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Show HN: Forcefield: A fast, lightweight local-first AI agent harness

https://github.com/fabledruns/forcefield
2•jehoshuam•44m ago
I spent the last 3 months building my own AI agent harness, fully written in Go. It's called Forcefield, and I primarily built it because I had trouble using local AI models with agent harnesses like Claude Code. I found the configuration needed to get local models working frustrating, and I wanted something simpler.

The main thing I've been optimizing for is the runtime itself. It needs to have low overhead, fast startup, and a simple enough system that users can run it locally without an account or telemetry.

I'd be interested in feedback from people who use local AI coding tools. If you try Forcefield and find any bugs, please open an issue on GitHub. I'm also interested in feedback on the architecture and overall UX.

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https://giodicanio.com/2026/07/28/why-we-should-double-check-the-ai-output-a-bug-which-wasnt/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/science/tilcayo-new-cat-species-bolivia.html
1•marojejian•2m ago•1 comments

Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?

https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.html
1•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

App Launch: GrabThat (NLP Launcher for Windows)

https://grabthat.ai/
2•kevanparker•3m ago•0 comments

Persistent Databases in the Browser with DuckDB-WASM and OPFS

https://duckdb.org/2026/09/18/opfs-wasm
1•erwinmatijsen•5m ago•0 comments

DropSlim – Local and open-source image compressor built with Rust and Tauri

https://github.com/onza/DropSlim
1•onza123456•9m ago•0 comments

Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror

https://netflixtechblog.com/leave-the-class-path-in-the-rearview-mirror-67a85b15b6be
1•BinaryRage•10m ago•1 comments

AI containment is a systems engineering problem

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-09-18-ai-safety-systems-engineering/
1•tknaup•12m ago•0 comments

Some of All Fears

https://sharptext.net/2026/some-of-all-fears/
1•cdata•12m ago•0 comments

You cry "AI generated" because you can't debunk the actual technical facts

https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/you-cry-ai-generated-because-you-cant-debunk-the-actual-te...
2•Bitu79•15m ago•0 comments

Alea iacta non est: rerolling the LLM dice

https://rolisz.ro/2026/alea-iacta-non-est-rerolling-the-llm-dice/
1•rolisz•17m ago•0 comments

Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390
2•bookofjoe•19m ago•0 comments

Testing whether a real fly connectome's wiring matters, using crypto as stimulus

https://github.com/mayombe67/moscaquant
1•vill4no•19m ago•0 comments

Ephemerals.dev – Disposable cloud dev environments

https://ephemerals.dev/
1•ishener•20m ago•0 comments

The Headword

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:The_Headword
1•altilunium•20m ago•0 comments

Lilo 0.2.2 – a Rust/egui Markdown notes app with widget and workspace modes

https://github.com/HellterEnjoy/Lilo
1•HellterEnjoy•22m ago•0 comments

Court shines a further light on who was at fault in SVB implosion

https://www.ft.com/content/24dc8ce0-5331-4280-ad85-c2dddcef429d
5•mustache_kimono•23m ago•0 comments

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/the-lamentable-later-life-of-lemmings/
3•doppp•26m ago•0 comments

Jev VC – Pitch Jev Your Startup

https://pitchjev.vercel.app/
1•Aeroi•28m ago•1 comments

US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments

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20•iamnothere•28m ago•3 comments

A systemd timer to log and lock kids out of their Linux accounts overnight

https://github.com/mowglixx/linux-parental-controls
1•bluepeter•29m ago•0 comments

Knot: A CLI ticket tracker for solo developers

https://github.com/UniSoma/knot
2•jxonas•29m ago•0 comments

How to run offline, local coding agents on Linux

https://ostechnix.com/atomic-chat-local-ai-coding-assistant-linux/
1•Muhammad523•29m ago•0 comments

From 2027 you must be at least 18 to use Dropbox

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/updates-to-our-terms-of-service-and-privacy-policy-2026
1•butz•30m ago•2 comments

Salesforce tracing without debug logs: every trigger, field write, and rollback

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1•cliqer1•30m ago•0 comments

Awesome-tunneling – List of ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale and related

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
1•peter_d_sherman•30m ago•0 comments

Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

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2•jandrewrogers•32m ago•0 comments

System Design Unboxed: new eBook and extras

https://books.lextrem.com/system-design-1/
1•hnque•33m ago•0 comments

Terrasat – Get Answers from Anywhere on Earth

https://terrasat.net
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The Physics of Database Speed: from 300 to 1M transactions per second [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOEL_pHFYK0
1•tanaykarnik•36m ago•0 comments