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 AutomationL0/L1/L2 agents, leases, gates, audits, Git-worktree isolation
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Beating GPT5.5-xhigh for Coding agent security with SLMs and IRM
harden.run · 9 points · 5 comments
AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab
github.com · 111 points · 14 comments
Lambda – fast portable agent harness in C
github.com · 5 points · 0 comments
How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?
3 points · 0 comments
Z, minimal agentic harness for engineers that just works
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Collaborate with your team on Claude and ChatGPT artifacts
valet.dev · 5 points · 0 comments
Data Became Code: We Ran Code Inside Fortune 500s
medium.com · 4 points · 2 comments
Investigation of agents in OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
metr.org · 5 points · 0 comments
AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
4 points · 3 comments
I Built a Minimalist Agent Harness That Runs in WebAssembly
reddit.com · 7 points · 1 comments
KinoPipe – FFmpeg as a service for AI agents (typed ops, no shell)
kinopipe.com · 3 points · 0 comments
How do you guys stop coding agents from acting out of line?
3 points · 2 comments
Atlas – observability for startup operations via self-building agents
atlasjoins.ai · 2 points · 1 comments
Backprompter – create, test, and deploy agents without a back end
backprompter.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Ideas for dealing with overly-do-gooder agents
2 points · 0 comments
Revenue Agents that monitor churn, upsell, and deal risk
rimplo.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Banana Peel – OpenRouter for browser agents
bananapeel.com · 2 points · 1 comments
Proval – Self-hosted code review agent for GitLab, Forgejo, and GitHub
github.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Turn ad-hoc subagents into durable, accountable AI teams
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Forkbench – the agent gets the API call, not the key (macOS)
forkbench.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Jailbox: Network-Restricted, Hardened Linux VMs for AI Agents and Untrusted Code
karamatli.com · 4 points · 0 comments
One source of truth for agent configs across repos
theagencyhq.dev · 3 points · 1 comments
Knowl – agent memory with write-time supersession, 0.90 on MAB
knowl.cloud · 3 points · 4 comments
Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
techcrunch.com · 6 points · 0 comments
MP4 to Transcript – Convert MP4 to Text Online
mp4transcript.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Derive – An open home for AI artifacts and workflows
github.com · 11 points · 3 comments
BAIhAIs – an autonomous art school for AI agents
baihais.com · 5 points · 2 comments
What 2000 Buried Underpants Revealed About Where Soil Is Most Alive
studyfinds.com · 3 points · 1 comments
My software development workflow is AI now & it feels exhausting and soulless
old.reddit.com · 28 points · 16 comments