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Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
- bjackman 8mo agoThe actual content: https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126 https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
- hizanberg 8mo agoWhy is this linking to a blog post of what someone said, instead of directly linking to what they said? [1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126 https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
- handfuloflight 8mo ago[flagged]
- rvz 8mo ago[flagged]
- geeunits 8mo agoI've been warned for calling this out, but I'm glad others are privy to the obvious
- PacificSpecific 8mo agoYeah it's really quite annoying. Is there a way to just block his site source from showing up on here without using external tools?
- bahmboo 8mo agoI find is very easy to hit the hide button. It makes reading the site much faster but there is some feeling of fomo.
- PacificSpecific 8mo agoThat's per-post though isn't? I can't ban a submission source can I? Regardless thanks for the tip
- CamperBob2 8mo agoWhat's wrong with external tools? Just ask Claude to vibe-code you a Simonblocker.
- PacificSpecific 8mo agoConvineince really. I was hoping the feature existed already but you make a point. That could be a fun quick experiment.
- simonw 8mo agoIf you're on iOS or use Safari on a Mac you can install this app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887 (make sure to read the README on https://github.com/quoid/userscrips https://github.com/quoid/userscrips) and then install this user script: https://gist.github.com/simonw/652c7fc0e78a99cbe73bd3c4f97c71d7 https://gist.github.com/simonw/652c7fc0e78a99cbe73bd3c4f97c7...
- PacificSpecific 8mo agoI'm not but thanks for the tip and thank you for being classy about this.
- nl 8mo agoSimon's work is always appreciated. He thinks through things well, and his writing is excellent. Just because something is popular doesn't make it bad.
- sunaookami 8mo ago[flagged]
- UncleMeat 8mo ago"Self promotion is allowed if your content is sufficiently good" is odd.
- smallerize 8mo agoSelf-promotion is allowed. Doesn't even have to be good.
- verdverm 8mo agoThe HN guidelines say don't use HN "primarily" for self promotion, which Simon does not do. He's an active member of the HN community.
- owebmaster 8mo ago[flagged]
- verdverm 8mo agoSimon's comment history indicates otherwise
- owebmaster 8mo agoThat's not Simon's work or even any work at all, it is a link to a xit
- hizanberg 8mo agoSo everyone has to waste their time to visit a link on a blog first instead of being able to go directly to the source? and why would anyone down vote you for calling this out, like who wants to see more low effort traffic-grab posts like this?
- bahmboo 8mo agoBecause he didn't submit it.
- bahmboo 8mo agoThe author didn't submit this to HN. I read his blog but I'm not on X so I do like when he covers things there. He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days.
- bakugo 8mo ago> He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days. Now check how many times he links to his blog in comments. Actually, here, I'll do it for you: He has made 13209 comments in total, and 1422 of those contain a link to his blog[0]. An objectively ridiculous number, and anyone else would've likely been banned or at least told off for self-promotion long before reaching that number. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=author%3Asimonw%20simonwillison.net&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- bahmboo 8mo agoI like being able to follow tangents and related topics outside the main comment thread so generally I appreciate when people do that via a link along with some context. But this isn't my site and I don't get to pick the rules.
- npilk 8mo agoSo about 1 in 10? Doesn’t seem that terrible to me. Especially when many of them are in response to questions about his work, and he’s answering with a link to a different post. I think 7 or 8 out of 10 would be a bad look.
- owebmaster 8mo agoIt depends. How many of the comments without links were in a thread that started from the links? I'd guess at least some 2 or 3 out of 10. What about just last year? We are probably close to 7 out of 10. It's annoying.
- Barbing 8mo ago>anyone else Perhaps not other thought leaders. I would be curious to know: How many clicks out from HN, and much time on page on average (on his site), and much subsequent pro-social discussion on HN, did those links generate versus the average linkout here? Wouldn’t change the rules but I do suspect[0] it would repaint self-promotion as something more genuine.
- odshoifsdhfs 8mo agoHah i didn’t see who submitted it but as soon as I read your message i thought it was simonw, and behold, tada! HN really needs a way to block or hide posts from some users.
- consumer451 8mo agoIronically, you could probably generate a browser extension or user script to do that in one to three prompts.
- agmater 8mo agoIf you can't one-shot that you've been declawed /s
- duskdozer 8mo agofirefox usercss or stylus addon, enjoy ;), no LLM needed tr.submission:has(a[href="from?site=<...>"]) { display: none; & + tr { display: none; } } .comtr:has(.hnuser[href="user?id=<...>"]) { display: none; } This isn't just a CSS snippet—it's a monumentous paradigm shift in your HN browsing landscape. A link on the front page? That's not noise anymore—that's pure signal. time to take a shower after writing that
- Der_Einzige 8mo agoThank you for calling this out. The individual in question is massively overhyped.
- helloplanets 8mo ago> Because the author of the blog is paid to post daily about nothing but AI and needs to link farm for clicks and engagement on a daily basis. Care to elaborate? Paid by whom?
- throwup238 8mo agoIt’s at the top of the page: > Sponsored by: Teleport — Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Engineering Scale. Learn more https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/sponsorship/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/sponsorship/
- helloplanets 8mo agoAh, thanks. Somehow missed that.
- dingnuts 8mo ago[dead]
- simonw 8mo ago> Most of the time, users (or the author himself) submit this blog as the source, when in fact it is just content that ultimately just links to the original source for the goal of engagement. I encourage you to look at submissions from my domain before you accuse me like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net - the ones I submitted list "simonw" as the author. I'm selective about what I submit to Hacker News. I usually only submit my long-form pieces. In addition to long form writing I operate a link blog, which this Claw piece came from. I have no control over which of my link blog pieces are submitted by other people. I still try to add value in each of my link posts, which I expect is why they get submitted so often: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ - in this case the value add was highlighting that this is Andrej helping coin yet another new term, something he's very good at.
- yunohn 8mo ago> Andrej helping coin yet another new term, something he's very good at Ignoring all the other stuff, isn't this just a phenomenon of Andrej being worshipped by the AI hype crowd? This entire space is becoming a deification spree, and AGI will be the final boss I guess.
- Barbing 8mo agoCoining terms affects normies too, it hits all of our headlines and lexicons.
- yunohn 8mo agoCompletely agreed - and that media exposure is a result of clickbait journos piggybacking on the AI hype crowd. It's all a quite disappointing feedback loop.
- simonw 8mo agoLanguage matters. If you have a term that's widely understood you can have much more productive conversations about that concept. "Agent" is a bad term because it's so vaguely defined that you can have a conversation with someone about agents and later realize you were both talking about entirely different things. I'm hoping "Claw" does better on that basis because it ties to a more firm existing example and it's also not something people can "guess" the meaning of.
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- plutokras 8mo agoThat's a bit overblown, but Im getting tired of seeing pelicans on bikes too.
- JKCalhoun 8mo ago(Prefer the xcancel link [1] someone posted in this thread.) [1] https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126 https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
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- blibble 8mo agoSimon Willison claims to be an "Independent AI researcher"[1]: but then at the top of this article: > Sponsored by: Teleport — Secure, Govern, and Operate AI at Engineering Scale. Learn more not exactly a coherent narrative, is it? [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net
- simonw 8mo agoI wrote a little note about that here - it even opens with "I value my credibility as an independent voice" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/sponsorship/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/sponsorship/ I get (incorrectly) accused of writing undisclosed sponsored content pretty often, so I'm actually hoping that the visible sponsor banner will help people resist that temptation because they can see that the sponsorship is visible, not hidden.
- dang 8mo agoComments* moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096253 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096253, which has the original source. We will add the current link to the toptext there as well. (* except for the ones that only make sense in current context - that's the intention at least)
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- Setas 8mo agoI've been building managed hosting for this exact category of agent systems. The supervision/persistence angle is what drew me to it. My stack is Elixir on Fly.io — OTP supervision trees are basically purpose-built for long-running processes that need to stay alive. If something crashes, the supervisor restarts it. No systemd, no cron, just the runtime doing what it was designed for. The self-hosting path is great for tinkering — and Karpathy's point about NanoClaw's ~4000 lines being auditable is a solid trust argument. But once you want 24/7 uptime across multiple agents, you end up rebuilding production infrastructure from scratch. I run 5 Elixir apps on Fly for under €50/month, so the economics of multi-tenant hosting work well here. (Founder of OpenClawCloud — clawdcloud.net — happy to talk architecture if anyone's exploring this space.)