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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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Bohay – 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