alt.hn

5/31/2026 at 3:50:34 PM

Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

 https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus

by Dzheky

5/31/2026 at 4:49:58 PM

> Odysseus

Is the person best known for exploiting security vulnerabilities to get into places you'd rather they didn't, and then getting lost and taking forever to get places the ideal namesake for your AI workspace project?

by kemayo

5/31/2026 at 5:07:19 PM

Out of all the homeric heroes, the main characters are just one tragic flaw after another. Odysseus is pathologically distrustful, Achilles is a diva that throws temper tantrums.

You gotta pick a dude like Sarpedon who just was a swell guy poking holes in greeks with his spear until he gets killed by Patroclus and everyone is sad.

by marginalia_nu

5/31/2026 at 5:16:57 PM

keep in mind pewdiepie is probably the worst dev name ontop

by cyanydeez

5/31/2026 at 5:50:16 PM

I can think of worse. Inspired by somewhat surrealist names of a cat video, I'm pretty sure naming them "HP Inkjet 3482" would be a worse name for an AI model and lead to copyright issues from Hewlett-Packard.

by Nasrudith

5/31/2026 at 4:32:14 PM

Pewd's video provides more context [1].

I didn't see it linked from the project; it seems pretty relevant given who he is.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzT5lcezPs

by avaer

5/31/2026 at 5:11:29 PM

I liked this part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAzT5lcezPs&t=524s

where he describes sending an AI generated email response as "the most polite fuck you to someone that they will never know".

The original email asked him sth like "how many parameters does deepseek v3 have" that "he could have easily searched himself".

by freehorse

5/31/2026 at 5:19:43 PM

PewDiePie on Hackernews what a time to be alive!

by qiine

5/31/2026 at 5:58:47 PM

You laugh you lose

by tomwojcik

5/31/2026 at 6:24:58 PM

> Fun fact: a chunk of Odysseus was built *from a phone* -- mobile shells (Termux), the PWA install, and on-device agents. So "works on mobile" isn't an afterthought, it's where a lot of it actually happened.

https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus/commit/0517...

by reconnecting

5/31/2026 at 6:26:38 PM

this was... hallucinated? hence the removal?

by sangeeth96

5/31/2026 at 4:22:33 PM

I really wonder if people who make such projects actually use them on a regular basis. I cannot imagine myself working with these UIs.

by docheinestages

5/31/2026 at 5:13:48 PM

Can anyone recommend something similar but cleaner and more polished?

by Axsuul

5/31/2026 at 6:30:10 PM

Librechat?

by lgcmo

5/31/2026 at 4:24:01 PM

Why not just use open webui?

by patosullivan

5/31/2026 at 5:39:52 PM

I tried installing openwebui once. I gave up after the first 12 gigabytes of pip packages. Made my own LLM chat UI in 500 lines of HTML/JS. That's really all I needed.

This project does look fun though.

by andai

5/31/2026 at 5:01:19 PM

Open webui isn't fully open source, because it doesn't allow you to change or remove Open Webui branding.

I don't know if that was a motivation for creating this, but it is a reason some people might choose not to use it.

by thayne

5/31/2026 at 5:27:39 PM

The truth is, there's something about the vibe coder hive mind where they all create the same thing. Everyone is working on the same thing. There's hundreds of projects like this where the creator thinks they've created the most unique powerful thing.

I think it demonstrates how overuse of LLMs for brainstorming/planning and building destroys creativity. That zeitgeist changes from month to month, but when a vibe coded "AI Native" project gets released you'll always see dozens of people in the replies talking about the identical project they've also built or are working on.

I also notice this in my own work, the people who have most eaten the LLM brainworm will come to me asking for us to build the same projects. They all eventually converge to wanting some sort of power user app (like this) that can just do everything because AI is magic to them and there's no reason why it can't do everything.

I hate Peter Thiel but he has that famous quote form years ago where he says not to build the obvious thing because the obvious thing isn't special, so maybe this has always been a phenomenon.

by dakolli

5/31/2026 at 6:09:09 PM

I think the thing is users run into the same problems (barely desirable tool UX), and arrive at very similar solutions (but with their own small twists and preferences). And now that the barrier to make things is essentially gone, they jump in and make things that git their own desires week because nothing out there was an exact fit.

Like I found a really cool project a few weeks ago that I started using and even made a few QoL changes to. Then I thought of the many other changes I wanted, and that the project was written in a language I'm not familiar with (Rust), and I started a port in what I know well (Python) so that I'll be able to actually review the code if needed and generally make better architectural decisions.

by skeledrew

5/31/2026 at 5:56:47 PM

It's like the Lisp Curse but for everything now.

by doright

5/31/2026 at 4:52:45 PM

What would make an existing OpenUI/Open WebUI user switch to this?

by ahmazroot

5/31/2026 at 3:50:34 PM

PewDiePie build a self hosted AI workspace. It looks interesting.

by Dzheky

5/31/2026 at 5:20:09 PM

It will be interesting to watch him deal with hundreds PRs.

by dakolli

5/31/2026 at 5:27:12 PM

"gpt can you do these PRs for me"

by selectedambient

5/31/2026 at 3:58:14 PM

Now waiting for some VC-backed AI company to pick up PewDiePie like they did with the OpenClaw guy.

by petterroea

5/31/2026 at 4:35:09 PM

Somehow he probably will make millions from this just cuz he has a personal brand, despite it being a pile of slop.

by dakolli

5/31/2026 at 4:39:41 PM

Oh yeah definitely, if he went in for doing software he would make millions for free.

by petterroea

5/31/2026 at 5:30:54 PM

reminds me of the milla jovovich vibecoded ai memory project that got a little bit of hype but was mostly junk... guessing we're going to see a lot more "developer talked to a celebrity and came up with an idea for their money"

by micromacrofoot

5/31/2026 at 5:58:55 PM

respect for what pewdiepie's trying to do (as he explains in his video) but this is just ai slop

by pushpendra3000

5/31/2026 at 6:03:30 PM

its dense in features but the amount of security concerns and improvements would be too difficult to maintain with the way its organised currently. let's see.

by pushpendra3000

5/31/2026 at 4:26:00 PM

God the UI design is atrocious.

by h4ch1

5/31/2026 at 4:34:01 PM

All these inexperienced vibe coders build identical slop UI, but what's funny is they usually think its super unique and are super proud of it. I hate them all.

by dakolli

5/31/2026 at 4:56:17 PM

Who are you again?

by okr

5/31/2026 at 5:11:22 PM

Who are you again?

by jetbalsa

5/31/2026 at 5:24:58 PM

i write an agent in C, create my own models. crickets. pewdiepie gets into programming on a whim creates slop, 3k stars.

by selectedambient

5/31/2026 at 6:27:56 PM

AI doesn’t have a model or agent availability problem to be fair, it does have a positive outreach problem and pewdiepie can do extremely well there

just my 2c

by c0rruptbytes

5/31/2026 at 6:48:42 PM

Did you share your C agent and models? Would love to checkout

by 627467

5/31/2026 at 7:04:55 PM

sure i can share it. it started as a text editor that i incorporated an agent into then moved to a standalone agent. now i’ve got the editor, agent, and have begun work on actual from scratch models (these aren’t available yet), but i’ve been messing with fine tuning ollama coder models as something in the meantime. the goal is embedded models accessible to everyone offline. too many tasks require many less parameters than people are using on them and don’t need to be routed through data centers. mainly just built it for myself but figured others might find it neat and/or useful. it’s all C, no packages or third party libraries. also to be clear i’m not against ai, im against it making 100% of the decisions for you. outside of its own models it’s capable of OAuth with claude and gh. it can also api into many others. tooling is always ongoing maintenance and i’ve got the next version of basically all three of them on the back burner waiting to be pushed. so anyway, here’s my little setup, here’s to not getting killed in the comments. contributions also welcome. https://github.com/mithraeums/hako-code

by selectedambient

5/31/2026 at 5:49:30 PM

you forgot step 1. become the #1 youtuber

by andai

5/31/2026 at 5:44:27 PM

Something something meritocracy blabla

by folkrav