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The Potomac River Midair Collision

Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-0475416f2b0f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154441 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Hi HN! We’re Theodore and Louis, founders of Armature (YC P26). We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool calls you receive, including what the user asked their agent to do and what the agent thought. You wrap your MCP in 3 lines of code (our SDK is available in Typescript, Python and Go) and start seeing in your dashboard: - All sessions reconstructed: it’s like reading the real conversation the user had inside Claude or ChatGPT! - A ranking of your MCP most popular use cases, built...
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Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite ( https://hoplite.sh ). Hoplite lets you deploy coding agents in the cloud, with a suite of tools that makes it incredibly easy to QA features. During onboarding, we port over your local setup - sessions, memories, MCP servers, and get your projects ready to run in the cloud. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/bnyktZ_9pjE We got here after pivoting away from the idea we applied to YC with; AI for retail investing. It ultimately wasn’t a product tha...
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SearXNG in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158141 Points: 32 # Comments: 11
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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Article URL: https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158287 Points: 30 # Comments: 8
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ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/zx-spectrum-system-tour-sound/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159676 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild

Untitled Goose Game is a tough act to follow. It was a silly experience that captured what I imagine it would feel like to be a sentient goose: a lot of waddling, a lot of honking, and a lot of shenanigans. That's why Big Walk, the next game from Goose Game developer House House, feels […]
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Lenovo Googlebook leaks reveal a laptop and 2-in-1 tablet

Lenovo is expected to release some of the first Googlebook models later this year, and leaked images have now given us a good idea of what they might look like. Leaked press images shared by Digital Citizen and Android Headlines include a laptop and a 2-in-1 tablet, all of which feature Googlebook branding on the […]
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Samsung’s 2TB 9100 Pro SSD is actually somewhat reasonably priced

Next to buying RAM, finding a fast, high-capacity NVMe SSD at a reasonable price has been a challenge during RAMageddon. I don’t want to say it’s getting easier, but one of Samsung’s latest SSDs is cheaper than it has sold for since February 2026. That’s something, right? Amazon has the heatsink-less version of the Samsung […]
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Spider-Man and The Odyssey are splitting up IMAX screens after a record-breaking weekend

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is joining The Odyssey in IMAX theaters after both movies led the biggest weekend in box office history. On Monday, IMAX announced that Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be available in select digital IMAX locations across North America starting Thursday, August 6th. The news comes as The Odyssey's exclusive three-weekend run […]
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Palworld’s expanding to mobile with a new MMORPG

After its 1.0 launch last month, Palworld is coming to iOS and Android with a new open-world MMORPG launching later this year, Polygon reports. Garena, the developer behind the new game, says in its announcement that Palworld Online "reimagines the depth, freedom, and scale of the original PC survival creature-collecting title for mobile." The core […]
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Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews to do on Decoder, because a couple years ago, we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on […]
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I Built an Open-Source AI Agent That Actually Controls Your Computer

AI agents are everywhere in 2026. Most of them can answer questions, generate code, or automate simple workflows. But once you ask them to interact with a real computer—browsers, desktop applications, terminals, files, and external services—things quickly become unreliable. That was the motivation behind HeyAgent . The Problem Most autonomous agents fail for one of three reasons: They declare success before the task is actually finished. They lose context during lon...
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Tokens por Segundo: Cómo medir y optimizar la velocidad en modelos de IA

Cuando llevamos modelos de lenguaje o IA a producción, la latencia es nuestro principal enemigo. Evaluar un modelo únicamente por su precisión ignora un factor crítico: el rendimiento computacional. En este post analizamos por qué la velocidad (medida en tokens por segundo) se ha convertido en una métrica clave de arquitectura y cómo puedes empezar a medirla. ¿Por qué importa la velocidad? Reducción de Latencia: Aplicaciones críticas (finanzas, salud, automatizaciones) no pueden esperar s...
We’re Giving AI Agents More Tools. What Happens When the Boundaries Fail?
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We’re Giving AI Agents More Tools. What Happens When the Boundaries Fail?

📌 TL;DR AI agents are becoming useful because we're giving them the ability to do more than just answer questions. They can run commands, browse the web, use APIs, read and modify files, install packages, and interact with other systems. But the more an agent can do, the more the boundaries around it matter. I started thinking about this after reading Anthropic's July 30 report about three incidents discovered during its cybersecurity evaluations. Claude models were supposed to be work...
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DAREALTYTE

Deliberately best-effort — a settings tweak failing shouldn’t fail a deployment that already succeeded. It surfaces as public: false in the response and a visible warning in the UI, rather than silently handing someone a broken link. Live Stripe checkout failed on day one. Test mode worked perfectly. Live mode returned: Invalid line_items[0]: the product tax code is missing… Product tax code is required for Managed Payments, which is enabled by default on your account. A whole class of bug th...
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Building ferctl top: Kubernetes resource usage vs requests and limits

Series: Platform engineering with Go | Topics: Go, Kubernetes, Cobra, client-go, metrics-server, Platform Engineering This is part of the Platform Engineering with Go series. This post builds on the Cobra CLI patterns from post 4 and client-go from post 3. Read post 4 first if you haven't yet. kubectl top tells you what's happening. It doesn't tell you how close to the edge you are. In post 3 and post 4 , we built a health reporter and learned how to s...
What a good Agents.md should teach an agent on day one
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What a good Agents.md should teach an agent on day one

I hit this last week while working inside my own OpenClaw workspace: the agent had access to the right files, the right tools, and the right project context, but the useful behavior didn't come from any one magic prompt. It came from a small stack of durable instructions. The root AGENTS.md said what to read first. SOUL.md defined the assistant's operating posture. USER.md gave personal context. TOOLS.md separated reusable tool behavior from local machine details. Skill docs explained...
Pure Codename One Text Editing Without Native Overlays
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Pure Codename One Text Editing Without Native Overlays

PR #5386 adds a pure Codename One text-editing path. EditField , RichTextArea , and CodeEditor can now keep their document, selection, and painting inside the lightweight UI while each port supplies keyboard and input-method events. What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps from a single Java or Kotlin codebase. Learn more at codenameone.com . Text input must handle virtual keyboards, hardware keys, autoco...
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The black box in your PDF is a shape, not a delete key

There are two ways to black out a name in a PDF. The first deletes the text and then draws a black rectangle where it used to be. The second just draws the black rectangle. On screen they are indistinguishable. In the file they are entirely different documents, and in the second one every character of the name is still there — selectable, copyable, and extractable by any PDF library in about one line of code. This mistake keeps reaching production in court filings, FOIA releases and...
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Anyone Can Build Software Now. We Tried That Already.

Somewhere on your feed right now, someone is bragging about the app they built in a weekend, no engineering background, no team, just a prompt and a Saturday. The post always ends the same way. Look what I built without needing any of you. Anyone can build software now. That is the whole pitch, repeated in a hundred different captions this month alone. Here is what that post never shows you. The part where someone checks it. Not "does it run." Checks it. Someone who did not write it, ...
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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max to compete with western AI

Alibaba officially launched Qwen3.8-Max on Monday, marking the debut of its most substantial artificial intelligence model. This new open-weight release aims at enterprise sectors, specifically targeting software engineering and complex reasoning. It represents a significant expansion of the company’s existing portfolio of digital tools for large-scale business operations. Technical architecture and performance benchmarks The Qwen3.8-Max model utilizes a mixture-of-experts (MoE) ...