "artificially" sourced. We are at a point in industrial chemistry that the sole difference is "Did the feedstock come from a petrochemical company"
by booglie | 2026-02-11 15:57:46+00:00
These models are great at legacy code but for the love of god please do not let it run wild on a new project for 4 hours and assume it’s “done better than I ever could have”.

I was thoroughly impressed as well by Claude but quickly disenchanted. It often creates bloated, slightly missing the mark code.

Don’t get me wrong, this is all insanely impressive considering 5 years ago LLMs were basically nonexistent in our workflow. Regardless of the overhyped sentiment in this tweet, I really do think something big is happening as well…
by throw__away7391 | 2026-02-11 15:57:58+00:00
Something I am surprised at in general is how little consideration it gets is a full plastic face shield of some kind. In the winter in NYC I used to use a helmet with a full face shield, and even being open at the bottom (e.g. not a full on motorcycle style) this more than any other article of clothing made an amazing difference. I could comfortably bike on the coldest days of the year along the windiest stretches of the city with a regular mid weight coat, gloves, and jeans, no thermal layer or anything. The "bite" of the cold is completely blunted as you have zero exposed skin and are breathing warmer, more humid air, and you need less insulation elsewhere so you can avoid trapping moisture close to your skin. Even just physiologically not having your face cold exposed to cold wind is a huge improvement.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-11 15:58:21+00:00
What is this business about her role in GIFs? She helped invent Macromedia Shockwave.... Not remembering any kind of connection between those things... I mean, animated GIFs were already a thing that popularized on their own.... nothing to do with Shockwave really. Just both contributing at the same time to popularizing or encouraging the use of animation on the web, yeah?
by scrapheap | 2026-02-11 15:58:26+00:00
When I first read The Time Machine (by H.G.Wells) I wondered how the split between Eloi and Morlocks happened, and where in the timeline it started. The more I see of people using AI leads me to wonder if perhaps that split started a lot sooner in the timeline than I expected.

Or to put it another way, if you push everything into the AI, then you going to become entirely dependent on those people who can keep the AIs running...