PRprogx·Jul 16, 2026
No lol if you read why: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING...
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SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.
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What it is
SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by hour9 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2026-07-15 20:24:58 UTC to 2026-07-16 09:33:29 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 15, 20:00 | 2026-07-15 20:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-15 21:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Jul 15, 21:00 | 2026-07-15 21:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-15 22:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jul 15, 22:00 | 2026-07-15 22:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-15 23:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 15, 23:00 | 2026-07-15 23:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 00:00 | 2026-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 01:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 16, 01:00 | 2026-07-16 01:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 02:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 02:00 | 2026-07-16 02:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 03:00 | 2026-07-16 03:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 04:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 04:00 | 2026-07-16 04:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 05:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 16, 05:00 | 2026-07-16 05:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 06:00 | 2026-07-16 06:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 07:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 07:00 | 2026-07-16 07:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 08:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 08:00 | 2026-07-16 08:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 09:00 | 2026-07-16 09:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-16 10:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesFive of the top eleven posts right now are about AI:
1. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model [https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/]
2. High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights [https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash]
3. Grok Build is open source [https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build]
4. Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf] [https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/f...]
5. An Interactive Map of AI [https://artifipedia.com/map]
I would only say the discussion on #3 is particularly negative and as others mentioned Grok has a lot of its own baggage: Elon Musk, recently uploading home directories without asking, making sexual imagery of minors, etc. (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/grok-ai-g...)
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So a little less than
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half of the top 10 stories are about AI and only 1 is negative but that one potentially has other factors at play.
Contrast this to how the general public feels about AI:
"A majority of registered voters, 57%, said they believe the risks of AI outweigh its benefits, compared with 34% who said the opposite. What’s more, a plurality of voters view AI negatively ... Just 26% of voters say they have positive feelings about AI, compared with 46% who hold negative views. In fact, the only topics with a lower net positive rating than AI in the NBC News survey were the Democratic Party and Iran."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-majority...
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Given all that, I would say HN has a more pro-AI bias than the general population. Do you disagree?
There's some surprising stuff in this codebase. For example, https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/b189869b7755d2b48... is a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams", which renders a subset of Mermaid chart types using Unicode box-drawing.
In Grok Build is open sourceNo, those are directory names not uploaded. Here are the file names skipped:
https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/main/crates/codeg...
It's about not uploading compiled binary stuff, but they want all your environment data all the same.
In Grok Build is open source> exfiltrating user data (including env files, entire source code etc) which is what grok-build did here
I think env files are filtered out [1]. Anyway, the most suspicious code would be `upload_session_state` which is currently a stub function, though it is hard to say if it was only planned (badly) or has been removed as a damage control.
[1] https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/c1b5909ec707c069f...
In Grok Build is open sourceIs this the infamous "cloud upload" routine? I'm not sure it is indeed insidious, though it is of course possible that the code has been filtered out. https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/main/crates/codeg...
In Grok Build is open sourceEarlier repo link: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590)
In Grok Build is now open sourceEarlier repo link: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590)
In Grok Build is open source