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 AutomationPostgres 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