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Re:Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:49PM (#50281419)
Honestly a Bambu printer is so insanely easy to use you'd be making printing ^25 harder with this.
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:53PM (#50081438)
I agree, for me the single biggest benefit of AppleTV over any other streaming OS is that it’s genuinely a fast user interface. I lose my mind using all these dongles and built in OS with how slow they are
Re:Web Search API on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:11PM (#49972507)
I care about this a lot for work reasons, Brave is the only one I've found that'll let you store their results (in exchange for paying more)
Re:Muse Gadgets on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:21PM (#49938753)
I wish Anthropic would robustify their bluetooth implementation (Developer > Hardware Buddy...)
I think this is a huge opportunity — speed, domestic production _and_ overall usability of the process - i do think appearing serious business matters a lot in this space, i found your site a little lacking in terms of prose, details, etc. Really great idea though.
Re:CarPlay Is Additive on Friday July 03, 2026 @03:06AM (#48771815)
I honestly cannot believe how bad CarPlay is — I can't believe how many rave reviews it gets, I think it's absolutely awful compared to Rivian or Tesla software.
Lots of negativity in this thread, but I think its genuinely impressive that Fin beats GPT-5.4 and Sonnet 4.6 at customer service tasks: https://venturebeat.com/technology/intercoms-new-post-traine...
Re:Qwen3.7-Plus: Multimodal Agent Intelligence on Monday June 01, 2026 @05:26PM (#48362869)
Can you elaborate on what your agent harness entails?
Re:OpenRouter raises $113M Series B on Saturday May 30, 2026 @07:01PM (#48341422)
Are you thinking of hiring any PMs? love your product!
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:29PM (#48103880)
Any tips on how to improve soldering? I just started learning electronics, it’s so fun with Claude doing the code for the device.
Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:52AM (#48010287)
1. I just spent the weekend with a mens wellness group called "Fishing for Good" highly recommended if anyone wants to make new friends.

2. I love this.

3. It is hard to make adult friends! I loved this post.

Re:I am building a cloud on Thursday April 23, 2026 @11:49AM (#47877229)
I think I am interested in this? I run a bunch of small web apps, currently as fly.io machines. I love fly, but it adds up when I have a bunch of small things that I want isolated — I wish I could have even smaller Fly instances. Exe.dev seems like a good middleground where I can allocate the compute from tiny to large. (?)
I work in AI, I have used OpenClaw since it came out.
Ok, I'll bite and run the HN skepticism guantlet.

I have an OpenClaw setup with a Claude API token and Qwen local model, running on an M4 Mac Mini with 32GB RAM.

1. At 7AM and periodically throughout the day it checks my calendars (work, parenting schedule, personal), a hyper local weather station, and some specific news topics — and sends me a summary and throughout the day updates if anything significant happens.

1b. It also sends this to my TRMNL e-ink display.

1c. It can also add and edit calendar invites, so if I want to move my yoga I can just tell it to move it to whenever the next yoga class is at (it knows what studio I go to and figures it out)

2. It has a skill I built that acts as a second brain for knowledge. I can send it Fitness Youtubes, parenting/health research papers, podcasts — and it organizes, summarizes and saves it in a logical file structure. Then in the future I can access these. It's like bookmarks on steroids. I love it for 1-2hour YouTube videos where I want summaries. It also pulls out any books any artifacts mentions and generates me a rolling reading list. https://plc.vc/npw

3. It has its own email address — and read access to my personal email — so friends can email it to schedule things like evening video game sessions. Similarly, if I get an urgent looking email it'll provide it in #1. I don't check my personal email aside from via OpenClaw.

4. It has read/write access to my GitHub, and each project repo I have has a well defined Claude structure, so it can make changes, commit the branches to Fly.IO and send me domains to test things. I love it for esoteric tweaks to my blog.

5. It has access to my Apple Reminders so I can message it things like "remind me to buy more muffins" and it has context to know to add those muffins to my Costco grocery list not Trader Joes.

6. It runs a headless browser, so when my hyper local weather service (Bouldercast) sends a summary that has more detail behind a login, it can open the email, click the link, login with my credentials, summarize the forecast, and send it to me.

7. It drafts blog posts for what it did for me each week. It's fun! https://plc.vc/d5t

I am a previous Zapier power user. I have used their LLMs, databases and Zaps extensively for the past decade. I understand the scorn towards AI, and I understand that if you look at this list you might think that it's either trivial tasks and/or things that could be done with Zapier, but I have been _amazed_ at how effortless it is to setup.

Similarly, I love that I can on the fly improve this assistant — last night I told it "I want to extend our Knowledge skill so that you can subscribe to RSS feeds and summarize articles in my knowledge base and also deliver interesting content in my daily summaries. Update the knowledge skill and our tasks to do all this."

It one shotted that, simply asking me to provide the first RSS feed I wanted to subscribe to.

It's genuinely like having a human assistant that happens to be an expert coder/technologist on call 247 that works at the near speed of light.

It disappoints me that technologists are so skeptical of this technology rather than exploring what it is and why it might be different to what exists today. It's fun! thats the takeaway: it's FUN.

Re:Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @11:49AM (#46435156)
This is like saying design is a solved problem.
I once got an email — addressed to some other pclark@ — which was simply a photo of a duck and the message “what duck is this?” I was so disappointed that he never thanked me for replying accurately and expeditiously.
I have this same issue! But I can log in with or without dots… but it’s like someone else thinks their email is my email without the dots. I can’t really figure out what is happening. The volume is way too high for it to be spam though.
I’m tempted to change from peter.clark@ to something more obscure; i get SO MANY emails directed at other Peter Clark’s, it’s bizarre and makes my inbox unusable.
> The Program audio series is a sci-fi anthology podcast set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a standalone story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying - it is our present.
Bummed this won’t ship until Feb!
Are the light rail displays ever sold anywhere?
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Preview Live in AI Studio on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:46PM (#45975644)
I just want Gemini to access ALL my Google Calendars, not just the primary one. If they supported this I would be all in on Gemini. Does no one else want this?
Re:From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." on Friday May 09, 2025 @12:18AM (#43933746)
I once did this. I (Peter) had pclark@adroll and a co-founder of the 750 ish person company I worked at had peter@adroll. Other Peter was widely known as PK.

I jokingly emailed IT and asked to have P(eterclar)K@adroll and to my surprise they gave it to me. They even asked me if I thought it would be confusing for proper PK and I feigned confusion.

I promptly got a lot of email for proper PK and since he was co-founder, CFO and board member I decided this wasn’t a funny prank.

Re:Design for 3D-Printing on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:50PM (#43889882)
as I said, as a Bambu owner, i’m really impressed with mine and highly recommend them to others.
Re:Design for 3D-Printing on Sunday May 04, 2025 @03:51PM (#43889062)
I know they get a lot of hate in the HN community but my Bambu Labs P1S is mind blowing. It’s so easy to use I print 100x more than with my old Ender. It’s motivated me to learn Fusion360 … i’m actually printing droids for my kids to color this very minute.
Same on iPhone Safari
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Search Engines? on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:09PM (#43627982)
using Kagi makes me appreciate how many of my searches are region specific. Kagi seems so incredibly dumb in this regard compared to Google

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