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Article URL: https://github.com/CorporateSmalltalkConsultingLtd/ClaudeSmalltalk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285104

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Article URL: https://github.com/andreagrandi/mb-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285094

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I kept paying $150-350 per UGC video, waiting a week, and still getting mediocre hooks. So I built an alternative.

Paste a product URL -- AI scrapes it, writes the script, generates a UGC-style video with actor, voiceover and subtitles. Under 5 minutes. Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, ElevenLabs (voiceover), Vercel, Stripe, Resend.

$1 trial.

Would love feedback on output quality and the pricing model.

Happy to answer technical questions about the pipeline.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285091

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I finally got fed up with making work + personal Git repos work on my machine.

Ever clone a work repository and accidentally make commits using your personal email? Or forget how to make your work repos use your work SSH key? Yeah... same.

So I built the tool I've always wanted. GitPersona - a CLI tool for managing many git profiles on a single machine.

Shoutout to my boy Codex for helping me finally ship this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285084

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This project puts a lightweight layer in between your gmail-account and OpenClaw. When OpenClaw sends an e-mail, it can only send drafts. You can then in your e-mail program either send the mail or adjust the draft and send it back to OpenClaw. This makes OpenClaw much more usable.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285062

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Article URL: https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285058

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Article URL: https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285024

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-completes-3000-km-green-belt-around-its-biggest-desert-state-media-says-2024-11-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285017

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/katanalarp/status/2029928471632224486

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284998

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I built a small macOS menu bar app that lets you check your Claude Code subscription usage with a single click, without touching your terminal.

## The problem

If you use Claude Code heavily, you probably run multiple sessions across multiple terminal windows. When you want to check how much of your usage limit you've burned through, your only option is to type `/usage` inside a Claude Code session. That means either:

1. *Interrupting a running agent* mid-task to type a command, or 2. *Opening a new terminal and starting a new session* just to check a number

Both are disruptive. You lose flow, and the agent loses context.

## Why not just call the usage API?

A lot of community tools solve this by grabbing the OAuth token that Claude Code stores in the macOS Keychain and calling Anthropic's usage API directly. This works, but it has a real UX and security cost: *macOS will prompt you every time a third-party app tries to read that Keychain item.* You get a system dialog asking whether to allow access, sometimes repeatedly. It's not a smooth experience, and handing your OAuth token to another process is a legitimate security concern.

## How CC Usage Bar works differently

CC Usage Bar takes a simpler, zero-trust approach. It doesn't touch your Keychain, doesn't make any network calls itself, and doesn't parse or store any credentials. Instead, when you click the menu bar icon, it:

1. Spawns a real Claude Code session in a pseudo-terminal (PTY) 2. Sends the `/usage` command 3. Captures and renders the output with full ANSI color fidelity 4. Terminates the session immediately

It literally runs `claude` the same way you would, just in a hidden terminal. The data comes straight from Claude Code itself, so it's always accurate and reflects the latest state. No reverse engineering, no API scraping, no hacks.

## What it looks like

A single icon in your menu bar. Left-click to open a popover showing your current usage. Click outside to dismiss. That's it.

- Native Swift/SwiftUI app, runs as a lightweight menu bar agent (no Dock icon) - macOS 14 Sonoma or later - Requires Claude Code already installed and on your PATH

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/yilei-he/cc-usage-bar (MIT licensed) - Download pre-built .app from the Releases page, or build from source with Xcode

Happy to hear feedback or ideas. If you've been annoyed by the same workflow interruption, give it a try.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284990

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Article URL: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/02/2026-02-12-nintendo.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284938

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OpenAI released Symphony — a project-level orchestrator that watches your Linear board, spawns isolated coding agents per task, and lands PRs automatically. Engineers manage work at a higher level instead of supervising agents one by one.

They shipped an Elixir reference implementation and explicitly said "implement it in any language you want." So I built the Go version — with multi-agent team coordination on top, so multiple agents can collaborate across different parts of a codebase in parallel. Currently supports openai/codex and opencode as agent runtimes.

GitHub: https://github.com/junhoyeo/contrabass

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284926

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Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/world/new-zealand-australia-emigration-midlife-intl-hnk-dst

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284916

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Article URL: https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/two-mechanisms-for-dynamic-type-checks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284899

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Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/dupeless-reeducation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284885

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Hey everyone,

I'm the original co-creator of RedwoodJS. (The framework that myself and Tom Preston-Werner, Rob Cameron and David Price built during Covid.)

I had tried to build a developer tool startup (Snaplet), and failed. I rejoined the efforts to add RSC to Redwood, but I realized that we needed a much simpler framework that was closely tied to a platform (We chose Cloudflare).

We started building RedwoodSDK a year ago and this is the result. An insanely simple stack. I am incredibly proud of this work, please star our repo and let me know if there's anything that doesn't resonate with you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284875

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Hi HN,

I built SlideHTML as a small experiment after noticing that LLMs are surprisingly good at writing HTML layouts.

Instead of building another slide editor, I tried the opposite approach: let AI generate slides directly as HTML.

SlideHTML is a small Electron app that simply watches a folder and renders each HTML file as a slide.

My workflow is basically:

1. Open a folder 2. Ask Claude Code or Gemini CLI to generate slides 3. SlideHTML renders them live 4. Hit present

No editor, no proprietary format — just HTML.

The whole thing was built in about 3 hours as an experiment.

Curious what HN thinks about HTML as a slide format in the AI era.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284873

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Article URL: https://blog.urth.org/2022/02/14/frontend-rust-without-node

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284870

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Article URL: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/03/screenome-digital-habits-smartphone-mental-physical-health

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284868

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Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-successfully-transfer-longevity-gene-paving-the-way-for-extending-human-lifespan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284854

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