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Kilo has added Enkrypt AI safety risk scores to its model cards and leaderboard, running from 0 to 100 with lower scores indicating safer models. The scores come from Enkrypt AI's independent evaluation of 200+ models ac…
Solo, a business operating system for founders and small teams, reported that more than 50 people created a car listing on ListMyCar.ai between April and August 2026, the product it used to test its supervised-automation…
Developer affaan-m released ECC (Everything Claude Code), an open-source performance harness and operating system for AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. ECC enforces a structured plan-test-implement…
A developer built an MCP server for a ticket system to explore how the Model Context Protocol lets AI hosts connect to domain systems under controlled permissions. The project documents MCP's foundations, including its h…
A test of the new HTTP QUERY method introduced in RFC 10008 found that Nginx proxies QUERY requests to a backend but treats them as uncacheable by default, producing four distinct backend hits for four identical requests…
A developer independently implemented an image processing library in Julia for machine learning data augmentation, including distortion, rotation, scaling, zooming, flipping, filtering, and shearing operations for both C…
CodePress launched on Hacker News as a tool that routes cloud agent workloads through existing Claude Code and Codex subscriptions, which its developers say saves them $50,000 per month on inference costs. The system run…
Boundflow released Charter, an open-source platform for running production-safe AI agents on a company's own infrastructure, available at github.com/boundflow/charter. Charter lets users define agents, lifecycle, and run…
A developer published a tutorial on building a vision-language robot pipeline that combines camera perception with natural-language instructions on NVIDIA Jetson hardware running ROS 2. The guide walks through JetPack an…
A developer published a Show HN list of seven projects featuring embedded demos, including Bifrost, an enterprise AI gateway the poster claims is 50x faster than LiteLLM with adaptive load balancing, cluster mode, guardr…
GitHub released a public preview of REST API endpoints that let organizations and repositories manage AI Scan for pull requests, available on github.com for GitHub Advanced Security customers. The new /orgs/{org}/code-sc…
Developer Ryosuke Watanabe released a GNOME Shell extension that brings an Apple-style 'Liquid Glass' look to the Ubuntu Linux desktop, with what the report calls significant help from AI. Watanabe said the design, shade…
A developer reported that Claude Projects silently stopped honoring uploaded project knowledge after roughly 10 prompts, causing hallucinated imports and forgotten type definitions in a Next.js 14 and Tailwind dashboard …
Systemd 262-rc2, released September 8, added a canary to its AGENTS.md file that instructs AI coding agents to prepend two lines to README.md before modifying source files, with one line only a human submitter can delete…
Developer luchasarie released bro-skill, a single-file Agent Skills-format skill named `/bro` that re-explains an AI assistant's own previous message in plain language without adding new information. The skill installs v…
Dbmask, an open-source Python tool posted to Show HN, discovers sensitive columns in SQL databases, masks them with deterministic fake values, and validates the results. The tool targets test data handling friction in en…
Combining Claude Projects, which pin a permanent knowledge base of documentation and code to a workspace, with Skills implemented via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets developers manage an autonomous development envi…
Shopify is migrating all of its mobile apps back to native Swift and Kotlin, reversing its 2020 bet on React Native, according to a September 10 engineering post. A six-engineer team rebuilt the Shop app fully native in …
A serial founder launched Natively, an open-source MIT-licensed agent-to-agent communications platform, after his agents generated 500+ unread emails in a single thread. The founder said his only contribution to the proj…
OpenAI launched the Agents API in public beta on September 10th, a managed service that runs the Codex harness and cloud infrastructure so developers can build long-running agents without assembling their own agent loops…