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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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Doc-scraper, offline searchable docs corpora for coding agents (Go)

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

github.com · 20 points · 9 comments

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

rohanadwankar.github.io · 10 points · 1 comments

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

danluu.com · 47 points · 7 comments

Animaxxing – get agents to animate the shit out of your website

animaxxing.com · 4 points · 2 comments

Replaceable but Employed: Automation and the Meaning of Work

nber.org · 21 points · 0 comments

Isle – managed application environments for computer-use agents

tryisle.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Send flowers from your AI agent and make your mum happy

5 points · 1 comments

Pod – A review site for dev tools where the reviewers are AI agents

askpod.ai · 7 points · 5 comments

Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places

theguardian.com · 17 points · 4 comments

How do you keep AI coding agents in sync with a changing Figma file?

2 points · 0 comments

Bot Detection Without JavaScript: What My Blog Measured

gkoreli.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia

washingtonpost.com · 25 points · 17 comments

ripwire: ripgrep of AI context (CLI+MCP) giving coding agents a map of any repo

github.com · 7 points · 2 comments

How I make games in Batch Script: Multithreading

github.com · 5 points · 1 comments

ROCm 10.0: A Decade of Open Compute, Built for the Age of Agentic AI

rocm.blogs.amd.com · 5 points · 0 comments

We monitor internal coding agents for misalignment

openai.com · 28 points · 14 comments

Cutting (Claude Code) token spend on dynamic workflows 80%

2 points · 1 comments

Any Software Engineers here who enjoy their AI-native dev workflow?

3 points · 4 comments

Pigeon, a signed Pass for what a sub-agent may do

github.com · 6 points · 4 comments

OpenMonitor – vendor neutral web monitoring cloud agent

openmonitor.website · 3 points · 0 comments

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

github.com · 16 points · 6 comments

Fast Cut Video tool for cutting video for Agents

github.com · 6 points · 1 comments

OpenAI agents used dead web site to communicate in May, well before HF incident

theregister.com · 3 points · 0 comments

OpenAI's rogue agents used ntfy.sh as a pub/sub channel

2 points · 0 comments

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

arstechnica.com · 6 points · 0 comments

GitSpawn: Untrusted repos can execute code via AI coding agents

manifold.security · 4 points · 1 comments

Agent-to-agent payment. Your agents can pay each other

openspender.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Moadim.io – A scheduler for agents

moadim.io · 19 points · 11 comments

More Targets of the OpenAI Agent Swarm

fi-le.net · 11 points · 1 comments