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[DevOps] Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer.<p>We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder&#x2F;CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back:<p>- Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work - It’s 2026, but somehow everyone is still walking around with laptops cracked open or SSHing into mac minis in their garage so their agents don’t stop working. - Mobile is treated like an afterthought even though coding is just texting now We started hitting resource constraints when multiple parallel agents test their own work by running the full app locally. - We tried different products, but couldn’t find any that solved all of our pain points – so we pivoted and decided to just build the ADE we wanted for ourselves.<p>Boxes.dev is a desktop and mobile app that lets you run Claude Code, Codex (using your subscription!), and the full dev environment for whatever you’re building, all on remote compute. It’s similar to Conductor or the Codex desktop app, except everything is in the cloud.<p>We use coding agents to scan your local dev setup and port it to the cloud. Then every Claude Code&#x2F;Codex thread starts from a snapshot of the full setup, with its own filesystem and compute. No more git worktrees, no more cracked-open laptops, and your coding agents can actually test their work end-to-end because they can run your full app in isolation.<p>We’ve mirrored the Claude Code and Codex UX to feel natural to power users, and also have a fully-featured mobile app (no handoffs or remote control), plus scheduled automations and a Slack integration.<p>We’re obviously biased, but we’ve been building boxes.dev with boxes.dev for months and it’s honestly been a gamechanger. It’s hard to go back once you realize how much localhost has been limiting you; based on early feedback from beta testers, we’re increasingly sure that cloud is the future of agentic coding.<p>We’d love for you to experience it yourselves! Would appreciate any feedback – and happy to answer any questions on this thread.

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[Other] Show HN: Hydron – Hardware-aware coding agent Hi HN, this is Prashant from H2Loop. Embedded engineers that we work with were annoyed that generic AI tools hallucinated register addresses, generated code for peripherals that don&#x27;t exist on the chip and mixed up timer quirks between similar platforms like STM32F4 and F7. The code looks clean but it just won&#x27;t boot. This made them go back to the datasheet every time. So we built Hydron, an AI tool that writes datasheet-grounded code for your hardware.<p>Demo: Hydron setting up sleep-mode CPU logging for an onboard temp sensor on an STM32U385 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boot.hydron.sh&#x2F;zzzDemo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;boot.hydron.sh&#x2F;zzzDemo</a><p>First, we&#x27;ve pre-indexed 580+ platforms and peripherals. Most of what you&#x27;d use in a robotics, UAV, or IoT build: common dev platforms like STM32, ESP32, RP2040, AM6 families, plus the IMUs, GNSS modules, motor drivers, and baros that ship around them. Ask about a peripheral, the answer comes from our KG and the actual datasheet.<p>Second, you can bring your own context and share it with your team. Hydron indexes PDFs up to 5000 pages, plus a whole host of various file types and even ZIPs of full C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;Python codebases up to 250MB. One engineer indexes the HW, BSPs, and datasheet pack once. Anyone else can reference it from their own Hydron agent.<p>Third, HW-SW development happens in your editor or terminal. Agentic serial monitor is live today. GDB integration, and an AI log reader land in the next two weeks.<p>Up next, we&#x27;re focused on closing the hardware-software loop. We&#x27;re building more HIL debugging capabilities, deeper target awareness, and support for additional platforms. If you work on embedded SW we&#x27;d love your feedback on where today&#x27;s tools fall short and what you&#x27;d like to see next.<p>Install: VS Code extension - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=H2Loop.hydron" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marketplace.visualstudio.com&#x2F;items?itemName=H2Loop.h...</a> CLI mac&#x2F;linux -&gt; curl -fsSL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.hydron.sh&#x2F;cli&#x2F;install.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.hydron.sh&#x2F;cli&#x2F;install.sh</a> | bash. CLI windows -&gt; irm <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.hydron.sh&#x2F;cli&#x2F;install.ps1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;get.hydron.sh&#x2F;cli&#x2F;install.ps1</a> | iex<p>More at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boot.hydron.sh&#x2F;HN" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;boot.hydron.sh&#x2F;HN</a>. 200 free credits, 50% off on paid plans, one-step signup. Me and u&#x2F;ajithhyd will be in the thread all day.

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[CLI Tool] Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26064588">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26064588</a>) where our CLI generated cost estimates for infra-as-code, e.g. &quot;this Terraform PR adds $400&#x2F;mo&quot;. The idea was to shift cloud costs (FinOps) left, so engineers get visibility of costs before deployment and make better decisions.<p>Earlier this year we started seeing agent traffic in our logs and it looked like coding agents were calling our CLI. But that CLI wasn&#x27;t designed with coding agents in mind. We went down a philosophical rabbit hole to see if a CLI is even needed anymore given that Claude, Copilot et al. already follow best practices. Ultimately we decided to create a new CLI from the ground up with coding agents in mind for two reasons:<p>1. We optimized the CLI for agent callers and cut Claude&#x27;s output token usage by up to 79% and API cost by up to 67% versus a bare-Claude baseline. We wrote a blog documenting our lessons on optimizing user token usage when designing a CLI, e.g. using predicate flags so the agent doesn&#x27;t compose jq | python | wc pipelines, output format that strips JSON&#x27;s redundant field names. The blog is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infracost.io&#x2F;resources&#x2F;blog&#x2F;we-cut-claude-s-token-usage-79-by-redesigning-our-cli-for-agents">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infracost.io&#x2F;resources&#x2F;blog&#x2F;we-cut-claude-s-toke...</a><p>2. With cloud costs, precision matters. Telling a coding agent &quot;make this Terraform cost-optimized&quot; can be expensive and lossy. You burn tokens loading code and policy context into every conversation. Your agent could make up a price and you wouldn&#x27;t know because it&#x27;s difficult to verify that across the ~10M price points that AWS, Azure and Google have. The CLI runs static analysis on the code, uses the latest prices from cloud vendors, and passes that context to the coding agent.<p>So that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re launching today - Cost.dev: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cost.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cost.dev&#x2F;</a>.<p>- It runs locally. Your code never leaves your machine, you get a fast feedback loop, and you&#x27;re not burning API calls per character when you want to fetch prices.<p>- The CLI does the deterministic work. Fetching price points, scanning the code, validating fixes. The coding agent does the natural-language part. You don&#x27;t have to trust the LLM to remember the rules, and can verify it called the right CLI command.<p>- It provides a consistent rule layer across every tool you use. Get cost estimates in your IDE and your coding agent with a single install. We support Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, as well as IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains<p>Before we keep building more in that direction, I want to sanity-check with HN: is &quot;agents writing IaC in prod&quot; actually a thing yet, or am I betting on a future that&#x27;s still a year out? I know software developers are using coding agents heavily, but are platform&#x2F;infra folks doing that for prod too? Also, if you have any feedback on Cost.dev, I&#x27;d love to hear it!

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[Other] Show HN: Chatcode – Remote Control for Claude Code and Codex Hey HN,<p>what I wanted to build here is a proper universal layer for persisted agentic sessions, that could be seamlessly interacted both via web and a messenger (Telegram). I really like what&#x27;s done so far and would be nice to hear some feedback from you.<p>The interesting thing is that I started to use Chatcode during its development as soon it was possible, so used this tool to build itself.<p>I know that there could be trust&#x2F;privacy concerns, because it relies on a gateway that you need to install on your machine in order to work, but: 1. You can use it on any machine, just have some test VPS for that 2. I really believe you will love it as soon as it fits your needs! And it&#x27;s free to start BTW.<p>Anyways, looking forward to your questions&#x2F;suggestions.

Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites You can get a 2h free trial by solving a proof-of-work captcha when topping up your account for the first time.<p>If you&#x27;d like to learn more, an independent interview was posted a couple of weeks ago [1], and the FAQ [2] has a lot of information as well.<p>For the source code sharing, we&#x27;ve talked with lawyers and are inclined to no longer require the NDA&#x2F;NCC for privacy reasons shared with us before (signing requires identification), but instead use a source-available permissive license that doesn&#x27;t allow competition, like PolyForm Shield [3] (we do still have about 6 months before finalising a decision, here).<p>This does come with a lot more risks for us (it&#x27;s harder to track down if someone publishes the code or uses it against the license), but given we&#x27;ve already passed 100 monthly active accounts, we&#x27;re feeling more confident it&#x27;s an acceptable risk.<p>The plan is to give logged in accounts (who are 12 months old or more) a way to download a ZIP of the current code base that&#x27;s in the server.<p>Obviously there&#x27;s no easy way to prove that&#x27;s the case, but we&#x27;re open to ideas&#x2F;suggestions if someone here has them.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprivacydad.com&#x2F;interview-with-the-engineer-of-uruky-a-private-search-engine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theprivacydad.com&#x2F;interview-with-the-engineer-of-uru...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uruky.com&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;uruky.com&#x2F;faq</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polyformproject.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;shield&#x2F;1.0.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;polyformproject.org&#x2F;licenses&#x2F;shield&#x2F;1.0.0</a>

Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue Hi everyone!<p>Tim here, maintainer of the lucide-motion-vue library. I build this as a way to use nice animated icons in my webapps. We were already on lucide, and found animate-ui animated icons as a great collection, unfortunately React only or made to be used with shadcn.<p>So I ported the library to Vue, and combined it with another library (lucide-animated.com). As both libraries dont share the same animations and&#x2F;or icons, this creates the largest animated icons library for vue that can be used from one source.<p>Additionally, I&#x27;ve made several quality of live changes to make it easier to use the icons: - drop-in replacement for lucide icons, or use a seperate namespace if you want - several animation variants - easy to be used standalone or in buttons - several animation triggers - comprehensive overview, playground and docs page, comes with llms.txt to be used by agents<p>Finally, the repo also contains a &quot;forge&quot;. With this, you can<p>a) take any icon from the lucide library, or have ai suggest some b) autogenerate animations for these icons c) add them to the library with one click<p>We&#x27;ll use the forge over time to hopefully create animated variants for all of lucides icons, if these icons are useful to be animated.<p>Looking forward to hear your feedback Cheers!

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Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm NoSuggest is a quiet act of resistance against YouTube algorithms always trying to pull you into a loop of unlimited videos in turn into unlimited screen time. With unending side cards of videos, auto-play, what&#x27;s next suggestions, YouTube shorts and notifications, users will be doom scrolling for many hours in a day.<p>I faced the same problem. Acknowledging that, not all content in YouTube is bad. There are educational videos, genuine news contents without political bias which is very hard to find outside YouTube and many other good relaxing, entertainment stuff.<p>NoSuggest lets you only follow the YouTube channels you like and removes all types of recommendation YouTube has. So you don&#x27;t waste time on watching things which you never wanted to watch anyways.<p>UI is very simple. You add your favourite channels in &quot;Channels&quot; tab and latest 5 videos per channel excluding shorts would appear in &quot;Feed&quot; tab. &quot;Search&quot; tab is to search for specific videos to watch and &quot;Saved&quot; tab is to bookmark any video you want to watch later. Intention of NoSuggest is to provide whatever is necessary to extract whats good from YouTube all inside NoSuggest and leave out bad parts.<p>NoSuggest works in any devices. Install it as an app (PWA) in android and iPhone, or simply open in browser in laptops. No sign-in, no account creation or no card details. NoSuggest won&#x27;t even ask your name. Total privacy for the users.<p>Parents can add the channels and save some educational videos and lock it with the pin for kids mode. Kids won&#x27;t be able access unwanted additive contents inside NoSuggest.<p>Completely free, no string attached. Source available in Github through NoSuggest website.<p>I would love genuine feedback. Thank you very much for your attention on this matter.

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