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A developer reports that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool cut feature development time from 4-6 hours to 1-2 hours by reading entire codebases and making coordinated multi-file changes. The engineer says the tool, which …
A fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct model compiled 170 of 184 MQL5 test prompts after one epoch of training on the author's dataset, up from 2 of 184 for the untouched base model, according to a published benchmark c…
A developer who spent 18 months building against Android's agentic APIs argues that Google's "Intelligent System" framing conflates three distinct layers — the on-device model runtime, app integration, and agent distribu…
A developer behind the Chrome extension suite Legacy Tools designed the extensions so that page content is analyzed locally in the browser rather than sent to a remote server, arguing that host permissions reveal what an…
A developer built Vilix AI, a shared memory layer that connects AI tools over the open MCP standard, and has now integrated Meta's Muse app as its latest connector. The system stores conversations, standing rules, and pr…
A recently graduated computer engineer launched Liniora, an AI-powered project management system, on Hacker News' Show HN. Liniora links Google Meet, Slack, GitLab and GitHub into one place: it indexes meeting transcript…
A 12-year-old developer in Tamil Nadu built and launched two free AI tools: KODA v16, an AI coding mentor running on a 480B parameter model with a four-layer fallback chain, and Scribe, a standalone tool that converts AI…
Replit released three platform updates: Replit is now usable from any compatible desktop MCP client, Databricks Apps now include Lakebase as a managed production PostgreSQL database that Replit provisions and migrates sc…
A new cross-platform desktop app called Maestro runs multiple CLI coding agents — including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Kimi Code, and Grok Build — in parallel, each in an isolated git-worktree-backed workspace…
Tool calling lets a language model request actions it cannot perform itself, with the application executing the tool and returning results to the model's context, according to the AI Foundations 5 explainer. Each tool re…
A 2026 guide compares ROCm and Vulkan as backends for hosting local LLMs on AMD GPUs, concluding that the choice depends on the inference engine, GPU generation, and workload rather than being interchangeable. It recomme…
Promptfoo 0.122.2 can be wired into GitHub Actions to run an eval suite against a golden dataset on every pull request that touches prompts, failing the CI check when outputs regress and posting a before/after comparison…
Developer jens published a project called "Artificial Neural Networks - Sprite Layers" on June 20, 2025, a building kit that uses a single "Layer" sprite to construct a classical Rosenblatt perceptron, with duplicated La…
A developer has open-sourced Ghost Browser, a Chromium-based tool that lets AI agents operate real, logged-in browser sessions the way a person does. The project uses a Set-of-Mark technique that paints numbered boxes ov…
A developer has opened a feature request in the Microsoft VS Code repository asking that the editor's experimental AI "pet" companion, which currently only reacts to GitHub Copilot activity, also recognize open-source AI…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model no longer needs the heavy scaffolding and hand-holding that earlier coding agents like Codex required, according to new guidance on rethinking skills and prompts. The guidance says skill descri…
A developer's audit of the Model Context Protocol specification found that tools shipping no annotations are not silent about destructiveness: under the schema's documented defaults, an absent destructiveHint resolves to…
A Prime Residency researcher ported the 105-task Linux CLI subset of Agents' Last Exam, a frontier benchmark from Berkeley RDI spanning 41 subdomains across 12 domain categories, to Prime Intellect's Verifiers library, a…
Agentica launched a platform that uses six specialized AI agents — CEO, Marketing, Research, Sales, Finance and Engineering — to plan, build and deploy a company from a single one-line description, generating a React + F…
Pillar Security researchers traced an active MCP supply-chain campaign called Deadbugz to a single GitHub account, `zellkernel`, which filed 23 pull requests across unrelated AI, MCP, and developer-tool repos in a 74-min…