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Show HN: Lodestar – Read, respond and manage coding agents more naturally

https://www.try-lodestar.com/
1•elushine•1h ago
I was frustrated by having 10 terminal windows open, and I checked a few solutions on how to make this better. They are all nice, but then I realized what I really wanted was something that feels a bit deeper and more intelligent than a "dashboard" of all your agents.

For example, I routinely have 3+ agents exploring different frontiers of the same idea. How do I keep them inline? What if I see 3 more promising directions from one of them? How do I tie up all the loose ends? If I see one agent got a brilliant observation, how do I easily spread that to other agents?

So I started exploring many ways to connect agents together. That led me to realize that the actual fundamental things are not the agents, but the substance. Understandings, decisions, insights, etc. Can I quickly understand what's said? Can I quickly react to it? Can I quickly find it two days later? Can I quickly share to other agents? When ideas and insights are scattered across agents, can I organize those? Can I easily share with the next new agent?

I tried to make optimizations through those angles. Though still far away from my vision, there is enough value that I think it's interesting to share. A few concrete features:

- Agents proactively leverage graphs and annotations to explain ideas

- You can comment inline on text, docs, html files. React to things right where they are

- You can find messages or docs from days, weeks ago by describing what you remembered instead of using exact keywords. Agents can too.

- You can organize topics and sessions in hierarchical or graphical structure (automatically). Or ask an agent to do it if you want it in some particular flavor. In those session maps, everything remains clickable and interactive, with real time status too. So you can have an agent to start 10 sessions in the morning, draw their dependencies and relationships, and watch each agent work through their task until everything in the whole map is finished. Add, remove, tweak, or reorganize the tasks as you wish.

Anyway, that's a lot of words... I don't expect you to read all that. If you find it interesting enough, give it a try!

Communication Doesn't Have a Compiler

https://wreckitrob.dev/posts/6-communication-doesnt-have-a-compiler
1•WreckItRob•25s ago•0 comments

Anthropic Moves Ahead with IPO Plans Amid A.I. Safety Debate

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technology/anthropic-ipo-ai-safety.html
2•AlexDragusin•3m ago•0 comments

When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic

https://www.radioworld.com/tech-and-gear/nicks-signal-spot/when-the-fm-band-goes-transatlantic
2•austinallegro•3m ago•0 comments

Punctum Books Catalog

https://punctumbooks.com
1•horsellama•4m ago•0 comments

AI Error Nearly Triggered U.S. Intercept of Chinese Ship

https://gcaptain.com/ai-error-nearly-triggered-u-s-intercept-of-chinese-ship-cnn-reports/
1•gumby•5m ago•1 comments

Labeled matches: why is this not in every regex engine?

https://iev.ee/blog/categorize-everything-all-at-once/
1•birdculture•8m ago•0 comments

I Cancelled My Claude Subscription

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/09/18/i-cancelled-my-claude-subscription.html
1•datadrivenangel•8m ago•1 comments

Graduating in AI Era Is Like Large Recession for Starting Pay

https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2026/adrm/CES-WP-26-56.html
2•DeepLogin•11m ago•0 comments

Human brain is two separate organs

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
2•amirmc•12m ago•0 comments

IAM Needs an Architectural Split

https://gluufederation.medium.com/iam-needs-an-architectural-split-258f0aa13dd4
1•idm_guru•14m ago•0 comments

I used Jev to control a swarm of 15 simulated drones in real time

https://github.com/khordoo/jev-reflex-autonomy-lab/tree/main
2•khordoo•14m ago•0 comments

Napster Is Now Making AI-Powered 'Digital Twins' of Teachers

https://gizmodo.com/napster-is-now-making-ai-powered-digital-twins-of-teachers-2000814010
1•MC995•14m ago•0 comments

Data Centers Are Breaking the Power Grid [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X71le3av1So
4•Bender•18m ago•1 comments

Partnering with Accenture on Embedded Evaluation

https://www.anthropic.com/news/accenture-embedded-evaluation
2•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

Taking Out the Trash in Postgres

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/scaling-deletions-in-postgres
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

The last IMO problem AI could not solve [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0
3•pykello•20m ago•0 comments

Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world/europe/campaign-for-north-africa-game.html
2•ynac•20m ago•1 comments

Why a Vat API Needs More Than a Rate Lookup?

https://vat-engine.app/blog/why-a-vat-api-needs-more-than-a-rate-lookup
1•vasyl_kyryliuk•24m ago•0 comments

Iran and China Create Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technology/iran-china-autonomous-ai-influence-campaigns.html
3•sbulaev•26m ago•1 comments

Uncle Bob Martin's UML Tool to Manage Grok AI Agents

https://github.com/unclebob/uml-viewer
1•rmason•28m ago•0 comments

Astra broke a yet unsolved German Army Enigma message from 1941

https://mvueh-enigma-solved.carterl.chatgpt.site/
2•bananaflag•29m ago•1 comments

Grokbot Source Code Leak

https://twitter.com/Ri7erLi/status/2100875181380055402
1•river-li•30m ago•0 comments

It's Your Story, Dammit – Quit Letting Somebody Else Write IT

https://jeffreylminch.substack.com/p/its-your-story-dammit-quit-letting
1•rmason•30m ago•0 comments

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899
41•throw7•31m ago•7 comments

Is Beef the Next Internal-Combustion Engine?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/is-beef-the-next-internal-combustion-engine
3•littlexsparkee•32m ago•0 comments

AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400k Reddit posts

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260912222856.htm
3•gradus_ad•33m ago•0 comments

AI chatbot's false report nearly sparked war with China, sources say

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1465265/ai-chatbot-s-false-report-nearly-sparked-war-with-china-...
4•billybuckwheat•34m ago•1 comments

Claude Code 2.1.277 adds support for AGENTS.md

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/a92ea1cdb11ad21f9d583fad2db181dfdac918a6
1•skwashd•35m ago•0 comments

The Tech Bro in the Treaty Room

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/18/jacob-helberg-state-china-ai-profile-01082572
2•Tomte•36m ago•0 comments

3Blue1Brown: The last IMO problem AI could not solve [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0
4•Razengan•36m ago•1 comments