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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.

[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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[Other] Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model It&#x27;s our new text-to-image model: a 9.3B single-stream diffusion transformer trained entirely from scratch.<p>We focused heavily on controllability through structured JSON prompts, with strong text rendering, spatial awareness through bounding box guidance, and color palette control.<p>It has the best text rendering of any open-weight model we&#x27;ve tested so far, and the NF4 quantized checkpoint runs on a single 24GB GPU.<p>For more technical details and examples see our blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ideogram.ai&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ideogram-4.0&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ideogram.ai&#x2F;blog&#x2F;ideogram-4.0&#x2F;</a><p>We will be happy to answer any questions :)

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[CLI Tool] Show HN: Clor – give your agent claws At my last job I spent a year building an agentic coding platform used by hundreds of thousands of people. Along the way I tried building a hosting service on OpenClaw, and also ran Hermes myself for a while. Both projects have some great feature ideas, but when I tried to use them for real work they failed more often than not, and their security models worried me. I just couldn&#x27;t see either one becoming something I&#x27;d trust enough for myself&#x2F;friends&#x2F;family. After a lot of exploration I realized that what I really wanted all along was to create automations using the coding agent I already work in every day. It turned out coding agents were the best tool for automating anything, not just code, as long as they had the right environment and tools to work with.<p>I also spent 20 years leading Linux infrastructure and distributed systems teams. Anyone who&#x27;s written service daemons knows that most of what we think of as &quot;always on&quot; is really just wake up, do some work, and go back to sleep, which is an efficient pattern to use and reason about. Cron has worked this way for decades.<p>So I built Clor, a CLI that lets your coding agent create &quot;claws&quot;, which are background agents that automate anything on a schedule and run on your laptop, Mac mini, or a VM.<p>A claw can be defined and shared as a single CLAW.md file, which contains a bit of metadata (name, schedule, personality, etc.) and one or more ordered tasks. Each task is a real agent run with full tool use, or a plain bash step. Anything you can ask your agent to do once, a claw can do repeatedly. One of my claws tidies my inbox every few minutes, labeling obvious spam, rescuing legit email that got mislabeled, and starring threads I owe a reply to, etc. It&#x27;s way smarter than Gmail&#x27;s filters because it actually reads my mail instead of just matching rules.<p>Installing is the usual command on Linux&#x2F;macOS in the terminal: curl -fsSL <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clor.com&#x2F;install.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clor.com&#x2F;install.sh</a> | bash. That will set up the CLI, a small scheduling daemon, and a skill that you can run from your agent, &#x2F;claws in Claude Code or $claws in Codex.

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