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New comment by cmsparks in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

cmsparks — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:39:33 +0000

538 was actually pretty accurate!

They had a good article about how their predictions were much better than you'd expect, but obviously I can't link it anymore because ABC removed it.

New comment by cmsparks in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

cmsparks — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:26:42 +0000

No idea. ABC bought it and slowly has been shutting down the parts of it. They got rid of the projects page, then laid off all the folks working on it after the election, and now have gotten rid of all of the articles.

Fortunately the Github is still up: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

cmsparks — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:07:08 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553

Points: 322

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New comment by cmsparks in "Claude plans will get a dedicated monthly credit for programmatic usage"

cmsparks — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:37:36 +0000

If my read of this is correct, this means that Agent SDK orchestrator tools don't get subsidized usage.

This seems to intentionally be trying to kill the other (much better IMO) interactive Claude Code desktop apps...

Portability Problems: Syncing Coding Agent State Across Machines

cmsparks — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omnara.com/blog/sandbox-sync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951761

Points: 1

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New comment by cmsparks in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

cmsparks — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:33:53 +0000

That would prolly work for simple sites, but you still need the dedicated scraping service with a browser to render sites that are more complex (i.e. SPAs)

We cut Node.js' memory in half (so you don't have to)

cmsparks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:27:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.platformatic.dev/we-cut-nodejs-memory-in-half

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054933

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:36:39 +0000

Sandboxing, which is an optional, opt-in feature, requires persistent access to the code via our github integration + us syncing certain refs to our backend.

However, even if you don't opt into syncing, tool calls will end up sending pieces of code from your codebase to our backend. That's just the nature of how we handle persistence of chats. Though messages/chats are retained until you delete them.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:29:26 +0000

Reposting part of what Ishaan said elsewhere:

> We don't have E2EE yet (it's on the roadmap), so some level of trust in Omnara is required today. All repo operations happen locally on your machine. For messages/chat history: we store those encrypted at rest because we need access to sync across devices, send notifications, and resume agents. Cloud sandboxing is opt-in and would require syncing codebase state.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:13:49 +0000

Yeah, we have parallel agent functionality, sort of like conductor. This allows you to create worktrees for your repo and run any number of chats per worktree. On your local machine, we don't have any unique sandboxing capabilities, but we reuse your sandboxing settings from Claude or Codex if you have them set. The cloud sandboxing is more isolated, but still has access to the internet.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:11:55 +0000

When I say harness agnostic, I more mean we're agnostic to what harness is running, sort of like Zed with ACP: https://agentclientprotocol.com/overview/introduction. It still necessitates bringing the SDK and us writing an adapter for the SDK, but you still get to use the same chat interface for all the agent SDKs.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:00:54 +0000

We're not a fork, and from what I've heard from users our architecture is more reliable

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:58:29 +0000

they're free up to a limit, just like us!

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:42:12 +0000

We've seen a decent amount of comparisons to Happy, but anecdotally from some Omnara users who have used both, I've heard that reliability and latency when sending messaages is much better in Omnara

We try to provide more features on top as well, including (but not limited to):

* improved web interface

* worktrees

* sandboxing

* richer git management (richer diffs, checkpoints, git operations)

* preview URLs

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:35:12 +0000

Thanks, we try to make it much easier than self hosting and managing your own tunnels! Let us know how it goes.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:13:34 +0000

Our goal is building infrastructure around the agent tools, which I think is how we'll build up a moat and provide automation value. I agree that competing with the labs on general tools is probably a bad business decision, but I'd argue that just means we should compete on the infrastructure, not the harness/model.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:01:23 +0000

When we started out, people were asking "Why would you want to continue coding on your phone". There's obviously a ton of competition now, but I think it's also validation for us.

Even though this might be "the obvious thing", I think there is a non-obvious way to build it.

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:56:54 +0000

> branching not from main

This is actually a PR that I have open right now, it'll be out soon!

> automatic capitalization

We'll get this fixed

> automatic worktree names

definitely on our roadmap, probably will do that this week

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:23:25 +0000

Yeah we've definitely taken some inspiration from everyone who building an agent orchestrator/delegation app right now!

New comment by cmsparks in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

cmsparks — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:12:31 +0000

Anecdotally from some Omnara users who have used both, I've heard that reliability and latency when sending messaages is better in Omnara

We try to provide a decent chunk of features on top as well, including (but not limited to):

* web support

* worktrees

* sandboxing

* richer git management (richer diffs, checkpoints, git operations)

* preview URLs