Hacker News: varbhat

New comment by varbhat in "Show HN: DesktopMCP – MCP server for the Linux desktop"

varbhat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:59:46 +0000

Hello HN,

I have created an MCP server for the Linux desktop. It gives AI access to the Linux desktop. I developed this with the assistance of the AI.

desktopmcp connects AI assistants to the Linux desktop through three system interfaces: XDG Desktop Portals for desktop operations, AT-SPI for semantic UI understanding, and D-Bus for low-level system access. It exposes 144 tools over the Model Context Protocol, letting an AI see what's on screen, understand UI structure, move cursor, click buttons, type text, manage files, operate inputs and interact with desktop services.

Show HN: DesktopMCP – Let AI See and Operate your Linux desktop

varbhat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:59:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/varbhat/desktopmcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666602

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by varbhat in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

varbhat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:45:28 +0000

Thanks! I dislike this

New comment by varbhat in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

varbhat — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:59:16 +0000

I have moved to KeepassXC[1] on my desktop from Bitwarden. On phone, I use KeepassDX[2] which is Android client compatible with KeepassXC. On browser, I use KeepassXC Browser extension which connects with the desktop client. Since KeepassXC operates on a single file, you can use any Filesystem syncing tool to sync that file between devices or to store it in the cloud. I am really happy with the move.

[1]: https://keepassxc.org [2]: https://www.keepassdx.com

Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating

varbhat — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:14:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cs-falsehoods.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765247

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by varbhat in "Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?"

varbhat — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:29:34 +0000

I don't understand this. This post is saying that ChatGPT is good and is a forerunner because it provides a nice Mac App.

In my opinion, not everything requires a native app. AI Chat assistants are completely fine to be used in the web browser. for most used applications like slack, I do have native application( even slack which is website in a shell is completely usable as a desktop application). What i really don't understand is the benefit of a ChatGPT native application other than native widgets instead of web elements.

New comment by varbhat in "Nano Banana Pro"

varbhat — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:12:48 +0000

Can anyone please explain me the invisible watermarking mentioned in the said promo?

New comment by varbhat in "Passkeys: They're not perfect but they're getting better"

varbhat — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:54:12 +0000

I agree. I use Bitwarden on my Samsung Android phone and also on my Linux desktop. Bitwarden currently supports passkeys on almost all the apps on my android including firefox. The same passkeys which i used to login on my phone can be used on my Linux desktop where i use Firefox with Bitwarden extension. What's now possible was not even possible at the start of this year. I haven't switched everything to passkeys but i can see it as an alternative to passwords now(passwords really shines in some areas too).

I read about Passkey comittee being against open source passkey managers during start of this year (can't reference it, sorry) but with open source password/key managers already supporting passkeys, i don't think it turned out to be true.

New comment by varbhat in "Wine 10.15 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

varbhat — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:12:58 +0000

How's wine wayland shaping up? Will it be default in future for the wayland?

New comment by varbhat in "Why was Apache Kafka created?"

varbhat — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:49:10 +0000

Does anyone use https://nats.io here? I have heard good things about it. I would love to hear about the comparisons between nats.io and kafka

New comment by varbhat in "Pixel 10 Phones"

varbhat — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:27:15 +0000

I want to know how the TSMC-manufactured Tensor processors compares to Samsung-manufactured Tensor processors and also how TSMC-manufactured Tensor processors compare to TSMC-manufactured Snapdragon processors. Samsung's Tensors (also Exynos) had the fame of getting superhot. I want to know if these problems persist in new Tensor chips.

New comment by varbhat in ""Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec""

varbhat — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:25:28 +0000

i thought that HTML spec is immutable.

New comment by varbhat in "A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries"

varbhat — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:21:15 +0000

> low-income

someone has to pay for the servers at the end. are you asking for openai to subsidize ChatGPT Pro for low-income countries? Since OpenAI is for-profit entity focussed on profits, I don't think it might be a wise idea financially for OpenAI to do so.

New comment by varbhat in "Ask HN: Why every AI company is building a browser?"

varbhat — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:17:06 +0000

it was chat-ui last year, vscode forks this year and maybe browsers are next.

New comment by varbhat in "Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default"

varbhat — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:32:34 +0000

Until the time when Microsoft realises this and creates a privileged API just for Microsoft Recall so that It can see the screen.

Better switch to Linux. It's not perfect but I am sure that you will be fine using Linux(Unless you want to use Adobe Suite or Few Corporate applications which won't be used by many)

New comment by varbhat in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

varbhat — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:34:38 +0000

I would like to use tailwind css for styling but i also like components provided by these CSS frameworks.

Basically a DaisyUI, but with looks of Bootstrap or Semantic-UI

New comment by varbhat in "DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components"

varbhat — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:28:09 +0000

I don't like the way how Daisy UI looks. But, I do like the way how Bootstrap or Semantic-UI CSS frameworks look. Has anyone tried to recreate the components of Bootstrap or Semantic UI using Tailwind CSS (including the looks)?

New comment by varbhat in "CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems"

varbhat — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:25:57 +0000

...then goes on to promote "CSS-in-JS"

New comment by varbhat in "Helix Editor 25.07"

varbhat — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:38:31 +0000

vim keybinding. helix doesn't have vim keybindings. it might or might not be better but it isn't vim keybinding.

New comment by varbhat in "Helix Editor 25.07"

varbhat — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:35:52 +0000

It's a soft fork trying to catch up with the main codebase. It feels like a second class citizen. Features introduced in Helix might not be intended for usage with vim keybindings anyway.