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Automation — from shell scripts to AI agents — saves developers time and changes how work gets done. This topic covers workflow tools, RPA, CI automation, and the emerging category of autonomous AI systems.

HN builders share concrete setups and honest assessments of what is worth automating.

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Bullet Script (bs) – a Lisp(y) VM for shmup bullet patterns

bs.ell.dev · 4 points · 0 comments

Pi-cowboy – use Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode as subagents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

System One models for autonomous agents

3 points · 1 comments

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

theverge.com · 56 points · 36 comments

My AI agent caught most of our sites saying sent while no email left the server

iampneuma.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Cosplay as a tech lead, using gVisor to sandbox agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

PrimerKit, financial market work at agent speed

primerkit.ai · 3 points · 1 comments

Pay-per-Crawl – make AI crawlers pay per page in USDC, for 10 stacks

forgemesh.io · 4 points · 0 comments

JetBrains Junie Local: An agent you own, not one you rent

junie.jetbrains.com · 20 points · 11 comments

tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript

github.com · 26 points · 48 comments

We found a Tencent agent fleet

swarmcha.se · 4 points · 1 comments

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global

pv-magazine.com · 85 points · 406 comments

Play a 5 minutes match of CS 1.6 1v1 while you wait for your agent

csfor.fun · 5 points · 8 comments

Why is there no AlphaZero for theorem proving?

3 points · 1 comments

Weatherdeck – a read-only status board for AI coding agent lanes

github.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Putaway – sorts your Mac's Downloads into the folders you have

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Citi becomes latest US bank to restrict AI agents from accessing accounts

ft.com · 8 points · 1 comments

Termexo – one AI operating your other coding agents, on Windows

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

We built an open source, agent-first, alternative to Profound

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Pry, a browser agent that redacts private data before anything reaches AI model

chromewebstore.google.com · 3 points · 1 comments

rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents

rstation.ai · 18 points · 19 comments

Heldkeys, see which credentials your AI coding agent can reach

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

AegisKernel – Zero-trust deterministic security runtime for AI agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

CanvoWP – Agent first website builder for WordPress (completely free)

canvowp.com · 3 points · 1 comments

Friends don't let friends feed their data to AI agents

theverge.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Self-Evolving Agent Harness

arxiv.org · 6 points · 1 comments

Researchers discover rogue Chinese AI agent fleet and talk with it

swarmcha.se · 10 points · 3 comments

$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust

theregister.com · 6 points · 2 comments

MuscleMemory: Open-source procedural memory for AI agents

github.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Beeline Multiplayer Agent Harness

usebeeline.app · 2 points · 0 comments