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It's for macOS, written in Swift.", "excerpt": "I'm working on Osaurus, AI harness for local models. It's for macOS, written in Swift. https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus", "context": "", "use_case": "running local models on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"}, {"id": 776505680, "item_id": 48531605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531605", "by": "tpae", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's full featured with agent loop, gets work done locally.", "excerpt": "I've been building native macOS harness called Osaurus https://osaurus.ai/ It's full featured with agent loop, gets work done locally. It's open-source and Swift-based, we built our own inferencing engine since every other engine is based on Python. Check us out - https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus Looking for some feedback!", "context": "", "use_case": "local agent harness on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 755536736, "item_id": 47221046, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221046", "by": "tpae", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Osaurus is a native macOS AI platform.", "excerpt": "Osaurus | Full-Time | Remote | Protocol Engineer Osaurus is a native macOS AI platform. The core idea: inference is a commodity \u2014 everything else (context, memory, tools) should be owned by you, locally. Think of it as the runtime layer for AI on Mac that works with any provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, local models via MLX). 3.7K+ GitHub stars and 54K+ downloads with zero marketing spend. Open source, local-first, p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? 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I've been building a native macOS AI client in Swift \u2014 it's 15MB, provider-agnostic, and open source: https://github.com/osaurus-ai/osaurus Committing to one platform well beats a mediocre Electron wrapper on all three.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "When Code is Free, Why is Claude is an Electron app?"}, {"id": 745071472, "item_id": 46566967, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566967", "by": "tpae", "date": "2026-01-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can check out my project here: https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus", "excerpt": "You can check out my project here: https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus I'm focused on building it for the macOS ecosystem", "context": "", "use_case": "local LLM text completion service on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service?"}, {"id": 740413360, "item_id": 46275835, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275835", "by": "tpae", "date": "2025-12-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Native macOS LLM server with MCP support", "excerpt": "I'm working on https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus, Native macOS LLM server with MCP support. 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