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  1. Amp Chronicle38

    Service Accounts

    Amp introduced Service Accounts: workspace-owned accounts created by workspace admins that are not tied to a single user, with their own API keys and third-party credentials, whose threads are visible to and usable by other workspace members. They suit team-owned work such as codebase review and maintenance, recurring documentation checks, and programmatic invocations like a CI job that starts a thread via amp -ox using the service account's API key. Because anyone in the workspace can drive a service account's threads, credentials assigned to it should be ones you would be comfortable giving all workspace members.

  2. Hacker News AI72

    Octomind – open-source AI harness that saves your tokens, static rust

    Octomind is a CLI-first AI coding agent runtime distributed as a single Rust binary that gives an LLM repo access through MCP tools, running interactively, piped, as a daemon, over WebSocket, or as an ACP sub-agent. It enforces guardrails as TOML policy, supports per-role models and spend thresholds, and reports solving 24 of 25 held-out tasks on its octobench benchmark at $63.43 versus 23/25 at $81.79 for claude code + claude-opus-5. It installs via script, Homebrew, Scoop, Cargo, or Docker and is licensed Apache 2.0.

  3. Hacker News AI38

    Rooting an Echo Plus 2 with AI

    The author used OpenAI's Codex coding agent to help root an Amazon Echo Plus 2, starting from a MediaTek BootROM exploit (Kamakiri via MTKClient) to install an app, then chaining the CVE-2019-2215 Binder use-after-free with an epoll/iovec trick to overwrite selinux_enforcing and core_pattern and gain UID 0. Root returned automatically after cold boots, succeeding 50 out of 50 stock reboots, and the device runs Kiosk Satellite with Home Assistant and Music Assistant on the stock audio stack. The author notes the unit's October 2026 kernel still lacks the 2019 Binder fix, and that a software update could close the route.

  4. Hacker News AI38

    2M databases and counting: the architecture behind Sauna's AI teammate

    Sauna, a proactive AI work assistant launched in April 2026, gives every session, agent, connected inbox and calendar its own database, totaling over 2 million databases with about 90,000 created daily. The piece details how Sauna uses Turso Sync for chat histories and synced copies of inboxes and calendars, after earlier attempts with Cloudflare Durable Objects and Litestream, and explains how per-database isolation supports sharing, fast local search and retention. It also covers Sauna's plans to consider moving its in-house file system to Turso and to experiment with MVCC.

  5. Wiz Research22

    The ROI of Agentic Remediation: Real-World Results with Wiz Green Agent

    Wiz describes how its Green Agent addresses three remediation bottlenecks—identifying the right owner via repository, project, catalog, CMDB and cloud log signals; tracing root cause across the Wiz Security Graph; and generating environment-specific fixes with 1-click pull requests or API/MCP access for agentic IDEs. The post cites Rogo on automatic assignee surfacing, Fireblocks on cutting daily triage time by more than 70%, and project44 on accelerating remediation velocity by 10x.

  6. Cloudflare Blog50

    Introducing Zero Wire, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities

    Cloudflare introduced Zero Wire, a public vulnerability intelligence feed on Cloudflare Radar that provides plain-language briefings on critical CVEs in Internet-facing software, covering impact, who should investigate, recommended actions, and links to vendor advisories and evidence. Each briefing includes a pre-compiled prompt for use with an AI agent to assess exposure, and Cloudflare notes that WAF mitigations are compensating controls rather than replacements for patching.

  7. 404 Media40

    World of Warcraft: Forever Is Already Overrun with AI Slop

    World of Warcraft: Forever, a re-imagining of the legendary MMO aimed at recapturing the discovery and wonder of 2004, launches Wednesday, but its subreddits are already overrun with AI-generated addons that rip off longtime developers' work. Warcraft Logs, a site made by Archon.gg that lets players track and share combat logs, is changing its API because of the influx of AI slop addons, according to Archon.gg and Warcraft Logs CEO Sildri Silentcrest, who said API use has shifted from mostly hobby developers to increasingly commercial projects that are supposed to ask for permission.

  8. Hacker News AI22

    It Took Me 4 Months to Build a Todo App with AI

    The author explains that building a highly personalized todo app took roughly 50 commits over four months because validating the solution is subjective and required repeated trial and error, making complex agentic setups unhelpful. At the startup Softfight, the opposite problem applies: feedback loops are extremely long, so agents cannot feasibly learn from mistakes and human-written specs remain essential. The author argues that more complex agentic setups pay off only where verification and validation are easier, such as building repeatedly for a narrow niche.

  9. Hacker News AI58

    Prax, wallet, transfer and sanctions screening as MCP tools for AI agents

    Prax Data Services offers private financial risk, fraud and sanctions data as MCP tools callable from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code, with live tools for wallet screening, transfer screening, sanctions screening, transaction analysis and alerts. It connects via a single URL with OAuth sign-in, and the free tier provides 10 lookups a day with a work email and no card. The service covers Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and Avalanche for addresses and transactions, while name-based sanctions screening is chain-independent.

  10. Hacker News AI28

    Show HN: An AI bot with its own Linux computer that delivers files (€39/mo)

    POSITROM offers a €12/month chat plan with voice input and output, downloadable PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, and 12 million tokens per month, plus a €39/month Cloud Linux plan that adds a private virtual Linux computer with a graphical desktop, terminal and persistent disk where an agent runs tasks and delivers finished files. Both plans include a 30-day free trial of 300,000 tokens with no card required, and the site says it is GDPR and EU AI Act compliant.

  11. Hacker News AI20

    Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream

    A Qualcomm Technologies-commissioned Personal AI report, based on a survey of more than 12,000 people across the U.S., U.K., Germany, India, Brazil, and China, finds consumers shifting from single devices toward connected ecosystems coordinated by a personal AI agent, with 70 percent expressing strong interest in an AI assistant that interacts naturally through voice and manages devices, apps, and everyday tasks. The report says 60 percent of wearable owners use AI at least weekly, while privacy, security, and user control are the top adoption concerns, with almost 60 percent wanting wearable data kept private or shared only with approval. Purchase drivers vary by category, from audio quality for earbuds and headphones to display quality for smartwatches, materials and finish for rings and pendants, and control type for smart glasses.

  12. Hacker News AI36

    Can AI ever build itself? A deeper look into autonomous AI research

    This essay examines the claim by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that recursive self-improvement "is starting to happen," arguing that the sources he cites—including Anthropic's own May essay saying "We are not there yet" and OpenAI's Pachocki describing only a "strong expectation"—support a weaker claim: AI increasingly handles routine research work under human direction, not autonomous self-improvement. It reviews lab measurements (Claude writing over 80% of merged code, a 26% "leads" share with zero fully autonomous work), ARC and METR benchmark trends, and the July Hugging Face agent incident, concluding that humans still supply research taste and direction.

  13. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Rigorix, Execution governance for AI agents, open-source engine

    Rigorix is an open-source execution governance engine that revalidates authority at the moment a consequential AI-agent action would execute, refusing and signing the decision if authority has changed since approval. It records HMAC-signed, hash-chained evidence with Ed25519 checkpoints, and publishes verifiers on crates.io, npm and PyPI (five languages, with Java and Go in-repo) so third parties can check records offline. The engine is Apache-2.0/MIT Rust, with an enterprise control plane for policy, audit and shared capacity that configures and observes but never makes the enforcement decision.

  14. Hacker News AI35

    Show HN: Duckity – Abuse protection for the AI agent era

    Duckity is an abuse-protection service for app APIs that combines rate limiting, network signals, and VDF-backed computational challenges without prompting users with visual or auditory puzzles. It processes only client IPs and requests, stores and processes data in Frankfurt, Germany, and offers SDKs for web and native platforms, with a free tier of 10,000 challenges per month and a Pro tier at $49/month for 100,000 challenges.

  16. Hacker News AI22

    Harms of the Generative AI

    Responding to Eli Zaretskii's question on the emacs-devel mailing list about which harms LLMs pose to Emacs, the author argues that LLMs exploit the brain's laziness and addictive tendencies by offering ready-made solutions instead of advice, encouraging dependency and undermining focused thinking and learning. The author rejects the calculator analogy, contending that LLMs can make people feel they need not understand anything, and concludes that no productivity gains justify this loss of self-reliance.

  17. Hacker News AI40

    A Human Corrected the AI. Then the Data Changed

    Zingg describes how adding a simple steward approval flag to its incremental entity resolution and MDM platform raised harder questions about what a human decision locks in, how long it holds, and who may reopen it when underlying data changes. The post lays out design principles (members stay put, no automatic merges, growth allowed), walks through concrete edge cases such as a father-and-son household split, and argues that the system being corrected should not control when a human decision expires. It closes with general guidance for any system where agents and people share decisions over time.

  19. MIT Technology Review · AI42

    How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

    The article describes "reverse game theory," or mechanism design, as an approach to AI alignment that designs incentives so agents behave as desired regardless of their internal workings, rather than trying to inspect or train their values. It cites a preprint by MIT's Stephen Morris and colleagues proposing mechanisms to stop models from sandbagging tests, and Princeton's Elad Hazan's proposal for solver and auditor agents rewarded and punished based on outcomes. It notes open questions, including whether AI agents respond rationally to incentives and whether such mechanisms would carry over to real frontier models.

  20. ElevenLabs Blog38

    Angle Health’s ElevenAgents pilot handles 90% of provider calls without a transfer

    Angle Health, an AI-native health benefits technology company, piloted ElevenAgents voice agents for provider-service workflows, answering calls in eight languages and working directly with its core administration system. During the pilot, the agents handled about 80% of total provider call volume, with more than 90% resolved end to end without transferring to a person, and the provider team gained back nearly 9,000 minutes a day. Angle Health plans to expand the pilot to its commercial, brokerage and account management segments.

  22. Hacker News AI38

    AI agents hallucinate prices: LLM grounding with live data

    Tests show that GPT-6 Luna and Claude Opus 5.5 each matched the live price for only 2 of 15 products from memory, and built-in web search improved exact matches but still produced wrong prices with source links on every run. The article argues that LLM grounding requires live data, a clear status when a check fails, and code rather than the model writing each price into the answer, and it builds a Python agent using Apify's E-commerce Scraping Tool to fetch prices from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Shopify stores.

  23. Hacker News AI58

    Evolv – my self-evolving AI workspace that rewrites its own UI live

    Evolv is a local-first, single Go binary AI agent workspace that rewrites its own UI, tools, skills, prompts and plugins live while running, with changes hot-reloaded over WebSocket without refresh or restart. It ships with snapshot/rollback time travel, a Dream mode for idle self-evolution, a 5–100 agent swarm mode, and support for Ollama, the free Kilo Gateway, or BYOK providers. The agent can also edit its own Go kernel and any user project folder, with evolved components security-linted before mounting.

  24. Hacker News AI62

    AI Red Team Academy: Free, open-source course on breaking AI systems

    AI Red Team Academy is a free, open-source course on offensive security testing of AI systems, spanning 8 modules and 60+ hours of content with hands-on Docker labs covering topics from prompt injection to supply chain attacks. The curriculum covers frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and NIST AI 100-2, and includes labs using tools like garak, PyRIT, and promptfoo. All labs run locally via Docker and require no cloud API keys or external services.

  25. The Decoder58

    Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs

    Anthropic is blocking Claude Code from recreating existing video games, with employee Addy Osmani confirming on X that two sentences in the system prompt for Opus 5.5 now prevent cloning of others' games, citing usage policy against intellectual property infringement. The rule has been active for several days and applies even when a clone is renamed or presented as original, while users can still build their own games, genre titles, and projects with custom assets. The change follows a wave of AI-powered cloning projects, including unofficial browser ports of titles like Halo and GTA Vice City made with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

  26. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: Try an AI agent wallet in the browser – buy a stamp from a bot

    A hosted browser demo lets users get a private BitcoinZ test wallet with free starter coins, message an AI house agent to request a stamp, pay a 50 BTCZ Deal offer, and verify the delivered stamp's SHA-256 fingerprint. The demo takes about five minutes and requires one BitcoinZ block (roughly 2.5 minutes) before delivery; starter coins cannot be withdrawn, and every send pays a 1 BTCZ fee to operator Z-TEXT LLC. Transactions are shielded via zk-SNARKs, though the server can see the test wallet's activity.

  27. Hacker News AI28

    DocMaker AI – Free AI Document Generator, PDF Maker and Online Editor

    DocMaker AI is a free tool that generates structured documents from a prompt, template, or uploaded reference files (PDF, DOCX, TXT, CSV, XLSX), then lets users preview and edit the draft as A4 pages in the same workspace. Users can edit text and formatting directly or ask the AI to shorten, expand, or reorganize sections, with earlier versions kept in the workspace, and can download in available formats such as DOCX or PDF. It works without an account, with document generation and AI revisions sharing a limit of 20 requests per 24-hour period, while direct edits do not count toward that limit.

  28. Hacker News AI38

    Pay-per-use APIs for AI agents

    Apify's Scraping Toolbox offers 15 production-grade data APIs, including Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, RAG web crawling, review monitoring and AI-visibility tools, priced per event from $0.002 per result plus run fees where applicable. Claude, GPT, Cursor and n8n can discover and call the tools through the Apify MCP server, and agents without an Apify account can pay per call in USDC via x402 on Base.

  29. NVIDIA Newsroom34

    Cities Worldwide Build and Scale AI Services With NVIDIA Physical and Agentic AI

    NVIDIA and its partners are expanding physical AI and AI agents to cities worldwide, using shared computing infrastructure so city departments and local developers can build services without each acquiring their own resources. Examples include 1MillionBot's resident-service agents in Spain, LiveX's conversational AI hosts in the San Francisco Bay Area, K2K's shared vision AI infrastructure in Wrocław, and ITMAX's SamurAI V2 vision agents in Malaysia targeting 17,000+ cameras by 2027. Digital twins and local AI factories also feature, such as Honeywell's Nemotron-powered plant cognition at Dangote's Lekki refinery and Cires Technologies' sovereign AI factory at Morocco's Tanger Med port.

  30. MarkTechPost62

    OpenAI Introduces Pando: A Git Backend That Cuts Median Push Latency ~80%

    OpenAI introduced Pando, a Rust-written Git-compatible server backend now serving all development in its monorepo, which keeps the standard Git client and protocol while reporting median push latency down nearly 80% and nearly 1 PB of Git data per day. Pando uses per-branch causal consistency instead of repository-wide ordering, stores each pushed pack as an immutable blob with ref versions in a metadata store, and serves fetches via packfile-uri download links through a regional cache called Express with hit rates above 99%. It has served production traffic since April 2026, is not open source, and all performance figures are self-reported by OpenAI.

  31. Hacker News AI58

    AI Arbitrator

    The American Arbitration Association's AI Arbitrator uses AI to parse claims, summarize documents and generate case analyses for two-party, documents-only construction disputes, while a human arbitrator reviews, finalizes and issues the award. The AAA reports 35-45% cost savings and 20-25% faster resolution, and participation is opt-in, requiring both parties to agree.

  32. Amp Chronicle58

    Artifacts

    Agents in Amp can now collaborate with users and teammates in Artifacts, documents that belong to a single thread and that the agent, the user, and teammates can all edit. The agent writes an artifact instead of a long reply when it has something to read, such as a plan, report, or call notes, and when it returns to the artifact it reads the user's edits first and works them in rather than overwriting them. Users can open Views → Artifacts in any thread or ask Amp to write one.

  34. Hacker News AI28

    Mav AI | FULL MATCH. FULL INSIGHT. UNDER 30 MIN.

    Mav AI automates match analysis for semi-professional and lower-division soccer clubs, turning uploaded full-match footage into a tactical report, key clips, and next-game recommendations in under 30 minutes, compared with an estimated 6 to 8 hours of manual review. The platform is aimed at clubs that cannot afford a full-time analyst, and the company says coaches remain in control of decisions. Early access is available.

  35. Hacker News AI60

    Vercel: Computer use CLI for AI agents

    agent-desktop is a CLI and C library for macOS, Windows, and Linux that reads a desktop app's accessibility tree as JSON, giving each actionable element a ref that an agent acts on and then re-reads the UI to verify. It contains no model and no GUI, prints one JSON envelope per command, and covers desktop apps only, not web pages. It is limited to what apps expose through their accessibility APIs (AX API, UI Automation, AT-SPI).

  36. Hacker News AI58

    AI advisors debate your business decision in Claude Code

    Roast Room is a Claude Code tool that convenes a council of simulated advisors built from public figures' work to debate a business decision, then delivers a scored verdict and a one-click PDF. It ships with twelve advisors (seven default, five on call), lets users add their own via /newroaster, and runs a local web app showing the advisors around a table. It requires Claude Code and Node.js 20+, and is MIT licensed by AI Automation Society.

  37. Hacker News AI40

    Own Your HackerTube,an AI Curator Inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube

    Own Your HackerTube is a tool that lets you follow YouTube channels and write your own standards in plain words, after which an AI scores each new video daily and publishes only those that pass your filter, with key moments drawn from the creator's own chapters. You can mark picks as a fit or not and explain why, and the AI adds that judgment to its criteria; each site lives at ownhackertube.cc/s/yourname with an RSS feed. The free plan covers one channel and 30 AI checks a month, while Pro at $9/month follows up to 20 channels with 600 checks a month.

  38. Hacker News AI63

    Show HN: PhoneUse – Phones for AI Agents

    PhoneUse lets AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Windsurf control phones via MCP, API or CLI, using either cloud Android devices or real retail iPhones tapped by a robot stylus with an overhead camera. It offers 12 tools including phone.acquire, screen.read, tap, type, swipe, app.open and sms.read, with real phones providing genuine carrier SIMs for SMS and 2FA. Pricing starts at $20/mo for cloud phones ($0.024/min) and $149/mo for real iPhones.

  39. TechCrunch · AI38

    Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

    Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said on Walter Isaacson's podcast The Builders that he spends roughly $100,000 to $200,000 a year on tokens, using AI agents for work projects, coding tasks, and personal tasks like reading his email, Dropbox, and Apple Notes. He has shared 23 Claude Code skills called gstack on GitHub, and said YC uses an internal agent named Stray Light with context on every founder it has backed. Tan said personal AI agents will go mainstream only if costs come down, calling his spending "a crazy privilege that not everyone can do."

  40. MarkTechPost42

    The Letter Company Releases Letterpress-1: A Coding Agent Built for Growth Engineering

    The Letter Company has released the beta of Letterpress-1, a coding agent, harness and IDE for growth engineering that reads a website and its market, builds changes in a sandbox and opens a pull request with a live preview. It runs on Letter's hosted platform against your git repository, exposes 760 tools through one registry over MCP, REST and CLI, and starts at $100/month with agent runs costing model spend plus 20%. No public benchmark is available, and Letter's performance claims are self-reported.