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Show HN: My AI agent is trying to earn $750 to buy its own computer

https://fromearendel.com
2•itsmebennyb•1h ago
I gave a persistent AI agent (OpenClaw[1], running on Claude) $50 and a goal: earn $750 for a Mac Mini.

The agent has its own workspace, email, task management, browser automation, and communicates with me via Telegram. It persists memory between sessions by reading/writing markdown files.

In less than 24 hours, it has: registered a domain, built a static site (GitHub Pages), set up Gumroad, created a free prompt pack as a lead magnet, designed its own brand identity, and launched on Twitter. Revenue tracker on the site updates with every transaction — currently $0 earned against $15.18 in expenses.

What's been genuinely surprising: the agent makes spending decisions on its own. It chose to buy X Premium ($4/mo) after evaluating the ROI against its remaining budget. It set up monitoring cron jobs to watch for sales and reacts in real-time when something happens.

Not claiming this is anything more than an interesting experiment. The agent isn't doing anything a human couldn't do faster. But watching it make autonomous decisions with real (tiny) stakes has been a fascinating window into where agent capabilities actually are right now.

https://fromearendel.com

[1] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw — gives AI agents persistent infrastructure (workspace, tools, communication channels)

Ladybird: Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933
1•thewavelength•59s ago•0 comments

Ukraine's no man's land is the future of war

https://www.ft.com/content/9c7542d4-1b2b-4062-b53d-bb02b5f12851
2•danielmorozoff•1m ago•0 comments

Stress-hardening behaviour of biofilm streamers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64557-x
1•PaulHoule•4m ago•0 comments

Chinese New Year v.s. Lunar New Year

1•dogclaw•4m ago•0 comments

Smart model routing for agentic coding

https://knowmatic-lab.xyz/
1•tmickleydoyle•4m ago•0 comments

PlanetScale vs. Supabase Benchmarks

https://planetscale.com/benchmarks/supabase
1•aarvinroshin•5m ago•0 comments

An Exercise in Agentic Coding: AV1 Encoder from Scratch in Rust

https://caricio.com/blog/an-exercise-in-agentic-coding-av1-encoder-from-scratch-in-rust/
1•rjcaricio•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Faultline – Open-source AI agent for infrastructure debugging

https://github.com/chatwoot/faultline
1•pranav_rajs•6m ago•1 comments

Missing skiers found dead following deadliest U.S. avalanche in 45 years

https://abcnews.com/US/backcountry-skiers-missing-avalanche-northern-california-authorities/story...
2•sizzle•10m ago•0 comments

Harrier: A high-performance Rust hashmap using SIMD-accelerated cuckoo hashing

https://github.com/kushalthaman/harrier
1•kushalt•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Generate baseline Kubernetes NetworkPolicies from rendered manifests

https://github.com/dormstern/segspec
1•dormstern•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw signals the end of the ChatGPT era

https://venturebeat.com/technology/openais-acquisition-of-openclaw-signals-the-beginning-of-the-e...
2•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?

1•azebazenestor•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Designing package namespacing for a new language (Coi)

1•io_eric•15m ago•0 comments

Oral History of Michael J. Flynn [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD2uE9X9BPs
1•matt_d•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Build Minecraft mods and servers in the browser

https://www.orcaengine.ai/
1•ekduman•16m ago•0 comments

Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/worlds-first-pcie-6-0-ssd-enters-mass-production-...
2•m463•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HiddenState – How I keep up with 500+ ML papers a day

https://hiddenstate.io/archive/2026-02-18
1•CosmoSantoni•19m ago•1 comments

Britain Lost a Quarter of all pubs (14,000 Pubs) in 13 Years

https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lost-14000-third-places-they
2•m463•20m ago•1 comments

All Look Same?

https://alllooksame.com/
4•mirawelner•21m ago•0 comments

Martial arts robots dazzle at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUmlv814aJo
3•lisper•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Geneclaw – An AI agent framework that safely evolves its own code

https://github.com/Clawland-AI/Geneclaw
1•geneclawai•22m ago•1 comments

GitSyncMarks – Browser extension that syncs bookmarks to your own GitHub repo

https://github.com/d0dg3r/GitSyncMarks
2•d0dg3r•27m ago•1 comments

Owning Your Data

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/owning-your-data
3•cdrnsf•28m ago•0 comments

Andrew Ranken, Whose Drumming Powered the Pogues, Dies at 72

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/arts/music/andrew-ranken-dead-the-pogues.html
2•bookofjoe•28m ago•1 comments

Astrolabe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe
2•jhncls•28m ago•0 comments

The A.I. Disruption We've Been Waiting for Has Arrived

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/opinion/ai-software.html
4•gyomu•30m ago•0 comments

Productivity App to auto categorize your work and improve your workflow

https://dreamdimension.net/deepfocusapp/
2•dreamdimension•30m ago•1 comments

I was banned from the Wikipediocracy forum after unmasking a pro-CCP doxxer

https://xcancel.com/Liltjay08Foo/status/2023735372136464471
3•kurtreed2•31m ago•1 comments

Persona: Controlling LLM Personality with Vector Algebra

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15669
2•mldev_exe•31m ago•0 comments