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Show HN: Try Omarchy for Windows – Full Omarchy Desktop on Windows

Posted by tsouth2 on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:56PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/omacom/try-omarchy-windows

No VM setup or configuration. Download TryOmarchy.exe, follow the prompts, and you'll be booted into a full Omarchy desktop within minutes. No dual booting or repartitioning required.Under the hood it uses QEMU + WHPX, with GPU acceleration where supported.

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Show HN: One MCP setup for 22 clients, with lazy tool discovery

Posted by tsouth2 on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @07:52AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/tsouth89/toolport

Toolport is a local MCP gateway with a native desktop app. Add and authenticate a server once, then connect it to any of 22 supported clients. Secrets stay in the OS keychain.Instead of exposing the full catalog, Toolport gives agents four small meta-tools and searches for the real tools on demand. With 62 tools, that reduced definition overhead from about 24k tokens to 900. In benchmarked...

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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know wh... on Saturday June 20, 2026 @01:52PM (#48611302)
I've came across HN several times over the years, I've been in IT for 15+ years working at MSPs. Never had a reason to post until now. I got assigned a ticket at work that I ended up using AI for, and I haven't stopped building since.

I get where all the hate on vibe coding comes from, but if used correctly, AI is a strong force for improvements and efficiency. Used incorrectly, you get slop without a doubt.

Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know wh... on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:41AM (#48434777)
I've wondered about this a lot. I am brand new to software engineering, fully powered by AI coding. Traditional software engineers have to pivot hard or the are going to be left in the dust. The slow, methodical, take two days to put a change on a production site approach are over. I'm shipping exponentially faster than a co-worker who hasn't embraced AI yet.
Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:40AM (#48434758)
Claude is pretty great at designing certain images. For favicons, logos, og cards, it does extremely well. For full image generation, I go elsewhere.