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[Other] Show HN: VT Code – Rust TUI coding agent with multi-provider support Hi HN, I built VT Code, a semantic coding agent. Supports all SOTA and open sources model. Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Codex. Agent Skills, Model Context Protocol and Agent Client Protocol (ACP) ready. All open source models are support. Local inference via LM Studio and Ollama (experiment). Semantic context understanding is supported by ast-grep for structured code search and ripgrep for powered grep.<p>I built VT Code in Rust on Ratatui. Architecture and agent loop documented in the README and DeepWiki.<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vinhnx&#x2F;VTCode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vinhnx&#x2F;VTCode</a><p>DeepWiki: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepwiki.com&#x2F;vinhnx&#x2F;VTCode" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deepwiki.com&#x2F;vinhnx&#x2F;VTCode</a><p>Happy to answer questions!<p>I believe coding harnesses should be open, and everyone should have a choice of their preferred way to work in this agentic engineering era.

[API/SDK] Show HN: RoboAPI – A unified REST API for robots, like Stripe but for hardware Every robot manufacturer ships a different SDK and a different protocol. A Boston Dynamics Spot speaks nothing like a Universal Robots arm. Every team building on top of robots rewrites the same integration layer from scratch. This is a massive tax on the industry.<p>RoboAPI is a unified API layer that abstracts all of that into one clean developer experience. One SDK, one API key, any robot — simulated or real hardware.<p>You can connect a simulated robot and read live telemetry in under 5 minutes:<p><pre><code> pip install fastapi uvicorn roslibpy uvicorn api.main:app --reload curl -X POST localhost:8000&#x2F;v1&#x2F;robots&#x2F;connect -d &#x27;{&quot;robot_id&quot;:&quot;bot-01&quot;,&quot;brand&quot;:&quot;simulated&quot;}&#x27; curl localhost:8000&#x2F;v1&#x2F;robots&#x2F;bot-01&#x2F;sense </code></pre> It also connects to real ROS2 robots via rosbridge — I tested it today controlling a turtlesim robot drawing circles through the API.<p>The architecture is pluggable — each robot brand is a separate adapter implementing a common interface (like a payment gateway in Stripe). Adding a new brand means one file.<p>Currently supports: simulated robots and any ROS2 robot. Boston Dynamics and Universal Robots adapters are next.<p>Would love feedback from anyone working in robotics — especially on the API design and what&#x27;s missing for real-world use.

[Other] FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)

[DevOps] Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS ohai!<p>I&#x27;ve released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers.<p>It&#x27;s a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon.<p>If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide.<p>In any event, have a nice day! =)

[Other] Show HN: Codex context bloat? 87% avg reduction on SWE-bench Verified traces If you had to build a context window manager in 24h, would you stick to the existing model or come up with something better?<p>Here&#x27;s what I did:<p>1. Built a proxy that intercepts Codex&#x27;s calls to OpenAI and rewrites them on the fly.<p>2. Replayed 3,807 rounds of SWE-bench Verified traces through it: avg prompt 44k → 6k tokens (-87%).<p>3. Posted it to HN to get the next reduction applied to my confidence interval — starting with the inevitable &quot;How about accuracy?&quot;<p>npx -y pando-proxy · github.com&#x2F;human-software-us&#x2F;pando-proxy

[CLI Tool] Show HN: I built a CLI that turns your codebase into clean LLM input

[Other] Show HN: I Reverse Engineered Codex Background Computer Use

[Other] Show HN: Obscura – V8-powered headless browser for scraping and AI agents

[Other] Show HN: Claude Code Manager I built this for myself but I figured why not share.<p>The aim of CCM is to be able to fully manage all Claude Code configuration files, both globally and those in your project.<p>Some neat features:<p>- Manages your CLAUDE.md, rules, hooks, agents, memories and so on.<p>- Elevate memories to rules<p>- Copy&#x2F;Move any asset from one scope to another, or elevate it to global scope<p>- Install marketplaces and plugins<p>The full app is embedded right on the site as a demo so you can try it out.<p>I&#x27;m happy to receive feedback, I know it&#x27;s not perfect. Thanks for taking a look.

[Other] Show HN: Nimbus – Browser with Claude Code UX Hi HN, I&#x27;m Anil. Nimbus is a desktop browser with an AI agent built into it. The UX is shamelessly inspired by Claude Code: a chat bar at the bottom, an agent log above it, and the webpage itself when its needed.<p>This is mainly a UX experiment for me. And also the reason it isn&#x27;t a Chrome extension: once you have a chat bar that understands intent, the URL field is redundant. You shouldn&#x27;t have two places to tell the browser what you want. I didn&#x27;t want to bolt an agent onto an existing browser&#x27;s chrome and end up with duplicated controls everywhere — I wanted full freedom to redesign the shell from scratch, decide what stays, what goes, and what a browser even looks like when the agent is the primary interface.<p><pre><code> Download for macOS: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usenimbus.app Launch video: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;dj23-XIiB1o</code></pre>

[IDE/Editor] Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE

[API/SDK] OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

[Testing] CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code

[Other] CSS as a Query Language

[Other] Show HN: Browser Harness – simplest way to give AI control of real browser Hey HN,<p>We got tired of browser frameworks restricting the LLM, so we removed the framework and gave the LLM maximum freedom to do whatever it&#x27;s trained on. We gave the harness the ability to self correct and add new tools if the LLM wants (is pre-trained on) that.<p>Our Browser Use library is tens of thousands of lines of deterministic heuristics wrapping Chrome (CDP websocket). Element extractors, click helpers, target managemenet (SUPER painful), watchdogs (crash handling, file downloads, alerts), cross origin iframes (if you want to click on an element you have to switch the target first, very anoying), etc.<p>Watchdogs specifically are extremely painful but required. If Chrome triggers for example a native file popup the agent is just completely stuck. So the two solutions are to: 1. code those heuristics and edge cases away 1 by 1 and prevent them 2. give LLM a tool to handle the edge case<p>As you can imagine - there are crazy amounts of heuristics like this so you eventually end up with A LOT of tools if you try to go for #2. So you have to make compromises and just code those heuristics away.<p>BUT if the LLM just &quot;knows&quot; CDP well enough to switch the targets when it encounters a cross origin iframe, dismiss the alert when it appears, write its own click helpers, or upload function, you suddenly don&#x27;t have to worry about any of those edge cases.<p>Turns out LLMs know CDP pretty well these days. So we bitter pilled the harness. The concepts that should survive are: - something that holds and keeps CDP websocket alive (deamon) - extremely basic tools (helpers.py) - skill.md that explains how to use it<p>The new paradigm? SKILL.md + a few python helpers that need to have the ability to change on the fly.<p>One cool example: We forgot to implement upload_file function. Then mid-task the agent wants to upload a file so it grepped helpers.py, saw nothing, wrote the function itself using raw DOM.setFileInputFiles (which we only noticed that later in a git diff). This was a relly magical moment of how powerful LLMs have become.<p>Compared to other approaches (Playwright MCP, browser use CLI, agent-browser, chrome devtools MCP): all of them wrap Chrome in a set of predefined functions for the LLM. The worst failure mode is silent. The LLM&#x27;s click() returns fine so the LLM thinks it clicked, but on this particular site nothing actually happened. It moves on with a broken model of the world. Browser Harness gives the LLM maximum freedom and perfect context for HOW the tools actually work.<p>Here are a few crazy examples of what browser harness can do: - plays stockfish <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;shawn_pana&#x2F;status&#x2F;2046457374467379347" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;shawn_pana&#x2F;status&#x2F;2046457374467379347</a> - sets a world record in tetris <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;shawn_pana&#x2F;status&#x2F;2047120626994012442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;shawn_pana&#x2F;status&#x2F;2047120626994012442</a> - figures out how to draw a heart with js <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;mamagnus00&#x2F;status&#x2F;2046486159992480198?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;mamagnus00&#x2F;status&#x2F;2046486159992480198?s=20</a><p>You can super easily install it by telling claude code: `Set up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;browser-use&#x2F;browser-harness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;browser-use&#x2F;browser-harness</a> for me.`<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;browser-use&#x2F;browser-harness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;browser-use&#x2F;browser-harness</a><p>What would you call this new paradigm? A dialect?

[Other] Hear your agent suffer through your code

[CLI Tool] Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

[Other] Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

[Other] Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture All content is based on Andrej Karpathy&#x27;s &quot;Intro to Large Language Models&quot; lecture (youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI). I downloaded the transcript and used Claude Code to generate the entire interactive site from it — single HTML file. I find it useful to revisit this content time to time.

[Other] Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go