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Charlie Labs
Company blog · charlielabs.ai/blog · on HN as rileytaiprogramming
Charlie Labs is the company blog at charlielabs.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2025, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments are product pitches for Charlie, a cloud coding agent, linking its pricing, how-it-works and docs pages and asking for feedback. None discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daemons are always-on AI processes that work proactively across Slack, Linear, GitHub, and more. Defined with simple .md files.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-21
What Hacker News says?
At my company (Charlie Labs), we've had a tremendous amount of success with context awareness over long-running tasks with GPT-5 since getting access a few weeks ago. We ran an eval to solve 10 real Github issues so that we could measure this against Claude Code and the differences were surprisingly large. You can see our write-up here: https://charlielabs.ai/research/gpt-5 Often, our tasks take 30-45 minutes and ca…
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on “GPT-5 for Developers”Submitted Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWe just came out of closed alpha yesterday and have been trying to figure out how best to price, if you'd be willing to provide any feedback I'd certainly appreciate it: https://www.charlielabs.ai/pricing - Thank you!! :)
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on “Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users”Submitted Coding Agents as Operating Systems as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe are building a tool specifically for typescript developers, just launched a couple of months ago and I'd really appreciate if you gave it a try and provided me with feedback, people seem to really like using it. http://charlielabs.ai - thank yooou!!! :)
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on “I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well”Submitted The End of Local as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOkay, but like I said before in another comment, I have spent 3 days straight coding, neglecting myself and everything around me in the process. I was learning a lot, coding a lot. I was productive. Of course I should have had some breaks (for my legs and mind, and my body). Just make sure to have breaks. I did not have breaks because I was completely zoned in. I set up a timer by then that remind me to take a break…
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on “OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery”Submitted For agents, there really are dumb questions as a story · 3 points
HN discussiontl;dr : https://charlielabs.ai/how-it-works/ and https://docs.charlielabs.ai/daemons to get started, look at https://docs.charlielabs.ai/installation , but essentially 1) signup with your github login 2) install the CharlieCreates GitHub App on the repos you want Charlie to work in 3) create an issue, tag @CharlieHelps to help you create your first daemon! the daemon will run on the charlie runtime and follow the wa…
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on “Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them”Submitted Claude just discovered workflows. Charlie started there as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's exactly right. Our cloud-based agent Charlie ( https://charlielabs.ai/ ) supports this, and our hope is that other platform providers will offer support in the future as well. Skills live in the repository, so it felt like a natural complement. It also lets other developers see what the active daemons are and collaborate on them. With proper context, agents are quite good at writing and editing these daemon f…
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on “Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them”Submitted Repo sets the rules. Charlie runs the review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The challenges of building a reliable PR review agent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HubSpot wanted me to talk to sales, so I built my first prod. system in 10 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I rage-built email automation because HubSpot wanted me to talk to sales as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 90% cheaper repo inference with GPT-5.4 nano as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't ask if it works. Ask for proof as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-player agents are the future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Tast Supply Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the next agent interface is shared as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coding Agent OS as a story · 1 points
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