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Arrakis raises $8M for AI agent runtime security

Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/arrakis-security-raises-8-million-ai-agent-runtime-controls Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144865 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Ban AI Surveillance at Live Events

Article URL: https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/venues/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144879 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Do Not Trust, Continuously Verify (Your AI Agents)

Article URL: https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260714-Do-Not-Trust--Continuously-Verify/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144956 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145174 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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is learning copywriting still worth it when AI output is already client-passable?

Been using a few AI tools to help with copy for a small side project and it's raised a question I can't quite shake. The output is genuinely decent now. Not great, but decent enough that clients who aren't paying close attention probably wouldn't notice the difference. The thing is, I've been spending real time learning copywriting. Reading books, studying good ads, practicing hooks. And part of me wonders if that investment still makes sense the way it did two or three years ago. The counte...
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I got tired of re-explaining my project to every AI tool, so I built a local memory layer for them

I kept running into the same problem: ChatGPT would help me think through an architecture, Claude Code would help me implement it, Cursor or Windsurf would touch the repo later, and every handoff would lose context. Not just “what files exist,” but the stuff that actually matters: why we chose one approach, what we already rejected, what the project conventions are, what setup detail will bite later, and what the agent learned last time. So I built mem-port : a local MCP server that gives A...
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How extreme is the difference in using vs not using quality prompts?

I started kind of tinkering with Ai and it all is super fascinating, particularly interesting to me is prompt structure. So I would like to ask is formatting your prompt (persona, few shot negative, whatever else) gives you much better results than without? I want to know it to determine for myself balance between effort dedicated to quality prompt vs quality of output given through that prompt
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How strong are OpenAI's "No Data Sharing" clauses on enterprise plans?

People in my org tell me using the org certified AI is more secure because we are on an enterprise plan where our data is not used for training. Sure, I will use the company AI. But... Apple is suing OpenAI for for allegedly stealing trade secrets, where it was said employees were instructued by OpenAI to bring parts from apple into "show and tell" interviews at OpenAI and even take the company laptop with them. Also, the models are literally based on strip mining copyrighted media a...
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Don't ever use hackaigc.

I don't know if anybody knows the site but don't ever use that shit, hackaigc is a scam, please if you see this crap website shit on it.
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DeepSeek's Theory of the AI Gap

Article URL: https://hellochinatech.com/p/deepseek-liang-wenfeng-transcript Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141929 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: TamedTable, AI ETL in Natural Language

Hi HN, TamedTable is an LLM harness for data ETL. And yes, it was developed using AI, meaning you can take the entire specification and recreate it to your desires: https://github.com/ZSvedic/TamedTable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142102 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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I benchmarked which of 18 AI models writes the least like "AI slop"

If you write with AI you already know the tells: the throat-clearing opener, the tidy rule of three, "it's not just X, it's Y." But I was curious to see statistically what models actually produced the most slop, so I made my own opensource benchmark: theslopindex.com Here's how I came up with the benchmark. 1) The Baseline: Slop can only be measured compared to stuff that already existed. So I got corpus of data for various areas of writing (email, social, chat, and essay...
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Swapping AI models rarely fixes bad output. The context you feed it does more work than people realize.

Noticed a pattern: people switch from GPT to Claude, upgrade to a newer version, try a bigger model and the output barely changes. If that's happened to you, the issue usually isn't the model. It's what you handed it before asking the question. Broke it down to three things context actually needs to supply, and most disappointing outputs are missing one of these, not all of them: Current facts the training data can't know: your pricing, this quarter's numbers, a customer's actual history...
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The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work

Article URL: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/08/the-greenhouse-and-the-lens-two-modes-of-agentic-ai-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139826 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
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Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"

I’ve asked AI a few times and I still don’t get it. Why do frameworks like Claude Code or Codex have the concept of “skills” instead of just using well-organized Markdown docs? Couldn’t I just have an AGENTS.md that points to folders of .md files and tells the agent when to read them? That feels functionally equivalent to me. What am I missing? Is there a real architectural benefit, or is it mostly a standardization/convenience thing? I doubt we’d create so much hype about skills if they’d just ...
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Dreamup+|+Dang.ai

Article URL: https://dang.ai/tool/ai-art-generation-dreamup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139859 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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AI will always find a difference

Ask AI "what's the difference between X and Y". It mostly would happily generate a table and compare them even if they are interchangeable in practice. Reminds me of a trick a teacher taught me in HS, if you don't know the answer to a question that asks you two compare two things, just state the definition "X is .... while Y is …" Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139951 Points: 2 # Comments: 0