A practical guide on configuring a fully local coding agent on Mac hit 455 points and 112 comments on Hacker News — the day's top AI story by engagement. The discussion centers on running open-weight models (Qwen3-Coder-class) via Ollama with OpenAI-compatible endpoints, achieving 40-60+ tokens/sec on Apple Silicon for private, air-gapped development. Community interest signals a growing builder appetite for local alternatives to cloud coding agents.