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Ask HN: Can our bootstrapped startup keep up?

Posted by lewq on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

fuck - it's been a rough week. we've been pouring our hearts and souls into building an agent orchestration layer with streaming desktops for months, and on wednesday, cursor launched the exact same feature. THREE DAYS BEFORE WE MANAGED TO LAUNCH OURS! and claude code launched remote control on the same day - you can see where it's going. keeping an edge in this white hot market is basically...

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Re:We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked be... on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:19PM (#46372060)
Hi, author of the post here. Just fixed up some formatting issues from when we copied it into substack, sorry about that. Yeah, I used Opus 4.5 to help me write it (and it actually made me laugh!). But the struggle was real. Something I didn't make clear enough in the post is that jpeg works because each screenshot is taken exactly when it's requested. Whereas streaming video is pushing a certain frame rate. The client driving the frame rate is exactly what makes it not queue frames. Yes, I wish we could UDP in enterprise networks too, but we can't. The problem actually isn't opening the UDP port, it's hosting UDP on their Kubernetes cluster. "You want to what?? We have ingress. For HTTPS"

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Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @08:25PM (#45941959)
Yes
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @05:43PM (#45941172)
Interesting, thanks!
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @05:42PM (#45941165)
Fascinating, wanna compare notes on a call some time?
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @05:18PM (#45941037)
Hey! Yeah we are working with partners on fully integrated hardware+software stack for this. We particularly like the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell chips for this
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @05:17PM (#45941028)
Vision language models have been trained on how to operate human UIs though, so at least for a while, computer use will be an interesting area to explore. I think debugging web apps and building UIs is a particularly fruitful area for this
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @04:21PM (#45940701)
That's the next move :-D
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @04:20PM (#45940697)
I should have said creator. He seems to have a healthy community backing him, but we should ask him!
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:21PM (#45939882)
There's also value in being able to run multiple agents in parallel with their own isolated filesystems and runtimes. One agent won't tread on the toes of another whatever they do. You can let it loose and it doesn't matter if it breaks something, you can just spin up another one
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:19PM (#45939863)
Mainly so you can give the agent access to the desktop as well. Then it can debug your web app in Chrome Dev tools but also you can pair with it with streaming that is so good it feels local
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @12:40PM (#45939108)
Itself, more recently
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @12:06PM (#45938834)
I suppose but we got it working, and the primary interface is webrtc in the browser, and going via moonlight internally is just an implementation detail that got us here quickly. We are open to refactoring in the future of course :)
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:50AM (#45938708)
It's nice for unmodified moonlight clients to be able to connect - they have tons of them, you can even run it on a Nintendo DS
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:49AM (#45938693)
https://github.com/helixml/helix/releases/tag/2.5.3
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:48AM (#45938689)
Wolf now supports multiple clients connecting to the same session via the wolf-ui branch that landed recently. After lots of stability work we are now running that mode in production (and in the latest release) https://github.com/helixml/helix/releases/tag/2.5.3
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:38AM (#45938590)
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Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:36AM (#45938584)
Yeah that's what we did :) https://youtu.be/vVmnpcnLDGM?si=b6LxW6lmM7843LY0
Re:Streaming AI Agent Desktops with Gaming Protocols on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:36AM (#45938577)
Author of helix code here. Here's a demo of the full system working. https://youtu.be/vVmnpcnLDGM?si=b6LxW6lmM7843LY0

We're opening the private beta where we provide a hosted environment for testing, or you can install the latest Helix release and run the installer with --code to try it on your own GPUs

Show HN: GPU-accelerated sandboxes for running AI coding agents in parallel [video]

Posted by lewq on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:22PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBN0BW0e4po

Hey HN! I've been building a system to run multiple AI coding agents in parallel, each in their own GPU-accelerated sandbox. The problem I kept running into: when you're working with AI assistants on real projects, you want them doing multiple things at once (refactoring module A, implementing feature B, writing tests for C), but coordinating all that is a mess. You lose track of what's...

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Re:Show HN: MCP server to index external repositories on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @06:32PM (#44242223)
Docs here: https://docs.helixml.tech/kodit/

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