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 AutomationBohay – Mission control for your AI coding agents
bohay.dev · 2 points · 0 comments
Deep Skill Finder – Find agent skills using real execution benchmarks
meyo.life · 3 points · 0 comments
Harness Handbook – Making Agent Harnesses Understandable, Auditable and Editable
ruhan-wang.github.io · 5 points · 0 comments
Automated sign detection across the Electronic Babylonian Library
arxiv.org · 6 points · 0 comments
Letterpaths: Or how LLMs can be good even when they're bad
robinlinacre.com · 6 points · 1 comments
CLI Coding Agent that runs on llamafile and/or GGUF
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Turo – An Aggressive Token-Saving Proxy for CLI AI Agents
github.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Ohnrscript – A systems language and HTTP unikernel in JavaScript syntax
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Solar Open 2: Korea's Sovereign Foundation Model, Built for Agentic Use
upstage.ai · 4 points · 0 comments
AI-factory – a spec-driven pipeline that stops AI agents rotting code
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
AgentPulse, drift investigation for multi-agent systems
prove-ai.github.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Setoku – Self-hosted knowledge server for AI agents
setoku.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
45 points · 51 comments
OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
github.com · 110 points · 32 comments
Fourth Circuit: Border Agents Can Search Your Phone by Hand, No Suspicion Needed
eff.org · 68 points · 15 comments
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
github.com · 393 points · 271 comments
STT-MCP – local STT for agents
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Verify what an AI agent did, then tamper with the record (no signup)
api.cinchor.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Snapshots, copy-on-write, and the economics of agent sandboxes
builders.cortex.io · 16 points · 0 comments
5dive – Run a Company of Claude Code/Codex Agents (Written in Bash)
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
I made YAFL – a E2EE file handoff for AI agents
yafl.dev · 4 points · 2 comments
I built a zero-latency developer tool suite in pure Vanilla JavaScript
omnideck.cc · 24 points · 11 comments
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
darpa.mil · 268 points · 336 comments
USB AI Agent – portable uncensored AI with 13 tools, runs from USB
github.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Wenfeng Liang: Four-Hour Investor Meeting Transcript
elsewhere.news · 14 points · 0 comments
AgentNest, self-hosted sandboxes for AI agents
github.com · 12 points · 2 comments
Grimoire – Best Practices for Everyone Installed for Your AI Agents
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Focus on approving agent actions and managing team MCP access
gettrustloop.app · 2 points · 0 comments
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support
nondescriptpointer.com · 160 points · 76 comments
Paste a job description, get a broken Kubernetes cluster to fix
prepme.io · 3 points · 2 comments