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New comment by elondemirock in "GitHub is down again"

elondemirock — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:18:21 +0000

I'm happy that they're being transparent about it. There's no good way to take downtime, but at least they don't try to cover it up. We can adjust and they'll make it better. I'm sure a retro is on its way it's been quite the bumpy month.

New comment by elondemirock in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

elondemirock — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:20:28 +0000

Simplified agent task orchestrator named Kiln:

https://kiln.bot

Uses your local Claude Code as the agent and GitHub as its UI, things you already have. Open source, MIT License.

You move cards across kanban columns (Backlog -> Research -> Plan -> Implement) and Kiln runs Claude locally, opens PRs, and keeps everything tracked in GitHub.

New comment by elondemirock in "An Update on Heroku"

elondemirock — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 07:55:48 +0000

The simplicity it brought at the time to hand-jammed and complex processes was nothing short of exemplary. They set the bar on how streamlined application deployment can be and a great UI to go along with it.

Heroku may die but the ideas Heroku executed on and brought to life will continue to prosper... so long Heroku!

New comment by elondemirock in "Show HN: kiln.bot - Orchestrate Claude Code from GitHub"

elondemirock — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:35:42 +0000

Here to answer any questions (I hope you have questions)

Really looking forward to your feedback.

Show HN: kiln.bot - Orchestrate Claude Code from GitHub

elondemirock — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:30:50 +0000

Hey everybody!

"Kiln" orchestrates Claude Code instances on your local machine using GitHub projects as its control panel.

https://kiln.bot

https://github.com/agentic-metallurgy/kiln

If you're around Stage 6-7 on the Gas Town scale, you may have 3-15 terminal windows open. You're out of screen real estate and the markdown files are piling up. TUIs and specialized IDEs are meant to help, but they're more things to manage.

Kiln simply polls GitHub projects. When you move issues from one column to another, Kiln invokes Claude Code CLI to run the corresponding /command.

Claude creates the worktrees, researches the codebase, creates and implements the plan. Stores it in GitHub Issues.

It's meant to be simple, nothing new:

- Use your existing claude subscription (no auth trickery, runs locally)

- All context and state is on GitHub (no markdown mess, no local DBs, easy recovery)

- Poll instead of webhooks/events (no external attack surfaces, works behind VPN)

- Supports MCPs and anything else Claude can do

That's the heart of it and it works because... it's just Claude :)

It's got a few more tricks, but I'll cut it short.

ps: sorry for fresh account, needed a real name one :) been lurking since 2008.

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