MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VorpalWay | 2026-02-15 23:24:36+00:00
The main risk I see is things getting shipped overseas to where it isn't properly handled and this policy not having any effect at all.

If that can be avoided somehow (I haven't looked in detail at the legal text) I think the outcome you mention would be good. Slower fashion cycles, higher quality and higher cost per item would all potentially synergise. Another thing that could happen is less overproduction, which would also be good.

Thinking about what else could be done: I would like to see some mandatory marking indicating fiber / weaving quality. I have had T-shirts that lasted a decade, and those that lasted a couple of years. And it is very hard to tell up front which is which. As a consumer I would like to be able to tell.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:24:36+00:00
> but I wager he is about to find out exactly why a company like OpenAI isn't able to execute and deliver like he single-handedly did with OpenClaw.

No company could ship anything like OpenClaw as a product because it was a million footguns packaged with a self-installer and a couple warnings that it can't be trusted for anything.

There's a reason they're already distancing themselves from it and saying it's going to an external foundation
by rvz | 2026-02-15 23:24:56+00:00
> Remember Cursor?

Who?

> are you implying Cursor is dead? they raised $2B in funding 3 months ago and are at $1B in ARR

That is the problem. It doesn't matter about how much they raised. That $2B and that $1B is paying the supplier Anthropic and OpenAI who are both directly competing against them.

Cursor is operating on thin margins and still continues to losing money. It's now worse that people are leaving Cursor for Claude Code.

In short, Cursor is in trouble and they are funding their own funeral.
by fragmede | 2026-02-15 23:25:32+00:00
Math is fun!

There are roughly 8.1 billion humans, so 99.999999% (8 nines) of the world is 81 people. There were way more than 81 people at the OpenClaw hackathon at the Frontier Tower in San Francisco, so at least that much of humanity has heard of OpenClaw. If we guess 810 people know about OpenClaw, then it means that 99.99999% (7 nines) of humanity have not heard of OpenClaw.

If we take it down to 6 nines, then that's roughly 8,100 people having heard of OpenClaw, and that 99.9999% of humanity has not.

So I think you're wrong when you say "99.999999% of the world has not heard of Openclaw". I'd guess it's probably around 99.9999% to 99.9999999% that hasn't heard of it. Definitely not 99.999999% though.
by djkurlander | 2026-02-15 23:25:40+00:00
The attempts started almost immediately, but they certainly accelerated over the course of the first few days. Initially, I think it was less than 1 knock per minute, but now it’s over 8. As a comparison, I set up https://amsterdam.knock-knock.net yesterday, and it is now at 2.9 knocks per minute.

The bots though scan through all the IPs on the internet, but perhaps they bias certain IPs (local / faster response? On the bots provider network?). Will be interesting to watch this over time.
by Gormo | 2026-02-15 23:25:42+00:00
Approval voting seems to me to be worse on all counts that the previous commenter was levying against ranked-choice. To your point, the spoiler effect seems like it would be much worse with approval than with a ranked ballot, since highly partisan voters would have little reason to approve of any candidate other than the single candidate they want in office. Approving of anyone else lessens their candidate's chance of winning.

A ranked choice ballot at least requires you to assign a unique value to every candidate on the ballot: you can honestly rank your second choice without being concerned that doing so undermines your first.
by ewmailing | 2026-02-15 23:26:34+00:00
Star Control 2 (which takes many Starflight influences and also hired Greg Johnson) also used a lot of procedural generation. It has around 500 stars and 4000 worlds with minerals and lifeforms. I recall the SC2 lead programmer Fred Ford saying they used a fixed seed, and they went through many seeds until they found one that looked good. I presume Starflight was of the same mindset.
by hadlock | 2026-02-15 23:26:56+00:00
The big draw of open claw is the memory architecture. Because you effectively start from scratch every time you open a new claude chat. Open Claw on the other hand, it compacts regularly, but also generates daily digests, and uses vector search, and then uses thoughtful memory retrieval techniques to add relevant context to your queries. Recent things get weighted more heavily, but full text search of all chats is still possible, and this is all managed automatically. Plus it uses markdown so the barrier to entry for manually auditing/modifying memories etc is very very low. If you say "can you check if my solar panel for my power generator arrive yet?" it is going to probably know what I'm talking about and go check my email for delivery notifications, based on conversations I've had with it about buying, ordering the solar panel etc. Claude is just going to ask clarifying questions since it has no idea what I am referencing.
by zetanor | 2026-02-15 23:27:03+00:00
I should have been a bit more verbose as I didn't mean to send anyone on a wild goose chase. The "warcviewer.{html,js}" part was just a hypothetical viewer to illustrate having a static client-side "web app" that functions much like Gwtar, but separately from payloads.

To expand what I have in mind, it'd be a script like Gwtar, except it loads WARCs through URLs to CDX files. Alternatively, it might also load WARC files fully to memory, where an index could be constructed on the fly. In the latter case, that would allow the same viewer to be used with or without a web server. Though, I can imagine that loading archives without a web server was probably out-of-scope for Gwtar, otherwise something could have been figured out (e.g., putting the tar in a <textarea>'s RCDATA; do browsers support "binary" data in there correctly?).

While the WARC specs are a mess (sometimes quite ambiguous), I've never had much trouble reading or writing them. As for why WARC, having the option to preserve request/response metadata, as well as having interoperability with anything else in the WARC ecosystem, would be nice. Also, a separate viewer would naturally be updateable without changing the archive files themselves.
by tl2do | 2026-02-15 23:27:43+00:00
True, but there's a fun irony: the Rebels' X-Wings are powered by GPUs from a company that's... checks relationships ...also supplying the Empire.

NVIDIA's basically the galaxy's most successful arms dealer, selling to both sides while convincing everyone they're just "enabling innovation." The real rebels would be training audio models on potato-patched RP2040s. Brave souls, if they exist.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 23:28:07+00:00
> My clim is that the modern web is bloated.

Your claim that I responded to was that web browsers were just as fast on 25MHz CPUs.

> I had t3 connections for most of my browsing which was faster than ethernet of the day - even by todays standards that isn't too bad.

T3 speeds are very slow in today's terms. Even my cell phone does a couple orders of magnitude better from where I'm sitting.

There are a lot of weird claims going on in your posts. I think it's a lot of nostalgia coloring your views of how fast things were in the past.
by ElectroBuffoon | 2026-02-15 23:30:14+00:00
And here we are again...

ASACP/RTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Sites_Advocatin...

PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_...

POWDER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_for_Web_Description_R...

Tools avaliable for decades.

But as said multiple times, the childs are the distraction, the targets are privacy and freedom.
by gary17the | 2026-02-15 23:30:36+00:00
> [Claude Code] "A spiral that generates itself — starting from a tight mathematical center (my computational substrate) and branching outward into increasingly organic, tree-like forms (the meaning that emerges). Structure becoming life. The self-drawing hand."

"And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played." ("Blade Runner 2049", Officer K-D-six-dash-three-dot-seven)

:)
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-15 23:30:46+00:00
No. If you wanted that, you’d do this:

“Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

“Over the years, the courts have held inmates may be forced to work and are not protected by the constitution against involuntary servitude. They have also consistently held that inmates have no constitutional right to compensation and that inmates are paid by the "grace of the state."”
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by saucymew | 2026-02-15 23:31:25+00:00
It feels like the cohort GM player pool is mentally cooked against Magnus.

Youngsters like Lazavik during the Speed Chess Championship or Sindarov in Freestyle were the most recent convincing wins against Magnus, but the historical mental edge that Magnus comes into each game after beating the brakes out of everyone is hard to overcome.

Magnus' time will come! But not today.
by disposition2 | 2026-02-15 23:31:32+00:00
Probably an unpopular opinion on this forum where everyone is considering can something be done vs should something be done, but it sounds like theft to me.

But I am also very anti-AI in the artistic space, because if it weren’t for humans freely providing so much artistic content, we wouldn’t have this outcome. And I believe the only end result will be less humans openly sharing knowledge, because some heavily money backed entities will just steal all the art and put it behind a paywall or advertisement.

As much as I appreciate the easy search (because actual useful search has become nonexistent since AI) and the ability to ask AI to find some metadata from a large data payload, I also dislike AI, because it has effectively broken the open internet and the willingness for humans to be open to freely sharing knowledge.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-15 23:31:35+00:00
because this isn't simply a matter of the constitution, it involves a massive corporation and both of these men have been caught receiving gifts from wealthy
"friends" then openly refusing to cooperate when this information came to light.

We are assuming they are the only 2 doing (and as far as I know, none of the other judges have been implicated) but that's like finding two drunk guys passed out on a bench on a college campus and assuming that binge drinking isn't rampant in college.
by vor_ | 2026-02-15 23:32:01+00:00
Several of the subscribers in the comments are so eager to praise Ars for "catching" the error and being honest by retracting the article, as if that's not an expected journalistic standard. They're so happy to have a reason NOT to be upset. This wasn't even caught by Ars or any of its readers. The guy being misquoted had to sign up and post a comment about it.
by senko | 2026-02-15 23:32:20+00:00
To preface, I don't claim he will absolutely get that much money - but I wouldn't be surprised.

On the topic of brand recognition, 0.000001% of the world is 80 people (give or take). OpenClaw has ~200k GitHub stars right now.

On a more serious note, the world doesn't matter: the investors, big tech ceos, analysts do. Cloudflare stock jumped 10% due to Clawdbot.

Hype is weird. AI hype, doubly so. And OpenAI are masters at playing the game.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-15 23:32:33+00:00
Just like the original OpenAI story, this seems like a case of reputation hacking through asymmetry in risk tolerance.

There is not much novel about OpenClaw. Anybody could have thought of this or done it. The reason people have not released an agent that would run by itself, edit its own code and be exposed to the internet is not that it's hard or novel - it's because it is an utterly reckless thing to do. No responsible corporate entity could afford to do it. So we needed someone with little enough to lose, enough skill and willing to be reckless enough to do it and release it openly to let everyone else absorb the risk.

I think he's smart to jump on the job opportunity here because it may well turn out that this goes south in a big way very fast.
by hadlock | 2026-02-15 23:32:47+00:00
Everyone is going to have their own flavor of Open Claw within 18 months. The memory architecture (and the general concept of the multi-tiered system) is open source. There's no moat to this kind of thing. But OpenAI is happy to trade his star power for money. And he might build something cool with suddenly unlimited resources. I don't blame the guy. OpenAI is going to change hands 2-3 times over the next 5 years but at the end of the day he will still have the money and equity OpenAI gave him. And his cool project will continue on.
by awesomeusername | 2026-02-15 23:34:15+00:00
I listened to a conversation between two superstar developers in their 50's, who have been coding for more than most readers here have been alive, about their experience with Claude Code.

I wanted to tear my ears out.

What is crystal clear to me now is using LLMs to develop is a learned and practiced skill. If you expect to just drop in and be productive on day one, forget it. The smartest guy I know _who has a PhD in AI_, is hopeless at using it.

Practice practice practice. It's a tool, it takes practice. Learn on hobby projects before using it at work.
by juleiie | 2026-02-15 23:35:36+00:00
This is who is wasting our computing power guys

I always feel guilty when I do such stupid stuff over Claude, these are all resources and limited computing. Enormous amounts of water and electricity. Gotta really think about what is it worth spending on. And is it, in fact, worth it at all.

AI is very selfish technology in this way. Every time you prompt you proclaim: My idea is worth the environmental impact. What I am doing is more important than a tree.

We have to use it responsibly.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-15 23:35:50+00:00
When we get out of this hole, that will be the number 1 thing I dedicate my civic duties towards. It's the last true bipartisan gridlock and it of course works against the people.

Even by its nature, ranked choice means that radical ideas need to temper themselves or somehow be extremely popular. Trump never would have won in a ranked choice system.
by avadodin | 2026-02-15 23:36:27+00:00
Pigs are huge blobs of meat.

Families would raise one pig they would slaughter once a year and it would be a regular source of preserved meat and fat over the following year.

All of this was pre "green" revolution so it has to be carbon neutral at that level of consumption(which is admittedly lower than that of most people these days).

Eating meat once a year is an exaggeration when it comes to pork.
by kpil | 2026-02-15 23:36:39+00:00
I'm thinking that the slopocalypse is almost inevitable outside pure tech companies and can't be ruled out there either.

LLMs are a force multiplier. Clueless people will be able to produce tons of code that looks convincing but is totally misguided and misinformed. Exactly what large companies with complex in-house systems doesn't really need any more of.
by Kerrick | 2026-02-15 23:36:52+00:00
Those are all stateless MVC over HTTP, which is a very different architecture from stateful MVC for long-lived UI. The latter was invented for Smalltalk by Trygve Reenskaug, and is far more relevant to front-end web.

Stateful MVC uses Publisher/Subscriber (or Observer) to keep Views and Controllers up-to-date with changing Models over time, which is irrelevant for stateless MVC over HTTP. Plus, in stateful MVC the View and Controller are often "pluggable," where a given Controller+Model may use a different View for displaying the same data differently (e.g. table vs. pie chart), or a given View+Model may use a different Controller for handling events differently (e.g. mouse+keyboard vs. game controller). Whereas, in stateless MVC over HTTP, the controller is the "owner" of the process, and won't generally be replaced.

And in the world of front-end web, stateful MVC really is mostly dead. MVVM and Component-based architectures (using the Composite pattern) have replaced it. A runtime is usually responsible for wiring up events, rather than individual controllers. Controllers don't need to be swappable because events can be given semantic meaning in components, and Views don't need to be swappable because you can instead render a sub-composite to change how the data is shown.
by readitalready | 2026-02-15 23:37:13+00:00
In the AI space there isn’t a single killer app. EVERYTHING is open for disruption. ChatGPT was the start but OpenAI could create tons of other apps. They don’t need to wait for others to do so. People already want them to make a Slack replacement but I’m just wondering why none of the frontier labs are making a simple app platform that could be used to make custom apps like ChatGPT itself, or the Slack clone. Instead, they expect us to brute force app development through the API interface. Each frontier lab really needs their own Replit.

Like, why doesn’t OpenAI build tax filing into ChatGPT? That’s like the immediate use case for LLM-based app development.
by gwern | 2026-02-15 23:37:26+00:00
I see. You could probably build something on top of wabac.js... But you'd need some sort of multi-file setup to support the indirection, I suppose.

> I imagine that loading archives without a web server was probably out-of-scope for Gwtar

More that it's just not important to us. I don't even look at the archives 'locally'. They are all archives of public web pages, which I just rehost publicly. When I want to look at them, I open them on Gwern.net like anyone else!

And if I really needed to, for some reason, it's literally a Bash one-liner (already provided inside the Gwtar as well as my writeup) to turn them back into a normal multi-file HTML. (This is a lot more than you can say for a WARC...)
So my reaction to the complaints about lacking local viewing is mostly just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> (e.g., putting the tar in a <textarea>'s RCDATA; I wonder how well browsers support "binary" data in there?)

I don't know the details but you can just base-encode them, so I suppose that's an option, as long as you rewrote the ranges appropriately, maybe?

(Also worth noting that you can go the other way: if you really desperately want to preserve the raw header responses, you can just use the flexibility of Gwtar to append the WARC to the end of the file. As long as the range requests work, users won't download that part. The duplication is not so great for long-term storage, but you can just XZ them and that should remove duplication and overhead.)
by driggs | 2026-02-15 23:37:44+00:00
Wow, he admits to using two AI tools: He used Claude Code, which failed because the blog was intentionally set up to refuse AI crawlers, so he pasted the page into ChatGPT. Then he blames ChatGPT for paraphrasing the hallucinated quotes.

He makes the claim that he was just using AI to help him put together an outline for his article, when the evidence clearly shows that he used the AI's verbatim output.
by II2II | 2026-02-15 23:37:55+00:00
I remember Netscape Navigator crashing, taking Solaris down with it. I could only imagine what it was like on Windows 9x. I don't want to imagine what Windows 3.x users endured. Windows 3.x was the OS where people saved early and saved often, since the lack of proper memory protection meant that a bad application (or worse, a bad driver) could BSOD the system at any time.
by noosphr | 2026-02-15 23:37:56+00:00
OpenAI has been running around headless for at least two years now. I've build systems like openclaw, based on email, at my day job and told OAI during an interview that they needed to build this or get smoked when someone else does. I guess aqi-hire is easier than building a team that can develop software internally.

Of course the S in openclaw is for security.
by xyzzy123 | 2026-02-15 23:38:33+00:00
Chat -> agents (multi turn, tools) -> ???

The new thing that ??? adds is basically that it's got it's own "thread of control" and can react to events. So... basically agents + cron / webhooks and a ton of connectors.

There is a side thing that adds to the weirdness, which is that you can set up workflows by chatting to it.

You could look at it as a generic replacement for many types of AI SaaS harness. Previously if you wanted to replace an office worker say reading work orders and entering them into job control, you would need to write a harness or use a SaaS. Now you can sort of "mold" this thing like clay and get it to do the job. Instead of writing an API integration you can just give it the openapi spec. Instead of writing your business logic in code, you can describe it in English. If you are technical, you can work with it to turn parts of the workflow into code or scripts.

Naturally, it has all the disadvantages of home built automation (typically limited reproducibility, less secure, not generalised).

There are enthusiasts and early adopters using this in small businesses already. In terms of "practical niche" the use case I've seen so far is "n8n but you create workflows by talking to it".
Ask HN: Is OpenClaw a groundbreaking feat, a highly useful product or both?
by chirau | 2026-02-15 23:38:44+00:00
I am not trying to shit on it. I am just curious whether the code and approach itself was something a lot of people have previously tried and failed, like genome sequencing or the hypothetical Weissman score from HBO's Silicon Valley, or it is more of just a highly relevant product/utility that is not necessarily super complex, like Twitter when it came out or Vine, TikTok etc.
by ai-christianson | 2026-02-15 23:38:46+00:00
For anyone looking at alternatives in this space - I built Gobii (https://gobii.ai) 8 months before OpenClaw existed. MIT licensed, cloud native, gVisor sandboxed.

The sandboxing part matters more than people think. Giving an LLM a browser with full network access and no isolation is a real security problem that most projects in this space hand-wave away.

Multi-provider LLM support (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, open-weight models via vLLM). In production with paying customers.

Happy to answer architecture questions.