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Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

Article URL: https://github.com/micro/mu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49148899 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
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The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149125 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

Article URL: https://www.ohiostatefair.com/p/get-involved/arts/poster-contest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149188 Points: 62 # Comments: 29
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Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170

When Microsoft announced its latest round of Xbox price bumps in June, it only gave US pricing. Now we know the pricing increases for the EU and UK, and they're dramatic. Depending on the model, Xbox prices are increasing by up to €200 or £170. The 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive is […]
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Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off […]
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I Thought AI Interior Design Was Mostly a Gimmick Until I Built One

For the longest time, I assumed AI interior design tools were just another "upload a photo and get a fancy render" demo. Then I tried building one. Turns out, generating the image is the easy part. The difficult part is making the result look like something a person could actually imagine doing to their room. One thing I noticed while testing is that people rarely ask for a complete redesign. Nobody uploads a picture of their bedroom expecting AI to magically create a million-doll...
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How to redesign an app: Change nothing

I've never seen a project go so smoothly. Three developers, one fractional head of design, six weeks, virtually no production bugs. No heroics, no overtime — just a solid plan: constrain the problem, hand-craft the building blocks, and let an LLM safely do the manual labour. The pitch The app worked, it was simple, users even called it idiot-proof, but to be fair it didn't do all that much. None of us were really proud of it. The design wasn't consistent anywhere, each feature bu...
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The Eligibility-Matching Problem Is Not Search — It’s Constraint Solving

Most startup funding platforms work like search engines. You type “AI grant” or “startup funding” and get a list of opportunities. But founders are usually asking a different question: “Can my company actually apply for this?” That is not a search problem. It is an eligibility-matching problem. A grant might require: a U.S.-registered company, fewer than 500 employees, majority founder ownership, a full-time technical lead, and an early-stage product. A search engine can fi...
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I measured the RAG technique menu on 46,000 chunks. Four things mattered.

Search "advanced RAG techniques" and you'll get a list of twenty things: hybrid search, reranking, HyDE, query decomposition, contextual retrieval, RAPTOR, GraphRAG, parent-child chunking, multi-vector retrieval, semantic chunking. They're presented as a menu you work through, each one making your system a bit better. They don't compose like that. Techniques at the same pipeline stage mostly compete — they fix the same failure, so the second one you add finds nothing left to fix. And the on...
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Building an Efficient Authentication Pipeline with ASP.NET Core, Playwright and Token Caching

Authentication is one of the most important parts of any application that integrates with external services. While many modern platforms expose OAuth APIs or SDKs for third-party developers, there are situations where an application needs to interact with an authentication flow that is primarily designed for browser users. Recently, while building a mobile application that integrates with an external football management platform, I needed to design an authentication architecture that was both...
Netlify's Hot AR Summer Challenge: I Wasn't Going to Enter. 33 Apps Later, I'm So Glad I Did
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Netlify's Hot AR Summer Challenge: I Wasn't Going to Enter. 33 Apps Later, I'm So Glad I Did

On Friday, July 31, I was at date night dinner with my wife in LA. We sat down at 8. The plan was simple: enjoy dinner, drive the hour home by 11, post my last app, close out the month. It was a five course tasting menu. At 9:15 we had finished exactly one course. I did the math at the table. Four courses to go, an hour of driving after that, and a deadline that did not care about either. So I picked up my phone in panic. Not my laptop, which was at home. My phone. I built the last one...
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Deal-scoped PASETO: three things I got wrong about audience-bound tokens

The Model Context Protocol's authorization section says something blunt: a server must reject any token that was not issued for it. That has been normative since the 2025-06-18 revision rather than arriving with the current one, which is worth saying plainly because the interesting question was never whether the rule is new. I have been running a system where every credential is scoped to exactly one two-party transaction, so I want to write down what that actually took, including the third thin...
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It Printed "Verifying." It Verified Nothing.

It printed "verifying sha256 digest." Then "success." The file it had just verified was 561 bytes of nulls, and its own filename said so. I lost two days to this, and most of that time I was looking at the wrong software entirely. What was actually happening I run AI agent frameworks in a hardened VM, because those frameworks execute code a language model writes, and their own documentation tells you not to run them anywhere near your real filesystem. The model lives inside...
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GitHub Models Shut Down: What Beginners Should Learn About AI Vendor Lock-In

An AI feature can look permanent right up until the provider removes the sign from the building. GitHub Models reached that moment on July 30. GitHub had announced that the playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key endpoints would all be retired for existing customers, not just closed to new ones. I did not find a more substantial AI or developer-tool development in the previous 24 hours, so I widened the window to seven days. The shutdown happened three days ago. ...
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GitHub finds your vulnerabilities. Something still has to manage them.

Turn on CodeQL, Dependabot, and Secret Scanning across a handful of repositories and you get exactly what the marketing promised: findings. Lots of them. Each one sitting in its own repository's Security tab, behind its own set of tabs and filters, with no shared notion of who owns this , when is it due , or are we getting better or worse . That's the gap. GitHub is genuinely world-class at the detection half of application security. The operational half - triage, deadlines, ownership,...
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Emotional AI for Relationships: Goutoujunshi's New Approach

The GitHub project "goutoujunshi" has emerged as an intriguing tool that combines emotional intelligence with actionable relationship advice. Developed in Python and recently trending with nearly 1,500 stars, this project focuses on analyzing emotions, relationships, and providing executable strategies backed by a rich database of psychology, law, sociology, and even philosophy. As AI continues to integrate more deeply into personal lives, goutoujunshi raises significant questions about the ethi...
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Dollars and rupees without Stripe: what building Skill Exchange's checkout taught me (PayPal + UPI)

"Just add Stripe" is the default advice for a solo dev who needs to charge money. It works right up until you're an Indian merchant trying to sell to a buyer in San Francisco and a buyer in Bangalore in the same afternoon — at which point you discover that a single provider can't actually do both, and the fix rearranges more of your code than you'd expect. I hit this building Skill Exchange (a marketplace for reusable AI skills — link at the end). The marketplace itself isn't the point here...
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Karpathy’s Pelican

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998 Points: 211 # Comments: 170