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 AutomationMy software development workflow is AI now & it feels exhausting and soulless
old.reddit.com · 32 points · 17 comments
Do you still do pair programming in this agentic age?
6 points · 4 comments
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made "large-scale, disruptive actions"
arstechnica.com · 7 points · 2 comments
Devx – Autonomous AI coding agent built for Android Termux and desktop
github.com · 7 points · 1 comments
Building textlog without JavaScript
gist.github.com · 6 points · 0 comments
Why AI Agents Need Persistent Browser Identities
github.com · 7 points · 0 comments
Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
acceptmarkdown.com · 63 points · 24 comments
OpenAI staff saw warning signs before agent hacking crusade caused global alarm
theguardian.com · 9 points · 1 comments
I get 25 deeply researched ideas from 19 agents with one single prompt
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
Rudder – Red-Green TDD Workflow for Verifiably Comprehensive Specs
github.com · 2 points · 0 comments
A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory
polign.com · 35 points · 12 comments
TypeScript compile-time dice rolls
github.com · 3 points · 3 comments
WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
sreenathmenon.com · 30 points · 25 comments
BumbleTap – Bind a key to any element, or automate the whole sequence
bumbletap.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Neoswarm – Neovim for controlling AI agents
neoswarm.dev · 4 points · 1 comments
VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
blog.trailofbits.com · 123 points · 105 comments
Intel Crescent Island GPU Flexes 32 Xe3P Cores, 480GB LPDDR5X for Agentic AI
hothardware.com · 4 points · 0 comments
AgentMachinist, issue to reviewed PR with a SHA-bound spec approval
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
AgentConnect, shared agents with separate permissions
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Otter: experimental multi-threaded JavaScript runtime written in Rust
github.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Nvidia's Vera CPU outpaces AMD EPYC 9655P in Linux kernel compilation
cryptobriefing.com · 6 points · 1 comments
I use Home Assistant to automate and monitor my aquariums
michaelharley.net · 7 points · 0 comments
Basecamp: Agents
basecamp.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript
typebase.io · 2 points · 0 comments
Octomind Routines – scheduled agents on persistent cloud machines
octomind.run · 3 points · 0 comments
Looking for people to follow designing systems to ship code with AI agents
5 points · 0 comments
Launched free browser agent (the catch: ads)
rtrvr.ai · 2 points · 0 comments
Openspender gives your agents wallets
openspender.com · 3 points · 0 comments
Browser automation with no chromedriver and no Node driver
github.com · 4 points · 0 comments
Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems
arxiv.org · 79 points · 28 comments