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Show HN: Omni-Glass – Rust app that turns screen pixels into MCP tool calls

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 7:07pm

Omni-Glass is an open-source macOS app (Rust/Tauri) that sits in your menu bar. You draw a box around anything on your screen — a terminal error, a data table, a foreign-language doc — and it runs local OCR, sends the text to an LLM, and gives you a menu of executable actions in under a second. Not explanations. Actions. It fixes the error, exports the CSV, creates the GitHub issue, runs the command. The LLM layer supports Claude Haiku, Gemini Flash, or Qwen-2.5 running locally via llama.cpp (fully offline, nothing leaves your machine). The part I'm most excited about: it's built on MCP (Model Context Protocol). Anyone can write a plugin — a standard MCP server in Node.js or Python — and their actions show up in the menu automatically. The app translates raw OCR text into structured JSON arguments matching your tool's schema. You just write the API call. Every plugin runs inside a kernel-level macOS sandbox (sandbox-exec). Your entire home directory is walled off unless you explicitly approve access. Environment variables are filtered. Commands require confirmation.

Looking for help with:

Build a plugin. Jira, Slack, Notion, Linear, Datadog — if it has an API, it can be an Omni-Glass action. Most plugins are under 100 lines. Break the sandbox. If you can read ~/.ssh/id_rsa from a plugin process, I want to know. Windows and Linux. The code compiles on Windows but hasn't been tested on real hardware. Linux needs Tesseract OCR and Bubblewrap sandbox work.

GitHub: https://github.com/goshtasb/omni-glass

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106525

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Show HN: Unbiassly – No more hiding behind cameras

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 7:06pm

Hey HN!

I’ve been working on Unbiassly, a small experiment around a simple question:

What happens if you remove names and titles from team discussions and evaluate ideas purely on content?

Unbiassly allows teams to:

• Start a discussion or ask a question or feedback • Collect completely anonymous responses • Vote / rank answers – top response can reveal name • View aggregated results

The goal is to reduce things like authority bias, groupthink, and social pressure inside teams.

You can try it today (no signup required)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106517

Points: 2

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Show HN: My Degenerate Craps Simulator

Hacker News - Sat, 02/21/2026 - 6:48pm

Hello HN:

I love the randomness of the universe. I've been spending some time creating a Craps simulator to help experience this love without having to shell out like a real degenerate.

For others similarly fascinated: I would love to hear any and all feedback you've got on this. It's meant to be unique in the sense that it's a community-oriented, infinite simulation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106384

Points: 2

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