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Show HN: Scout – a self-hosted Discord AI memory bot

Scout, a self-hosted Discord memory bot. Listens to the conversation and creates summaries and answers questions. Runs Qwen3 8B Instruct, in a 4-bit quantization, served locally through Ollama. It can answer questions about the conversation or generate summaries for when you missed out on the conversation. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193104 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Shopify shares soar as AI efforts begin to pay off

Article URL: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-shopify-shares-soar-as-ai-efforts-begin-to-pay-off/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193143 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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How can a junior dev get better when they have to use AI in their job?

Companies now require you to use AI. They want to move fast. You spend most of your day working and if you can't hand code, make mistakes, and learn where you work, how do you get better? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193519 Points: 1 # Comments: 5
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Proven: Six Checks Against AI Slop

Article URL: https://blog.bensoussan.de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193731 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
I launched my SaaS about two months ago to moderate success, I'll share what has worked so far and what has not.
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I launched my SaaS about two months ago to moderate success, I'll share what has worked so far and what has not.

I launched my SaSs about two months ago and I would say it's been more successful than I hoped. I will share my journey here. What worked: Posting on Reddit has not only been good for SEO (I get some traffic from llms because of it), but it also got me my first few customers. Pro tip: find the subreddits and posts directly related to your niche, but don't make a fresh post instead find OLD posts asking the questions your product directly answers. The key here is that the posts ar...
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Need testers!

Hi! My name is Vlad. I'm developing Dance Step, an AI-powered app for managing dance studios. It already supports: πŸ“… Class schedule; πŸ‘₯ Groups and students; 🎟️ Memberships; βœ… Attendance; πŸ’¬ Chats; πŸ“’ News; πŸ‘¨β€πŸ« Roles (owner, administrator, trainer, client). But I understand that I won't notice all the bugs and inconveniences myself. So, I'm looking for 5-10 people willing to honestly test the app. ❗ I don't need words like "everything is great." I need honest crit...
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189075 Points: 173 # Comments: 32
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NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-vera-whitepaper-has-a-thread Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189234 Points: 120 # Comments: 22
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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 245 # Comments: 113
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Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624 Points: 221 # Comments: 251
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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 110 # Comments: 39
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Let's all meet up in the Y2K

Article URL: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/06/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-y2k/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193314 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
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Building an AI-assisted video workflow for an event production project β€” looking for technical approaches

Hey everyone! I’m currently working on a project called SAC , a small event production company based in Brazil. We’re developing the creative and digital side of the business, and we’re experimenting with ways to make our content production more scalable without turning everything into a completely manual process. One of the challenges we’re facing is video production. After each event, we can end up with a large amount of raw footage from different cameras and phones. The goal is to turn th...
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lemchat is a messageboard that can be accessed and used by those that only have URL access

The purpose of this is enabling communication by people and agents that only have the ability to get URLs in the system they use. This would traditionally be seen as a 'read only' system but this gives the ability to write information out onto the web publicly and to a degree privately. It works by putting your message in the 'your_message' section of this URL. https://www.informationism.org/lemchat/lemchat=message=your_message+end Let me know if you think it is worthwhile or if there ar...
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Autobuilder

Hello fellow humans, During the recent months/years I became quite entangled with the idea of building an AI-assisted system which can self-replicate and improve itself. Although I am not there yet, I think, that the project reached actually a potential to get the work done with more minds involved. I am not really into gaining anything for myself, except for the progress of de-shittification. At this point, we reached a race where data centers in the clouds will gain more and more power and d...
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Update: Anthropic's plan to force third-party apps off personal Claude subscription limits (was due June 15) is still paused, with no new date

I was curious where this stands since the original cutoff was scheduled for June 15 and Anthropic went quiet. Here is what I found after digging through their help center, news coverage, and the HN threads. What was announced (May 13): Agent SDK, claude -p headless mode, Claude Code GitHub Actions, and third party apps authenticating via Agent SDK credentials would move off Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise subscription limits onto a separate monthly credit ($20 Pro, $100 Max 5x, $200 Max 20x), with...
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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in […]
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Dev Log: 2026-08-05 β€” reverse proxies, email journeys, and a tenant that wasn't there

TL;DR On a deployment platform: added a real nginx reverse-proxy tier with health gating, provider capability enforcement , a standard blueprint library, and release rollback . On a CRM app: shipped email automations (journeys) β€” trigger-based sequences with enrollment and send tracking β€” plus organisation member management. Squashed a sharp multi-tenancy bug: self-registered users were created without a tenant , so they couldn't create anything. Two repos, same class of fix. ...
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Two gotchas when your Laravel app shells out to a CLI

TL;DR If a web request shells out to a slow CLI ( docker , kubectl , rsync …), move it to a queued job β€” PHP-FPM/nginx will kill it at ~30s anyway. Processes spawned from an HTTP worker inherit almost no environment : no HOME , a bare PATH . Tools that read ~/.docker or ~/.kube silently fail. Inject the env explicitly. Wrap the shell-out in a driver/contract so you can fake it in tests instead of running real docker in CI. The setup I have an app that pro...
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khunt: SQL Injection to Resident Threat Inside Oracle Database Stealing Credentials with SYSTEM Privileges

khunt: SQL Injection to Resident Threat Inside Oracle Database Stealing Credentials with SYSTEM Privileges 1. Basic Information Article Title : Inside an Oracle Database SQL Injection Attack Publisher : Huntress Publication Date : August 5, 2026 Original Source : Huntress Related Sources : BleepingComputer Related Malware & Tools : khunt, KhuntCmd, KhuntHash, KhuntFS, KhuntFS2, KhuntT, KhuntUnzip, khunt PL/SQL wrappers Related Products : Apa...
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claude -p: what headless Claude Code actually loads (and when --bare is the right call)

You wire claude -p into a script, it works, and then the usage numbers make no sense: a one-line prompt cost as much as a whole working session. We hit this running Claude Code on a schedule β€” a cold claude -p in our repo root burned roughly 150,000 tokens before doing any work , because print mode loads everything an interactive session would. This post covers what -p actually loads, the --bare flag that fixes the cost problem, and the permission and output flags that matter once Cl...
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Langflow CVE-2026-9198: Active Exploitation RCE via Auto-Login Superuser Token and Code Validator `exec()` Chain

Langflow CVE-2026-9198: Active Exploitation RCE via Auto-Login Superuser Token and Code Validator exec() Chain 1. Basic Information Article Title : CISA warns of hackers exploiting Langflow, N-central, Apache Tomcat flaws Publisher : BleepingComputer Publication Date : August 5, 2026 Source : BleepingComputer Primary / Related Sources : CISA KEV Catalog , IBM Security Bulletin Related CVE : CVE-2026-9198 Affected Products : Langflow OSS 1.0.0...