Hi HN! We're excited to share marimo pair [1] [2], a toolkit that drops AI agents into a running marimo notebook [3] session. This lets agents use marimo as working memory and a reactive Python runtime, while also making it easy for humans and agents to collaborate on computational research and data work.GitHub repo: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-pairDemo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaqtchDnocmarimo pair is implemented as an agent skill. Connect your agent of choice to a running notebook with:/marimo-pair pair with me on my_notebook.pyThe agent can do anything a human can do with marimo and more. For example, it can obtain feedback by running code in an ephemeral scratchpad (inspect variables, run code against the program state, read outputs). If it wants to persist state, the agent can add cells, delete them, and install packages (marimo records these actions in the associated notebook, which is just a Python file). The agent can even manipulate marimo's user interface — for fun, try asking your agent to greet you from within a pair session.The agent effects all actions by running Python code in the marimo kernel. Under the hood, the marimo pair skill explains how to discover and create marimo sessions, and how to control them using a semi-private interface we call code mode.Code mode lets models treat marimo as a REPL that extends their context windows, similar to recursive language models (RLMs). But unlike traditional REPLs, the marimo "REPL" incrementally builds a reproducible Python program, because marimo notebooks are dataflow graphs with well-defined execution semantics. As it uses code mode, the agent is kept on track by marimo's guardrails, which include the elimination of hidden state: run a cell and dependent cells are run automatically, delete a cell and its variables are scrubbed from memory.By giving models full control over a stateful reactive programming environment, rat
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A toolkit for running AI agents in reactive Python notebooks, offering enhanced control and reproducibility for computational research and data work.
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The idea addresses real and growing pains in AI agent development, specifically around control, reproducibility, and managing complexity, leveraging Marimo's reactive nature as a key differentiator. However, the solution space is crowded with well-funded competitors and complex to build for a solo founder.
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The idea has a clear value proposition for a specific audience and good initial validation, but needs further market validation on its unique 'reactive' benefit and a solid business model.
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This idea addresses a growing and essential need for controlled AI agent environments, offering a strong technical solution, but needs to prove its unique value over current workarounds.
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Pricing: Open-source, free (framework itself); costs associated with deployment, LLM usage, and custom development.
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The market for AI agent development platforms is experiencing rapid growth, with estimates ranging from USD 10.75 billion in 2025 to USD 84.062 billion by 2031 at a CAGR of 36-41%. Enterprises are increasingly adopting AI agents for automation, and this shift is driven by cloud cost deflation, open-source frameworks, and significant venture capital funding in the AI agent space, with AI agents capturing a third of total global VC funding.
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Last summer we faced a conundrum at my company, Tiger Data, a Postgres cloud vendor whose main business is in timeseries data. We were trying to grow our business towards emerging AI-centric workloads and wanted to provide a state-of-the-art hybrid search stack in Postgres. We'd already built pgvectorscale in house with the goal of scaling semantic search beyond pgvector's main memory limitations. We just needed a scalable ranked keyword search solution too.The problem: core Postgres doesn't provide this; the leading Postgres BM25 extension, ParadeDB, is guarded behind AGPL; developing our own extension appeared daunting. We'd need a small team of sharp engineers and 6-12 months, I figured. And we'd probably still fall short of the performance of a mature system like Parade/Tantivy.Or would we? I'd be experimenting long enough with AI-boosted development at that point to realize that with the latest tools (Claude Code + Opus) and an experienced hand (I've been working in database systems internals for 25 years now), the old time estimates pretty much go out the window.I told our CTO I thought I could solo the project in one quarter. This raised some eyebrows.It did take a little more time than that (two quarters), and we got some real help from the community (amazing!) after open-sourcing the pre-release. But I'm thrilled/exhausted today to share that pg_textsearch v1.0 is freely available via open source (Postgres license), on Tiger Data cloud, and hopefully soon, a hyperscalar near you:https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearchIn the blog post accompanying the release, I overview the architecture and present benchmark results using MS-MARCO. To my surprise, we were not only able to meet Parade/Tantivy's query performance, but exceed it substantially, measuring a 4.7x advantage on query throughput at scale:https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/pg-textsearch-bm25-fu
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Hi HN!I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery life. The main thing I missed was a simple taskbar that shows the windows in the current workspace instead of a Dock that mixes everything together.I built boringBar so I would not have to use the Dock. It shows only the windows in the current Space, lets you switch Spaces by scrolling on the bar, and adds a desktop switcher so you can jump directly to any Space. You can also hide the system Dock, pin apps, preview windows with thumbnails, and launch apps from a searchable menu (I keep Spotlight disabled because for some reason it uses a lot of system resources on my machine).I’ve been dogfooding it for a few months now, and it finally felt polished enough to share.It’s for people who like macOS but want window management to feel a bit more like GNOME, Windows, or a traditional taskbar. It’s also for people like me who wanted an easier transition to macOS, especially now that Windows feels increasingly user-hostile.I’d love feedback on the UX, bugs, and whether this solves the same Dock/Spaces pain for anyone else.P.S. It might also appeal to people who feel nostalgic for the GNOME 2 desktop of yore. I started my Linux journey with it, and boringBar brings back some of that feeling for me.
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### Describe the project you are working on Godot C# bindings ### Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project For the past weeks, I've been discussing with several Unity users intending to move to Godot C# regarding dealing with the C# garbage collector. The most common complaint I hear from users is that, in Unity, allocations can trigger unexpected GC spikes into the game. In Godot, we target to make all of the high performance APIs (those that intended to be called every frame) not allocate any memory, so theoretically the GC should not be a problem. Additionally, Godot starting from 4.0, uses the Microsoft CoreCLR version of .net, which also supposedly has a better garbage collector than Unity. But in all, after several discussions with Unity users, neither is enough reassurance for them, and they would really feel safer if Godot exposed a zero allocation API. ### Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation The idea of this proposal is that Godot exposes zero allocation versions of many functions in the C# API, that users can use if they desire. Technically, this could be done from the binding generator itself, without breaking compatibility, and without doing any modification to Godot itself. ### Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams **WARNING** I am not familiar with C#, so take this as pseudocode. Imagine you have two functions exposed as to C#: ```C# void MyClass.SetArray( Vector2[] array); Vector2[] MyClass.GetArray(); ``` This works and is pretty and intuitive. However, it has two problems: * GC is allocated on return * Memory is copied to Godot native formats every time there is a call. The idea is to add NoAlloc versions, which can be generated directly by the binder automatically when required: ```C# void MyClass.SetArrayNoAlloc( Godot.Collections.PackedVector2Array array); void MyCl
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