New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

Show HN: OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
7 by ben_talent | 1 comments on Hacker News.
hi hn, i built openwork, an open-source, local-first system inspired by claude cowork. it’s a native desktop app that runs on top of opencode (opencode.ai). it’s basically an alternative gui for opencode, which (at least until now) has been more focused on technical folks. the original seed for openwork was simple: i have a home server, and i wanted my wife and i to be able to run privileged workflows. things like controlling home assistant, or deploying custom web apps (e.g. our customs recipe app recipes.benjaminshafii.com), legal torrents, without living in a terminal. our initial setup was running the opencode web server directly and sharing credentials to it. that worked, but i found the web ui unreliable and very unfriendly for non-technical users. the goal with openwork is to bring the kind of workflows i’m used to running in the cli into a gui, while keeping a very deep extensibility mindset. ideally this grows into something closer to an obsidian-style ecosystem, but for agentic work. some core principles i had in mind: - open by design: no black boxes, no hosted lock-in. everything runs locally or on your own servers. (models don’t run locally yet, but both opencode and openwork are built with that future in mind.) - hyper extensible: skills are installable modules via a skill/package manager, using the native opencode plugin ecosystem. - non-technical by default: plans, progress, permissions, and artifacts are surfaced in the ui, not buried in logs. you can already try it: - there’s an unsigned dmg - or you can clone the repo, install deps, and if you already have opencode running it should work right away it’s very alpha, lots of rough edges. i’d love feedback on what feels the roughest or most confusing. happy to answer questions.

New top story on Hacker News: So, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

So, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
68 by hn_acker | 41 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
88 by MBCook | 77 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
35 by evakhoury | 48 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support

Show HN: FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support
8 by michielme | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So it's decorators for scheduling (@scheduler.every(5).minutes, @scheduler.daily.at("09:00")), state saves to JSON so jobs survive restarts, and there's an optional FastAPI dashboard if you want to see what's running. No Redis, no message broker, runs in-process with your app. Trade-off is it's single process only — if you need distributed workers, stick with Celery.

New top story on Hacker News: Statement from Federal Reserve Chair

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair
106 by nikhizzle | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Are We ... Yet?

Are We ... Yet?
9 by mooreds | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)
22 by david927 | 43 comments on Hacker News.
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

New top story on Hacker News: Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI

Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
16 by rendx | 4 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats

Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats
13 by akg130522 | 2 comments on Hacker News.