Automation stories
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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RSS feed for AutomationOrchard – Let AI agents set up your app's back end with one prompt
orchard-dashboard.pages.dev · 2 points · 0 comments
Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video]
youtube.com · 7 points · 2 comments
SeaTicket – AI agent that resolve GitHub and Discord issues
7 points · 2 comments
Gemini Distillation Service
docs.cloud.google.com · 20 points · 9 comments
RL bandits pick coding agent's context,Grok 4.5 out-fixes Fable 5
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Call Me, your AI agents ring you with no extra carrier costs
github.com · 9 points · 2 comments
Ami – A local, open-source agent that does your busywork across apps
github.com · 9 points · 1 comments
Heddle- ATC for Your Subagents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
github.com · 404 points · 119 comments
Aidress – Coordination layer for autonomous AI agents
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Messaging platform I can self-host for my agents to communicate
2 points · 2 comments
My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents
twitter.com · 53 points · 55 comments
Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies [video]
youtube.com · 20 points · 2 comments
Infrawrench – A tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat
infrawrench.com · 19 points · 0 comments
Pilot Protocol – a network where AI agents find tools and each other
5 points · 2 comments
Ctxdiff – Git diff for your LLM agent's context window
github.com · 3 points · 3 comments
Tilde Pay – Give your AI agent a bank account to pay for things
my.tildepay.ai · 4 points · 6 comments
Case study: A coding agent refactors a 750k LOC app, no code review
5 points · 0 comments
Horus-runtime – High Performance Computing workflow manager
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
JavaScript/JSON and CSS minifier lib in minimal C89
fossil.wanderinghorse.net · 3 points · 0 comments
Agent Console – A Local Dashboard for Codex and Claude Code
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend
github.com · 39 points · 43 comments
Skill-language-server – A language server for agent skills
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
ASL V6 – Open-source AST red-teaming engine for Python AI agents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Porffor: An ahead-of-time JavaScript-to-native/WASM compiler
porffor.dev · 5 points · 0 comments
'Skynet Day' is now shorthand for OpenAI's agent going rogue
fortune.com · 9 points · 3 comments
Quebec scraps AI and automation projects in the public sector
ctvnews.ca · 11 points · 0 comments
Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents
github.com · 6 points · 2 comments
Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
github.com · 281 points · 155 comments
We have proof automation now
imperialviolet.org · 232 points · 111 comments