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[Other] GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware

[Other] Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours Hi HN!<p>I’ve always found it hard to explore the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa online. Most content is either long-form or scattered, and understanding a character like Karna or Bhishma usually means opening multiple tabs.<p>I built <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ithihasas.in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ithihasas.in&#x2F;</a> to solve that. It is a simple character explorer that lets you navigate the epics through people and their relationships instead of reading everything linearly.<p>This was also an experiment with Claude CLI. I was able to put together the first version in a couple of hours. It helped a lot with generating structured content and speeding up development, but UX and data consistency still needed manual work.<p>Would love feedback on the UX and whether this way of exploring mythology works for you.

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[Other] Show HN: Mcptube – Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea applied to YouTube videos I watch a lot of Stanford&#x2F;Berkeley lectures and YouTube content on AI agents, MCP, and security. Got tired of scrubbing through hour-long videos to find one explanation. Built v1 of mcptube a few months ago. It performs transcript search and implements Q&amp;A as an MCP server. It got traction (34 stars, my first open-source PR, some notable stargazers like CEO of Trail of Bits).<p>But v1 re-searched raw chunks from scratch every query. So I rebuilt it.<p>v2 (mcptube-vision) follows Karpathy&#x27;s LLM Wiki pattern. At ingest time, it extracts transcripts, detects scene changes with ffmpeg, describes key frames via a vision model, and writes structured wiki pages. Knowledge compounds across videos rather than being re-discovered. FTS5 + a two-stage agent (narrow then reason) for retrieval.<p>MCPTube works both as CLI (BYOK) and MCP server. I tested MCPTube with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, and others. Zero API key needed server-side.<p>Coming soon: I am also building SaaS platform. This platform supports playlist ingestion, team wikis, etc. I like to share early access signup: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0xchamin.github.io&#x2F;mcptube&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;0xchamin.github.io&#x2F;mcptube&#x2F;</a><p>Happy to discuss architecture tradeoffs — FTS5 vs vectors, file-based wiki vs DB, scene-change vs fixed-interval sampling. Give it a try via `pip install mcptube`. Also, please do star the repo if you enjoy my contribution (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xchamin&#x2F;mcptube" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;0xchamin&#x2F;mcptube</a>)

[CLI Tool] Show HN: Dbg – One CLI debugger for every language (AI-agent ready) AI agents are great at writing code but blind at runtime. They guess, print, and waste tokens.<p>I built dbg to give them a real debugger experience. Since it is backend based with the few I implemented (still at basic level) it can support 15+ languages with one simple CLI (still some work needed but it is functional as it is):<p>LLDB, Delve, PDB, JDB, node inspect, rdbg, phpdbg, GHCi, etc. Profilers too (perf, pprof, cProfile, Valgrind…)<p>I also added GPU profiling via `gdbg` (CUDA, PyTorch, Triton kernels). It auto-dispatches and shares the same unified interface. (Planning to bring those advanced concepts back to the main dbg).<p>Works with Claude &amp; Codex (probably works on others but didn&#x27;t try them)<p>Quick start: ``` curl -sSf <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;redknightlois&#x2F;dbg&#x2F;main&#x2F;install.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;redknightlois&#x2F;dbg&#x2F;main&#x2F;ins...</a> | sh dbg --init claude (for claude) ```<p>Then just say: “use dbg to debug the crash in src&#x2F;foo.rs”<p>Docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redknightlois.github.io&#x2F;dbg&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redknightlois.github.io&#x2F;dbg&#x2F;</a> GitHub (MIT Licensed): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;redknightlois&#x2F;dbg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;redknightlois&#x2F;dbg</a><p>Would love feedback from anyone building agents. What languages or features are you missing most? Ping me at @federicolois on X or open issues.

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[Other] Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

[Other] Show HN: Equirect – a Rust VR video player This is almost entirely created by Claude, not me. I know some people aren&#x27;t into that. I was one of them 3 months ago. Since the beginning of the year I finally started getting more serious about trying out AI. The company I work for also had an AI week with lots of training. All I can say is I&#x27;m pretty blown away. My entire life feels like it changed over the last month from someone who mostly writes code to mostly someone that prompts AI to write code. And just for a tiny bit of context, I&#x27;m 60yrs old and have been coding since 1980.<p>I get all the concerns, and I review all AI code at work and most AI code for personal projects. This one in particular though, not so much. I get that&#x27;s frowned on but this is a small, limited scope, personal project. Not that I didn&#x27;t pay attention, Claude did do some things in strange ways and I asked it to fix them quite often. But, conversely, I have zero rust experience, zero OpenXR experience, zero wgpu expericence, next to zero relevant Windows experience.<p>I&#x27;m guessing I spent about ~30 hours in total prompting Claude for each step. I started with &quot;make a windows app that opens a window&quot;. Then I had it add wgpu and draw hello triangles. Then I had it add OpenXR and draw those triangles in VR. That actually took it some time as it tried to figure out how to connect a wgpu texture to the surface being drawn in OpenXR. It figured it out though, far far faster than I would have. I&#x27;d have tried to find a working example or given up.<p>I then sat on that for about a month and finally got back to it this weekend and zoomed through getting Claude to make it work. The only parts I did was make some programmer art icons.<p>I can post the prompts in the repo if anyone is interested, and assming I can find them.<p>Also in the last 2 weeks I&#x27;ve resurrected an old project that bit-rot. Claude got it all up to date, and fixed a bunch of bugs, and checked off a bunch of features I&#x27;d always wanted to add. I also had Claude write 2 libraries, a zip library, an rar decompression library, as well as refactor an existing zip decompression library to use some modern features. It&#x27;s been really fun! For those I read the code much more than I did for this one. Still, &quot;what I time to be alive&quot;!

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[Database] Show HN: Rekal – Long-term memory for LLMs in a single SQLite file I got tired of repeating myself to my LLM every session. rekal is an MCP server that stores memories in SQLite and retrieves them with hybrid search (BM25 + vectors + recency decay). One file, local embeddings, no API keys.

[CLI Tool] I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI

[Database] Show HN: T4 – a versioned datastore with branching and time-travel (S3-backed) Hi HN,<p>I built t4, a datastore that stores its WAL and snapshots in S3.<p>Instead of traditional storage, it writes append-only segments to object storage and reconstructs state from checkpoints + WAL.<p>A side effect of this model is that the database becomes naturally versioned: you can restore any past state, branch from any point (with copy-on-write) and replay history<p>I started this as an experiment to replace etcd in Kubernetes, but it’s evolving into a general-purpose versioned state store.<p>Curious what people think about it and appreciate any feedback!

[CLI Tool] Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User Hello everyone.<p>Claudraband wraps a Claude Code TUI in a controlled terminal to enable extended workflows. It uses tmux for visible controlled sessions or xterm.js for headless sessions (a little slower), but everything is mediated by an actual Claude Code TUI.<p>One example of a workflow I use now is having my current Claude Code interrogate older sessions for certain decisions it made: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;halfwhey&#x2F;claudraband?tab=readme-ov-file#self-interrogation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;halfwhey&#x2F;claudraband?tab=readme-ov-file#s...</a><p>This project provides:<p>- Resumable non-interactive workflows. Essentially `claude -p` with session support: `cband continue &lt;session-id&gt; &#x27;what was the result of the research?&#x27;` - HTTP server to remotely control a Claude Code session: `cband serve --port 8123` - ACP server to use with alternative frontends such as Zed or Toad (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;batrachianai&#x2F;toad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;batrachianai&#x2F;toad</a>): `cband acp --model haiku`. - TypeScript library so you can integrate these workflows into your own application.<p>This exists cause I was using `tmux send-keys` heavily in a lot of my Claude Code workflows, but I wanted to streamline it.

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[Other] Show HN: Git why – log your agent reasoning trace along your code I was frustrated with not being able to know why the code written by my colleague agents was in the codebase, so I build a tool to version agent trace along code in git.

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[Other] Show HN: Docker-whisper: Self-hosted Whisper speech-to-text server (OpenAI API)