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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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Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower

dbos.dev · 231 points · 94 comments

ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine

github.com · 65 points · 43 comments

Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers

senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai · 186 points · 118 comments

CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies

github.com · 26 points · 5 comments

AMA2, messenger built for AI agent

ama2.me · 5 points · 1 comments

Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work

github.com · 124 points · 78 comments

Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

syracuse.com · 217 points · 85 comments

Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?

infoscience.epfl.ch · 54 points · 15 comments

The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output

patrickmccanna.net · 326 points · 225 comments

Building reliable agentic AI systems

martinfowler.com · 196 points · 50 comments

Lift Challenge

darpa.mil · 42 points · 48 comments

Migrate from OpenClaw

hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · 122 points · 105 comments

TypeScript 7.0 RC

devblogs.microsoft.com · 82 points · 19 comments

A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?

openrouter.ai · 272 points · 210 comments

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

github.com · 95 points · 40 comments

SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (WSJ)

wsj.com · 17 points · 2 comments

AutoLISP in Rust/WASM, reused to script GLDF and IFC file formats

gldf.icu · 4 points · 3 comments

Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room

github.com · 98 points · 17 comments

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

ikyle.me · 507 points · 127 comments

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

bitboard.work · 58 points · 25 comments

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

intunedhq.com · 117 points · 58 comments

CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

github.com · 97 points · 49 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

qwen.ai · 721 points · 290 comments

Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

github.com · 687 points · 252 comments

Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

github.com · 445 points · 151 comments

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

crates.io · 575 points · 308 comments

An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

jamesshore.com · 380 points · 108 comments

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

blog.cloudflare.com · 658 points · 368 comments

Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

letsdatascience.com · 236 points · 213 comments

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro

github.com · 678 points · 281 comments