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Public story · 2026-08-17 · high
It sits on the same Hacker News board as a public AI with memory shared across all users, and a self-healing web scraper.
Why now: Mole's Show HN score appears in coverage dated August 17, alongside the other two agent launches.
Mole, a terminal-native deep research agent, reached 100 points on Show HN, per the post.
For developers weighing terminal tools against hosted research chatbots, the score is a data point. It's the highest of three launches on the same board: a public AI with shared memory drew 74 points, and PyScrappy drew 21.
Mole runs inside a shell instead of a browser tab, according to its GitHub page. It's built for developers who already work from the command line and don't want to open a hosted chat product for research.
The public AI project on the same board shares one memory across every user, rather than keeping each person's session private. That's a different design than most chat products, which isolate each user's history.
PyScrappy, the third agent tool on the same board, pairs self-healing scraping selectors with an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. MCP servers let other tools connect to a service using a shared protocol.
My bet: terminal-native agents like Mole pull developers away from hosted research chat faster than the reverse happens, since their audience lives in a shell. Worth watching whether Mole adds a hosted version, or whether the terminal-only bet holds as it grows past this first Show HN spike.
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