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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be?

Ask HN: If your OpenClaw could do 1 thing it currently can't, what would it be? 3 by stosssik | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys What’s one specific thing you wish your OpenClaw agent could do today, but can’t? Not vague stuff like “pay for things.” I mean which concrete use case ? For example: - “Automatically renew my AWS credits if usage drops below $100 and pay with a virtual card.” - “Find the cheapest nonstop flight to NYC next month, hold it, and ask me before paying.”

New ask Hacker News story: Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

Ralph Giles Passed Away (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript) 2 by ffworld | 0 comments on Hacker News. It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC. Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2]. He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox[3] during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself. Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed. Official Announcement: https://ift.tt/2UnTvwm [1]: https://ift.tt/mTFdo7h [2]: https://media.xiph.org/ [3]: https://ift.tt/fE6A0YG

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API

Tell HN: GPT-5.3-codex is now available in the API 2 by bigwheels | 0 comments on Hacker News. Enjoy. Update: It's in the Codex CLI but not yet enabled. Sorry for the false alarm.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you working on this Thursday?

Ask HN: What are you working on this Thursday? 2 by Sayyidalijufri | 1 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid?

Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid? 2 by manx | 1 comments on Hacker News. What is your understanding of the root causes of the symptoms? What works for you, what doesn't? What was your biggest insight?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable?

Ask HN: Does OpenClaw need a re-architecture to be usable? 4 by xinbenlv | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been using OpenClaw intensively for about two weeks. The first few days were exciting. It felt like we’re finally getting closer to autonomous agents that can actually operate a computer end-to-end. But after the initial excitement faded, I started noticing some consistent issues: - It frequently stops responding mid-task - Execution fails without clear recovery - Task success rate feels inconsistent and unpredictable - Long-running tasks degrade over time It made me wonder whether the current architecture is fundamentally limiting reliability. Right now, it feels closer to a “single program trying to do everything” model. But if we look at the history of computing, systems only became truly robust when we moved toward operating system–like abstractions: - event-driven execution - proper failure recovery - watchdog / heartbeat monitoring - task supervision trees - state persist...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide

Tell HN: AI is not a slippery slope, it's a waterslide 3 by keepamovin | 2 comments on Hacker News. I found myself increasingly outsourcing the details to the AI. I forgot the details, deliberately I think. I wanted the AI to know them. Why? Because that's where the compute is. So that's where the knowledge has to live. Me re-telling it to the AI every time it misses something it didn't know, is inefficient. It takes me X time to type it, and maybe log(X) to voice type it. But then there's the inevitable back and forth, the slight misunderstandings, the corrections, etc. I realized and found myself naturally sliding down towards, just letting the AI own all the data and knowledge. Becuase it should. That's the one that has to compute with it, so why should I know about it. People think AI is a slippery slope by outsourcing our thinking. I don't think it's a slippery slope - it's a waterslide. It's just inevitable. It's gravity, taking over...