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Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere
by kmansm27 | 2025-08-12 16:33:38+00:00
Hey ya’ll, Ishaan and Kartik here. We're building Omnara (https://omnara.com/), an “agent command center” that lets you launch and control Claude Code from anywhere: terminal, web, or mobile — and easily switch between them.

Run 'pip install omnara && omnara', and you'll have a regular Claude Code session. But you can continue that same session from our web dashboard (https://omnara.com/) or mobile app (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/omnara-ai-command-center/id674...).

Check out a demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/03d30efcf8e44035af03cbfebf840c73.

Before Omnara, we felt stuck watching Claude Code think and write code, waiting 5-10 minutes just to provide input when needed. Now with Omnara, I can start a Claude Code session and if I need to leave my laptop, I can respond from my phone anywhere. Some places I've coded from include my bed, on a walk, in an Uber, while doing laundry, and even on the toilet.

There are many new Claude Code wrappers (e.g., Crystal, Conductor), but none keep the native Claude Code terminal experience while allowing interaction outside the terminal, especially on mobile. On the other hand, tools like Vibetunnel or Termius replicate the terminal experience but lack push notifications, clean UIs for answering questions or viewing git diffs, and easy setup.

We wanted our integration to fully mirror the native Claude Code experience, including terminal output, permissions, notifications, and mode switching. The Claude Code SDK and hooks don't support all of this, so we made a CLI wrapper that parses the session file at ~/.claude/projects and the terminal output to capture user and agent messages. We send these messages to our platform, where they're displayed in the web and mobile apps in real time via SSE. Our CLI wrapper monitors for input from both the Omnara platform and the Claude Code CLI, continuing execution when the user responds from either location. Our entire backend is open source: https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara.

Omnara isn't just for Claude Code. It's a general framework for any AI agent to send messages and push notifications to humans when they need input. For example, I've been using it as a human-in-the-loop node in n8n workflows for replying to emails. But every Claude Code user we show it to gets excited about that application specifically so that’s why we’re launching that first :)

Omnara is free for up to 10 agent sessions per month, then $9/month for unlimited sessions. Looking forward to your feedback and hearing your thoughts and comments!
by pythonaut_16 | 2025-08-12 16:34:04+00:00
QR Codes is the main case I've looked at where the shorter link makes a difference in the complexity (and therefore scannability) of the generated code.

But otherwise I think it's about traffic and tracking.

First in that you can track visitors to the short link, perhaps in a more centralized place if your org has multiple systems or if you're linking to sites you don't otherwise control. And secondly it's used when tacking on tons of query parameters that would otherwise make it too long even with expanded character limits. And just aesthetically a short link might be more aesthetic in your post.

Imagine seeing "link.short/abcd1234" vs "linksrus.corporate/blog/2025/08/12/the-title-of-our-post.html?utm=something&some-other-tracking-param=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&even-more-data-in-the-url&some-hashed-value=QXNoIG5hemcgZHVyYmF0dWzDu2ssCiAgIGFzaCBuYXpnIGdpbWJhdHVsLApBc2ggbmF6ZyB0aHJha2F0dWzDu2sKICAgYWdoIGJ1cnp1bS1pc2hpIGtyaW1wYXR1bAoKT25lIHJpbmcgdG8gcnVsZSB0aGVtIGFsbCwKICAgb25lIHJpbmcgdG8gZmluZCB0aGVtLApPbmUgcmluZyB0byBicmluZyB0aGVtIGFsbAogICBhbmQgaW4gdGhlIGRhcmtuZXNzIGJpbmQgdGhlbS4KCg"
by scottbez1 | 2025-08-12 16:34:05+00:00
This statement "Tesla and Musk are very good about privacy and leaving control with the user" is pretty clearly false [1]:

> between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
by martin-t | 2025-08-12 16:34:15+00:00
> Any business that needs money to start needs people to risk their reputation or their money to get it going

Nobody is risking their reputation, that's just being over-dramatic.

Money? Sure. There's two kinds of people here:

a) Rich but not obscenely so - you can save up enough from normal work to get enough runway to start a small company which grows organically - you get a few really good people (who might even accept a lower salary than they could command it a corporation just because they want to work on something meaningful for once) and/or you do a lot of the work yourself. Then you keep building until you get income or run out of money. Factorio is a great example of this approach succeeding - but even they needed to use Indiegogo at one point and were close to not making it.

b) Those obscenely rich - those who have more money than a single person could make from positive-sum work, no matter how skilled. (Art/sport/showbusiness are interesting exceptions but are they really positive sum?) These people have so much money they don't care if they lose it sometimes, as long as they multiply it sometimes. If you fund 10 companies, each with 10% chance of success, only 1 needs to make it and give you >10x return on investment. If you own an apartment complex with 30 people and take a third of each person's salary, you can afford to fund a company of 10 people indefinitely.

As a result, the obscenely rich get a much higher chance to succeed, in turn owning more companies, in turn getting more rich.

> If I design a machine and you build it, who owns what?

Ownership does not have to be exclusive. In fact, it almost never should. It should be distributed based on the amount of work, skill required, competence, etc.

It can get complex but let's not pretend it's worse than the current salary negotiations where one side is basically blind and pair per unit of work and the other has all the information and takes a cut from everyone's output.
by tootie | 2025-08-12 16:34:34+00:00
I've lived in NYC since the mid-90s which was about the peak for crime so that's exactly what I'm commenting on. The police did some things better, but the dropping crime rates were not just local or even national, but global. No mayor or police chief can take credit for it. Similarly if you want to attribute the 2020 crime wave and recent ebb, it begins and ends with COVID-19. No humans involved at all.
by bawolff | 2025-08-12 16:34:41+00:00
> Why would the base state be "No cryptography, no communication, no information" and not "No cryptography, communication, information?"

Because you treated cryptography as a field in its entirety. I think in practise that is how cryptography as a field works normally. Most secret messages communicated with crypto simply wouldn't be communicated (or just communicated in person) without the availibility of cryptography.

Even if the alternative is communicating in a way open to evesdropping i think there is still an intent requirement.

> Exactly at which point does the lie happen?

When there is intentionality to mislead (including by omission).

If you want to be really nitpicky, the definition i would give would be:

Taking (or failing to take) some action for the purpose of causing an adversary to have incorrect or incomplete beliefs that benefit you.
by jameshart | 2025-08-12 16:34:43+00:00
Nothing in the article mentioned how good the LLMs were at even entering valid text adventure commands into the games.

If an LLM responds to “You are standing in an open field west of a white house” with “okay, I’m going to walk up to the house”, and just gets back “THAT SENTENCE ISN'T ONE I RECOGNIZE”, it’s not going to make much progress.
by rootnod3 | 2025-08-12 16:34:54+00:00
So, more tokens means better but at the same time more tokens means it distracts itself too much along the way. So at the same time it is an improvement but also potentially detrimental. How are those things beneficial in any capacity? What was said last week? Embrace AI or leave?

All I see so far is: don't embrace and stay.
by tomhoule | 2025-08-12 16:35:02+00:00
Yeah they definitely belong in the same space. Nexus is an LLM Gateway, but early on, the focus has been on MCP: aggregation, authentication, and a smart approach to tool selection. There is that paper, and a lot of anecdotal evidence, pointing to LLMs not coping well with a selection of tools that is too large: https://arxiv.org/html/2411.09613v1

So Nexus takes a tool search based approach to solving that, among other cool things.

Disclaimer: I don't work on Nexus directly, but I do work at Grafbase.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-12 16:35:20+00:00
> The whole game of Rationalism is that you should ignore gut intuitions and cultural norms that you can't justify with rational arguments.

Specifically, rationalism spends a lot of time about priors, but a sneaky thing happens that I call the 'double update'.

Bayesian updating works when you update your genuine prior believe with new evidence. No one disagrees with this, and sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's difficult to do.

What Rationalists often end up doing is relaxing their priors - intuition, personal experience, cultural norms - and then updating. They often think of this as one update, but what it is is two. The first update, relaxing priors, isn't associated with evidence. It's part of the community norms. There is an implicit belief that by relaxing one's priors you're more open to reality. The real result though, is that it sends people wildly off course. Care in point: all the cults.

Consider the pre-tipped scale. You suspect the scale reads a little low, so before weighing you tilt it slightly to "correct" for that bias. Then you pour in flour until the dial says you've hit the target weight. You’ve followed the numbers exactly, but because you started from a tipped scale, you've ended up with twice the flour the recipe called for.

Trying to correct for bias by relaxing priors is updating using evidence, not just because everyone is doing it.
by anthonyronning | 2025-08-12 16:35:22+00:00
> And 250 dollars/month was considered expensive

No, it was not my intention for price to be the main thing people hooked in on with this article. It's the combination of it all. Better reliability, performance, and infrastructure AND it's more affordable.

> warrant a full time dedicated engineer

TBH, it's basically my sole full time job as the CTO.

> half a technical write-up, half an ad for both companies

I've been frustrated by Neon for months now and excited about PlanetScale's new postgres offering. Was pleasantly surprised by it too and wanted to write about it. I do appreciate you writing this and sorry if it comes up too much like an ad for us. Only meant to share our unique experiences and satisfaction with a new thing.
by shayway | 2025-08-12 16:36:11+00:00
I'm not sure which is more concerning: how easy it was to fall for it in the first place, or the mental gymnastics some are going through to place the blame outside themselves.

A lie is a lie, it does not matter how plausible it is. "No smoke without fire" is complete bullshit that leaves room only for cascading hatred.

In this case, there's definitive proof of it being a hoax, and news of it seems to be spreading. But how many more subtle falsehoods are being spread, ones that aren't as easily disproven? And how many perfectly plausible lies does it take for a narrative to become self-sustaining?

There is no shortage of real and verifiable things to be outraged about (Tesla-related or otherwise). Don't waste your headspace on anything less.
by jameslk | 2025-08-12 16:36:28+00:00
Surely you can do all of those things and still be a machiavellian psychopath?

Or be too lazy to do those things and still have altruistic intentions?

Couldn’t someone have both selfish and altruistic intentions simultaneously?

My point being, it’s hard to know the truth but easy to assume the worst about someone. Maybe I don’t have enough context to know otherwise, but I don’t see a reason to jump to the conclusion this kid is a psychopath
by 12345ieee | 2025-08-12 16:36:52+00:00
> git itself has become a bloated product. There's like 2-3 ways to do everything now

can you elaborate?

After a decade of use I've seem some more cutesy porcelain popping up, but the commit-tree basic concepts have never changed.

The company I work at is using the same exact branching strategy I introduced when we moved to git, with essentially no discussion in the meantime.
by bglazer | 2025-08-12 16:36:55+00:00
Here's one: Yudkowsky has been confidently asserting (for years) that AI will extinct humanity because it will learn how to make nanomachines using "strong" covalent bonds rather than the "weak" van der Waals forces used by biological systems like proteins. I'm certain that knowledgeable biologists/physicists have tried to explain to him why this belief is basically nonsense, but he just keeps repeating it. Heck there's even a LessWrong post that lays it out quite well [1]. This points to a general disregard for detailed knowledge of existing things and a preference for "first principles" beliefs, no matter how wrong they are.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8viKzSrYhb6EFk6wg/why-yudkow...
Show HN: Created 60 free useful tools in one place
by bubblebobble | 2025-08-12 16:37:22+00:00
Hey there, I'm a solo dev behind KewlTools.

So I'm one of those people who like to build their own tools/utilities whenever they a) want to get something done, or b) want to learn something. c) don't want to spend ages finding a utilty and going through walls of ads.

I gradually built 66 tools, all free, fast, ad-free, and zero login.

I (and my family/friends) use these daily, so thought some of you will find it useful!

Any suggestions, improving current tools or adding new ones, please let me know.
by titzer | 2025-08-12 16:37:36+00:00
Ransomware attacks against hospitals and a dark extortion economy churning tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars a year in losses and waste.

What would the "sky falling" look like to you? If you're expecting dramatic movie scenes like something out of Mr Robot, I'm afraid the reality is more mundane, just a never-ending series of basic programming errors that turn into remote code execution exploits because of language and compiler choices by people who don't pay the costs.
by gleenn | 2025-08-12 16:38:25+00:00
I think the immediately troubling aspect and perhaps philosophical perspective is that warmth and empathy don't immediately strike me as traits that are counter to correctness. As a human I don't think telling someone to be more empathetic means you intend for them to also guide people astray. They seem orthogonal. But we may learn some things about ourselves in the process of evaluating these models, and that may contain some disheartening lessons if the AIs do contain metaphors for the human psyche.
by bobajeff | 2025-08-12 16:38:40+00:00
Sorry, my comment was not about if RISC-V were in SBCs but about software and documentation support for SBCs outside of Raspberry Pi being very very poor.

My hope is that the situation for RISC-V SBCs would be an improvement over ARM SBCs given that chipmakers wouldn't be able to rely on the smartphone market for customers.
by TheDong | 2025-08-12 16:38:44+00:00
Have the AI produce a plan that spans multiple files (like "01 create frontend.md", "02 create backend.md", "03 test frontend and backend running together.md"), and then create a fresh context for each step if it looks like re-using the same context is leading it to confusion.

Also, commit frequently, and if the AI constantly goes down the wrong path ("I can't create X so I'll stub it out with Y, we'll fix it later"), you can update the original plan with wording to tell it not to take that path ("Do not ever stub out X, we must make X work"), and then start a fresh session with an older and simpler version of the code and see if that fresh context ends up down a better path.

You can also run multiple attempts in parallel if you use tooling that supports that (containers + git worktrees is one way)
by tharmas | 2025-08-12 16:38:49+00:00
Invest heavily in the Electricity grid. Both AI Data Centers and The Transportation Grid (Electric Vehicles, Batteries). These two sectors are only going to grow and they require massive amounts of electricity.

Peak Oil is going to happen soon 2020-25. China's oil demand in 2025 dropped from previous years. Even in the "drill baby drill" USA refineries are closing do to falling demand in the USA.

The private sector does not see new pipelines as economically viable. Trudeau had to step in to finish the Trans Mountain twinning. Existing pipelines that go to the USA are only at 75% capacity. If Canada wants to ship oil to Europe or Asia they should ship it by rail. It would be foolish to spend money on new pipelines when overall demand for oil is declining. And by the time these pipelines would be completed Peak Oil would be a done deal.

Develop more trade with Asia and Europe (which the current govt appears to be trying to do). A big problem is this emerging multipolar world means the USA is going to increasingly pressure Canada to become even more of a vassal state.

This youtube channel has excellent information about Canada's Engergy Future: Energi Media https://www.youtube.com/@EnergiMedia/videos
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-08-12 16:38:54+00:00
Unless Google is banned from providing a browser entirely, they'll just re-fork Webkit and release another browser, and it will very quickly replace Chrome usage.

Especially on Android - which is the most used OS in the world.

It seems strange to ban Google from offering a Search Engine, when all the other big tech companies can get into any field just fine, but the legal system is primarily a weapon for corruption these days, so who knows.

I mean, sure, if you want to start limiting what big companies do, and there's some fairness in how it's applied, fine.

But that's not what will happen.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-12 16:38:58+00:00
Unknown crypto vulnerabilities and 51% attacks are crypto currency risks that are theoretically out there, but we mostly haven't seen play out.

At some point, someone doing AI might amass enough GPUs to do a 51% attack on Bitcoin. You're right that it destroys confidence in the coin, so if you short Bitcoin futures before the attack, you might make money.
by j_da | 2025-08-12 16:39:17+00:00
We started out building a platform to one-shot games (single-player and multi-player), but realized that the model you used under the hood really made a difference in functionality and graphics. We started out building the benchmark as an internal tool for ourselves to see which model was the best, but found that benchmarking models on visual "taste" was something that people were generally interested in currently.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-12 16:39:34+00:00
I was actually asked to build a spell checker in an interview. I immediately thought of Peter Norvig's article on spell corrector (https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) and proceeded to explain. It turned out that the interviewer really wanted a spell checker not spell corrector: the program will only point out words not in the set of known words.

I failed that interview by overengineering.
by philipallstar | 2025-08-12 16:39:47+00:00
Another hidden cost of mass immigration (UK additional ~5m net immigration over the last 10 years[0]) is services such as water and energy suffer badly. Food scales quite well, as it's a dynamic, fine-grained system, but water and energy supply need capital investment to trigger a higher tier of supply.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-advisor...
by swills | 2025-08-12 16:39:52+00:00
Might I suggest that instead of linking to the article at theatlantic.com you instead link to the archive.org archive of it? I couldn't visit it due to Cloudflare thinking IPv6 is the devil and then still couldn't read it due to the paywall. Here's the archive.org link that sorta works for me, until their JavaScript removes the majority of the page content shortly after loading:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250527052607/https://www.theat...
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-12 16:40:17+00:00
Nothing new under the sun. Remember when NBC admitted to rigging a truck to burst into flames in a crash for Dateline, because it wouldn't do it on its own? Or when a jury found that Consumer Reports lied about how easily an Isuzu pickup rolled over on turns?

But hey, the media probably wouldn't lie these days, and Musk bad man.
by chollida1 | 2025-08-12 16:40:20+00:00
A $14B to $18B dollar company offering an all stock deal worth about 2x as much as its market cap.

This isn't a serious offer, its a publicity stunt. Google would effectively own the entire company short of some mind blowing multiple expansion here.

Watch for Perplexity to be raising money in the next 6 months. But given this stunt it looks like they think their growth is over and they've peaked as a company.
by ahmetaltay | 2025-08-12 16:40:27+00:00
(Disclaimer: I work on the BigQuery team at Google, but my opinions are my own.)

You're right — our current implementation in BigLake doesn't have full feature parity with the V3 spec yet. We're actively working on it.

The key context is that the V3 spec is brand new, having been finalized only about two months ago. The official Apache Iceberg release that incorporates all these V3 features isn't even out yet. So, you'll find that the entire ecosystem, including major vendors, is in a similar position of implementing the new spec.

The purpose of our blog post was to celebrate this huge milestone for the open-source community and to share a technical deep-dive on why these new capabilities are so important.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-12 16:40:28+00:00
Yes but it’s much broader. Just in general the lack of Steve Jobs noticing these glaring issues and coming down hard to solve them is pretty clear.

I remember when macbooks briefly came out with a ridiculously bright standby led that required Black electrical tape over if you wanted to sleep with it in the house. Shortly after no more status leds on any MacBook (thank you!).

Nowadays i find non stop little annoyances with threads from others on the same issues on Apple devices. From.the.overly.prominent.full.stop when searching textually in the url bar to the crappy spell check and crappy spam filtering. As much as Jobs apparently came across as an asshole there’s a need for someone at the top to say ‘WTF is this, fix it or get fired!’.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-12 16:40:37+00:00
Chicago has "residential zone parking" for the areas of the city that are primarily residential. For $30 per year per car, you get to park on the street in your local zone (2-3 city blocks). Nobody else is allowed to park on the street in that zone. For visitors, you can buy a sheet of stickers for $1 per sticker that enable 1 day of parking. But you can't buy more than 3 sheets in a month (they keep track).

I've always wondered why NYC and other big cities don't do this. It costs so little, yet makes it much easier to park where you live.