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Show HN: Vita AI Coworker – Autonomous agents for testing and desktop automation

https://www.vita-ai.net
1•jdeng•1h ago
I've been following the Claude Cowork discussion this week with interest. The "AI coworker" framing resonated—we've been building Vita AI around the same idea: agents that work independently, not assistants you supervise.

We're focused on two main use cases: testing web apps and desktop automation. The key difference: our agents run in persistent cloud sandboxes instead of on your local machine.

Why this matters:

Isolation – Your local files and network never touch the agent. No DNS exfiltration, no filesystem access to your machine. The sandbox runs in the cloud, persistent for each task but completely isolated from your computer.

True autonomy – Tell it "test the checkout flow" or "automate this browser workflow," close your laptop, come back hours later to a full report with screenshots and logs. You delegate the work and walk away. No babysitting required.

Scale – Spin up 10 parallel agents without melting your CPU. Each agent gets its own environment in the cloud.

Trade-off: you can't use it offline, and there's network latency. But for testing and automation, async cloud execution is actually what you want.

Try it at https://vita-ai.net (free trial available). Built with Next.js 15, Drizzle ORM, and Vercel's AI SDK.

Different use case than Cowork (specialized for testing/automation vs. general tasks), but the same philosophical shift: moving from assistants to autonomous agents.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or how we think about security.

Foreigners' data stolen in hack of French immigration agency

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/01/05/foreigners-data-stolen-in-hack-of-french-immi...
1•eurg•1m ago•0 comments

Exposing muscle tissue to blood from Long Covid patients weakens mitochondria

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1758-5090/adf66c
1•brandonb•1m ago•0 comments

'The Technology Is There': Supreme Court Practitioners Embracing AI

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2026/01/15/the-technology-is-there-supreme-court-practitio...
1•hooverlabs•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Friend Zone, a curated list of web games to play with friends

https://friendzone.games/
1•johnsillings•4m ago•1 comments

BAML is a domain-specific language to generate structured outputs from LLMs

https://docs.boundaryml.com/home
2•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/12/16/earth-is-warming-faster-scientists-ar...
2•andsoitis•9m ago•0 comments

It's ridiculously fun to evolve flies to find food

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8f39482c-b2c7-4bd6-8d47-41bc7b678b7e
2•logicallee•12m ago•1 comments

Something Happens When You Straighten the Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cjLa5aOmsM
1•vinhnx•14m ago•0 comments

For me, Hacker News is probably the best community on the internet

6•DenisDolya•16m ago•0 comments

Aionui – Unified desktop workspace for multiple CLI AI agents

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/AionUi
1•testycool•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindFry – A database engine that implements biological memory decay

1•laphilosophia•18m ago•0 comments

Second and Third Order Effects of Vibe Coding

https://www.enterprisevibecode.com/p/second-and-third-order-effects-of-vibe-coding
1•mlady•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Differentiable Quantum Chemistry

https://github.com/lowdanie/hartree-fock-solver
1•lowdanie•21m ago•0 comments

Trump's 'Free Speech' Presidency Has Racked Up 200 Censorship Attempts

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/trumps-free-speech-presidency-racked-up-200-censorship-attemp...
5•HotGarbage•21m ago•2 comments

Writers and Their Day Jobs

https://lithub.com/the-work-behind-the-writing-on-writers-and-their-day-jobs/
1•keiferski•22m ago•0 comments

OpenAI will start testing ads in ChatGPT free and Go tiers

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2012223373489614951
2•jcfrei•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HORenderer3: A C++ software renderer implementing OpenGL 3.3 pipeline

https://github.com/Hobanghann/HORenderer3
2•zghdls•23m ago•0 comments

Dutch parcel deliverers (PostNL, DHL) shamed online raises privacy concerns

https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/16/dutch-parcel-deliverers-publicly-shamed-online-raising-privacy-conc...
3•giuliomagnifico•23m ago•0 comments

Looking for cofounder(s) in next‑gen memory (theory-driven and materials)

1•feynman_quantum•24m ago•0 comments

The Cruel, Conceited Follies of Trump's Foreign Policy: 2026 Edition

https://notesonliberty.com/2026/01/15/the-cruel-conceited-follies-of-trumps-foreign-policy-2026-e...
4•brandonlc•25m ago•0 comments

I'm building the finviz of prediction markers

https://www.polyviz.io/
1•mattmerrick•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center?

https://extrabar.app/
9•pugdogdev•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Feedback on an open cognitive framework (design and structure)

1•DELTA-X•26m ago•0 comments

Independent fellowships for post‑PhD next‑gen memory research

1•feynman_quantum•26m ago•0 comments

I Stopped Reading Fiction and How I Found It Again

https://leroy.works/articles/why-i-stopped-reading-fiction-and-how-i-found-it-again/
1•leroy-is-here•27m ago•0 comments

2025 was the third hottest year on record

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-re...
13•andsoitis•27m ago•2 comments

Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/bethesdas-former-elder-scrolls-loremaster-on-why-...
2•cainxinth•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI workflows for high converting social media videos

https://github.com/gptmarket/ai-workflows
1•tadasg•30m ago•0 comments

NATO members face tariffs increasing to 25% until Greenland purchase deal struck

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/trump-greenland-tariffs-nato.html
13•pseudolus•31m ago•1 comments

Dagwood Sandwich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagwood_sandwich
1•thunderbong•33m ago•0 comments