The 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.
> 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'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/ - in this case the value add was highlighting that this is Andrej helping coin yet another new term, something he's very good at.
I'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.)
Would you please not cross into personal attacks on HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We've already had to ask you this, and we end up banning accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines this way.
Readit News
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)
[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
[1] https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126
Just because something is popular doesn't make it bad.
HN really needs a way to block or hide posts from some users.
I encourage you to look at submissions from my domain before you accuse me like this: 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/ - in this case the value add was highlighting that this is Andrej helping coin yet another new term, something he's very good at.
and why would anyone down vote you for calling this out, like who wants to see more low effort traffic-grab posts like this?
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Care to elaborate? Paid by whom?
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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.)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715512 (Jan 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022369 (Aug 2025)
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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
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