{"slug": "mu", "name": "Mu", "category": "networking", "category_name": "Networking and VPN", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 7, "warners": 1, "score": 2.86, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-29", "latest": "2026-10-16", "why": "Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "mu.xyz", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://mu.xyz/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Mu", "mu", "mu.social", "Mu.social"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801894176, "item_id": 50118386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118386", "by": "woile", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation", "excerpt": "Oh man, I wish everyone just moved somewhere else, specially if they are aiming to make something public. You can choose any server on bluesky nowadays. Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation", "context": "", "use_case": "social network for scientists", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neural networks are clean"}, {"id": 777652592, "item_id": 48603287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603287", "by": "fabrice_d", "date": "2026-06-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.", "excerpt": "You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.", "context": "", "use_case": "AT Protocol social client", "switched_from": "", "story": "There Are No Instances in ATProto"}, {"id": 777395842, "item_id": 48587240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587240", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "instead of something actually positive and better, but not as directly manipulable.", "excerpt": "Really sad seeing europa.eu and high profile politicians switching switching to such obviously bullshit low effort hacks. Ursala von der Leyen just joined and fired off a hello, for example. Many agitated replies to it, discussing the matter, with lots and lots of discontent for W Social: https://bsky.app/profile/vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu/post/3moiosz24yk2j There's two really good blog posts in these W Social people, ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Has W Social switched to closed source?"}, {"id": 777372672, "item_id": 48585792, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585792", "by": "maelito", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just use https://mu.social, it's essentially the same thing", "excerpt": "Just use https://mu.social, it's essentially the same thing, just built in the open by the Eurosky stack.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Has W Social switched to closed source?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 737432928, "item_id": 46089558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089558", "by": "bArray", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I would run a million miles away from this.", "excerpt": "> Big tech failed us. Uses Go, a language written by and maintained by Google [1]. Uses co-pilot written by GitHub for development [4]. Mu is \u00a311 a month and you cannot see any screenshot of what you are getting [2], the same price you could buy a cheap VPS for [3]. The two authors of the project are asim and co-pilot. The commits have meaningless messages [4]. I would run a million miles away from this. [1] https://", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mu \u2013 The Micro Network"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["social network for scientists", "social accounts", "at protocol social client"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 799814096, "item_id": 49988381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988381", "by": "ylxdzsw", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I prototyped an agent[1] to use bash as the language for codemode, which in my opinion worked equally well", "excerpt": "I'm not sure why almost all codemode implementations choose Javascript. I prototyped an agent[1] to use bash as the language for codemode, which in my opinion worked equally well and requires no teaching (there is literally 0 prompt to teach the LLM about codemode. A tool named \"bash\" is enough to have them know the usage). [1] https://github.com/ylxdzsw/mu", "context": "", "use_case": "agent using bash for codemode", "switched_from": "", "story": "What is Codemode"}, {"id": 787806448, "item_id": 49237903, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237903", "by": "asim", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "An MCP server and web app that provides real time access to news, markets, weather, video, places, search, etc.", "excerpt": "Mu - Tools for Agents. An MCP server and web app that provides real time access to news, markets, weather, video, places, search, etc. It's sort of extension of a previous idea I had to put all the key tools and services behind a single api and access token. I don't know that it's quite there yet. The idea might change. Still looking for feedback. https://micro.mu https://github.com/micro/mu Also have an agent harnes", "context": "", "use_case": "tools for agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 787741776, "item_id": 49233861, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233861", "by": "amdahl", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a new agent/harness, mu. not ready yet", "excerpt": "a new agent/harness, mu. not ready yet but hope to let people play with it ~soon. its got very few novel ideas, but attempts to do the existing good ideas reasonably well and be as minimalist and composable and pragmatic as possible https://miu.dev/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 775249328, "item_id": 48453083, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453083", "by": "asim", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Originally I felt there should be an alternative to Google and Facebook.", "excerpt": "Originally I felt there should be an alternative to Google and Facebook. It felt like our lives were being ruled by tech giants even ten years ago..and then all the advertising and algorithms really messed with us. I personally wanted an alternative way to use the web. So it's based around what I'd use on a daily basis. And then the idea of being able to extend it with a native app builder. The big stuff I continue t", "context": "", "use_case": "alternative web dashboard", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 758227168, "item_id": 47389198, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389198", "by": "akkartik", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Here's my similar project from a few years ago, in case you want to compare notes", "excerpt": "Looks interesting. The next step may be to show some little fun examples built with it. Here's my similar project from a few years ago, in case you want to compare notes: https://github.com/akkartik/mu https://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: GDSL \u2013 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300"}, {"id": 756877072, "item_id": 47304817, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304817", "by": "asim", "date": "2026-03-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find it quite useful.", "excerpt": "For about a year I've been working on Mu - an app for everything without ads, algorithms or exploits. https://mu.xyz Blog, news, chat, video, mail, web. Basically all the daily habits as little micro apps in one thing. I find it quite useful. Not sure anyone else does yet though. Also separately worked on Reminder.dev which is a Quran app and API that bakes in LLM based search and motivational reminders.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233423", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584497", "title": "Has W Social switched to closed source?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105647", "title": "Neural networks are clean", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978333", "title": "What is Codemode", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462427", "title": "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928", "title": "CoMaps \u2013 FOSS Offline Maps", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801894176, "item_id": 50118386, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118386", "by": "woile", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation", "excerpt": "Oh man, I wish everyone just moved somewhere else, specially if they are aiming to make something public. You can choose any server on bluesky nowadays. Scientists in Europe, please check out https://mu.social which is hosted by an european open foundation", "context": "", "use_case": "social network for scientists", "switched_from": "", "story": "Neural networks are clean"}, {"id": 791439057, "item_id": 49464941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464941", "by": "SSLy", "date": "2026-08-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://hello.mu.social/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"}, {"id": 781522402, "item_id": 48845150, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845150", "by": "maelito", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we use Eurosky/Mu.social daily for our social accounts", "excerpt": "Thanks ! We're not using Bluesky, but Atproto ;) So place reviews is federated and open-source : we use Eurosky/Mu.social daily for our social accounts. Also, Bluesky itself is open-source. > but I think the international version is still work in progress, so I'll gladly return in the future. Yes sorry, we're working on it, daily !", "context": "", "use_case": "social accounts", "switched_from": "", "story": "CoMaps \u2013 FOSS Offline Maps"}, {"id": 777652592, "item_id": 48603287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48603287", "by": "fabrice_d", "date": "2026-06-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.", "excerpt": "You can switch to the AppView from https://mu.social/ and you'll get editing working.", "context": "", "use_case": "AT Protocol social client", "switched_from": "", "story": "There Are No Instances in ATProto"}, {"id": 777395842, "item_id": 48587240, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587240", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "instead of something actually positive and better, but not as directly manipulable.", "excerpt": "Really sad seeing europa.eu and high profile politicians switching switching to such obviously bullshit low effort hacks. Ursala von der Leyen just joined and fired off a hello, for example. Many agitated replies to it, discussing the matter, with lots and lots of discontent for W Social: https://bsky.app/profile/vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu/post/3moiosz24yk2j There's two really good blog posts in these W Social people, ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Has W Social switched to closed source?"}, {"id": 777372672, "item_id": 48585792, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585792", "by": "maelito", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Just use https://mu.social, it's essentially the same thing", "excerpt": "Just use https://mu.social, it's essentially the same thing, just built in the open by the Eurosky stack.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Has W Social switched to closed source?"}, {"id": 775990784, "item_id": 48499424, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499424", "by": "r721", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": ">mu is an open social app built in Europe and open to all.", "excerpt": ">mu is an open social app built in Europe and open to all. >mu is operated by Stichting Modal, a non-profit foundation under Dutch law. Kranenburgweg 135 A, 2583 ER The Hague, Netherlands https://hello.mu.social/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mu"}, {"id": 737432928, "item_id": 46089558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089558", "by": "bArray", "date": "2025-11-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I would run a million miles away from this.", "excerpt": "> Big tech failed us. Uses Go, a language written by and maintained by Google [1]. Uses co-pilot written by GitHub for development [4]. Mu is \u00a311 a month and you cannot see any screenshot of what you are getting [2], the same price you could buy a cheap VPS for [3]. The two authors of the project are asim and co-pilot. The commits have meaningless messages [4]. I would run a million miles away from this. [1] https://", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mu \u2013 The Micro Network"}]}