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Show HN: Sidekins – a Mac companion that visits friends and does your work

https://www.sidekins.com
2•18kage•1h ago
I'm a small indie developer, I've made a mac app called Sidekins

It is a small desktop character that you can design yourself(I call it a Kin/Sidekin) and lives around your screen and peeps from the side when not in use.

It is a very social app, you can add your friends and chat with them using your Kin. It is an AI agent so you can ask in the main chat to delivery some message to your friend and it creates the message you want and animation using your Kin and goes to your friends desktop and speaks/act out your message.

You can also ask it to help you "guide" through your mac, or any app, it moves and points around telling you how things work. There is also a "do" mode, this actually does things for you on your mac, like play this song on Spotify or add an iPhone 16 to my amazon cart.

you can see the demos here on the website on what and how it does things : www.sidekins.com

Currently, it works on Mac with apple silicon, and has 300 free messages.

Try it out, and connect with me on the app: @18kushaljain

I'm Done Playing the YouTube Game

https://themakerdad.com/im-done-playing-the-youtube-game/
1•speckx•25s ago•0 comments

The AI Pascal's Wager

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html
1•birdculture•31s ago•0 comments

Nvidia introduces 64GB DGX Spark to throw local AI fans a lifeline

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-introduces-64gb-dgx-spark-to-throw-local-a...
1•theanonymousone•47s ago•0 comments

He (Trump) asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro

https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview/
1•chrsstrm•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Which companies are building hard tech in SoCal?

https://www.socalfoundry.com/
1•alvarodlcruz•2m ago•0 comments

Spicycrab (Python Language Summit 2026) – Python Insider

https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-spicycrab/
1•rbanffy•2m ago•0 comments

Retro Gaming: It's Not Nostalgia, It's Resistance

https://www.publicbooks.org/retro-gaming-its-not-nostalgia-its-resistance/
1•paimapi•3m ago•0 comments

Rai: CPU-only LLM inference engine in pure Rust

https://github.com/Classevelabs/rai
1•simonpure•4m ago•0 comments

Giving your AI context through .md files

https://transcripted.app/
1•justinbetker•5m ago•0 comments

Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026) – Python Insider

https://blog.python.org/2026/09/language-summit-2026-rust-for-cpython/
2•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1143774/redefining-enterprise-intelligence-with-auton...
1•joozio•8m ago•0 comments

AI is supposed to be deflationary. Here's what the macro data suggests

https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/ai-deflation
2•p-s-v•9m ago•0 comments

Copy on Write queue daemon prevents state bleeding

https://towardsdev.com/macropay-solutions-php-framework-re-engineering-the-queue-worker-daemon-ze...
1•marius-ciclistu•10m ago•0 comments

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)

https://devforum.play.date/t/dirty-optimization-secrets-c-for-playdate/23011
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

Finding Bugs

https://matklad.github.io/2026/09/19/finding-bugs.html
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/quick-fdb-kafka/
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

The Paris Bridge That Never Was (2014)

https://parisianfields.com/2014/04/20/the-paris-bridge-that-never-was/
1•joebig•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Social SDK, a typed TypeScript toolkit for 7 social platforms

https://github.com/opencoredev/social-sdk
1•leoisadev•12m ago•0 comments

Nexusyn – Long-term memory engine for AI agents (Go, DiskANN, MCP)

https://github.com/nexusyn/engine
1•lrdeoliveira•12m ago•0 comments

Is College Still Worth It? (2025)

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/is-college-still-worth-it/
1•loughnane•14m ago•0 comments

World Bank structures $301M to backstop Ukraine mortgage market [pdf]

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099093026053521701/pdf/P517177-c11fc375-46fd-41cc-9a2...
2•AvityN•15m ago•0 comments

EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-microsoft-teams-alternative-bad-reviews-element-pro/
1•Sick-Poster•15m ago•0 comments

How to Stop Shipping Low-Quality RL Environments (With Examples)

https://www.latent.space/p/bad-envs
1•Rafsark•17m ago•0 comments

Our Future in the Cloud: Can We Prevent Technological Dystopia?

https://btrblocks.com/blog/our_future_in_the_cloud/
1•greghn•18m ago•0 comments

A quick trip to the uncanny valley

https://blog.fsck.com/2026/10/02/a-quick-trip-to-the-uncanny-valley/
2•speckx•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Who Asked? (Oct 2026)

2•catcharisma•20m ago•0 comments

Anthropic invests $100M to train 10k engineers

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-frontier-academy
2•louiereederson•21m ago•0 comments

Using light-dark() without getting caught out

https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/using-light-dark-without-getting-caught-out
1•eustoria•21m ago•0 comments

Fast Unrounded Scaling: Proof by Ivy (Floating Point Formatting, Part 4)

https://research.swtch.com/fp-proof
1•tosh•22m ago•0 comments

What's in a Name?

https://design.scotentblog.co.uk/whats-in-a-name/
1•eustoria•23m ago•0 comments