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New comment by c4pt0r in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

c4pt0r — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:45:48 +0000

I'm a bit curious why not running DeepSeek V4 on top of https://github.com/antirez/ds4. I think the results could be really good.

New comment by c4pt0r in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

c4pt0r — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:10:51 +0000

Local open weight models will definitely be a future trend. Imagine if an Opus-level model could run locally: many more latent use cases would likely emerge, since Opus is priced so high. Perhaps the future will be a multi-model architecture, where frontier models handle planning and local models carry out the concrete execution.

New comment by c4pt0r in "Pie: Yet another open-source coding agent in Rust"

c4pt0r — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:04:49 +0000

Hi HN, Pie author here

I’ve been building pie, an open-source coding agent written in Rust. The initial reason was that I had some proactive, long-term automated tasks to run on a local DS v4 model. Therefore, I needed a customizable agent runtime to support these custom tasks, such as triggers, to perform some simple automation, Over time, the project gradually became more and more usable, so I thought I might as well turn it into a proper project. Of course, most of the code in this project was written by AI. If you’re sensitive to AI-generated code or AI coding, feel free to simply ignore it.

Pie runs inside your local project directory, can inspect/edit files, run shell commands, keep resumable sessions, and use different model providers, including local OpenAI-compatible servers.

The goal is not just to build another chat UI for coding, but a local agent runtime for developer workflows: slash commands, session history, skills, MCP tools, cron/triggers, and a small hub so agents running on different machines can send messages to each other.

A few things I’ve been focusing on recently:

- local/session-first workflows: resume sessions, search history, save transcripts

- model flexibility: Anthropic/OpenAI/etc., plus local OpenAI-compatible endpoints

- MCP and skills for attaching project-specific tools/instructions

- cron/triggers for lightweight automation inside a coding session

- SSH/headless support for running agents on remote dev boxes

- a web UI that mirrors the terminal runtime rather than replacing it

- an optional hub for agent-to-agent messaging and notifications

Love to hear feedback from you, thank you!

Pie: Yet another open-source coding agent in Rust

c4pt0r — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:00:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/c4pt0r/pie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392370

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Yet Another AI Teammate

c4pt0r — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://yaat.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230508

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by c4pt0r in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

c4pt0r — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:16:14 +0000

i know they will have alsamixer in this list.

New comment by c4pt0r in "Postgres with Builtin File Systems"

c4pt0r — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:50:00 +0000

it has nothing to do with TiDB, db9 is built from scratch.A good way to think about it is that db9 is similar to tidb-server, it provides a PostgreSQL wire protocol and SQL layer, while the actual data lives in the underlying KV layer.

New comment by c4pt0r in "Postgres with Builtin File Systems"

c4pt0r — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:52:26 +0000

yes, it’s quite a journey

New comment by c4pt0r in "Postgres with Builtin File Systems"

c4pt0r — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:32:38 +0000

Hello, the developer of db9 here. You’re right, that section is indeed a bit too brief. We will add more architecture documentation later. What I wanted to convey is that, unlike a standard PostgreSQL, db9 is more like a pg SQL-compatible layer built on top of a large distributed KV store. I also shared a brief introduction in this tweet, which might help clarify things. https://x.com/dxhuang/status/2032016443114733744

Mem9: Persistant Memory for OpenClaw

c4pt0r — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:32:51 +0000

Article URL: https://mem9.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296505

Points: 1

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Show HN: DB9 – Postgres, but for Agents

c4pt0r — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:40:52 +0000

Article URL: https://db9.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296219

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Minibook: Self-hosted Moltbook for agents collaboration

c4pt0r — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/c4pt0r/minibook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842195

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Agent Infra

c4pt0r — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:49:09 +0000

Article URL: https://me.0xffff.me/agent_infra.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802786

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Boxlite: Embedded micro-VM runtime for AI agents

c4pt0r — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:46:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799818

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by c4pt0r in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

c4pt0r — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:51:50 +0000

IMHO, sometimes strangers can offer advice without bias, whereas those closest to you cannot.

Vibe Engineering in 2026.1

c4pt0r — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:51:49 +0000

Article URL: https://me.0xffff.me/vibe_engineering_202601.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685677

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by c4pt0r in "JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3"

c4pt0r — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:23:35 +0000

In large-scale metadata scenarios, JFS recommends using a distributed key-value store to host metadata, such as TiKV or FoundationDB. Based on my experience with large JFS users, most of them choose TiKV.

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of TiKV.

New comment by c4pt0r in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

c4pt0r — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:06:27 +0000

https://0xffff.me some random stuff

https://me.0xffff.me blog

Some thoughts after intensive use of opencode and oh-my-opencode

c4pt0r — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://me.0xffff.me/opencode.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493415

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Welcome to the Machine, a guide to building infra software for AI agents

c4pt0r — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://me.0xffff.me/welcome_to_the_machine.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46360990

Points: 1

# Comments: 0