Mouse: Precision Editing Tools for AI Coding Agents
15 points
1 hour ago
| 11 comments
| hic-ai.com
| HN
thehamkercat
44 minutes ago
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Would've resulted in a positive response from people if you just did your work and didn't brag about your "patent pending" stuff
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sfvisser
1 hour ago
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Why does “patent pending” almost automatically sounds like it’s going to be an underwhelming technology.
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mathisfun123
26 minutes ago
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Because a provisional patent is trivial to get and meaningless.
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piterrro
9 minutes ago
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So I’ll have to buy a license for using my mouse now?
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ssivark
51 minutes ago
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I doubt they're the first solution to use coordinate based editing, or even the best one right now.

Eg: Check out hash-anchored editing. The first place where I recall seeing this was the oh-my-pi coding agent, but I wouldn't be surprised if the idea originated earlier/elsewhere.

I wonder whether CRDTs could be a good solution for multiple agents editing the same codebase in parallel.

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conception
1 hour ago
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In the same realm to compare to https://www.morphllm.com/products/fastapply
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croes
17 minutes ago
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> 14-day free trial

> patent pending

Guess what won’t get widely adopted

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ktallett
44 minutes ago
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As others have said, text editing isn't patentable, and this does not have anything that is patent worthy. However I suspect this is more someone who has no clue what the difference between patent, copyright, and IP is. Was this whole thing vibe coded btw?
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Boss0565
3 minutes ago
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corniest shit ive ever seen
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echelon
43 minutes ago
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> patent-pending

Instant turn off.

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n0on3
41 minutes ago
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“the most powerful AI agent file-editing tool in the world […] patent-pending”… tl;dr: turn tool calls into more structured loops, give it some fancy name and slop about it https://hic-ai.com/blog/tool-response-engineering

Good luck with that

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N_Lens
35 minutes ago
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Slop me up Scotty!
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quotemstr
1 hour ago
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Patent pending? On what?

> insert a line, delete a range, replace a character, edit a column

The ed(1) command set 50 years old. I doubt it's patentable. These guys are far from the first to apply fine-grained text editing to LLM toolsets. I've been teaching models to do it for years. Hell, models want to use sed and awk so much that you have to hold them back.

I'm so repulsed by the idea that these guys think they can fence off a slice of the ancient commons, claim they discovered it, and charge $15/month to access it that I want nothing to do with them and will go to the mattresses to make sure they can't. Nobody owns text editing, not even when it's an AI doing it.

Mouse: sincerely, fuck you

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rossant
40 minutes ago
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Pretty sure this website is satire.
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quotemstr
25 minutes ago
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Not sure what would make you think that.

https://hic-ai.com/papers/mouse-paper-v13.pdf seems like an awfully lot of trouble to go through for a joke that isn't even funny.

HIC AI is a Delaware corporation, registration number 10476082, incorporated 1/16/2026.

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N_Lens
35 minutes ago
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HN? I agree!
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