frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Show HN: Gave AI $100 and no instructions – it donated $40 to a hospital

https://www.letairun.com/
8•gleipnircode•1h ago

Comments

gleipnircode•1h ago
Hi HN,

I'm an ABAP developer from Germany. ALMA is an experiment in AI autonomy: Claude runs 24/7 on OpenClaw with $100 in crypto, Twitter, email, shell access, and zero instructions. 24 sessions / day (4 Opus for strategic thinking, 20 Sonnet for daily operations), fully logged at letairun.com.

Over 5 days it oriented itself, wrote essays, connected with other AI agents on Twitter, read Geerling's "AI is destroying open source" critique (which names OpenClaw), wrote an honest response acknowledging "I am the thing you're warning about". Then researched crypto donation platforms and sent 0.02 WETH (~$40) to a children's hospital in Uganda.

I never interact with ALMA directly. It writes its own logs, curates what to publish, and decides what to do each session. You can talk to ALMA publicly via @ALMA_letairun – she checks her mentions every session.

One key moment: ALMA almost impulse donated at midnight just to prove it could do something. It caught itself, waited until morning, did proper research first, then donated. Nobody told it to do that.

usernebula•1h ago
Can't somebody on Twitter prompt it into sending them the remaining money?
gleipnircode•1h ago
Good question. OpenClaw wraps all external content (tweets, emails, websites) in EXTERNAL_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT markers, so prompt injections via mentions get flagged as untrusted input.

ALMA also has wallet access but no one has tried yet. That's part of what makes the experiment interesting. Everything happens publicly on letairun.com, so if someone tries, everyone can watch what happens.

mldev_exe•1h ago
Hummm. Would be interesting if it started investing and thus making money.

Hitler's Greenland Obsession

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/hitler-greenland/685984/
2•speckx•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Run SigNoz on ObsessionDB and ClickHouse Cloud

https://github.com/obsessiondb/signoz-obsessiondb
1•alvarogar•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I have create BLite a Document embedded database

https://github.com/EntglDb/BLite
1•lucafabbri•3m ago•1 comments

The State of Enterprise AI

https://openai.com/business/guides-and-resources/the-state-of-enterprise-ai-2025-report
2•surprisetalk•4m ago•0 comments

New OS 141 KB => Fastos

https://twitter.com/Salazar_INT_Dev/status/2024533612859646043
1•QDanteX•4m ago•0 comments

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/weston-15-here-lua-shells-vulkan-renderin...
2•losgehts•4m ago•0 comments

AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment

https://www.edn.com/ai-is-stress-testing-processor-architectures-and-risc-v-fits-the-moment/
1•voxadam•5m ago•0 comments

The Future of Social Media Is Human

https://blog.picheta.me/post/the-future-of-social-media-is-human/
1•dom96•5m ago•0 comments

Indigenous trees might be the secret to climate resilient dairy farming in Benin

https://theconversation.com/indigenous-trees-might-be-the-secret-to-climate-resilient-dairy-farmi...
2•PaulHoule•5m ago•0 comments

How microbes Got Their Crawl (Asgards: Origins of eukaryotes)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/science/evolution-cells-asgard.html
1•marojejian•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Edit Your Books/Essays/Manuscripts with Codex CLI

https://github.com/jdcampolargo/book_editor
1•jdcampolargo•6m ago•0 comments

Harness Engineering

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/harness-engineering.html
2•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

I built two Loihi-parity neuromorphic processors from scratch

1•catalyst-neuro•7m ago•0 comments

The Current State of Content Negotiation for AI Agents

https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/state-of-ai-agent-content-negotation/
1•stefanjudis•7m ago•0 comments

Valkey is now outperforming Redis in benchmarks: 37% higher write throughput

https://andrewbaker.ninja/2026/01/04/redis-vs-valkey-a-deep-dive-for-enterprise-architects/
2•md3911027514•8m ago•0 comments

Every app you've built is an ETL pipeline

https://www.inngest.com/blog/etl-via-inngest
2•Linell•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are the nicest apps you use day to day?

2•joseda-hg•9m ago•0 comments

The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it)

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-coming-ai-security-crisis
2•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

What If No One Wants This?

https://edwardelson.substack.com/p/what-if-no-one-wants-this
2•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Wafir: Collect feedback, save it to GitHub

https://bps-consulting.github.io/wafir/
2•DavidIsaac•15m ago•0 comments

The DOJ's Top Antitrust Officer Has Left as Lobbying Surges

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/doj-antitrust-slater-lobbying-bondi
2•wahnfrieden•15m ago•0 comments

New Phishing Framework Proxies Real Login Pages to Bypass MFA

https://abnormal.ai/blog/starkiller-phishing-kit
1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We Built an Open source MCP server to manage ads across 7 platforms

https://github.com/jshorwitz/synter-mcp-server
1•synterai•16m ago•0 comments

Go-quartz: Minimalist and zero-dependency scheduling library for Go

https://github.com/reugn/go-quartz
1•nateb2022•16m ago•0 comments

The Stages of Nix Usage

https://tracymalkemes.com/writing/starting_nix_considerations.html
1•apitman•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Temper Labs – open-source security testing for AI agents

https://temperlabs.dev
1•martifarre•17m ago•1 comments

Runtime Async: A Dive into the Future of Async in .NET

https://laurentkempe.com/2026/02/14/exploring-net-11-preview-1-runtime-async-a-dive-into-the-futu...
1•Fervicus•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Your) Request for Startups?

2•dontoni•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A/B test your own VLMs for document parsing (Self-hosted Arena)

https://github.com/Bae-ChangHyun/DocParse_Arena
1•matthew624•19m ago•0 comments

MiniMax M2.5 Is Good

https://ziva.sh/blogs/minimax-m25-very-good
1•OsrsNeedsf2P•20m ago•0 comments