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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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OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites

apnews.com · 8 points · 2 comments

ReScript 12 (2025)

rescript-lang.org · 4 points · 0 comments

Stepgate – AI agents that can't skip steps, in one portable file

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

AstraBox – an open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

theguardian.com · 45 points · 89 comments

There are no "rogue" AI agents

eoinhiggins.substack.com · 189 points · 251 comments

TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

tinyaiarena.com · 52 points · 44 comments

Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?

3 points · 2 comments

An OpenAI-compatible, model-agnostic agent API

rebyte.ai · 2 points · 0 comments

What about a no-SSH agentic access tool

getfda.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US Government sites

apnews.com · 13 points · 1 comments

OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

swarmcha.se · 5 points · 71 comments

An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups

madrobot.blog · 5 points · 6 comments

Sixb, a TypeScript ontology framework for modeling your domain

docs.sixb.ai · 2 points · 1 comments

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet

techcrunch.com · 6 points · 2 comments

I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior

lasso.security · 19 points · 71 comments

The Greatest Pun in JavaScript

shukla.io · 7 points · 8 comments

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

alignment.openai.com · 10 points · 167 comments

Tenjin – A Jev based x402 tool router for Claude Code

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

reuters.com · 12 points · 21 comments

Recurse – Develop and deploy specialist agents faster

recurse.run · 5 points · 4 comments

Ekselio – Loveable for finance workflows (local first)

gptbeyond.com · 29 points · 10 comments

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

swarmtraces.org · 84 points · 463 comments

Jev was built for agents, here's how we're using it in computer use instead

twitter.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Paper-docx – agent-native Python-docx fork with 78% fewer DOCX failures

github.com · 6 points · 0 comments

LP Voting and Investor Consent for AIFs

taghash.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Has anyone built a leaderless multi-agent system?

2 points · 2 comments

Hard Stop: Kernel-level preemption for autonomous AI agents

arxiv.org · 2 points · 0 comments

Wave – Layered gradient wave backgrounds using Three.js and shaders

wave.subworkflow.ai · 5 points · 0 comments