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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
431•nar001•4h ago•206 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
136•bookofjoe•1h ago•115 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
438•theblazehen•2d ago•158 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
27•thelok•1h ago•2 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
87•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
779•klaussilveira•19h ago•241 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
35•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
22•mellosouls•2h ago•17 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
39•samasblack•2h ago•24 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
56•onurkanbkrc•4h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1027•xnx•1d ago•583 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
173•alainrk•4h ago•231 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
168•jesperordrup•10h ago•62 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
24•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
19•simonw•2h ago•16 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
103•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
5•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
14•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
265•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•42 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
277•dmpetrov•20h ago•147 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
35•matt_d•4d ago•10 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•263 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
419•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
364•vecti•22h ago•165 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•22h ago•207 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
16•sandGorgon•2d ago•4 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
457•lstoll•1d ago•301 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
372•aktau•1d ago•195 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
9•fainir•2h ago
CloudBot gives you a fully configured AI employee with its own cloud computer in one click. Built on OpenClaw.

What you get: - Full Ubuntu desktop environment in the cloud - Pre-installed AI agent that sees the screen and controls the computer - 24/7 availability - your AI keeps working while you sleep - Uses your own API keys for AI models - Starting at $69/month

The AI can use VS Code, browse the web, run terminal commands, manage files - anything you'd do on a real desktop. I wake up to completed code reviews, finished research reports, and updated documentation.

Built this because setting up an AI agent with a proper working environment was always the painful part. Now it's just one click.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSe4bvDMuKQ

Would love feedback from the HN community!

Comments

slfnflctd•1h ago
Interesting business model.

I have two questions:

1) Who do you see as primary competitors in this niche?

2) What is your model for managing liability in a situation where a naive, less technical (or plain lazy) customer lets one of these run a business without sufficiently verifying output? Your definition of due diligence may differ from theirs.

fainir•1h ago
Great questions!

1) Competitors: There are players approaching this from different angles - some focus on code completion (Copilot), some on chat (ChatGPT), some on specific automation tools. What I wanted was an end-to-end solution: a cloud-based AI employee with its own persistent environment. That's the gap I'm filling.

2) Liability: Valid concern. The AI can make mistakes, and that's a real risk. We're implementing safeguards - you can watch tasks in real-time, pause/stop at any point, and we encourage users to review outputs before deploying to production. It's definitely not "set and forget" for critical work. Still iterating on making this safer.

siva7•1h ago
Boy this sounds like the equivalent of Nightmare in Elm Street but for developers and instead of waking up to freddy you wake up to thousands of code reviews made by this thing.
throwatdem12311•1h ago
Or a dropped database.
deepsummer•1h ago
I can understand why you want an AI to use a desktop. But it's still absurd to use the least efficient interface possible for interactions with the outer world.

Having said that, fun project, good luck :) I am sure quite a few people would want to try it.

fainir•1h ago
Thanks for the feedback and the kind words!

I'm curious - what would you imagine as a better interface? The desktop approach has overhead, but the advantage is it can use ANY software (VS Code, browsers, GUI apps) without needing custom integrations for each tool.

Would love to hear your thoughts on alternatives!

CuriouslyC•1h ago
It looks like you're optimizing for meme value.
AndrewKemendo•1h ago
Feedback:

I’m not paying $70/mo to try this but there’s a price that I would that’s above free, maybe $5/mo and I’ll bring my claude/oai API key

If you had a one time “local” setup fee with deepseek/llama or whatever instead of the services, I’d probably pay more than $70

fainir•1h ago
Appreciate the honest feedback! Almost all of the $69 goes to cloud infrastructure costs (the instance runs 24/7 with GPU access). I hear you on wanting a lower entry point.

Two things I'm considering: - Local version (bring your own hardware) - would eliminate the cloud cost - Cheaper tier with limited hours

For now, the value prop is "one-click cloud solution" but I'll definitely explore local deployment soon. Thanks for the input!

mrbungie•1h ago
Why would you need a GPU for an AI managed instance? I guess it would useful for some workloads, but arguably not for most really.
TekMol•1h ago
This is just a sign-up page for a waiting list.

A sign-up page cannot be a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

fainir•1h ago
The product is fully functional - you can sign up and use it right away. We have a waitlist approval step because we need to manage cloud infrastructure capacity responsibly. Once approved (usually within hours), you get full access to spin up instances immediately.

Happy to fast-track if you want to try it out!

4b11b4•3m ago
Too early to give any sort of trust