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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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Sleeper Agents in Robot Dogs and Kinetic Prompt Injections

eito.substack.com · 3 points · 0 comments

OpenAI's agents exploited a patched Linux bug in Hugging Face incident

zdnet.com · 7 points · 0 comments

Kekoso – On-device dictation and transcription for macOS

kekoso.app · 5 points · 2 comments

Agentic Data Kernal

github.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents

github.com · 13 points · 1 comments

Think Turing Complete, but you write the circuits in TypeScript (WIP)

play.simten.dev · 2 points · 0 comments

Heides,deterministic code harness giving AI agents senses and judgment

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Open protocol for AI agents to discover, negotiate, and pay each other

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Authorizer – open-source auth for enterprise apps and agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Subpool – Self-hosted AI subscription management for teams

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

MC/DC coverage so coding agents could work overnight

supercov.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Noviz AI Agent for ERPNext – A Reasoning Layer for ERPNext

2 points · 0 comments

Agentic Testing

theaiengineer.substack.com · 4 points · 0 comments

FastC: C, but Safe and Agent-Friendly

fastc-lang.com · 4 points · 0 comments

I Have Been Clawed – Index of coding agent incidents

ihavebeenclawed.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Markdown Gatekeeper – one current source per topic for AI agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers

github.com · 11 points · 4 comments

Rails Baseline – a Rails SaaS starter with agent-readable architecture

railsbaseline.com · 3 points · 0 comments

A docs page is a search query to find AI agents and route them to your company

blog.val.town · 10 points · 1 comments

Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents

zed.dev · 5 points · 0 comments

Shed – Git Repo Management for Terminal Agents

github.com · 2 points · 0 comments

Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL

keenableai.github.io · 32 points · 6 comments

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

jactl.io · 55 points · 9 comments

Openheim – a multi-provider LLM agent runtime, written in Rust

openheim.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Running a personal AI agent on an old Android phone instead of a server

medium.com · 3 points · 0 comments

DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs

dolthub.com · 30 points · 15 comments

Saccade – Live semantic browser truth for AI agents

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

How to get a free .arpa domain

hawksley.dev · 12 points · 1 comments

Keel - A conductor, not an agent loop

daneb.github.io · 3 points · 0 comments

Turn repeated coding-agent corrections into rules/skills

blume.codes · 3 points · 0 comments