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installed omarchy today! first (raw!) impressions: - installation process itself was easy, but getting my PC to read the .ISO on my external SSD required some research. a USB thumbdrive might have been simpler - the OS is really fast. even

on cheap mini PC - love the automatic window tiling - keyboard-first navigation is great (something I already did on macOS, but on Omarchy it's even faster) - years of macOS keyboard shortcut muscle memory no longer working is VERY frustrating (and ironic, considering Omarchy is all about the shortcuts) - mouse movement feels a bit off even after trying to tweak the settings (macOS' is just REALLY good I think) - UI is pragmatic and gets out of the way. but still think macOS is nicer looking (sorry!) especially with the Liquid Glass fixes coming in the next release - installing my most used apps and logging into everything is a lot easier than I expected! - got a few weird errors and app crashes already, but I'm on the cutting edge release. I like that I can 1-click (or probably using some keyboard shortcut) debug the error in claude - all settings being config files is great, because easy to backup and claude can update it easily overall it's both fun, frustrating, and a great neuroflex. it reminds me of when I first started using vim after decades of textmate/sublime looking forward to see where @dhh and community will take this!

Show HN: Hacker News Client with Claude Code and Codex Integration

I often find interesting things in Hacker News posts and comments, but threads are often long and take a lot of time to go through. I built Rundown for this. It's a cross-platform desktop app with Claude Code and Codex integration that gives me a rundown of the post and comments, with links back to the comments it pulled each bit from. I can also chat with the post or the entire thread.

[OS] Osaurus update: setup is now a conversation. Ask for an agent, review the change, approve it. Free, open source, native Swift.

Hey r/macapps. Developer of Osaurus here. It's been two months. The comment from the last [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ukwiip/os_own_your_ai_our_biggest_update_yet_osaurus_is/) that stuck with me wasn't a compliment. It was someone saying they really wanted to like the app but walked away frustrated every time they tried it. They were right. Osaurus rewarded tinkering, and if you didn't tinker, it fought you. This update is for everyone who doesn't want to tinker. The big one is the **Orchestrator**: an agent whose whole job is managing Osaurus for you. In the video: I ask what Osaurus can do, and it answers from the app's live state. I ask it to create a marketing assistant. It plans the agent, shows me a card with exactly what will change, and applies it after I click approve. Then I say "every day at 6am, draft me a tweet" and it schedules that. No settings screens. No config files. You talk, you review, you approve. One design decision I want to be upfront about: the Orchestrator has no shell, no file access, no browser. It only configures and delegates. If it can change your settings, it shouldn't also have hands. Your custom agents do the real work, scoped how you choose, with code running in an isolated sandbox VM. Somewhere along the way this stopped being a chat app. Today it covers what I used to pay separate subscriptions for: * A second brain: point it at your documents and it answers from them * One memory that follows you across local and

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Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need an account to create or use a vault, and the hosted service never receives the vault itself. It's still early software and the independent security review isn't finished yet, so I am mainly interested in feedback, testing, and people looking through the code. (Linux support is yet to be released on v0.1.2, but currently is in the works.)

Show HN: Boop – tiny, self-hosted push notifications for your apps built in Go

Hi HN, I built Boop because I wanted application events sent directly to my phone without paying for another service or routing everything through Slack or Telegram. Boop is a small, open-source server paired with an open-source iOS app. The server currently uses around 8 MB of memory on my machine. It’s deliberately not an observability platform or a replacement for Sentry. It receives events from your applications, sends native push notifications, and keeps them in a purpose-built mobile inbox. I use Elixir, so I built an integration for ErrorTracker. ErrorTracker still captures and stores the errors; the plugin sends them to Boop so I can see them on my phone: https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop_error_tracker There’s also a general Elixir client: https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop_ex And a Node client: https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop-node The iOS app can be built and installed locally. I’ve included instructions for configuring private push notifications for your own device, so you don’t need to release anything through the App Store. Although errors were my original use case, Boop can receive any event worth knowing about: failed jobs, deployments, signups, payments, low disk space, or anything else your application can send. Built in Go because I wanted to save memory on my self-hosted machine so Go and Svelte felt like a good combo. Everything is free and open source. It’s early, so I’d especially appreciate fee

After 3 days I am confident in saying that Omarchy Quattro is the absolute best operating system I have ever used, hands down. Better than MacOS. Better than Ubuntu. Way better than Windows. I never knew how much I wanted a tiling window ma

nager until now. I never knew how slow everything else is until now. I didn't know that computing could be as easy and enjoyable today as it was back in the Commodore 64 era. It strikes the perfect balance between "it just works" and "it works if you put in the effort." MacOS is the former, other Linux distros are the latter. The AI integration with Omarchy makes it easy to customize and fix any problems along the way with minimum friction and frustration. Doing everything with keyboard commands takes me back to the Windows 3 era when Windows was fun and not an evil overlord. But I do know that I have only scratched the surface of what Omarchy has to offer. The future looks bright!

Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?

Nowadays, almost everyone codes with AI, right? I am a freelancer, and the entire market is now setting deadlines based on AI-assisted coding speeds. If you don't use AI, you simply cannot meet the deadlines. Because of this, I completely transitioned to AI-driven coding at the beginning of this year (starting around GPT-5.3). It's not that AI coding isn't fun. It is. But in the beginning, there were still many things AI couldn't do well. The community focus was on "Harness Engineering," attaching MCPs, or deep Prompt Engineering. I actually built and used quite a few custom AI tools during that phase. In the past, you had to provide not just your intent and direction, but also detailed, step-by-step instructions to reach that goal. Lately, though, even if you skip the detailed instructions, both Claude and GPT-5.6 handle it perfectly. You don't even have to agonize over which model to use. "Graph engineering" is currently trending, but it seems the models have already learned those patterns natively—if you establish a high-level plan with them, they automatically embed the execution policies into it. Whenever I try to learn and apply a new AI engineering technique, the next model update already does it out of the box, making the effort feel pointless. The real problem is that AI is now too good. It applies ADT patterns, immutability, Option/Maybe, Result patterns, functional programming patterns, monadic chaining, and architectural structures like MVC, MVVM, MVI, and He

Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need an account to create or use a vault, and the hosted service never receives the vault itself. It's still early software and the independent security review isn't finished yet, so I am mainly interested in feedback, testing, and people looking through the code. (Linux support is yet to be released on v0.1.2, but currently is in the works.)

Show HN: Boop – tiny, self-hosted push notifications for your apps built in Go

Hi HN, I built Boop because I wanted application events sent directly to my phone without paying for another service or routing everything through Slack or Telegram. Boop is a small, open-source server paired with an open-source iOS app. The server currently uses around 8 MB of memory on my machine. It’s deliberately not an observability platform or a replacement for Sentry. It receives events from your applications, sends native push notifications, and keeps them in a purpose-built mobile inbox. I use Elixir, so I built an integration for ErrorTracker. ErrorTracker still captures and stores the errors; the plugin sends them to Boop so I can see them on my phone: https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop_error_tracker There’s also a general Elixir client: https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop_ex And a Node client: https://github.com/chrisgreg/boop-node The iOS app can be built and installed locally. I’ve included instructions for configuring private push notifications for your own device, so you don’t need to release anything through the App Store. Although errors were my original use case, Boop can receive any event worth knowing about: failed jobs, deployments, signups, payments, low disk space, or anything else your application can send. Built in Go because I wanted to save memory on my self-hosted machine so Go and Svelte felt like a good combo. Everything is free and open source. It’s early, so I’d especially appreciate fee

After 3 days I am confident in saying that Omarchy Quattro is the absolute best operating system I have ever used, hands down. Better than MacOS. Better than Ubuntu. Way better than Windows. I never knew how much I wanted a tiling window ma

nager until now. I never knew how slow everything else is until now. I didn't know that computing could be as easy and enjoyable today as it was back in the Commodore 64 era. It strikes the perfect balance between "it just works" and "it works if you put in the effort." MacOS is the former, other Linux distros are the latter. The AI integration with Omarchy makes it easy to customize and fix any problems along the way with minimum friction and frustration. Doing everything with keyboard commands takes me back to the Windows 3 era when Windows was fun and not an evil overlord. But I do know that I have only scratched the surface of what Omarchy has to offer. The future looks bright!

Ask HN: AI writes better code than me. How to keep my identity?

Nowadays, almost everyone codes with AI, right? I am a freelancer, and the entire market is now setting deadlines based on AI-assisted coding speeds. If you don't use AI, you simply cannot meet the deadlines. Because of this, I completely transitioned to AI-driven coding at the beginning of this year (starting around GPT-5.3). It's not that AI coding isn't fun. It is. But in the beginning, there were still many things AI couldn't do well. The community focus was on "Harness Engineering," attaching MCPs, or deep Prompt Engineering. I actually built and used quite a few custom AI tools during that phase. In the past, you had to provide not just your intent and direction, but also detailed, step-by-step instructions to reach that goal. Lately, though, even if you skip the detailed instructions, both Claude and GPT-5.6 handle it perfectly. You don't even have to agonize over which model to use. "Graph engineering" is currently trending, but it seems the models have already learned those patterns natively—if you establish a high-level plan with them, they automatically embed the execution policies into it. Whenever I try to learn and apply a new AI engineering technique, the next model update already does it out of the box, making the effort feel pointless. The real problem is that AI is now too good. It applies ADT patterns, immutability, Option/Maybe, Result patterns, functional programming patterns, monadic chaining, and architectural structures like MVC, MVVM, MVI, and He

@blackanger Btw this thing is a 'user space window compositor'. What you see here runs as application ona mac, and it allows other makepad apps to exist inside of it like yr on a linux OS. It does NOT run random apps on macos. And on linux

it will just be the main window manager.

Дико интересно наблюдать за тем, как DHH делает свой дистрибутив линукса omarchy. Быстрый, красивый, opinionated (tiling wm + hyper app shortcuts). Последние новости: собрал у друзей-богачей по миллиону, среди вложившихся основатель Shopify

Тоби Лютке, основатель Страйпа Патрик Коллисон, Майкл Делл (Dell), Джэк Дорси (Твиттер), Мэтью Принс (Cloudflare), в общем usual suspects, только Хашимото не хватает. Получился фонд на 8 млн долларов. Противники обозвали проект Oligarchy Linux, и он с удовольствием это подхватил, зарегал https://t.co/cMj7EWsojT: «Burning billionaire money so you don’t have to configure Arch», «Free software. Expensive patrons», ну вы поняли идею. Линукс — реальный способ оживить старое железо, слабые ноутбуки начинают летать, как никогда под Виндой. А Dell вообще выпустил замечательный ноутбук, который почти по всем параметрам круче MacBook Air M series (да, трекпад все же хуже, но жить, говорят, можно). Я пока останусь на macOS (мои страдания излечились покупкой Air M5 с 24ГБ памяти), но звучит это все очень круто. Для хорошего пользовательского опыта, нужен человек наделенный властью, который думает о пользователях. Не о конкретной фиче, партнерстве с очередной корпорацией или квартальной премии (и даже акционерах), а об обычных людях, которые будут пользоваться этим продуктом. Билл Гейтс писал топ-менеджерам Microsoft знаменитые письма, после того, как ему было неудобно пользоваться Windows. Настойчивость, внимательность к деталям и бескомпромиссность С

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He said this is the feature Mac users have been begging for — and many don't realize it finally exists. "For years, Windows users had snap-to-side window management. Mac users had to pay for third-party apps like Magnet or Rectangle. macOS

now has native window tiling built in." "Drag a window to the left edge of the screen — it snaps to fill the left half. Drag to the right — it fills the right half. Drag to a corner — it fills that quarter of the screen." "You can also use keyboard shortcuts or the green window button. Hover over the green full-screen button in the top-left of any window — a dropdown appears with tiling options: Left Half, Right Half, Top, Bottom, and all four quarters." "Or use keyboard shortcuts: hold the Globe key (fn) and press arrow keys to tile windows instantly." "For anyone who works with two apps side by side — a document on the left and research on the right, email on one side and a spreadsheet on the other — this eliminates the manual resizing and dragging that wastes 5 minutes every day." "No third-party app needed. No installation. It's in your macOS right now. Most people are still dragging window edges manually."