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Ask HN: How do you cope with the broken rythm of agentic coding?

I used to seek focus and concentration while coding. It was not always easy to reach this flow state but I knew it was possible.I am now using agentic coding quite a lot. The honeymoon is finishing and I am starting to dislike some facets of it. I think the main setback is the rythm.Writing some specs/prompts, launching the agent, confirming quite atomic actions and waiting 10 to 30 seconds until the next question/confirmation. Those very small wait times do not let me reach a concentr

Show HN: MoneyOnFIRE – FI date and action plan (v2)

A few months ago we posted here and got a lot of insightful feedback. This is what we built from it.MoneyOnFIRE answers two questions: when can you reach financial independence, and what should you do to get there the fastest? It runs a financial simulation across income, taxes, accounts, contributions, returns, and withdrawals, then produces a prioritized action checklist with specific dollar amounts, dates, and steps.Several of the biggest improvements came directly from comments on the last H

Show HN: Ava – AI Voice Agent for Traditional Phone Systems(Python+Asterisk/ARI)

Hi HN, I'm the creator of AVA - AI Voice Agent for AsteriskMy repo was shared here once before by someone else so I wanted to follow up with the progress since then.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380399I've been working with Asterisk/FreePBX systems for years. I wanted to add AI voice capabilities to legacy phone systems without paying per-minute SaaS fees or ripping out the entire telephony stack.So I built AVA, a self-hosted AI voice agent that can integra

Show HN: Codelegate, keyboard-driven coding agent orchestrator GUI for Mac/Linux

Do we really need another agent orchestrator? Probably not. But I couldn't find one that matched how I actually work with coding agent CLIs, so I built my own.Codelegate is a desktop app (Tauri 2 + React + xterm.js) that organizes agent sessions into a keyboard-first workspace. I built it to solve a few specific frustrations:1. I want to navigate everything with both hands on the keyboard. Sessions switch with `Alt+1..9`, panes with `Alt+A/G/T`. No mouse required. 2. I work on the

Show HN: Adversarial Code Review paired agents, zero noise,validated findings

Author here. We built this because one AI reviewing code and checking its own work just agrees with itself — the research confirms LLMs can't reliably self-correct on hard reasoning. The fix: split it into two agents with opposed goals. A reviewer agent finds problems. A dev agent tries to disprove each finding with specific counter-evidence from the codebase.Three verdicts: VALID, INVALID, AMBIGUOUS. Only what survives reaches your team.Agents are auto-generated per service — point the sk

Frustrating experience reporting bugs on major companies websites as a developer

This has happened to me twice in the past month. First, a major banking website has a problem linking to Fidelity Full view and Rocket Money. Once the callback hits the bank's website there is a generic error saying that there's a problem with the bank/my account and to call the bank to resolve it.After a year of hoping this would resolve I escalated it to executive customer service twice, stating that I was a technical user, giving the full URL and screenshot clearly showing the

Show HN: CacheLens – Local-first cost tracking proxy for LLM APIs

I built CacheLens because I was burning through $200+/month on Claude API calls and had no idea where it was going.It's a local HTTP proxy that sits between your app and the AI provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google). Every request flows through it, and it records token usage, cost, cache hit rates, latency — everything. Then there's a dashboard to visualize it all.What makes it different from just checking your provider dashboard:It's real-time (WebSocket live feed of every cal

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

Security defenders are girding themselves in response to the disclosure of a maximum-severity vulnerability disclosed Wednesday in React Server, an open-source package that’s widely used by websites ...

React tutorial: Get started with the React JavaScript library

Despite many worthy contenders, React remains the most popular front-end framework, and a key player in the JavaScript development landscape. React is the quintessential reactive engine, continually ...

Show HN: Tusk Drift – Open-source tool for automating API tests

Hey HN, I'm Marcel from Tusk. We’re launching Tusk Drift, an open source tool that generates a full API test suite by recording and replaying live traffic.How it works:1. Records traces from live traffic (what gets captured)2. Replays traces as API tests with mocked responses (how replay works)3. Detects deviations between actual vs. expected output (what you get)Unlike traditional mocking libraries, which require you to manually emulate how dependencies behave, Tusk Drift automatically rec

Show HN: Pytest-httpdbg – a simple way to include HTTP traces in Allure reports

Hi HN,I recently updated my pytest plugin based on httpdbg to include the HTTP traces directly in the Allure reports. As with httpdbg, the idea is to have nothing more to do than to add an argument to your command line: --httpdbg-allure.For example:pytest examples/pytest_demo.py --alluredir=./allure-results --httpdbg-allureFor each test, all HTTP requests will be recorded and saved in the Allure report under a step named httpdbg.You can check the README in the repository to see how it

Show HN: Visual DB – Web front end for your database (update)

Hi HN, I’m Sandhya and we have built Visual DB — a web front end for databases. It lets you create data-entry forms, spreadsheet-like grids, and reports directly on top of your existing relational database.Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://youtu.be/4zv_HQKdKeI (13 minutes)WHAT PROBLEM IS THIS SOLVING?Building CRUD apps with master-detail forms, transactions, and proper concurrency controls typically requires weeks of custom development and ongoing maintenance. Visual DB lets you

Show HN: WorkBill – Modern Alternative to QuickBooks

Hi HN, I am Aswin Mohan(https://aswinmohan.me), a full-stack mobile/web developer. I have been working on WorkBill (https://workbill.co) for the past 6 weeks on the side and wanted to share it here.demo: https://demo.workbill.co/inbox (no signup needed) video-demo: https://www.loom.com/share/9775811960ad47d7ada89007d8169d90WorkBill is the modern, flexible accounting platform for small businesses. It is based on BeanCount(https:/&#x

Show HN: C-Minus Preprocessor v2

About 3 years ago i wrote a custom preprocessor to assist in processing the SQLite project's JavaScript builds (e.g. filtering the small differences between vanilla JS and ESM modules). Recently, that app was forked, refactored into a library, and is now, AFAIK, the world's only source-agnostic[^1], client-extensible preprocessor (if one doesn't count sed, awk, etc.).It's implemented in portable C99 and has a two-file source distribution (one header, one .c file). Its only th

Show HN: OgBlocks – Animated UI Library for CSS Haters

Hey HN,I'm Karan, a frontend developer who loves creating UIs, but I've found that many people don't like CSS, but they want their website to look beautiful and polished, and what better way to enhance a website than with animationsAnimations using plain CSS are tricky, and that's why I leaned towards Motion a powerful animation library for React, and I built ogBlocks using React, Motion, and Tailwind CSSI built it for three reasons:1. Anyone can integrate beautiful animated

Show HN: mDNS name resolution for Docker container names

I always wanted this: an easy way to reach "resolve docker container by name" -- e.g., to reach web servers running in Docker containers on my dev machine. Of course, I could export ports from all these containers, try to keep them out of each others hair on the host, and then use http://localhost:PORT. But why go through all that trouble? These containers already expose their respective ports on their own IP (e.g., 172.24.0.5:8123), so all I need is a convenient way to find

Show HN: ClientDock – Client portal built on Cloudflare Workers

Hi HN,I built ClientDock - a client portal for service providers to manage communications and files without email chaos.Background: After losing a critical client deliverable in a 200+ email thread, I decided to build a better solution. Most "client portals" are bloated project management tools. I wanted something focused on one thing: making client communication effortless.Technical Details: - Built with Next.js 15 (App Router) - Deployed on Cloudflare Workers using OpenNext adapter -

Is Trump really giving out $2000 to Americans? US President gives latest update on leftover funds, netizens react

Trump on Monday reiterated his plan, informing that “all money left over from the $2000 payments” will be “used to substantially pay down national debt.” ...

Tyrese Maxey, Sixers react to Trendon Watford's big night vs. Raptors

Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers react to Trendon Watford's big night in a win over the Toronto Raptors.

Colorado politicians react to proposed deal to open government

The end of a 40-day government shutdown is reportedly set to end, with moderate Democrats agreeing to a tentative deal to ...