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AI agents inside PestPac

Originally published at buildcortex.dev . An AI agent for PestPac connects through WorkWave's PestPac API (available to customers and approved developers, with a setup fee) or scheduled CSV reports, watches for cancellations, unscheduled service, idle leads and past-due invoices, and drafts the next step for a person to approve. PestPac already automates reminders and conversation summaries; the agent adds judgment and work that crosses into phones, QuickBooks and the CRM. An AI agent fo...
How to install Snow Leopard on modern (Apple Silicon) macOS
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How to install Snow Leopard on modern (Apple Silicon) macOS

If you're a Snow Leopard nostalgic — or, like me a anemoiac — you might have bumped into an article from xadammr.au and/or the original one from LegacyOSXKVM, tried to run the precompiled vm (macintosh_preinstall.img), but kept running into unpredictable system crashes. I've personally tried that VM, together with a UTM template from a galleryrepo and experienced constant, unpredictable, OS crashes. Well, I've seem to been able to produce a stable build, by installing the OS from s...
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From Impressions to Decisions: A Practical Measurement Stack for Telegram Ads

Launching an ad is easy. Learning something reliable from it is harder. Telegram Ads can introduce a channel, bot, mini app, or public post to a new audience. But an impression is not a customer, and a click is not necessarily a meaningful action. A useful campaign therefore needs two systems working together: an advertising system that records delivery and traffic; and a product analytics system that records what happens after the visit. This article presents a practical measurem...
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Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle

🐦 Bird Buddy AI: Turning Open-Weight AI into a Birdwatching Companion What I Built I built Bird Buddy AI, a small project that brings AI and outdoor exploration together. The idea was simple: what if someone could take a picture of a bird they spotted outside and use an AI-powered tool to start learning about it? Bird Buddy AI lets users upload a bird photograph and receive an AI-generated identification suggestion with a description of visible features. It also includes a daily natu...
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Mastering Go: From Zero to Scalable Services in 2024

Mastering Go: From Zero to Scalable Services in 2024 Go (often called Golang ) has been quietly taking over the backend landscape for the past few years. Its clean syntax, built‑in concurrency primitives, and zero‑dependency binaries make it a perfect fit for everything from tiny CLI tools to massive, distributed systems. In this post we’ll walk through the language fundamentals, show you how to spin up a production‑ready HTTP service, and sprinkle in some best‑practice patterns you can ado...
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Can superintelligent AI be banned?

Article URL: https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/can-superintelligent-ai-be-banned Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091971 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Europe's leaders abandon the race for frontier AI

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-ai-strategy-frontier-models-us-china/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092311 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/cerebras-ceo-pushes-back-on-ai-doomsday-warnings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092326 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Through the Visual Language of AI

Article URL: https://blog.criti.ca/posts/through-the-visual-language-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092411 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/14/researchers-cig-nal-their-faith-in-ai-by-taking-up-smoking/5303118 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092718 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Run AI-generated logic safely inside your app

Stof is an open-source runtime for logic you don't own or fully trust. Imagine a JSON document with functions inside, scoped to just the document that contains them. Stof instantiates this doc as a small wasm env, and makes these functions safe to call. They can't access or manipulate anything but their own doc. WebAssembly by itself is large in binary form, requires a lot of tooling, etc. Stof can be sent over the wire easily, is a superset of JSON for compatibility, and keeps the guarantees. I...
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AI sector wipeout risks global financial contagion, IMF report warns

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/the-imf-highlights-how-a-financial-wipeout-in-the-ai-sector-could-become-a-global-contagion-agency-report-shines-light-on-circular-economics-and-leveraged-loans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093439 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Why Does AI Write Like Yoda?

Article URL: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-does-ai-write-like-yoda/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093561 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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AI safety money floods into politics

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/14/ai-safety-regulation-election-spending-50-million Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093725 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Checkobot – Detect Deepfakes and AI Images

Hello HN, I am Kartikeya & we are building the best AI Slop Detector - Checkobot. The current AI Image Detectors are functionally jagged. Some are not able to detect deepfakes, some fail on the latest flux models. Some have an unacceptable false flag rate on genuine images. We have been solving the deepfake detection problem at our parent company - SpoofSense.ai for a while now & we wanted to train a general purpose AI Image Detector that actually works. Checkbot does 3 things: 1.Full Image Mode...