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Show HN: Bestie, a coding agent that respects you

https://github.com/jolexxa/bestie
1•jolexxa•43m ago
hi friends! this year, i've been working on a general purpose, native terminal coding agent harness. i remember being absolutely struck the first time i ever used claude code and it could just do things. i'm also a big fan of crush and pi.

it's pretty early on. i still have yet to build all the higher-level behaviors that make something go from a harness to a proper agent. it turns out, making a coding agent is incredibly hard because you have to strap a development environment to an llm. in my hubris, i had thought "oh—it's just a terminal app that calls some api's!"

i'm trying to provide all the things that i think an agent should have out of the box: subagents, sandboxing, compaction, cross-platform support, a beautiful interface, etc. i would be absolutely delighted if you'd give it a go (as far as safety goes, the sandbox tends to be too restrictive rather than too lenient—i'm trying to figure it out as i go).

i made bestie because i don't like it when agents do things and don't tell you what they're doing. or when the harness itself won't provide visibility into things. so bestie is architected around being able to inspect anything that happens in an inspector pane that shows you the inputs/outputs of every tool call, background job update, and shell process.

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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
1•JumpCrisscross•44s ago•0 comments

Dragon Microkernel in Spark Ada

https://github.com/tigerlang/dragon
1•tigerlang•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tarfio bounded spending controls for MCP tools

https://github.com/yiaany/tarfio
1•eugenehizyyo•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Million Dollar Prompt

https://milliondollarprompt.org/
1•fxn-m•1m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator Early Access Network

https://events.ycombinator.com/yc-early-access-fall-26
1•tosh•4m ago•0 comments

Hire Every Engineer Like You'd Hire a VP

https://businessasusual.io/p/executive-search-methods-for-engineering
2•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Don't ban children from social media, Estonia tells EU

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/dont-ban-children-social-media-estonia-tells-eu-6368126
1•Markoff•8m ago•1 comments

First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/aug/first-patient-live-ai-assisted-sight-saving-brain-surgery
1•DeepLogin•8m ago•0 comments

I made 5 AI models play a golf season. I think we benchmark agents wrong

https://offscriptlabs.ai/
1•DylanSwan•8m ago•0 comments

Enhancing soil science research with multi-agent AI systems [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEjFdRimNlU
1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Loss of salt iodization harmed child survival/academic achievement in Ethiopia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-026-01408-y
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

A model built to detect voter fraud is testing the limits of election trust

https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/09/03/election-truth-alliance-walter-mebane-2024-election-...
1•hn_acker•10m ago•1 comments

The three times I said no to Tim Berners-Lee

https://capybaraleech.substack.com/p/the-three-times-i-said-no-to-tim
1•jcfrei•10m ago•0 comments

Singapore raises PM Lawrence Wong's pay by $1M

https://www.ft.com/content/f06ee0ea-adcf-44ec-80c9-bb616885d8de
1•michaelhillaert•12m ago•2 comments

10x More Efficient Pretraining

https://magic.dev/blog/pretraining
1•meetpateltech•12m ago•0 comments

$1 In, $100 Out: Does the AI Math Add Up?

https://ganeshanmalhotra.substack.com/p/1-in-100-out-does-the-ai-math-add
2•Ganeshan007•12m ago•0 comments

A teardown of the Claude desktop app

https://www.telkins.com/blog/a-teardown-of-the-claude-desktop-app
2•trevor-e•13m ago•0 comments

Color Wheel Combinatorics

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/09/08/color-wheel/
2•ibobev•14m ago•0 comments

The state of European cloud providers in 2026

https://crescentro.se/posts/euro-cloud-providers-2026/
1•veeti•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crossposter – open-source browser extension for social media posting

https://crossposter.mochi.is/
1•k1m•15m ago•0 comments

AI Programming: A Layered Model

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/05/ai-programming-a-layered-model/
1•ibobev•15m ago•0 comments

School librarians hesitant to discuss books amid Texas battle to restrict titles

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/04/texas-school-library-books-student-reading-dan-patrick/
3•hn_acker•17m ago•2 comments

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/03/python-sets-and-dictionaries-can-have-quadratic-time-performance/
2•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

Do you think it happened? Research stolen from their Codex private chats

https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/s/psWHRr9864
6•KingOfMyRoom•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sparrow-2 – Noise cancellation isn't designed for conversational AI

https://sparrow2.tavuslabs.org/
5•code_brian•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Posterlet – Free AI poster maker, unlimited

https://posterlet.com
1•allanren•19m ago•0 comments

The fallacy of placing confidence in confidence intervals

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-015-0947-8
2•theanonymousone•19m ago•0 comments

When generation gets cheap, judgment gets scarce

https://gradientflow.substack.com/p/i-think-ai-teams-are-defending-the
2•qikouki•20m ago•0 comments

Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policy

https://www.ft.com/content/2e97fb28-24cf-4ab0-89b1-454b4f97cdbc
10•JumpCrisscross•20m ago•0 comments

Spawn: Place to Make Games with Friends

https://www.spawn.co
1•jsquared71•21m ago•0 comments