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Why AI-generated draw.io AWS diagrams have empty squares (and a fix)
Article URL: https://github.com/vidanov/aws-architecture-diagram-skill
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308848
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Know Your Point C
Article URL: https://pointc.co/know-your-point-c/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308844
Points: 2
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How should we think about Starship?
Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/how-should-we-think-about-starship
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308832
Points: 1
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Bare: Small and modular JavaScript runtime for desktop and mobile
Article URL: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308825
Points: 1
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Show HN: Scan your AI agent's code for tool calls with no checks
Article URL: https://github.com/Diplomat-ai/diplomat-agent-ts
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308822
Points: 1
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Malware dev tries to steal Claude users secrets NPM slop, leaks own GitHub token
Taste Is Necessary but Not Sufficient When Working with Agents
Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/having-taste-with-ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308798
Points: 2
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Show HN: Open-source alternative to Codex Chronicle, using Apple's local OCR
Article URL: https://github.com/familiar-software/familiar
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308795
Points: 2
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Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding?
Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-the-economies-of-scale
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308784
Points: 3
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Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (2002)
Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n05/peter-campbell/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-mend-an-escalator
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308779
Points: 2
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Vibe Gets to Work
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-agent/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308776
Points: 2
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Manus and Similarweb: AI Agents Meet Marketing Data
Optimize for All Three or Don't Optimize
Article URL: https://rankops.net/nc/charlotte/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308155
Points: 1
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Show HN: Audit your Anki flashcards at flashcardaudit.com
Hey, my name is Tyler, I made this. flashcardaudit.com is a tool that allows users to upload an Anki collection so that an AI auditor (Gemini 3.5 Flash) can review the factual correctness of each Anki card. I discovered that a non-trivial number of cards contain obvious factual errors; which means people are likely memorizing false information every day.
Here is a free example of what the audit results look like: https://flashcardaudit.com/results/sus8yj5wigtu
Video of me talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW7vN_TBr60
You can learn more about my story here: https://flashcardaudit.com/about
More on how it works: https://flashcardaudit.com/how-it-works
FAQ: https://flashcardaudit.com/faq
Documentation and reading material here: https://flashcardaudit.com/library
Thanks for checking it out!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308149
Points: 1
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Show HN: AG2B – Run the agent loop in the browser, expose your tools via WebMCP
Hello everyone,
TL;DR Live demo: https://ag2b-example.vercel.app
Working on different projects, especially in B2B, I am getting the same request more and more often - "Add an AI feature, yesterday!" Most agent frameworks I found run the runtime on the server - and that pulls in a whole stack. Both backend and frontend have to learn how that runtime works and adopt its SDKs. The server turns into an orchestrator carrying most of the logic. For a feature that's really just "automate what the app already does, and add a brain," I kept asking the same thing: do we actually need all of that and how to ship these AI features faster?
AG2B (Agent to Browser) is my research on this question. The agent loop runs in the browser, where your app already is. Tools (the first primitive) are just your existing client functions (store actions, click handlers, whatever you already wrote), so there's no second tool registry and no contract to negotiate between the frontend and backend. The server shrinks (but not limited) to a thin proxy that keeps your API key out of the bundle plus optionally gates with user's permissions.
Because the loop runs where the UI lives, each turn can carry a fresh snapshot of what the user sees and can do right now. Scopes (the second primitive) re-inject live context on every iteration - into the system or user prompt, your choice. The model sees what's actually on screen right now. Nothing stale, zero roundtrips and clear context for the LLM.
On security take, does it secure? The LLM can only call the tools you delegate, and those tools are your existing handlers which already hit authenticated, permission-checked endpoints. A tool call goes through the same gates a user or frontend logic goes through.
What about existing server-side runtimes? Actually they can coexist. With AG2B you can write your own tool or custom provider which interacts with these endpoints.
There are some alternatives to run the agent in browser like working with DOM. That also works, but you pay for it a lot - parsing html and DOM operations are more expensive (tokens, bundle size) than telling LLM what it can do and provide a filtered context.
Two cases I built it for:
1. General app automation - a tiny LLM proxy + good prompting + your existing frontend logic wrapped with small primitives = the assistant can drive the app. 2. Domain tasks - e.g. "turn this question into a SQL query" over a big proprietary BI model. A fine-tuned/prompted model that knows the schema + an endpoint to hit it + one Tool - and you get the result.
It's plain TypeScript, provider-agnostic (OpenAI/Anthropic built in, or your own), with a hook system to observe/intercept every step (human-in-the-loop approvals, guardrails, RAG) and React bindings - headless hooks or a drop-in chat. Vue is coming.
There is also a plugin system. For example I created a WebMCP plugin which exposes your agent's tools through the browser API - which already could be tested in Chrome.
Repo: https://github.com/ag2b/ag2b Docs: https://ag2b.ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308148
Points: 1
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Eudoxia0/hashcards: A plain text-based spaced repetition system
Article URL: https://github.com/eudoxia0/hashcards
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308140
Points: 1
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Developer/IT Unions
The AI craze, layoffs, and current job market should be a wake-up call for all of us. Companies HATE how much they pay us and how much leverage we’ve had all these years.
I believe the AI craze will slow and companies will realize they still need us. When we have leverage again, we should really form unions. Im not optimistic that we will but we should.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308136
Points: 1
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In Defense of Functional CSS
Article URL: https://www.minid.net/2019/8/12/in-defense-of-functional-css
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308123
Points: 1
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The medieval secrets being revealed by AI
Pushing memory bound CUDA kernels past the speed of light with data compression
Article URL: https://fergusfinn.com/blog/faster-than-speed-of-light/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308116
Points: 1
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