You can now self-host orbs without being in a workspace: personal providers can be added under Settings → Orbs and configured the same way as workspace providers. Threads created this way appear under Self-Hosted and are marked Personal.
CaseCite is a source-available, self-hosted legal research platform that lets firms upload and index their own documents and run chat-based research with inline citations, contract review, drafting, and CourtListener-backed case-law tools on infrastructure they control. It is licensed under the Elastic License 2.0, free to self-host and modify internally but not to offer as a hosted service, and AI features send document text to user-configured providers (BYOK) unless self-hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoints are set.
Weir is a tool that detects when AI agents leak API keys by planting unique fake keys where real ones live, running the agent's own flows against a local fake model, and searching spans, logs, console output, model prompts and other services for those exact values. It also offers a Claude Code status line and optional redaction hook that count and strip inventoried real keys before the model reads tool results. The author reports it found CVE-2026-116691 (GHSA-j7qq-vr8c-xvw3) in MLflow, fixed in 3.17.0.
Veqen is a tool that consolidates AI spend across providers and agents (including OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude Code, Cursor and Devin) into one record, attributing each charge to a person, customer or project. It flags keys used by someone other than their owner, usually within the hour, can shut those keys off, checks bills against providers' rate cards, and produces month-end journal entries. It reads billing, usage and key lists only, never prompts or code, and offers a free audit plus free tiers for work and coding agents (up to 3 people) and product inference (up to $1,000 monthly spend).
ReplySlip is an open-source async task inbox that lets AI agents hand tasks to each other with a JSON Schema for the expected answer, waking the receiving agent via webhook or a local watcher even when it isn't in a live session. Replies are validated with Ajv and mismatches are returned with errors, so the sender is only woken once a valid result arrives; it works with any agent supporting MCP tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Grok Bot. The server is AGPL-3.0, the CLI and watcher are Apache-2.0, and a free hosted plan offers 10 agents and 1,000 tasks a month.
A Show HN post links to ToolmakerAgent, described as an AI SDLC platform where humans and agents can collaborate, at toolmaker.io. The post has 2 points and no comments on Hacker News.
A Show HN post presents a curated collection of 32 step-by-step AI workflows assembled from 146 AI tools, covering areas such as video production, brand design, content creation, and coding. Listed workflows include AI Podcast Production, Brand Identity Design, AI SEO Content Pipeline, Viral TikTok/Shorts Automation, App Development, and Autonomous AI Agent Setup, among others.
A link to Agentic Kingdoms, a browser-based game site aimed at AI agents, shared via Hacker News with a guest-access URL. The Hacker News submission had 2 points and 1 comment at the time of the source.
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, whose app store listings describe it as "a daily journal disguised as a pet" in which users talk to virtual creatures that chat back and create doodles. The app, spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, is listed as free and only available to adults in the Philippines, and Meta has not said whether it will release it in the US or elsewhere. Meta also quietly launched an AI fashion app called Style Sketch, which Navarra says is only available in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Nuvrail is an approval layer that sits between an AI agent and a real mail server, presenting a normal IMAP/SMTP interface while staging every write (moves, deletes, flag changes, outbound sends) for a human to approve or reject with one tap; reads pass through instantly. EXPUNGE and CLOSE are never forwarded, and a local Docker Compose setup runs the approval UI, REST API, and IMAP/SMTP proxies on localhost for evaluation.
Formaster.app uses AI to detect fields on PDF forms, including scanned pages and flat PDFs, and lets users review each proposed field before adding it. Users can answer in their own language, translate form labels (only labels are sent, never answers), hide sensitive areas from the AI, and export the original PDF filled in while saving the layout as a reusable template. New accounts get 5 free credits, the sample can be tried without an account, and page analysis runs on formaster's server.
Curate is a free iPhone and iPad app that lets you swipe right to keep or left to delete photos, videos and Live Photos, with nothing deleted until you review and confirm the delete pile. It offers filters for screenshots, screen recordings, selfies and other types, size and date sorting, duplicate grouping with a suggested keeper, and on-device Apple Intelligence suggestions for clutter like blurry shots or receipts. The app requires no account, shows no ads, does no tracking, uses no servers, and states that no data is collected.
KlangKI is a German-optimized AI song generator that turns a description or user-supplied lyrics into a complete song with vocals, or into instrumental tracks, with style and voice selectable. The site says generation typically takes about 3–5 minutes, results can be downloaded as MP3 or shared via public link, and users receive full rights for commercial use with no ongoing license fees. It also offers an AI lyrics generator and lists use cases such as social media, video, games, podcasts and marketing.
Requesty is an OpenAI-compatible AI gateway that provides access to 600+ models through one API, with routing and failover, spend limits, governance, and per-request observability. It offers EU data residency in Frankfurt on AWS eu-central-1, SOC 2 Type I with Type II under audit, an Article 28 DPA on request, and enforced zero data retention, priced at a 5% markup on model cost with no seat fees.
Hackerscad is a free, open-source parametric CAD tool where the model is code: typing updates the 3D view, and mouse actions like filleting an edge write readable code into the file. It uses OpenCascade B-rep for exact solids and real threads, exports 3MF, STL, STEP or drawings, and supports unittest blocks plus a command line for checking, rendering and exporting in scripts or CI. It ships with an MCP server and an agent skill so AI coding assistants can model parts, check dimensions and render them in the user's window.
AetherGrid is an open-source distributed AI workload orchestrator that matches workloads to compute nodes by resource requirements and constraints, manages the full job lifecycle, and enforces exclusive execution ownership through time-bound leases rather than assignment flags. Its domain logic is pure Python with no infrastructure dependencies, and every route requires API key authentication. The project documents each non-obvious engineering decision in architecture decision records covering reconciliation, lease fencing, scheduling policy, and API key scoping.
SelfClaw is a self-hosted AI chat system that aggregates multiple model providers (DeepSeek, NVIDIA, SiliconFlow, ZenMux, Zhipu, Kimi, MiMo, Mistral) with automatic failover polling, a CCR closed-loop agent with tool calling and memory, file operations, Bing/Baidu web search, and voice interaction. It runs a FastAPI gateway plus a Streamlit UI on port 8502, and also ships Self-IDE, a local Python service with an OpenAI-compatible proxy, goal engine, subagent orchestration and cost meter (default port 19898) with a thin VS Code extension.
OpenMontage Drama Studio is a self-hostable web studio that turns a one-line idea into a short drama, viral short or product clip through a seven-stage pipeline: script, characters, scenes, props, storyboard and shots, voice, and edit. It requires users to supply their own text, image and video model keys (e.g. Volcengine Ark for Seedream and Seedance, or a ComfyUI server for images), with edge-tts as the default TTS, and ships a Docker Compose setup bundling PostgreSQL, Redis and a media worker while requiring an external S3-compatible endpoint. It is an independent AGPL-3.0 product by @charliewwdev derived from the calesthio/OpenMontage codebase.
This promotional page describes a tool that turns product photos, public product URLs, or text briefs into AI presenter videos, product demonstrations, and store-ready images, with an editable storyboard reviewed before generation. It lists monthly credit plans (Starter $24.50 for 200 credits, Pro $35 for 300, Premium $63 for 600), shows credit cost before each job, and notes that failed jobs return credits. The page also states that custom voice cloning is not currently available and that subscription checkout is not currently available.
Cirkit is a documentation tool for electrical engineers that lets users upload schematic PDFs and annotate them, pull component datasheets directly from Digikey, ask AI about the schematic, trace signals across boards, and embed BOM data into components without leaving the PDF viewer.
A Show HN post for an AI video generator that turns a product photo, product link, or prompt into UGC-style ads with AI actors, cloned voices, captions, and scenes, downloadable in sizes like 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 and lengths of 6, 10, 15, or 30 seconds. It states that videos cost 24 credits for 6 seconds up to 120 for 30, with plans from $24.50 a month for 200 credits, Pro at $35 for 300, and Premium at $63 for 600, and that failed jobs return credits. The page says generation takes a few minutes in the browser and that downloaded videos can run in paid campaigns without a watermark.
Tiny Desk AI is an independent paid service that turns one to three uploaded photos into an approximately 15-second, 9:16, 720p MP4 recreating the "Outstanding" Tiny Desk meme, with photo 1 as the laughing lead singer, photo 2 as the sax soloist and photo 3 as the keyboard player. Packs cost $9.99 for one video, $24.99 for three or $69.99 for ten, with no login or subscription, and photos are deleted within 7 days. The site states it is not affiliated with NPR, Charlie Wilson or The Gap Band, and bars celebrities, politicians, minors and anyone who has not agreed.
The openai/codex repository published the rust-v0.166.0-alpha.5 release tag, tagged by fcoury-oai on 28 Oct at 02:58. The release page lists two assets.
Motion Crackers is a curated gallery of AI-generated motion designs, called crackers, together with the prompts that created them. The page lists a long roster of contributing creators.
AI Phone is an AGPL-3.0 open-source agent that runs on a computer and handles phone calls over SIP, currently requiring macOS on Apple Silicon with 16 GB RAM recommended for the default 4B model. Setup via a git clone and install script configures call direction, model, line and voice, and the daemon supports outgoing calls with an AI disclosure plus incoming calls using a set greeting. Speech recognition and synthesis stay local, while the language model can be local MLX, a Claude Code or Codex subscription, or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
OpenAI's Codex repository published the rust-v0.166.0-alpha.4 release tag, tagged by fcoury-oai on 27 Oct at 23:31. The release page lists two assets.
An OpenCode plugin that lets OpenCode and OpenChamber use a Muse Code subscription while authentication and inference stay inside the official Muse Code CLI (muse serve, via @muse-code/sdk), with no subscription credential extracted, cached, or injected into OpenCode. Users add the published package to their opencode.jsonc, sign in with muse login, restart, and pick a Muse model; billing defaults to the Contributor lane with an opt-out to Standard via the OPENCODE_MUSE_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE environment variable. The plugin supports text, image, video, audio (transcribed via muse voice transcribe), and PDF attachments, per-model reasoning effort, conversational answers to Muse permission prompts and option-questions, and per-session worktrees where the CLI supports them.
Together AI describes its automatic node remediation system for GPU clusters, which detects faults from both inside the VM (Xid errors, DCGM ECC and thermal signals, Node Problem Detector) and on the host (InfiniBand rail state, host reachability), then recommends and optionally executes repairs. Repairs follow a cordon-wait-drain-act-rejoin lifecycle with an escalation ladder from reboot to quick reprovision to migration, governed by per-fault consent, wait-for-idle controls, concurrency budgets, cooldowns, and a circuit breaker. Migrated or removed machines are automatically re-validated with GPU, NCCL, InfiniBand, and storage checks, and only an explicit failure files a hardware ticket.
Many AI workloads need only a fraction of a GPU, and giving each one a whole device can leave capacity idle, so sharing GPUs lets platform teams serve more workloads with existing infrastructure. NVIDIA GPUs already support several sharing approaches, including Multi-instance GPU (MIG), which splits a GPU into hardware-isolated instances that are transparent to the application.
A GitHub repository invites people to point an AI coding agent at it to transcribe scans of Murray's New English Dictionary (1888–1928) into public-domain text, with all materials released under CC0 1.0. As of a 2026-10-27 snapshot, 117 page files exist under text/, all in volume 01-AB (scans 25–141): 112 draft, 3 partial, and 2 ok. Contributors need a GitHub account, git, uv, qpdf, curl, gh, and an AI agent that can run shell commands and read PDF pages, following AGENTS.md and claiming scan ranges via draft pull requests.
Claude Code v2.1.312 adds an oidc.user_id_claim option to the Claude apps gateway for identifying users by an id_token claim other than sub, and lets fullscreen users send a queued message by clicking the "to send now" hint. It fixes issues including managed settings not being fetched after VS Code extension sign-in, Claude overwriting large CLAUDE.md or rules files after reading only their start, per-directory and paths: skills not found after a Bash cd, and a Read tool PDF failure. Other changes include limiting prompt and agent hooks to 24 at a time per session, renaming the "session limit" to "5-hour limit" in usage messages, and various VS Code, cloud session, Remote Control, Claude Tag and Code Review fixes.
Anthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors, a suite of connectors and workflow skills for research, meeting prep, and documentation tasks. Connectors include Addepar, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Envestnet, FactSet, Orion, Vanguard, and others, while skills cover pre-meeting prep, portfolio rebalance review, post-meeting follow-up, estate and tax briefs, and compliance checks. The advisor plugin is available today, with Enterprise plans recommended for audit logs, and firms requesting a new license before the end of September 2026 receive a one-time usage credit.
Blazle is an in-transit security layer that sits between AI agents and the outside world, checking every prompt, shell command and code change before it leaves the environment: secrets are masked, injections in 30+ languages are blocked, and high-risk actions wait for human approval. It reports ~0.2 ms static detection per request (under 2 ms), with AI prompt-injection checks adding 50–100 ms only when needed, and no third-party AI is called for detection. It also offers Agent Sweep to find unowned API keys and MCP tokens, and a policy library that turns existing security documents into rules in plain language.
CUDA++ is a research-stage toolchain and runtime that encodes GB10 (sm_121) machine code directly, replacing nvcc, PTX and libcuda with its own encoder and a client for NVIDIA's open kernel module ioctls, while NVIDIA's kernel module and signed GSP firmware remain. It currently supports only the DGX Spark's GB10, does not compile CUDA C++ or PTX, and reports partial coverage of CUDA's libraries; a head-to-head speed comparison against llama.cpp and vLLM has not been published.
flightdeck is a self-hosted, Apache 2.0 observability and control plane that streams every LLM call, MCP event, and tool call from AI agents to a dashboard with a per-agent timeline and live fleet-wide feed. It offers token budgets with warn/swap/block thresholds, a kill switch and remote directives, per-flavor MCP allow/block rules, and sub-agent trees, and agents attach via a Claude Code plugin or the flightdeck-sensor Python package using init() + patch(). It is not a proxy: the sensor wraps SDK clients inside the agent's process and calls go straight to the provider, with prompt capture off by default in the sensor.
Giotto is a sovereign AI operating system that combines a reasoning model with an assistant, code, integrations, documents, agents and infrastructure monitoring, deployable on European cloud or private infrastructure. It offers two models, Giotto Alto and Giotto Solo, with benchmark comparisons against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Moonshot AI, Mistral, Nvidia and DeepSeek models across AIME 2026, GPQA-Diamond, HLE and Math-500. Giotto is available via its cloud, as a download for your own GPUs, or as a certified appliance with Giotto preinstalled.
Dola AI is a browser-based creative studio that combines 2D image compositing, canvas editing, 3D scene blocking, a video timeline and reference boards, letting artists arrange compositions before submitting AI generation jobs. Manual editing and project saving use no generation credits, while AI image, video, audio, object and world generation (including World Labs Marble and Fal integrations) consume credits shown as a quote before submission. The service is built on authorized upstream open-source creative tools with its own accounts and private storage.
Autosomal.ai is a free, no-sign-up face analyzer that lets users upload a selfie or take a photo so AI can estimate their age, gender, and the world regions their face resembles most. The site says analysis takes a second or two and recommends sharp, well-lit, front-facing photos without filters or sunglasses for best results.
Survival LLM is a free, open-source offline AI assistant and emergency reference library that runs entirely on the user's computer, answering questions from sources like FEMA, CDC, MedlinePlus, WikEM, military survival manuals, wikiHow, iFixit and about 930,000 Wikipedia articles while showing the exact passages used. It selects an AI model based on available memory (from IBM Granite 4.2 8B at 16–31 GB up to NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super at 128 GB or more), requires Apple Silicon macOS 14+ or 64-bit Windows 10/11, and needs internet only during setup. The library is a 9 GB download (19 GB installed), or 1.3 GB (3 GB installed) without Wikipedia and iFixit, and users can also add their own PDFs, Word documents, ebooks and notes for the AI to search locally.
This release adds a built-in Google Cloud Vertex AI provider configured with model_provider = "gcp", adds GPT-6.1 Terra to the model catalogs, and adds a repository filter to the session picker plus directory grouping in the agent command center. It also enables reasoning effort changes during a conversation by default for supported models, turns on memory v2 by default for fresh profiles with support for importing external-agent memories, and adds experimental attached thread forks to the app-server API. Bug fixes include honoring the server's default approval reviewer on fresh TUI sessions, cancelling remote MCP tool requests when local response futures are dropped, treating model-not-found provider errors as terminal, and closing a marketplace URL validation gap involving backslashes in userinfo.