Live data from Hacker News

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

openclaw.ai

101–110 of 186 posts

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#101
Open claw: aka. open door to a remote privilege escalation potentially granting root access to your computer (and if you're using it "as intended" possibly all of your email/internet logins/accounts, your credit card, etc.) to any text your model ingests from the internet...

It's already true of LLMs in general that they represent a privilege escalation opportunity to any text they ingest. But with human in the loop, and a well-formed sandbox, the blast radius and risk are both reduced..

Convenience is the root of much evil.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#102
post #95

I have found the Pi agent harness, running in a docker container, with Qwen3.8-27B in back in LM Studio, to be amazing and i use it daily. Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do. I have never tried OpenClaw so maybe I am missing out but considering how much my agent can modify the Pi environment to work better, I am happy wi…

As much as I love my CLI tools, I just cannot go back to not having native built-in browser integration, links, etc which the (Mac) desktop apps like ChatGPT or Claude offer. I do use Hermes sometimes, but it tends to keep growing skills and overhead over time, to the point it is becoming utterly slow and sluggish. The Desktop experience itself seems vibecoded without taste, in contrast to the core of Hermes, which i…

Not native, but a webapp: https://github.com/rcarmo/piclaw

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Job search and language learning. The job market for juniors and mid level is crazy. Everyone has a different form to fill out with the same questions. My wife has countered this by using Hermes and some handcrafted master files/db. I personally use the Matt Pocock teaching skill to learn dutch, passed reading using it, on track to pass writing with it.

How do you know it is filling out the application forms correctly?

arguably the job application process is automated and staffed by the ignorant to such a degree that it's an adversarial game where you don't need to be optimising for correctness. Which is the perfect tool to be mass spamming job ads with

Edit: I think this is a reasonable solution because the hurdles and context-free nonsensical rejections you'll face if you interact with this process in good faith are far too high. It's dehumanising.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#104
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it going so far?

It keeps asking for more and more compute. I also see a bunch of my household items turn into paperclips.

Nice, focused and savvy! I’m sure you will have a profitable paperclip company in no time

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#105

I have found the Pi agent harness, running in a docker container, with Qwen3.8-27B in back in LM Studio, to be amazing and i use it daily. Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do. I have never tried OpenClaw so maybe I am missing out but considering how much my agent can modify the Pi environment to work better, I am happy wi…

> Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do.

Last (only) time I used AI for this it helpfully made additional unwanted changes to the document. I decided never to do this on complex docs where I will have to re-check everything.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#106

Obligatory question: who is still using OpenClaw? It's been a minor meme about how much discussion about OpenClaw fell of a cliff after March; the Google Trends graph is funny: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=OpenClaw&date=today%201-...

Everyone is switching to Grok bot that I know, it's the best so far of this kind of stuff.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#107
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who ever used either: Are they comparable? I thought of them very differently, Pi more being, idk, a codex-light like thing and OpenClaw being this continuously running machine, doing stuff without your explicit prompting, ingesting signals. I need to read up.

OpenClaw is built on top of Pi.

That would support my notion that one is a fundamental block/lib for the other thing, and not really comparable. Am I wrong?

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#108
post #36
post #14

I like the idea but do not have a good use for these semi-autonomous agents. Or any notion for a decent use, frankly. What do people do with them? It sounds great to have an always-on box which does things. Like a server. I have servers. There are even Signal and other transports so you can communicate with the box conveniently. And then what?

Mine is contributing to media preservation by reverse engineering Android apps/games that were forced into obsolescence by Google's policies: https://xcjs.com/blog/2026/08/29/resurrecting-2013-with-qwen...

Is OpenClaw / Hermes doing anything better than another harness for RE stuff ? I'm using Kimi Code with few skills, MCPs and that's basically everything I need. Am I missing something ?

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#109
post #80
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did they create test cases, wrote a protocol about the results? Just trying something out and see what happens isn’t experimenting

That’s exactly what an experiment is. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/exper...

"a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true"

A test has usually a hypothesis and a documented result.

Post reply on HN