Mole
AI
deep research agent
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Honest numbers in the post
From 1 comment
> Honest numbers I'm glad your numbers are honest! For a moment I thought, hey, maybe this person's numbers are lying to me... but it turned out they were not so thank you!
hankbond on HN
Objections
Name conflicts with tw93's Mole for Mac maintenance app
From 2 comments
https://github.com/tw93/Mole I see a certain conflict of interest.
basedpolymer on HNYeah, we need a name change here. Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app, for both terminal and GUI.
themadturk on HN
Codebase seems large for a basic feature
From 1 comment
That is a LOT of code for a pretty basic feature.
recroad on HN
Piping curl into sh is a security concern
From 1 comment
stop curl-ing into sh
kedislav on HN
Requests
Explain how LLM spend is capped beyond max_tokens and pricing
From 1 comment
> Never spend more than you budgeted I assume that this is "$ spent on search + $ spent on LLM" < budget, but how do you handle the LLM spending more than you would expect on a…
daybox on HN
Show it finds the best flight tickets
From 1 comment
Does your research able to take most relevant stuff? Let's say i search for flight tickets, is it able to really find the most cheat ones
shken on HN
Questions
What is deep research compared to normal research?
From 1 comment
What's deep research compared to more normal research?
hgomersall on HN
How does caching interact with budget enforcement?
From 1 comment
> Never spend more than you budgeted I assume that this is "$ spent on search + $ spent on LLM" < budget, but how do you handle the LLM spending more than you would expect on a…
daybox on HN