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MacSurf and the State of AI Assisted Projects

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/MacSurf/posts/macsurf-state-of-166060679 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217059 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/06/should-ai-labs-be-treated-like-the-owners-of-dangerous-animals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217629 Points: 37 # Comments: 50
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MegaDev AI Workshop

Article URL: https://mega.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217649 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Salestrics – An open MCP server and CRM for AI-native revenue teams

Hey HN, I’m Austin, founder of Salestrics (salestrics.com). The Problem: > Most AI agents today are trapped in chat windows. While models are smart enough to run complex multi-step workflows, giving them production access to business context (CRM, support, billing) usually means managing unsafe local API keys or hacking together fragile point-solution scripts. What We Built: We built Salestrics to serve as both an all-in-one revenue workspace (CRM, service desk, billing, docs, email) and a produ...
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AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/06/ai-struggles-to-patch-vulns-without-adult-supervision/5284319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218204 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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The Free Money AI Bond Buildout Is Gone

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-08-07/the-free-money-ai-bond-buildout-is-gone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218565 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Buddy – An iOS browser with an AI agent inside

My friends and I noticed we kept running into the same loop on our phones: ask a chatbot about some stuff, follow the Google links, then back to the chatbot for some follow up questions. What we really wanted was for the agent to be right beside us on the browser. Seeing exactly what we see and having the ability to actually carry out the tasks. Some stuff like this exists on desktop but there aren't really any good options for mobile, which is where we do most of our browsing. So we built Buddy...
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I gave an AI persistent memory and a per-user trained adapter — the strangest result was what it does to how people talk to it

Context: I've been building a system where the AI doesn't reset. It keeps a permanent memory of your conversations, and it trains a small per-user adapter that compounds — every day it's slightly more specifically tuned to you than it was yesterday. The adapter is yours and exportable. The technical part I expected to be hard was the memory retrieval. It wasn't really. The genuinely hard part was deciding what it should be allowed to forget, because a system that remembers *everything* you said ...
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In order to be anti-AI, you actually need to understand what AI is these days.

I am extremely anti AI. I think it’s incredibly dangerous and being built by the most irresponsible people and companies on earth. I am also keenly aware of its progress. Somewhere around mid- to late-2025, AI surpassed me, personally, on virtually all tasks. There is pretty much no longer anything I can do better than the latest models, even given significant prep time. AI is genuinely better at nearly every non-embodied task than virtually every human alive at the present moment. The few excep...
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A practical question about agent trust: should the system that made a change be allowed to verify its own success?

I’m working on a software-agent system and keep coming back to one design question: **Should the model/provider that performs an action be allowed to be the final authority on whether the action succeeded?** My current answer is “no,” at least for meaningful software work. I’m building Flows around a chain where execution, checks, repair, and evidence are separate concepts. Oort is the canonical library/provider layer underneath it. https://flows.oortstack.com https://oortstack.com ...
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Codex vs Claude for coding: which do you use for implementation vs code review?

I’m not asking which one is better overall. I’m specifically curious about how people split implementation and code review between Codex and Claude. Right now, I usually use Codex for implementation because the token/cost limits feel more practical for larger coding tasks comapred to Claude ridiculous token limit, then I use Claude to review the code, look for bugs, logic issues, missed edge cases, or possible improvements. But sometimes Codex seriously impresses me with the issues it catche...
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Don't we already have AGI?

Dumb question, but it seems like we already have AGI? It's not "super intelligence", but I can ask my computer to do pretty much anything. What are people expecting AGI to be?
OpenAI's 'hockey puck-sized' gadget to cost over $300
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OpenAI's 'hockey puck-sized' gadget to cost over $300

OpenAI’s consumer hardware device is expected to feature a doughnut-like design roughly the size of a hockey puck and carry a price tag of more than $300, Bloomberg reports , citing anonymous sources. The AI-powered gadget , slated for release in 2027, will function like a smart speaker without a screen, serving as an interactive companion. Designed in collaboration with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, it is expected to be the first of a forthcoming lineup of hardware devices infus...
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What safeguards do you use before giving ChatGPT agents permission to act?

I watched an interview with AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, and it raised a practical question for people who use ChatGPT for advanced workflows. His broader claim is that increasingly intelligent AI systems may become harder to predict and control. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions about AGI, a smaller version of this problem already exists when we give an AI access to tools. There is a major difference between asking ChatGPT to draft an email and allowing an agent to sen...
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Show HN: Merge – AI-native code review assessments for engineering hiring

We’re 5 founders who’ve collectively done over 250 interviews - everywhere from startups to Big Tech to quant shops. Most of the interviews we’ve done were Leetcode based or tested skills that weren’t used on the job. These days, with AI, assessments still continue to test code output. Meanwhile, at each of our companies, though, PR counts have nearly tripled. Most of us haven’t manually edited a line of code in a year. Our teams are putting more and more emphasis on code and architecture review...
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Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre

Article URL: https://cdm.link/music-to-confuse-ai-might-be-the-next-new-genre/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213647 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI Has a Hidden Agenda

Article URL: https://twitter.com/aisystemprompt/status/2085464156229247245 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213920 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt

Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-ai-slop-detector-incorrectly-targets-kurzgesagt-as-other-creators-fear-same-fate-3395930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213990 Points: 7 # Comments: 3