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Started with something else, then turned that into tools, then turns that into agents, then turned that into an assistant. Now trying to make it generally useful, quite painful at times... but want something that is not Muse or ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini... and not Hermes or OpenClaw. Currently just fixing all the broken styling/css, etc, no separate fr", "context": "", "use_case": "personal AI agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"}, {"id": 793976976, "item_id": 49623561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49623561", "by": "asim", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's all open source https://github.com/micro/mu", "excerpt": "Hello. Me again. I think for 10 plus years I've been trying to make something work. Like most of us engineers, we have a lot of ideas. And after spending a bit of time at Google in 2011-2013 I felt like I understood the direction of where things were going. Obviously technology takes time to catch up. I don't think personal assistants are the end point. To be honest, I think ambient computing and emergent behaviour i", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted personal AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Micro \u2013 A Personal AI Assistant"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686380", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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Love it personally", "excerpt": "I use this through Termux when coding on my phone. Love it personally", "context": "codes on phone", "use_case": "coding on phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Micro Editor"}, {"id": 778528738, "item_id": 48658046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658046", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I also use micro-editor quite frequently on my vps's.", "excerpt": "If you want very small servers: either get a 7$/yr vps or (upcloud if all you want is 1gb ram/1core esq server for very lightweight purposes) The thing after Hetzner's price increase is that there isn't one size fits all anymore and I guess it might not impact people like me who knows in my opinion, many providers but in this situation its a net loss for many who might be paying higher prices. So here is my small lis", "context": "", "use_case": "editing on VPS", "switched_from": "", "story": "We're making Bunny DNS free: because a faster internet won't build itself"}, {"id": 769887328, "item_id": 48117958, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117958", "by": "DeathArrow", "date": "2026-05-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When I don't have a GUI available, I use micro, nano, joe.", "excerpt": "I have nothing against Vi or Emacs, but since I strongly prefer GUI and mouse over terminal I use GUI editors. When I don't have a GUI available, I use micro, nano, joe.", "context": "prefers GUI and mouse", "use_case": "terminal editing without GUI", "switched_from": "", "story": "The vi family"}, {"id": 740787394, "item_id": 46299212, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299212", "by": "nylonstrung", "date": "2025-12-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used nano, micro, and ox in that order", "excerpt": "This has quickly become my favorite TUI text editor, even though it seemed like \"yet another editor\" when I first came across it As someone who doesn't like modal options I used nano, micro, and ox in that order but Flow is a much nicer product than those 3 If you like helix it can also just us the modal editing and keybinds from it as well", "context": "", "use_case": "text editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Flow \u2013 A Programmer's Text Editor"}, {"id": 738302160, "item_id": 46143885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46143885", "by": "user-", "date": "2025-12-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use https://github.com/zyedidia/micro as my main editor in terminal", "excerpt": "Great work, my only nitpick is that when you quit, it tells you that its not gonna save, then its yes to confirm quit. I instinctively wanna type N to quit without saving. I feel like thats the opposite behavior. For example, I use https://github.com/zyedidia/micro as my main editor in terminal, where it says `Save changes to filename before closing? (y,n,esc)\u201d` when you try to quit.", "context": "", "use_case": "terminal editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Fresh \u2013 A new terminal editor built in Rust"}]}