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OpenWarp
- notatoad 5mo agofor somebody not in the know... what is this? the website doesn't seem to explain much. i can add models to warp, but what's warp?
- esafak 5mo agoA terminal: https://www.warp.dev/ https://www.warp.dev/
- avaer 5mo ago> Warp is the agentic development environment So not a terminal?
- dmix 5mo agoIt's a very competent terminal. The AI stuff is layered on in a way where it doesn't get in the way. Very useful for command completion and stuff like that, without having to open claude.
- cassianoleal 5mo agoSince when does command completion require Claude Code?
- Vaslo 5mo agoYou aren’t the only one who didnt get this off the bat. I still don’t understand why I do this instead of just typing Claude my terminal
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- sbankowi 5mo agoI was hoping that this was an opensourcing of OS/2. (With the recent DOS announcement, I guess one can only dream.)
- gnabgib 5mo agoAn oft-repeated comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941398 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970965
- SwellJoe 5mo ago"OpenWarp is a community fork of Warp's open-source code. It is not affiliated with Warp Inc. and follows the upstream AGPL / MIT dual license." It is rude, and possibly a trademark violation, to fork a project and use the same name. And, how can there be a "community fork" when there is no community? It's just been Open Sourced 24 hours ago.
- iamveen 5mo agoDomain Squatting 2.0
- nothinkjustai 5mo ago[flagged]
- simplify 5mo agoDefinitely rude, too close to the same name. Warp just recently open sourced their client, a [not community] personal fork should be more considerate.
- Hasnep 5mo agoYou probably can't name a project OpenWarp for the same reason you can't name a search engine OpenGoogle, even though it's a different name to the original. In this case, it's particularly confusing because the original warp project _is_ now open source.
- kreelman 5mo agoI used Warp a bit on Windows. It looked promising, but didn't work quite as well as I would have liked. It's great that it's been open sourced. Does anyone keep a DB somewhere of open source project names? I think it would be better to give the code fork a different name.... And maybe move it off Github!!
- BeetleB 5mo agoYou can't name something OpenGoogle, because the Google name is trademarked. Is Warp trademarked?
- timmg 5mo agoMaybe it's just me, but I'd love a "ThinWarp" -- just the terminal with the great UI, etc. I can run Claude Code there or whatever. But I personally don't need the AI in the terminal itself.
- phillipcarter 5mo agoClaude Code is very capable of making a terminal emulator with exactly (and only) the features you want. I did that for myself and it's now my daily driver. Has a few goodies I care about but nothing much else, and I have no intention of adding features for other people: https://github.com/cartermp/term https://github.com/cartermp/term
- Scarbutt 5mo agoA personal Mac terminal emulator built for terminal-based AI work. How exactly does it help with "terminal-based AI work"?
- DrammBA 5mo agoYou're right to push back. It doesn't — he made it up.
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- phillipcarter 5mo ago...because it's a terminal emulator? I use it to run Claude Code?
- bluegatty 5mo agoA terminal with AI focused on doing terminal-ish stuff is actually kind of useful. I just never did enough of it to keep going. If they expanded this to be highly optimized for devops aka really well attuned to AWS CLI all the various linux commands, bash scripting and just had all of that baked right in - and - was super fact and didn't have to think to much - I can see that. The reason being, your doing 'specific tasks at a meta level' - not designing complex things, or doing research. More like Claude Code but not for code, for DevOps and or that kind of things. I think 'Meta Prompting' should be a thing for many disciplines. That said, the 'bitter pill' lesson is that the Tier 1 models just really get good at everything and often supersede custom solutions - which was the case for myself and Warp, I just 'did stuff in Claude' and it was good enough.
- daemin 5mo agoI've looked at Warp before and seen that it has some potentially useful features for a command line terminal program, like having each command be its own little history window which you can scroll independently and collapse. (I might have imagined/inferred those from the screenshots of it working though). So an alternative implementation does sound interesting, but I would want it just to be a terminal, not with any AI or agent stuff in it. So alas this doesn't appear to be it.
- WD-42 5mo agoWhat even is Warp now? I remember it as the electron terminal and totally dismissing it. Then I think I read it got the RIIR treatment, but there was already Ghostty and Alacritty by then. Now it looks like it’s another AI thing? What the heck is warp???
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- pianoben 5mo agoWarp was always an AI thing, as I recall - the seem much heavier on AI bandwagon nowadays, but their whole thing was a terminal for teams where you could share knowledge and command palettes and generate stuff.
- quasigod 5mo agoTheir "Introducing Warp" post from 2022 actually doesn't mention AI: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp. They introduced Warp AI in 2023: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp-ai https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp-ai I was pretty interested in it when it was just trying to be a modernized terminal. I still think some of the UI ideas are cool.
- pianoben 5mo agoGotcha, I must have encountered them later on then - thanks for posting the receipts! I was a happy user for a while, but eventually some bugs drove me back to iTerm2 (in my case, hanging forever after certain terraform commands finished). Ghostty has filled my need for a better terminal since then.
- corvad 5mo agoWarp didn't start out as AI, IIRC they started with auto completing terminals.
- hbn 5mo ago> I remember it as the electron terminal and totally dismissing it. Pretty sure it's Rust with their own UI framework
- ChrisArchitect 5mo agoRelated: Warp is now open-source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264
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- inspector14 5mo agocall it Worp
- alexjurkiewicz 5mo agoThere can be problems with open source projects run by for-profit companies, but this fork seems a little premature.
- drakenot 5mo agoI hope they bring back the former UI that allowed you to explicitly toggle "AI / Agent" mode on/off in a terminal session, and gets rid of the Oz / Cloud Agent stuff. I don't want this auto-detect agent request. The explicit toggle was perfect.
- avaer 5mo agoI don't use Warp, but it seems to me they did something cool (terminal app), pivoted that attention into a profitable AI play, but a lot of people just wanted the terminal app. Now nobody knows what Warp is anymore, because they want to be an Agentic IDE and that's not what the users want. Do I have that right? I don't see what the point of this OpenWarp fork is though, other than adding more provider support. Couldn't that just be upstreamed?
- arrsingh 5mo agoWhat was the terminal app though and what was special about it that Ghostty didn't already provide? edit: Found this one article (via google) that talks about the terminal. I guess it was a terminal that you could "prompt" to do things and it would figure out the shell commands. https://thenewstack.io/developer-review-of-warp-for-windows-an-ai-terminal-app/ https://thenewstack.io/developer-review-of-warp-for-windows-...
- Revanche1367 5mo agoIf I recall correctly, warp is older than ghostty. Warp became popular because it was one of the well maintained rust-based terminals, and it had some simple AI features like completions and natural language command recognition. That’s why I started using it at least and I liked the dark theme better than that of any other terminal. I barely used the AI features initially but my company pays for it if I want to use it so I started using it occasionally.
- touristtam 5mo agoOff the top of my head: - The _block_ system where you could navigate up and down without scrolling the whole buffer rigidly - The tabbing system that actually works and doesn't feel clunky - The command prediction - The workflows (but that's now pretty much dead unless you really do not use AI)
- richrichardsson 5mo agoThe other thing I really love is the cross-platform support. I don't have to tweak my usage of the terminal depending which platform I'm on. I just have to remember to use Ctrl+Shift for copy/paste on Windows/Linux.
- watersb 5mo agoNot OS/2.
- nocman 5mo agoYeah :-( Here I was hoping that somehow IBM had decided to open source it. That would have been fun. But I don't think that will ever happen.
- mark_l_watson 5mo agoA word of warning: I just installed OpenWarp from source, but it looks like it will not let me use my own provider without signing up for an $20/month account -- just like the original Warp I very much wish the OpenWarp folks would have made this clear on their README.md file.
- zero-lab 5mo agoYou need to switch to the openWarp branch, master is the official code
- mark_l_watson 5mo agoOh, thanks!
- keyle 5mo agoWhat does "100% local credentials" mean as a feature?
- zachlloyd 5mo agoWarp founder here. It's cool to see the community excitement here. Note that we are going to add bring-your-own-model directly into Warp. Would love interested folks to weigh in on the discussion here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/discussions/9619 https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp/discussions/9619
- touristtam 5mo agoLong overdue - I was all in a few years ago with Warp, but after the last couple of years of not addressing this need, I have moved on from Warp. I now DO NOT see the need to embed AI into the terminal when you can have all sorts of TUI doing the same job.
- helloplanets 5mo agoWhat about when SSHing to an external server, or working in a container?
- rutierut 5mo agoThis might have changed but Warp was not able to do this without “warpifying” the SSH host.
- regularfry 5mo agoNanobot will happily ssh to a host and do things on it. I'm sure that's just a skill away for pi or opencode.
- embedding-shape 5mo agoMost if not every agent has access to bash or similar, which ssh typically is available. You don't need any bloated skills or anything, as long as you include `host is available via user@10.55` or whatever, and you have authentication properly setup, it'll figure it out.
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- jFriedensreich 5mo agoI don't think this should be dismissed as a cheap and rude ripoff. I'm no expert in trademarks or the naming convention part of the story, but for the rest: warp is not a great company taking far too long to roll back its weird account requirement, tracking users, enshittifying the core terminal experience with often unwanted AI and other crap features and dismissing annoyances that are brought up by 100eds of users. We need to show companies they need to behave or will be crushed by the community.
- zero-lab 5mo agoIn fact, I think warp software is very good, but it also has many imperfections. Forking this branch is not to split it. If warp does better one day, this branch may be deleted, but for now I prefer my own~
- nektro 5mo agoat this stage, this being a fork instead of a pr is really weird
- em-bee 5mo agotechnically you can't create a PR without forking the repo first. practically it also makes sense for a larger change to be developed in the open before it is ready to be merged upstream, so a friendly fork with the intent to explore some ideas usually is fine.
- taosx 5mo agoI feel this is the wrong way to go about things and I agree that it rude. Why not start by engaging with the warp project and see if some of this work could be upstreamed and if you like warp, target longevity?
- dh1011 5mo agoMy problem with Warp is that I have to create an account to use my local llm
- ramon156 5mo agoThis project is no different
- joshuastuden 5mo agoHow do you know they didn't?
- KetoManx64 5mo agoYou can feel however you want about it, but forking and creating your own version of things with added/removed features is the heart of what open source is.
- johntopia 5mo agowhy the fck does openwarp make any sense if warp is alr opened up? lol
- zero-lab 5mo agoIf you receive an existing warp then you don't need openWarp
- egorfine 5mo agoSo, Warp with telemetry removed?
- tyleo 5mo agoThis is the most broken website I’ve ever visited on HN. From Safari on iOS: 1. Im getting non-English text 2. The size of my page is well beyond the width of my screen making it hard to scroll vertically 3. Constant popping/reflowing due to animations Trust this company with my credit card? I think not.
- xcrjm 5mo agoyeah the third item on your list is what drove me here to complain. how do you expect me to read any text on your site when it moves up or down approx. an inch every second?
- mikalauskas 5mo agowhat did you expect from vibe coding software
- tyleo 5mo agoTruthfully most vibe coded sites look boring but work. All you need to do on a front page is return proper text, support vertical scroll, and links. Maybe my expectations are too high to expect that any more
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- samusiam 5mo agoI don't see anything asking for a credit card.
- tyleo 5mo agoSome other comments mention getting the payment prompts after they've downloaded the tool and started using it. e.g. "pay to use your own provider"
- zero-lab 5mo agoThere is something wrong with you. Who asked you to give me your credit card? If you don’t need it, don’t pollute your eyes with nonsense.
- jordemort 5mo agowas hoping for OS/2, disappointed
- joelthelion 5mo agoHow does Warp/Openwarp relate to Opencode or Claude code?
- cassianoleal 5mo agoThey all use LLMs as a backend for certain features?
- hleszek 5mo agoPlease mention and support llama.cpp directly instead of ollama.
- hbn 5mo agoThat pretend demo that's running commands near the top of the page is pretty annoying, it resizes itself as the text changes so even when I'm scrolled to the bottom of the page, everything keeps jumping up and down as the height of that element endlessly changes
- crancher 5mo agoCame here looking for someone mentioning this very issue. Did they not even view the model's output once? So strange.
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- devolt 5mo agoFor everyone who is thinking this is too much for a terminal, there's a lightweight solution based on your existing terminal (iTerm2 in my case), which adds auto correction and natural language execution into your tool: https://github.com/allaud/fix https://github.com/allaud/fix
- Thev00d00 5mo agoIve noticed every vibecoded website looks the same, or similar to this one. Why is it? Does this style have a name?
- cesarvarela 5mo agoIt is mostly Vercel's design language.
- ElijahLynn 5mo agoThat seems pretty risky to use the name Warp in the fork. Seems like a legal situation there.
- caidish1234 5mo agoWe also have a little community fork of Warp: https://github.com/AndrewWayne/oh-my-warp/tree/main https://github.com/AndrewWayne/oh-my-warp/tree/main Nothing too serious — just for hobbyists. The idea is simple: a clean, fast terminal that is remotely accessible over Tailscale. But oh-my-warp has destroyed me. Now I’m literally talking to my phone through Typeless and vibe coding from wherever I happen to be.