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I found this out the long way, by looking at the contributors to qm at https://github.com/yc-software/qm where I found BinSquare, the founder of smol machines. Then I found a tweet about a public instance of it where I could try out having it code something agentically - I'm in the replies here: https://x.com/binsquares/status/2083305704274976819 I guess the lock-in is to Cloudfla", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"}, {"id": 783952000, "item_id": 48997000, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997000", "by": "mrcwinn", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seems easy for Buzz to solve.", "excerpt": "Seems easy for Buzz to solve. I\u2019m just happy to have an alternative to Slack.", "context": "", "use_case": "Team chat with AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 778147392, "item_id": 48634212, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634212", "by": "genericone", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use.", "excerpt": "This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use. I'm having trouble managing my entire project, and from reading Buzz' project description, I think I understand what my issue is: a lack feature channels. I'm purely using claude-code and I use a bespoke session-wrap command at the end of every major development or as I approach 50% context window. And then in a fresh session I use a recontex", "context": "uses Claude Code with custom session commands", "use_case": "managing agent project workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents"}, {"id": 769432576, "item_id": 48089536, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089536", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-05-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It solves the requirement of jellyfin for having a single file per folder", "excerpt": "I've been using https://github.com/gchamon/buzz as an opportunity to have a WebDAV with tight integration with real debrid, jellyfin and opensubtitles. It solves the requirement of jellyfin for having a single file per folder even if the original source had many files in them, adds confirmation for removing entries from debris, has an archive so deletions can be restored, a simple but powerful integration with opensu", "context": "", "use_case": "WebDAV for debrid media", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 795333058, "item_id": 49708316, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708316", "by": "theshrike79", "date": "2026-09-15", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Buzz[0] seems nice, but for one person an 5 bots having a full-ass postgres+redis+s3 setup seems completely bonkers.", "excerpt": "Yep :( I wanted to self-host a chat service where I can control my bots and AIs, but with no native tagging functionality makes it really janky to work with. Discord and Telegram Just Work, but I'd much rather have the whole thing in my control. Buzz[0] seems nice, but for one person an 5 bots having a full-ass postgres+redis+s3 setup seems completely bonkers. [0] https://github.com/block/buzz", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?"}, {"id": 788269200, "item_id": 49266825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266825", "by": "o_____________o", "date": "2026-08-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "though currently much worse", "excerpt": "> I highly suspect others will be following suit. There is https://github.com/block/buzz https://buzz.xyz/ though currently much worse", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grok Bot by SpaceXAI"}, {"id": 783945520, "item_id": 48996595, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996595", "by": "themgt", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm trying to imagine a world in which this makes sense as a way to organize software development work, but coming up short.", "excerpt": "That screenshot is some Lynchian horror. \"#engineering. New direction, team \u2013 we're moving the prototype to Flutter\" and then the humans and agent bots engage in flirty emoji-filled chats with cutesy names \"I nailed the physics, UI shell @Honeybot?\" I'm trying to imagine a world in which this makes sense as a way to organize software development work, but coming up short. It's on a blockchain or something though, so ", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat with AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 783943936, "item_id": 48996496, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996496", "by": "dewey", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "It feels like it's solving an issue that no team chat ever has.", "excerpt": "I've recently built some project that also supports Nostr (https://getbirdfeeder.com, but more for the fun of playing with Nostr) but it feels very forced to use it for something like that. It feels like it's solving an issue that no team chat ever has. > Buzz is built around a self-hostable Nostr relay. Every message, reaction, workflow step, code event and approval is stored as a cryptographically signed event. 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It has architecture stuff, go-to-market section, howtos (setting up new agents, dns backups, etc.), info on my main projects, writing, etc. It gets synced between my machine and the VPS. I also store in github as a backup occasionally (thx for reminder!). I use the actual Buzz io", "context": "", "use_case": "iOS app", "switched_from": "", "story": "My Agent Setup"}, {"id": 783984480, "item_id": 48999030, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999030", "by": "tlongwell-block", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But the idea of a totally self-sovereign, self-hosted community providing its own inference is exciting.", "excerpt": "Hi! > So you're explicitly picking a bot per person, you're just calling them an agent. But you never really admit this because you call it 'an agent' rather than \"the user's agent\". You're still ending up with lots of agents each owned by people, you're just writing another orchestration layer yourself. Giving everyone their own agent/bot/app in Slack is nontrivial because of how Slack apps work. If you're okay with", "context": "", "use_case": "Team chat and Git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 778127872, "item_id": 48632992, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632992", "by": "tlongwell-block", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Buzz is a channel-driven workspace for teams of humans and their agents to work together in.", "excerpt": "quickstart (docker required): git clone https://github.com/block/buzz; cd buzz; just dev; Buzz is a channel-driven workspace for teams of humans and their agents to work together in. It should look vaguely similar to whatever you're used to chatting with your team in. Written in Rust. Apache 2 licensed. Nostr-shaped. To work in Buzz, I'll spin up a new channel, add my team and my agents, and start brainstorming the b", "context": "built Block's Slack-integrated agent", "use_case": "team workspace for humans and agents", "switched_from": "Slack", "story": "Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents"}, {"id": 773567936, "item_id": 48347996, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347996", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-05-31", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I spent some weeks designing and polishing a replacement for zurg and debridmediamanager the way I like it to be, simple and to the point", "excerpt": "Your tone makes me think you already decided that agents aren't worth your time, but I'll give it a try anyways. I work as a DevOps engineer and have been using agents exclusively to code since the beginning of the year. Agents are really nice to quickly craft utilities to speed up planning. For instance I had it create a small cli for me that'll pull my cards from azure DevOps, load them as json, markdown and csv, a", "context": "DevOps engineer", "use_case": "media management integrated with Jellyfin", "switched_from": "zurg", "story": "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"}, {"id": 768834528, "item_id": 48052158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052158", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-05-07", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a replacement for zurg or debridmediamanager.", "excerpt": "Shameless plug slightly related to this pain of subscriptions. I've been cooking https://github.com/gchamon/buzz for a few weeks. It's a replacement for zurg or debridmediamanager. It also serves as an alternate frontend for real debrid so you can load the legal copies of the movies you own using honest trackers. 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Discord and Telegram Just Work, but I'd much rather have the whole thing in my control. Buzz[0] seems nice, but for one person an 5 bots having a full-ass postgres+redis+s3 setup seems completely bonkers. [0] https://github.com/block/buzz", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?"}, {"id": 792729940, "item_id": 49545621, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545621", "by": "internet101010", "date": "2026-09-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "asked four agents in Buzz", "excerpt": "I used to think that until about an hour ago. I am redoing my homelab and asked four agents in Buzz (5.6-sol, opus-5, fable-5.1, glm-5.3-flash) to use references from Hackers (1995) to answer two questions: 1. What should the terraform repo name be? 2. What should the avatar image be? Obviously all four said \"gibson\" for question #1. But for #2 is where things got interesting. glm-5.3-flash and gpt-5.6-sol both sugge", "context": "redoing a homelab", "use_case": "running multiple agents side by side", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 788269200, "item_id": 49266825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266825", "by": "o_____________o", "date": "2026-08-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "though currently much worse", "excerpt": "> I highly suspect others will be following suit. There is https://github.com/block/buzz https://buzz.xyz/ though currently much worse", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Grok Bot by SpaceXAI"}, {"id": 786948068, "item_id": 49184254, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184254", "by": "benatkin", "date": "2026-08-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Buzz sounds more interesting to me", "excerpt": "There is also qm with smol machines. I found this out the long way, by looking at the contributors to qm at https://github.com/yc-software/qm where I found BinSquare, the founder of smol machines. Then I found a tweet about a public instance of it where I could try out having it code something agentically - I'm in the replies here: https://x.com/binsquares/status/2083305704274976819 I guess the lock-in is to Cloudfla", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"}, {"id": 783970352, "item_id": 48998147, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998147", "by": "tlongwell-block", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There's a brief write-up on Buzz here https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/buzz", "excerpt": "Hi, folks There's a brief write-up on Buzz here https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/buzz", "context": "", "use_case": "Team chat, AI agents, Git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 783952000, "item_id": 48997000, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997000", "by": "mrcwinn", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Seems easy for Buzz to solve.", "excerpt": "Seems easy for Buzz to solve. I\u2019m just happy to have an alternative to Slack.", "context": "", "use_case": "Team chat with AI agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 783945520, "item_id": 48996595, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996595", "by": "themgt", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'm trying to imagine a world in which this makes sense as a way to organize software development work, but coming up short.", "excerpt": "That screenshot is some Lynchian horror. \"#engineering. New direction, team \u2013 we're moving the prototype to Flutter\" and then the humans and agent bots engage in flirty emoji-filled chats with cutesy names \"I nailed the physics, UI shell @Honeybot?\" I'm trying to imagine a world in which this makes sense as a way to organize software development work, but coming up short. 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Hum", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 783943712, "item_id": 48996482, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996482", "by": "alfons_foobar", "date": "2026-07-21", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Am I the only one seeing _crazy_ levels of CPU usage when opening the project's homepage", "excerpt": "Am I the only one seeing _crazy_ levels of CPU usage when opening the project's homepage (https://buzz.xyz)? Like \"maxing-out-8-cores\"-crazy?", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat, AI agents, Git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"}, {"id": 778147392, "item_id": 48634212, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634212", "by": "genericone", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use.", "excerpt": "This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use. I'm having trouble managing my entire project, and from reading Buzz' project description, I think I understand what my issue is: a lack feature channels. I'm purely using claude-code and I use a bespoke session-wrap command at the end of every major development or as I approach 50% context window. And then in a fresh session I use a recontex", "context": "uses Claude Code with custom session commands", "use_case": "managing agent project workflows", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents"}, {"id": 769432576, "item_id": 48089536, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089536", "by": "gchamonlive", "date": "2026-05-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It solves the requirement of jellyfin for having a single file per folder", "excerpt": "I've been using https://github.com/gchamon/buzz as an opportunity to have a WebDAV with tight integration with real debrid, jellyfin and opensubtitles. It solves the requirement of jellyfin for having a single file per folder even if the original source had many files in them, adds confirmation for removing entries from debris, has an archive so deletions can be restored, a simple but powerful integration with opensu", "context": "", "use_case": "WebDAV for debrid media", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)"}]}