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Full data model and full web and mobile app to help run day to day operations. The agent has switched a few times, initially NanoClaw, then Hermes, and now Vercel's Eve (maximum customizability). NextJS/Shadcn web app, postgres db, eve agent layer, MCP tools (over 100 so every single thing can be done by an agent), SwiftUI mobile app, etc. Integrations with gmail, gcal, gdrive, quickbooks, using mdx fo", "context": "", "use_case": "agent layer", "switched_from": "Hermes", "story": "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"}, {"id": 794470865, "item_id": 49654429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654429", "by": "yangshi07", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Actually this is happening, I found couples:", "excerpt": "I believe is not a good idea for the model providers provides a Agent Infrastructure or hosting service. This area should be open source and supported by the cloud providers. Because I don't really want to be locked to a model provider when I am building my agents. Actually this is happening, I found couples: - https://flueframework.com from Astra - https://eve.dev from Vercel - https://fastagent.sh looks more indepe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Agents API"}, {"id": 787212864, "item_id": 49200804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200804", "by": "mrud", "date": "2026-08-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out.", "excerpt": "I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out. It also supports TUI, github and other non chat channels. The integration and abstraction with sandboxes, cron etc. is very nicely done but you still can self host it.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent framework with channels and sandboxes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: The Channels SDK \u2013 Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)"}, {"id": 775288064, "item_id": 48455504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455504", "by": "hank1931", "date": "2026-06-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Eve is amazing.", "excerpt": "Check out Eve (https://eve.new). I saw it here on Hacker News after I decided OpenClaw was too raw for me. Eve is amazing. My theory as to why it's so good is that the founders have a strong background in design -- they met getting their masters in design at UC Berkeley. Their secret sauce is the harness they've constructed IMHO. Here is what Zach Dive said in the original HN announcement-- Eve is an AI agent harness", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent harness", "switched_from": "OpenClaw", "story": "Hermes Agent \u2013 Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory"}, {"id": 763604384, "item_id": 47725274, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725274", "by": "themanmaran", "date": "2026-04-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "eve got Doom running for me on my VM", "excerpt": "Boom, eve got Doom running for me on my VM and even spun up a public site https://api.eve.new/api/sites/eve-doom/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Eve \u2013 Managed OpenClaw for Work"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["agent layer", "agent framework with channels and sandboxes", "ai agent harness", "simd library"], "compared": [{"slug": "openclaw", "name": "OpenClaw", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "hermes", "name": "Hermes", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 767664416, "item_id": 47979026, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979026", "by": "supriyag15", "date": "2026-05-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We are building an executive voice engine (Eve).", "excerpt": "Eve | Founding Engineer | San Francisco, CA | https://www.helloeve.co/ Company: We are building an executive voice engine (Eve). This is a multi-agent AI system that learns how a leader thinks and produces content indistinguishable from what they'd write. Think: a specialized vertical AI solution that uses coordinated specialized agents, persistent context graphs, a learning flywheel that compounds with every piece. ", "context": "", "use_case": "executive voice content generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? 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Full data model and full web and mobile app to help run day to day operations. The agent has switched a few times, initially NanoClaw, then Hermes, and now Vercel's Eve (maximum customizability). NextJS/Shadcn web app, postgres db, eve agent layer, MCP tools (over 100 so every single thing can be done by an agent), SwiftUI mobile app, etc. Integrations with gmail, gcal, gdrive, quickbooks, using mdx fo", "context": "", "use_case": "agent layer", "switched_from": "Hermes", "story": "Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform"}, {"id": 796114066, "item_id": 49757129, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757129", "by": "wittydeveloper", "date": "2026-09-18", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "depending on whether you're using Deep Agents, Eve, or Fx", "excerpt": "A lot, especially for performance. That's why we built our own benchmarks that account for both the model and the harness. For example, with Claude Opus 5, the accuracy gap can be up to 3% and performance up to 200ms, depending on whether you're using Deep Agents, Eve, or Fx. More details here: https://www.stagehand.dev/evals", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient"}, {"id": 794470865, "item_id": 49654429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654429", "by": "yangshi07", "date": "2026-09-11", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Actually this is happening, I found couples:", "excerpt": "I believe is not a good idea for the model providers provides a Agent Infrastructure or hosting service. This area should be open source and supported by the cloud providers. Because I don't really want to be locked to a model provider when I am building my agents. Actually this is happening, I found couples: - https://flueframework.com from Astra - https://eve.dev from Vercel - https://fastagent.sh looks more indepe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Agents API"}, {"id": 787212864, "item_id": 49200804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200804", "by": "mrud", "date": "2026-08-06", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out.", "excerpt": "I have been using eve - https://eve.dev/ recently and it was just really nice and well thought out. It also supports TUI, github and other non chat channels. The integration and abstraction with sandboxes, cron etc. is very nicely done but you still can self host it.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent framework with channels and sandboxes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: The Channels SDK \u2013 Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)"}, {"id": 777220848, "item_id": 48576303, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576303", "by": "anonfunction", "date": "2026-06-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "There are multiple \"sandbox backends\"[1] available besides Vercel currently. I'm sure more will follow, and it's open-source so you could always implement your own. 1. https://eve.dev/docs/sandbox#backends", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Eve, an open-source agent framework"}, {"id": 775288064, "item_id": 48455504, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455504", "by": "hank1931", "date": "2026-06-08", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Eve is amazing.", "excerpt": "Check out Eve (https://eve.new). I saw it here on Hacker News after I decided OpenClaw was too raw for me. Eve is amazing. My theory as to why it's so good is that the founders have a strong background in design -- they met getting their masters in design at UC Berkeley. Their secret sauce is the harness they've constructed IMHO. Here is what Zach Dive said in the original HN announcement-- Eve is an AI agent harness", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent harness", "switched_from": "OpenClaw", "story": "Hermes Agent \u2013 Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory"}, {"id": 774192512, "item_id": 48387032, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387032", "by": "woadwarrior01", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I specifically remember the EVE series of models from ~2 years.", "excerpt": "There are many priors to encoder-free VLMs. I specifically remember the EVE series of models from ~2 years. https://github.com/baaivision/EVE", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"}, {"id": 770686320, "item_id": 48167895, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167895", "by": "feelamee", "date": "2026-05-17", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "First commit in eve[1] was published in 2018.", "excerpt": "> The pattern is clear: every major project that actually needs portable SIMD in production chose a third-party library or a different language of course they chose third-party library, because C++26 is just only published and don't have wide support/adoption experience. > And the most damning data point might be EVE itself \u2014 a committee member looked at std::simd, decided it wasn\u2019t good enough, and built his own lib", "context": "", "use_case": "SIMD library", "switched_from": "", "story": "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"}, {"id": 763604384, "item_id": 47725274, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725274", "by": "themanmaran", "date": "2026-04-10", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "eve got Doom running for me on my VM", "excerpt": "Boom, eve got Doom running for me on my VM and even spun up a public site https://api.eve.new/api/sites/eve-doom/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Eve \u2013 Managed OpenClaw for Work"}]}