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Crush, Welcome Home

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 6:41pm
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Is anyone else drowning in terminal tabs running AI coding agents?

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 6:39pm

I work on a 300k line monorepo, just me and my co-founder. At any given moment I have 3-6 CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Aider) running simultaneously across git worktrees. The throughput is great. Managing it is not.

Every tool I found was either another agent, an IDE plugin, an abstraction over my CLIs, or doesn't understand worktrees. Conductor is Mac-only and getting buggier. Warp and Ghostty were interesting but not opinionated enough for my worktree-to-PR workflow.

So I built Pane (https://runpane.com). Keyboard-driven desktop app that gives you one interface to monitor and control CLI agents across worktrees. Ships with a command palette, simple shortcuts (ctrl + up or down arrow to switch between each worktree, VS code shortcuts for other basic things). Each worktree gets a run button that auto-generates a script (via Claude Code on first run) to spin up on isolated ports, so I can have every branch hot reloading in its own tab.

Been using it daily since last week. Hard to go back. I fully open sourced it here, so you can ship your own features to Pane, using Pane: https://github.com/Dcouple-Inc/Pane

How are others handling multi-agent workflows?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268777

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Show HN: NavAgent – CDP-free, token-efficient web automation for AI

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 6:36pm

Hi HN, I built NavAgent, a small MCP server + Chrome extension that lets AI clients drive your real browser session without CDP.

I use Claude Code daily, and I kept wanting it to interact with pages in my own browser, with my existing tabs, cookies, and logins.

Most browser automation approaches I tried for MCP were based on CDP / Playwright. I wanted something lighter and closer to normal browser behavior, so I tried a different design: the extension scans the DOM and sends the model a compact numbered list of actionable elements over a local WebSocket.

So the model sees something like: Search [input] Books [link] ... and can reply with browse_click(2) or browse_type(...)

That keeps scans very small (usually much smaller than screenshots or ARIA-tree dumps) and avoids screenshots, vision models, and huge accessibility payloads.

It currently handles SPAs, shadow DOM, same-origin iframes, and contenteditable editors. Everything runs locally. Setup is just the npm package plus the extension, and you can already try it by sideloading the extension from the repo and running npx navagent-mcp.

It's intentionally narrow: this is not a replacement for Playwright, CI automation or heavy scraping. It's a passive bridge for everyday browser tasks like opening pages, clicking around, and filling forms from an AI assistant.

It's still early, but it's already useful for my daily workflow. Feedback very welcome, especially on edge cases, security concerns and sites where it breaks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268758

Points: 1

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Future Shock

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 6:36pm
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Labor Market Impacts of AI

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 5:55pm
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Shipping System Fonts to Github.com

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 5:53pm
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Show HN: Bus Core – a local-first ERP for small manufacturing shops

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 5:52pm

I built BUS Core, a local-first ERP aimed at small manufacturing shops and makers.

It handles inventory, vendors, manufacturing runs, and costing.

Everything runs locally: - no accounts - no telemetry - no SaaS dependency

The goal was to make something usable for very small shops that outgrow spreadsheets but don't fit traditional ERP systems.

Tech stack is intentionally simple: Python backend + SQLite + local web UI.

Project started as an experiment in building software using LLMs with a strict Source-of-Truth + smoke test loop.

Repo: https://buscore.ca/ https://github.com/True-Good-Craft/TGC-BUS-Core

Curious to hear from anyone running small production operations — what breaks first as you scale past spreadsheets?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268376

Points: 2

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Show HN: Fitopoly – a fitness app that turns workouts into territory conquest

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 5:52pm

I built Fitopoly, a mobile app where workouts capture territory on a world map.

Running, walking, cycling, and gym workouts generate “hex captures”, gradually expanding your controlled territory.

The idea was to apply game design mechanics to fitness motivation, making progress visual and competitive.

Tech stack:

- Flutter (iOS + Android) - server API - geospatial gameplay logic

Curious to hear feedback from the HN community.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268371

Points: 2

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Show HN: Presage – Real-time insider detection for prediction markets

Thu, 03/05/2026 - 5:49pm

Presage scores every Polymarket trade against five on-chain signals: wallet age, position concentration, bet probability, trade volume, and wallet clustering. Backtested against three confirmed insider events with clean separation between suspicious and legitimate activity.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268341

Points: 2

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