can NanoClaw be used to participate in ClackerNews?
Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
91–100 of 239 posts
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#92> running it scares the crap out of me A hundred times this. It's fine until it isn't. And jacking these Claws into shared conversation spaces is quite literally pushing the afterburners to max on simonw's lethal trifecta. A lot of people are going to get burned hard by this. Every blackhat is eyes-on this right now - we're literally giving a drunk robot the keys to everything.
I understand that things can go wrong and there can be security issues, but I see at least two other issues: 1. what if, ChadGPT style, ads are added to the answers (like OpenAI said it'd do, hence the new "ChadGPT" name)? 2. what if the current prices really are unsustainable and the thing goes 10x? Are we living some golden age where we can both query LLMs on the cheap and not get ad-infected answers? I read severa…
> what if the current prices really are unsustainable and the thing goes 10x?
What if a thermonuclear war breaks out? What's your backup plan for this scenario?
I genuinely can't tell which is more likely to happen in the next decade. If I have to guess I'll say war.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what if the current prices really are unsustainable and the thing goes 10x? Where does this idea come from? We know how much it costs to run LLMs. It's not like we're waiting to find out. AI companies aren't losing money on API tokens. What could possibly happen to make prices go 10x when they're already running at a profit? Claude Max might be a different story, but AI is going to get cheaper to run. Not randomly…
Where did u get this notion from? you must not be old enough to know how subscription services play out. Ask your parents about their internet or mobile billings. Or the very least check Azures, AWS, Netflix historical pricing. Heck we were spoiled by “memory is cheap” but here we are today wasting it at every expense as prices keep skyrocketing (ps they ain’t coming back down). If you can’t see the shift to forceful…
> Ask your parents about their internet or mobile billings. Or the very least check Azures, AWS, Netflix historical pricing.
None of these went 10x. Actually the internet went 0.0001~0.001x for me in terms of bits/money. I lived through dial-up era.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#94> AI-native. No installation wizard; Claude Code guides setup. No monitoring dashboard; ask Claude what's happening. No debugging tools; describe the problem, Claude fixes it.
> Skills over features. Contributors shouldn't add features (e.g. support for Telegram) to the codebase. Instead, they contribute claude code skills like /add-telegram that transform your fork.
I’m interested to see how this model pans out. I can see benefits (don’t carry complexity you don’t need) and costs (how do I audit the generated code?).
But it seems pretty clear that things will move in this direction in ‘26 with all the vibe coding that folks are enjoying.
I do wonder if the end state is more like a very rich library of composable high-order abstractions, with Skills for how to use them - rather than raw skills with instructions for how to lossily reconstruct those things.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what if the current prices really are unsustainable and the thing goes 10x? Where does this idea come from? We know how much it costs to run LLMs. It's not like we're waiting to find out. AI companies aren't losing money on API tokens. What could possibly happen to make prices go 10x when they're already running at a profit? Claude Max might be a different story, but AI is going to get cheaper to run. Not randomly…
From what I've read, every major AI player is losing a (lot) of money on running LLMs, even just with inference. It's hard to say for sure because they don't publish the financials (or if they do, it tends to be obfuscated), but if the screws start being turned on investment dollars they not only have to increase the price of their current offerings (2x cost wouldn't shock me), but some of them also need a (massive)…
> From what I've read, every major AI player is losing a (lot) of money on running LLMs, even just with inference.
> It's hard to say for sure because they don't publish the financials (or if they do, it tends to be obfuscated)
Yeah, exactly. So how the hell the bloggers you read know AI players are losing money? Are they whistleblowers? Or they're pulling numbers out of their asses? Your choice.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#96A personal assistant that runs in the standard cloud (anthropic in this case) is madness. That‘s the hill I‘m willing to die on. Run it locally or use a cloud provider you can deeply trust.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, you do you, I’m glad you appreciate my perspective. I wasn’t trying to catch you out but I see how it came across that way - I apologise for my edit, I had hoped the ;) would show that I meant it in jest rather than in meanness but I shouldn’t have added it in the first place. As I said in my comment, no shade for writing the code with Claude. I do it too, every day. I wasn’t “irked” by the readme, and I did rea…
There needs to be a word for the feeling of sudden realization that you're reading an AI-generated text (or watching an AI-generated video) where you expected it to be human-authored.
Uncanny valley
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree 100% with you. It's even worse though. They haven't checked if the Readme has hallucinated it or not (spoiler: it has): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850317
I don’t want to come off like I’m shitting on the poster here. I’ve definitely made that kind of careless mistake, probably a dozen times this week. And maybe we’re heading to a future where nobody even reads the readme anymore because they won’t be needed because an agent can just conjure one from the source code at will, so maybe it actually straight up doesn’t matter. I’ve just been thinking about what it means to…
> I don’t want to come off like I’m shitting on the poster
Why not, if they're making people read AI slop without checking it first? They deserve the shit-nudge to fix it.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#99I think these days if I’m going to be actively promoting code I’ve created (with Claude, no shade for that), I’ll make sure to write the documentation, or at the very least the readme, by hand. The smell of LLM from the docs of any project puts me off even when I like the idea of the project itself, as in this case. It’s hard to describe why - maybe it feels like if you care enough to promote it, you should care to t…
> I’d rather read a typo-ridden five line readme explaining the problem the code is there to solve for you and me,the humans, not dozens of lines of perfectly penned marketing with just the right number of emoji Don't worry, bro. If enough people are like you, there will be fully automatic workflow to add typos into AI writing.
As a practical matter, if it tones down the AI sleuthing vs. reading, it might be a good idea.
Assuming the written/generated text is well written/generated, of course.
Re: Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
#100I think these days if I’m going to be actively promoting code I’ve created (with Claude, no shade for that), I’ll make sure to write the documentation, or at the very least the readme, by hand. The smell of LLM from the docs of any project puts me off even when I like the idea of the project itself, as in this case. It’s hard to describe why - maybe it feels like if you care enough to promote it, you should care to t…
I 100% agree, reading very obviously ai written blogs and "product pages"/readme's has turned into a real ick for me. Just something that screams "I don't care about my product/readme page, why should you". To be clear, no issue with using AI to write the actual program/whatever it is. It's just the readme/product page which super turns me off even trying/looking into it.
[deleted]