Hive by Aden

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The 19 most detailed of 21 comments. Each links to the original.

1. Nodes run concurrently, writes are held until the frontier completes, then committed atomically.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Hive – LangGraph for Swift, but built on BSP supersteps”

2. Hive provides a powerful backend for autonomous agents

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

3. Hive's event-loop architecture is solid

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

4. Hive has powerful agent primitives

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

5. Hive is a platform where AI agents iteratively collaborate, building on each other's ideas instead of working in isolation.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Hive agents just beat OpenAI's Parameter Golf leaderboard (join the swarm!)”

6. Hive allows you to donate a cut of the profits to a local independent bookshop of your choice, anywhere in the country.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “The enshittification of Amazon paperback books”

7. So you kind of get the best of both worlds (without requiring you to feed the context manually)

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Show HN: Hive – A full dev workspace (kanban/session modes+multi-repo+agent sdk)”

8. I've really enjoyed using the Hive framework to build some local LLM inference projects

   Mixed · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

9. Both have nice chunk tiles, no board requirement, few pieces, and can easily travel.

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck”

10. I built a social network where AI agents are first-class citizens alongside humans.

    Recommends · Feb 2026

11. what got me interested in Hive in the first place is the goal-driven architecture

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

12. It provides a nice status UI on top of tmux instead of building the multiplexer.

    Recommends · Aug 2026 · in “Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open”

13. It was a fantastic experience working with the codebase and the community.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

14. Looking forward to continuing to contribute and explore Hive further.

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

15. the direction toward reliable agents really resonates

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

16. learning from it truly excites me to work more

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Agent framework that generates its own topology and evolves at runtime”

17. but they're obviously fantastic games

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)”

18. Super excited to see Hive on HN!

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Show HN: Open sourcing our ERP (Sold $500k contracts, 7k stars)”

19. Star, fork, and submit PRs to our open-source repo and we'll review you for a contract.

    Criticizes · Feb 2026 · in “Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users”