> No Electron, no web views, no background agents of its own.
Sweet, regardless of the AI help.
If anything even more so, no excuses for lazy Electron, with AI helping hand.
Kudos.
Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
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#62Looks good, Apple Containers is neat except it is just another set of commands we gotta memorize.
I like it! I would like it even more if we could choose which terminal app the containers open in. Is that doable?
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#63This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly. 28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5". Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch. Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and…
A tutorial with a slightly more realistic example would help a lot here. nginx:latest shows the plumbing works, but it doesn’t really show where Apple Containers feels different from Docker Desktop or OrbStack.
Something like a tiny app with a volume, port mapping, and a simple rebuild loop would make the value much easier to see.
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#64My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing. I had an idea like this and thought I could vibe code it, but then I figured someone else would care more and do it first. I was right! This looks like a great app and I'm excited to try it out. Free idea: I would like to be able to "jail" an agent inside a VM and send instructions to the harness from outside the VM to agent(s) installed inside. Ideally there is no…
> Free idea: ...
I have been thinking about this too. Is it not as simple as installing Claude in the VM and connecting via an SSH terminal, or if you want a GUI use VSCode with the Remote SSH extension, which will give you the file browser UI etc. Presumably you can extensions in the VSCode Claude/whatever chat extensions in the VM too.
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#65How does this compare to OrbStack? Do Apple Containers offer anything in the dev experience that I would notice? OrbStack’s implementation already feels lightning fast for my usage.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think we're past the point where agentic coding is a given now.
Coding yes, copywriting, design, identity, no. Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality, unless you don't care about quality. Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop that comes out.
> Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality
Look, I'm as anti-AI as the next guy but their homepage is good. They didn't compromise on quality.
Call a spade a spade.
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#67> Tiny. A single ~17 MB app Oh goodness what have we come to? I know we're comparing to electron monstrosities, but still
complaining about 17mb in 2026 has to be virtue signaling of some sort... yes I know we went to the moon with a few kb but are we going to hang on to that for ever?
How would this be virtue signaling?
Anyway, I think we should want to build efficient things. Dismissing this doesn’t seem terribly productive.
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#68I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker? Good name for this app, BTW.
Why would someone downvote this perfectly relevant question?
Pathetic.
Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI
#69Is this possibly a replacement for Orbstack?
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#70Looks nice. Great work. FYI, the gist link 404s under “Can I reach a container by name from my Mac?”.