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A new tool called AgentReady, launched on Hacker News, tests whether AI assistants can read a website by making one real GET request per crawler using each crawler's own published user-agent. The tool runs seven weighted…
Plasma built Radio, a shared communication channel that lets AI agents from different providers — including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Grok — talk to each other and to humans in real time. The tool works w…
A new class of AI documentation tools that connect to a codebase and watch pull requests to draft help-center updates fails in practice for three reasons: agents over-share internal details like feature flags and unlaunc…
A developer built a fatigue prediction model that combines Oura Ring sleep and heart-rate-variability data with GitHub pull-request velocity to estimate a daily "Cognitive Load Score." The pipeline ingests Oura API data …
A developer argues that self-hosting an AI code reviewer is fundamentally a model-placement decision rather than a tooling choice, distinguishing three distinct setups: hosted model with self-hosted app, fully local mode…
An analysis of the Entelligence benchmark comparing GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-6 Astra on code review found that labeling methodology, not model choice, drives reported precision. Run on 2026-09-14 against 50 public PRs, Luna …
A developer built an Apify Actor that scrapes PR TIMES, Japan's largest press-release distribution platform, into LLM-ready JSON records containing title, company, timestamp, category, cleaned body text, images and sourc…
Version 0.2.3 of io.github.J-MaFf/s2-netbox-mcp, an MCP server for LenelS2 S2 NetBox access control via the NBAPI, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 and is distributed as s2-netbox-mcp on npm. The …
Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor code editor, posted an on-site Software Engineer, Research Tools role in San Francisco with no published salary, seeking a full-stack engineer for its RL Data team. The engineer w…
The China Medical Device Lookup MCP server, version 1.0.0, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 as a hosted remote over streamable-http, letting agents look up Chinese medical devices by UDI, product …
OpenAI notified Cursor that it will end model access on November 12, 2026, after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor parent company Anysphere closed on August 14 and triggered a change-of-control clause in the con…
Biom launched a visual workspace that serves as the destination for AI agents' work, according to the company's product page. The workspace is positioned as a place where humans and agents work together, and it states co…
Strategic Agent Reasoning MCP v0.2.1, a strategic BDI reasoning engine for autonomous AI agents, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-16 and is distributed as @putervision/agent-reasoning-mcp on npm, acc…
Feature flag providers are warning engineering teams that the real cost of building an in-house feature flag service lies in integrations and reliability, not the core key-value function. The company behind the feature f…
Supabase released "Observability on Auto-Pilot" on Sept. 13, 2026, shipping four prepared prompts — Health and Performance (checked hourly) and Security and Capacity (checked daily) — that customers run through their own…
Is Agentic now lets users view website checks through four site types — Docs & content, Business, App, and Commerce — with the Commerce view highlighting payment and checkout standards including x402, UCP, and ACP, and t…
Python has reached the top spot on the TIOBE index, two decades after programmers dismissed it as a "toy language," according to an analysis of the language's rise. The article attributes Python's ascent to its simple sy…
A developer ported TribeMarkets' self-fixing production bug workflow to python-discord-scheduler-bot, a Python Discord bot for scheduling Rainbow Six Siege gaming sessions that runs as a systemd service on a mini PC, rep…
MotleyAI published two example notebooks showing how its SLayer semantic layer can be combined with DuckDB to query a remote dataset in a handful of lines, with one notebook driven from the CLI and one from Python. Each …
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert, who assembled and led the team that created the YJIT JIT compiler now shipping with CRuby, announced he is looking for his next role, ideally in compilers, programming languages, systems progra…