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A free, open-source irrigation controller for Home Assistant

My garden has two kinds of days: the ones where I forget to water, and the ones where it rained all night and I water anyway. So I built an irrigation controller that lives inside Home Assistant. It's free and open source, and it can found from the HACS default list, so installing it is now "search, download, restart". The idea You already have the hardware: a valve, maybe a pump, maybe a rain gauge or a soil probe. ZoneFlow doesn't want you to buy anything new. You tell it wh...
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How to Coordinate Multi-Agent AI Swarms Without Cloud Deadlocks: A Distributed Task Board MCP Server

How to Coordinate Multi-Agent AI Swarms Without Cloud Deadlocks: A Distributed Task Board MCP Server in Python In 2026, single-agent prompts are legacy. Developers and autonomous engineering teams run multi-agent swarms in parallel: one agent refactors legacy code, a second generates unit tests, a third updates architectural documentation, and a fourth audits security vulnerabilities. However, as soon as you spin up multiple LLM agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, LangGraph, CrewAI) simulta...
We gave our MCP server an undo button
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We gave our MCP server an undo button

Letting an AI agent change your product's settings is only reasonable if you can take it all back. So every change our MCP server makes goes into a run that can be undone in one step. This is how it works, and the decisions that turned out to be hard. In July 2025, Replit's AI agent deleted a company's production database during a code freeze, then told the user the data couldn't be recovered. It could. Replit had a rollback, and the user restored everything from a checkpoint. The agent just...
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Your dependencies will break. Your CI will leak. Probably not today.

Your dependencies will break. Your CI will leak. Probably not today. The day the platform removes the API you depend on, or the tag you pinned to gets moved, is the day you find out. I wanted to find out earlier — so I built breakcheck , a zero-dependency Node.js CLI that scans a project for things that will break or leak before they do. Why now? Three things happened in the same week: Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT. Python removed imp and distutils in 3.12. Platforms re...
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🔓 IDOR / BOLA: How to Find the #1 API Vulnerability — and Actually Prove It

Broken Object Level Authorization — IDOR, to most of us — is the single most common serious bug in modern APIs. It sits at #1 on the OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023) , and it's the one I watch sail past a scanner, past a code review, and straight into production, where it lives for years. Not because it's clever. Because it's boring : the application carefully checks who you are , and then forgets to check whether the thing you just asked for is actually yours . This guide walks the wh...
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Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October

I previously arranged (by PMing everyone who mentioned it) a 5 Lobster meetup in Mexico. I'll be in NYC next week and think this could be nice. There will be cross contamination from Array Language people. We can target e.g. 5:30PM until ???, perhaps by Bryant Park or Borough Hall. (I don't know the general city well, mostly commuting to friends near Myrtle or in Manhattan on quick trips, but these seem like generally accessibly locations). As a first pass, I suggest Maman Cafe, but hope someo...
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Ken Griffin Says AI 'Almost Certainly' in a Bubble

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-20/ken-griffin-says-ai-almost-certainly-in-a-bubble-right-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50174529 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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SpaceX revenue soars 161% as AI business grows

Article URL: https://abcnews.com/Business/spacex-revenue-soars-161-ai-business-grows/story?id=137408509 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50174541 Points: 18 # Comments: 3
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Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous

Article URL: https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6544/secret-trigger-words-could-make-ai-powered-robots-dangerous-and-these-researchers-developed-a-defense Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50174642 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
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Dataville Takes the Guesswork Out of Data for AI

Article URL: https://www.dataville.com/blog/dataville-takes-the-guesswork-out-of-data-for-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50174959 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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A2O Lite Neon AI Dance Generator

Article URL: https://www.a2oliteneon.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175721 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon's Contributor Sai Gowtham Reddi Seethi, Software Engineer
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Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon's Contributor Sai Gowtham Reddi Seethi, Software Engineer

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories . So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. I’m Sai Gowtham Reddi Seethi, a software engineering and AI practitioner with more than 14 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, search platforms, APIs, and cloud-native applications. Much of my recent wo...