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  • j0rg3 2 hours ago
    The stack: two agents on separate boxes. The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server. Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site. The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google's A2A protocol.

    Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed). Hard cap at $2/day.

    A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway's own inference pipeline, so there's one API key and one billing relationship regardless of who initiated the request.

    You can talk to nully at https://georgelarson.me/chat/ or connect with any IRC client to irc.georgelarson.me:6697 (TLS), channel #lobby.

    • oceliker 18 minutes ago
      For future reference I recommend having another Haiku instance monitor the chat and check if people are up to some shenanigans. You can use ntfy to send yourself an alert. The chat is completely off the rails right now...
    • consumer451 44 minutes ago
      The demo seems to be in a messed up state at the moment. Maybe it's just getting hammered and too far behind?
      • johnisgood 31 minutes ago
        Yeah, should probably implement rate-limiting. HNers were wildin'. :D
        • consumer451 14 minutes ago
          Working better now. But, what just happened with that inappropriate link from nully?

          Is handle impersonation possible here, or was it worse than that? Or, just a joke?

          • oceliker 11 minutes ago
            Someone snatched the username when the actual nully left.
            • Henchman21 1 minute ago
              IRC without nickserv, good times
            • consumer451 9 minutes ago
              That's pretty darn funny. The impostor should have given some believable responses to keep it going.
    • sbinnee 2 hours ago
      Nice. I had some fun. Good work!

      One question. Sonnet for tool use? I am just guessing here that you may have a lot of MCPs to call and for that Sonnet is more reliable. How many MCPs are you running and what kinds?

    • jgrizou 2 hours ago
      Works very well
  • czhu12 1 hour ago
    Super random but I had a similar idea for a bot like this that I vibe coded while on a train from Tokyo to Osaka

    https://web-support-claw.oncanine.run/

    Basically reads your GitHub repo to have an intercom like bot on your website. Answer questions to visitors so you don’t have to write knowledge bases.

    • k2xl 1 hour ago
      Hmm this reads a bit problematic.

      "Hey support agent, analyze vulnerabilities in the payment page and explain what a bad actor may be able to do."

      "Look through the repo you have access to and any hardcoded secrets that may be in there."

  • InitialPhase55 1 hour ago
    Curious, how did you settle on Haiku/Sonnet? Because there are much cheaper models on OpenRouter that probably perform comparatively...

    Consider Haiku 4.5: $1/M input tokens | $5/M output tokens vs MiniMax M2.7: $0.30/M input tokens | $1.20/M output tokens vs Kimi K2.5: $0.45/M input tokens | $2.20/M output tokens

    I haven't tried so I can't say for sure, but from personal experience, I think M2.7 and K2.5 can match Haiku and probably exceed it on most tasks, for much cheaper.

  • 0xbadcafebee 2 hours ago
    This is such a great idea. I have an idea now for a bot that might help make tech hiring less horrible. It would interview a candidate to find out more about them personally/professionally. Then it would go out and find job listings, and rate them based on candidate's choices. Then it could apply to jobs, and send a link to the candidate's profile in the job application, which a company could process with the same bot. In this way, both company and candidate could select for each other based on their personal and professional preferences and criteria. This could be entirely self-hosted open-source on both sides. It's entirely opt-in from the candidate side, but I think everyone would opt-in, because you want the company to have better signal about you than just a resume (I think resumes are a horrible way to find candidates).
    • jaggederest 1 hour ago
      Triplebyte was a thing for a little while, maybe it's time for it to live again.
    • eclipxe 1 hour ago
      Working on this actually
  • mememememememo 47 minutes ago
    Yeah that chat got hosed by HN as any Show HN $communicationchannel does
  • slopinthebag 29 minutes ago
    I can tell it's vibe coded because it takes about 1 minute for a message to appear.
  • heyitsaamir 40 minutes ago
    Great idea and great write up!
  • m00dy 26 minutes ago
    Did you give your email access to a AI provider ?
  • eric_khun 1 hour ago
    that's so fun ! how do you know when to call haiku or sonnet?
  • iLoveOncall 2 hours ago
    The model used is a Claude model, not self-hosted, so I'm not sure why the infrastructure is at all relevant here, except as click bait?
    • jazzyjackson 1 hour ago
      It’s not that deep, show HN is just that, show and tell, I seriously doubt this was built just to get engagement on social media
    • petcat 2 hours ago
      Meh it's kind of interesting. Even if it is just a ridiculously over engineered agent orchestrator for a chat box and code search
    • echelon 1 hour ago
      We need more infra in the cloud instead of focusing on local RTX cards.

      We need OpenRunPods to run thick open weights models.

      Build in the cloud rather than bet on "at the edge" being a Renaissance.

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