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Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
62•franze•1h ago•18 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2026/press-release/
109•Anon84•1h ago•48 comments

I'm in a Meeting

https://iminafleeting.com/
35•splintersio•2h ago•6 comments

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/
830•jonotime•1d ago•739 comments

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
802•gmays•19h ago•160 comments

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

https://github.com/microsoft/mxc
63•nreece•6h ago•25 comments

Once: Cache CLI Commands

https://github.com/alex0ptr/once
15•baquero•2h ago•7 comments

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-i...
755•ck2•1d ago•463 comments

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

https://unsung.aresluna.org/deeper-dive-keyboard-differences-between-windows-and-macs/
182•sohkamyung•8h ago•158 comments

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

https://antonfrolov.substack.com/p/i-hired-an-illustrator-to-draw-my
702•soheilpro•2d ago•137 comments

Yes, and

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/
500•Michelangelo11•1d ago•168 comments

Theranos.world

https://www.theranos.world/
474•kbyatnal•18h ago•162 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/fired-openai-safety-researchers-dispute-misconduct-claims-warn-...
43•trakkstar•2h ago•20 comments

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

https://ken.arneson.name/2015/11/the-value-of-not-getting-to-the-point/
180•NaOH•16h ago•63 comments

OTel-Native by Design – Building Products That Export to Any Observability Stack

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-native-by-design/
50•dhruv_ahuja•5h ago•10 comments

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

264•mariocesar•2d ago•430 comments

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

https://karagila.org/2026/openai-pp/
136•md224•12h ago•205 comments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

https://naturalsystems.io/eth68
173•chabad360•1d ago•98 comments

AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment

https://biohub.org/news/virtual-biology-initiative-expansion/
132•ray__•15h ago•19 comments

Beauty in DVD Menus

https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus
312•speckx•22h ago•167 comments

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

https://quake-srp.pages.dev/
181•ilreb•6h ago•141 comments

DuckDB Ducklake

https://github.com/duckdb/ducklake
194•saikatsg•1d ago•23 comments

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/program-status-osc7501
159•mfiguiere•2d ago•47 comments

Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

http://scottbezek.blogspot.com/2026/10/making-flexible-neon-t-shirt-with-leds.html
179•scottbez1•19h ago•31 comments

OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results

https://twitter.com/danintheory/status/2108065033070789090
329•sashank_1509•1d ago•580 comments

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9
205•pyduan•1d ago•93 comments

ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full
330•bookofjoe•15h ago•211 comments

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview
131•AnneWodell•19h ago•31 comments

What should we tell our students?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/
127•sajid•9h ago•170 comments

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/archaeologists-are-reconstructing-the-invisible-tec...
138•Hooke•1d ago•55 comments
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Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
58•franze•1h ago

Comments

ForHackernews•43m ago
"and they keep hitting the same wall, the part that only a human may do"

Grim. If you're just there to click sudo buttons for the bot, you might as well give it root access and be done.

franze•35m ago
Claude refuses to do certain actions (enter passwords, change security settings, create new accounts on external services) even in Yolo mode running as sudo. (I tested it all on its own mac machine)
gwerbin•32m ago
You can add custom auto-mode classifier rules and even disable the built-in ones, if you want to live on the edge like this.
satyanash•41m ago
Am I missing something here?

What terminal / agentic workflows spawn the demonstrated dialogue boxes that require the User to click/reject the action? Aren't most such flows actually inline UIs? And finally, if the core issue is that these confirmation boxes are tied to the terminal that triggered them, which does not autofocus, what's the point of said "big arrow" that is also lurking behind without focus?

If the said "big arrow" automatically gains focus, isn't the real fix here to just make the dialogue boxes themselves gain focus automatically? Both are similarly disruptive anyway.

inanutshellus•33m ago
The first example (of HN) is the one that feels like it has the most potential to me.

"Teach me to use this app myself" kinda stuff. Guiding agent rather than doing agent.

lapestenoire•36m ago
I love it.
einpoklum•33m ago
More LLM-authored items about LLM slop.
inanutshellus•28m ago
As long as it has value... I'll allow it.

~guywithnopowertodisallowit

TekMol•32m ago
Swift, Shell, Python and Objective-C

Does one need 4 programming languages to draw something on a mac?

sitzkrieg•31m ago
welcome to zombocom. err i mean modern HN :-(
vessenes•30m ago
Interesting. When I read the headline I imagined this would be a sort of thinking trace booster -- letting the agent focus its own attention on different parts of the screen. But this is cool in a different way. I bet agentic harnesses would find it useful for communicating with other agents / themselves as well.
nixosbestos•27m ago
What a time to be a radical centrist - the AI haters seem out of touch, the AI thought leaders can't stop huffing their farts and being condescending, and somehow this is on the top of HN. What a silly time.
FinnLobsien•22m ago
This could be great for documentation. Screenshots in docs are frequently useless because they show me a screen and say "click X" where I still have to search X visually. And I could just to dhat in the other tab I have open.
isoprophlex•20m ago
Literally unusable as it is. Some minimal extra features this would need:

- rainbow dripping arrows

- angrily pointing arrows

- flame-surrounded text boxes with particle effects

- the ability for the agent to play airhorn.wav at max volume, overriding existing volume or mute settings

thih9•11m ago
At the risk of stating the obvious - let's not do that, the goal of this repo is to be useful and not to give agents the power of the `<blink>` tag.
xyzsparetimexyz•19m ago
Seems like a pretyu useful way to help infants use desktop computers
arshxyz•8m ago
The README is geared towards technical people (complete with the HN screenshot) but when I see a tool like this all I can think of is how helpful this would be for my mom when I'm trying to tell her how to download and print a document over the phone
DonHopkins•6m ago
Ha ha, I wrote a pointing hand overlay in PostScript in 1989 for NeWS:

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/psiber/cyber/pointer.ps

https://youtu.be/_fqCeuue5Ac?t=213

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-oct...