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Inspired by tools like "Browser MCP", I wanted a way for LLMs to see my CLI/TUI applications during testing/debugging to help me troubleshoot issues quickly. Yes, LLMs can already spawn terminals on their own, however this allows both you and the LLM to interact concurrently.

There are other creative uses for it... like I can get Claude Code to use the full Gemini or Codex CLIs and ask for help on a problem. Others have pointing out achieving similar results via tmux, however my approach is simpler without that extra layer.

What you’re doing is coming…Microsoft is already working on this problem—the issue is trust. I only see this working as an open source initiative where people can inspect the code, run their own servers and provide their own keys. Maybe do open core in which you upsell certain reports or other features.

A journalist digging for details before writing a story is what one expects. The real question is how reputable is this journalist and outlet? What's the risk here? That they'll quit their job and go copy your thing instead? If answering that question puts your company at risk, then the issue may be the level of value you provide on top of whatever tools/frameworks you used.

“Analyzes email as you read them”

I have 108k unread emails on Gmail. “Analysis” as I read them isn’t my pain-point. Surfacing the 2-3 important emails I get daily so that I don’t miss something important among all the noise is really all I want from AI.

Everyone is focused on helping me write emails or summarize emails; things I frankly do not care about.

That said, I like the idea of a copilot for the browser, it just requires a great deal of trust in your company since I’m giving you access to my entire life.

I’ve been considering this to get media on my Surface tablet. There’s no “legitimate” way of having offline content on a Windows tablet which baffles me. Netflix, Prime, Disney… none of them will allow you to download content for offline viewing on Windows.

An idea I’m working on is allowing the integration of APIs by writing a prompt. I’d have a large number of APIs of different types and I’d discover the best endpoint and execute it and return the results. First time your code runs would “compile” the prompt, so subsequent execution would run O1. This could be used by a human or an AI agent. let temp = Get(“current temperature in NYC in F”) Simple scenarios like these are easy, but looking at more sophisticated stuff as well.

Apple Invites 1 year ago

Just tried the app, I like that you can create a shared photo album. Pretty useful feature.

Apple Invites 1 year ago

Hard to believe? Where have you been? What other platform has billions of users that everyone should use instead?

For the first time ever, I managed to run Linux on a primary machine for a year. Before that, either issues with software or hardware would consistently have me through my hands up and give up.

While it was pleasant while it lastly, I ended up reinstalling Windows on my Surface Pro 9 since the machine began randomly freezing after installing a set of updates (I was running Ubuntu with SurfaceLinux kernel).

Surprisingly, Windows with WSL has been more pleasant to use than I remember. I haven’t run Windows in 10+ years, but so far im encouraged to continue trying it.

In 2025, being able to afford lobbies is the barrier of entry. “Playing fair” and simply building better products isn’t exactly the name of the game. If it were, they would’ve been a lot less billionaires at inauguration. OpenAI didn’t “invent” this, they’re just playing the same game everyone else is.

Devcal.dev 2 years ago

Links at the top of the page (demo) don’t work on iPhone

Not open source? Not built with rust? Not an over-engineered fart app? HN won’t show you any love. Sorry, I’m just bitter over dumb posts with 800 votes while most Show HNs representing moths or even years of people’s time being ignored. Congrats on launching! It’s so hard to get stuff out the door as a solo founder, so kudos. The site looks great. Any reason why the product couldn’t be scaled outside of Argentina?

Starring projects is how I “bookmark” them so I can easily find them later. A high number of stars indicates many devs are interested in the project… if I had to chose a UI library with 10 stars versus one with 30,000 stars, it should be obvious why you’d pick the later. More interest likely means a bigger community behind the product.