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10keane

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About 10keane

AI Architect. building orbital - give your agent a project, not a prompt https://github.com/zqiren/Orbital

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    Show HN: Orbital – the project agent that maintains your wo

    Orbital is an open-source “project agent". It is a desktop agent that helps user like every other agents such as claude code or codex. But while it does that, it will also maintain…

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    Show HN: Open-source desktop agent that uses a local folder as its memory

    Orbital is an open-source desktop agent runtime that lives in a local folder on your desktop, with sandbox, approval presets and sub-agent support. Think of it as Obsidian + Hermes…

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    been thinking about this exact problem for a while. my own setup uses OS keyring with a token substitution pattern — the agent requests a credential by name, the substitution happe…

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    i actually like the concept of workspace agent, because i am feeling some real pain here to run long-term project while retaining context for each instance of agent. but based on t…

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    Hi HN, I'm keane. Orbital is an open-source desktop app for running AI agents in a managed environment. Been building it for two months while holding a day job. Solo dev, mac and w…

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    management and critical thinking. management - it occured to me that giving instructions to agent is very similar to giving instructions to human employees - even the best of them …

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    idk man. what do you think is their business model? is it more like ai value-add on their existing services?

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    i am using --dangerously-skip-permissions with task spec. think this is faster. and it gave me more control actually over architecture and product decision. i think i just dont lik…

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    great project. think my agent will need it. but then one thing i notice is that this only catches single tool calls. most of the time the malicious behavior is a sequence where eac…

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    what is the point of teaching anyway when fundational knowledge are becoming obsolete? i think what should be taught is the metacognative ability - like how to retrieve knowledge, …

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    exactly. vibe coding only works when you fully understand the problem and know precisely how to solve it. ai just do the dirty implementation work for you. that is another reason i…

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    Why Vibe Coding Fails

    i am using claude to maintain an agent loop, which will pause to ask for users' approval before important tool call. while doing some bug fixes,i have identified some clear pattern…

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    if not for some strategic mistakes made by the US, you wouldnt even need to ask this question in the first place

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    i think there are two key things that helped me ship more successfully using ai 1. must isolate context. discuss with your architecture agent, implement with another. you can pass …

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    well written. finally someone mentioned that a human operator that has the full architecture context is needed. that i think is the role of human in coding in future. but i will ar…