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Working on localization now. https://github.com/cmicali/vibe https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vibe-music-player/id1582482361", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"}, {"id": 746129856, "item_id": 46633116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633116", "by": "blurjp", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's made my debugging workflow much faster, especially for frontend issues.", "excerpt": "Hey HN, I'm the creator of vibe. I built this because I was tired of describing UI bugs to Claude Code when I could just show them. The problem: When debugging with AI assistants, visual context gets lost. You end up typing \"the button is misaligned by about 3 pixels\" when you could just show a screenshot. What it does: - Captures screen regions using macOS's native screencapture - Bundles the screenshot with git sta", "context": "", "use_case": "Screenshot-based debugging for Claude Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vibe \u2013 Claude Skill to let Claude Code read screen automatically"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418", "title": "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605767", "title": "Mistral raises \u20ac3B", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233423", "title": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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I don't see a fundamental difference between them in results, at least with what I use them for. The cost is lower too, but it is not the only reason why I won't use Claude at home. Vibe (the CLI Kiro-like tool) feels more \"Claude-ish\" as it has more terse answers, while the Le Chat can get quite chatty if you real", "context": "", "use_case": "coding CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Leanstral 1.5"}, {"id": 765676641, "item_id": 47854790, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854790", "by": "phillc73", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Either API keys will work with Vibe CLI.", "excerpt": "Mistral Codestral [1] The Mistral Studio product is currently free to use. Le Chat Pro costs \u20ac18/month. [2] Either API keys will work with Vibe CLI. 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Mentioned in the 2.5.0 release of the Vibe CLI tool: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe/releases/tag/v2.5.0 A HuggingFace page is linked for the weights but it returns a 404: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Leanstral-120B-A6B-2603", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mistral.ai Leanstral: open-source model designed for engineering"}, {"id": 750956674, "item_id": 46934792, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934792", "by": "cjbarber", "date": "2026-02-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://github.com/lynaghk/vibe", "excerpt": "See also: https://github.com/obra/packnplay https://github.com/strongdm/leash https://github.com/lynaghk/vibe (I've been collecting different tools for sandboxing coding agents)", "context": "", "use_case": "Sandboxing coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Matchlock: Linux-based sandboxing for AI agents"}, {"id": 750237232, "item_id": 46889827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889827", "by": "mtlynch", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is a similar macOS solution", "excerpt": "This is a similar macOS solution: https://github.com/lynaghk/vibe/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix"}, {"id": 739359744, "item_id": 46209984, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209984", "by": "eavan0", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm glad it's not another LLM CLI that uses React", "excerpt": "I'm glad it's not another LLM CLI that uses React. 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