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Re:It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going ... on Sunday April 26, 2026 @12:38AM (#47907395)
I prompted Claude code from my phone to revive Draw!, a pixel art editor I first published 15 years ago as an exploration using Redis as a DB.

The new version is live at http://pixel.drawbang.com after 1 week of prompting Opus 4.6 with a max subscription.

Show HN: Connect a Discord channel with Claude Code agents running in tmux

Posted by potomak on Saturday March 21, 2026 @11:25PM
from the show-hn dept.

I run Claude Code agents for a few personal projects on a Raspberry Pi, kept alive in tmux sessions. The missing piece was interacting with them without opening a terminal and without any additional API costs on top of my existing Pro subscription.I created a small Discord bot that bridges a channel to the tmux session. It injects messages via tmux send-keys, posts tool call activity as...

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Re:Gut–Brain Axis on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:34PM (#36471271)
My mother is a dietitian and she started a podcast this year where she’s talked a lot about the microbiota and how it affects our organisms in a lot of different ways.

For instance, did you know that bacteria in our guts help us “digest” and expel heavy metals?

In the third part of the episodes about the microbiota[0] she talks about the gut-brain axis:

> l’intestino può comunicare al cervello uno stato di disagio o disbiosi procurando, oltre al gonfiore, anche un possibile stato d’ansia o abbassamento dell’umore

that translates more or less to:

> the gut can communicate with the brain a dysbiotic state causing, in addition to swelling, a state of anxiety

The podcast is in Italian, but the transcriptions can be easily translated in English.

[0] https://dietista.it/2023/03/29/e-la-pancia-non-c-e-piu-terza...

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:20AM (#35753113)
I built an app for a family member, who is a nutritionist, that makes it easier for her to stay connected with her patients via WhatsApp. It keeps track of appointments and sends automatic reminders.

Lately I decided to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon and added a feature that integrates with the OpenAI API to suggest replies to messages from her patients.

It was overall a fun project. It gave me the chance to explore the integration with WhatsApp Business API (used to communicate with patients), OpenAI API (used to suggest message replies), Discord (used to notify events).

Apart from the APIs, it has zero dependencies. It’s deployed as a static website hosted on GitHub. The backend is written as a set of AWS Lambda functions. Data is stored in DynamoDB. Frontend is vanilla JS.

Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:45AM (#22802326)
http://giovanni.curlybrackets.it

I'm documenting the process for creating an adventure game on iOS and tvOS using SpriteKit.

Re:Launch HN: Solve (YC S17) – We Save International Travelers Hours o... on Monday June 19, 2017 @04:12PM (#14590041)
I must say the logo resembles Tomatoes[0] productivity app logo very much.

[0] http://tomato.es

Re:No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:44PM (#13952075)
A post against modal windows usability that contains a link to a site that use one, that's incoherent.
Re:A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:28PM (#13729232)
That list is missing a section for terminal music players. I created one in Haskell some time ago: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-player
Re:Show HN: MyHours – Time tracking for digital nomads on Thursday January 12, 2017 @11:29AM (#13383542)
If you want to stay focused and track your time I built Tomatoes[0]. It's a pomodoro technique timer and a time tracker. It's web based, it's completely free and open source[1]. I built it when I started freelancing and I was in need of both a tool that would have helped me to be productive and to track time that I spent on clients projects.

[0] http://tomato.es

[1] http://github.com/potomak/tomatoes

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