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qqqa
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iagooar / qqqa

qqqa

Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands

2Distinct people
2Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
629GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I say this with the utmost respect, but: are you guys serious? It was YOU, iagooar, who posted a "Show HN" here with a link to the following URL:…

_vxgq used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-11-06 10:59:42 UTC to 2025-11-06 12:55:19 UTC.

012025-11-06 10:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-06 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 6, 10:002025-11-06 11:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-06 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 6, 11:002025-11-06 12:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-06 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 6, 12:00

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Nov 6, 10:002025-11-06 10:00:00 UTC2025-11-06 11:00:00 UTC110
Nov 6, 11:002025-11-06 11:00:00 UTC2025-11-06 12:00:00 UTC000
Nov 6, 12:002025-11-06 12:00:00 UTC2025-11-06 13:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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_vxgq·Nov 6, 2025Recommendation phrase
I say this with the utmost respect, but: are you guys serious? It was YOU, iagooar, who posted a "Show HN" here with a link to the following URL: https://github.com/matisojka/qqqa This is a public web site hosted on Github, and it belongs to the Github user matisojka, whose public Github profile is at https://github.com/matisojka, containing, in public, the full name "[name-redacted]" — put there by no other than yourself! You came here to promote your tool, asking for feedback ("Curious if the HN crowd finds it useful"), so YOU expect me to download and run YOUR software on MY system, and therefore trusting your software to not wreck havoc on my personal computer system. And then flip out if I dare to do a quick, superficial cross-check on whose software I'm installing? Using only public information that you yourself put onto the Interne
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t on public pages yourself? Are you seriously suggesting that I broke into private web sites or computer systems in order to illegally retrieve information that was not meant for public eyes? Like, seriously? "go through my private profiles" -> can you point at a SINGLE private profile that I went through? Just ONE? You asked for feedback. Your literally wrote "AMA" — "Ask me anything". And all I did was just that: asking you to understand that if you want this project to gain traction, that the nature of the way it is currently distributed, and the way that the Apple ecosystem treats it, might be a roadblock for this. A roadblock for a project that I love and want to see succeed.
In Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell
iagooar·Nov 6, 2025Submission

Show HN: qqqa – A fast, stateless LLM-powered assistant for your shell

I built qqqa as an open-source project, because I was tired of bouncing between shell, ChatGPT / the browser for rather simple commands. It comes with two binaries: qq and qa. qq means "quick question" - it is read-only, perfect for the commands I always forget. qa means "quick agent" - it is qq's sibling that can run things, but only after showing its plan and getting an approval by the user. It is built entirely around the Unix philosophy of focused tools, stateless by default - pretty much the opposite of what most coding agent are focusing on. Personally I've had the best experience using Groq + gpt-oss-20b, as it feels almost instant (up to 1k tokens/s according to Groq) - but any OpenAI-compatible API will do. Curious if the HN crowd finds it useful - and of course, AMA.
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