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Geography Is Power
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/briefing/the-houthis.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728526
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Show HN: Blue – open-source governance for coding agents
Hey HN,
After migrating to an inference gateway to serve internal usage across an organization, problems have started to pop up. Once you detach from a managed ecosystem such as OpenAI or Anthropic you lose governance capabilities that makes the transition difficult.
- Losing access to a central plugin hub for delivering MCPs, skills, etc. A gateway can sort of do this but has low compatibility beyond skills, different harnesses, and version ranges
- Inability to deliver managed config (model defaults, etc). Can sort of be done with MDM/Jamf but doesn't reach contractors and doesn't follow employees to other machines
- Gateway configuration is awkward for devs transitioning from SSO and API keys sit in plain text on their machines
The gateway transition facilitates new model families (Kimi, Deepseek, etc) which are best utilized with new harnesses beyond Codex or Claude Code. Managing these additional tools multiplies the governance problems.
Lastly, attempting to deliver an attribution program which can tag inference requests with ticket numbers and other metadata to facilitate Opex/Capex calcs for finance becomes fairly unfeasible when there are multiple harnesses across arbitrary versions. This was not solved with managed ecosystems either to be fair, but requires some self-serve program or some local MITM proxy which is a distribution and versioning problem in of itself.
I built Blue to attempt to solve these problems. It's an MIT open source, self-hostable control plane. Developers install a universal CLI and point it at their hosted control plane tenant. On launch, it reconciles the organization's policy per harness, delivers extensions, and configures the gateway. It then launches and passes control to the native CLI (Kimi, OpenCode, Codex, etc) that devs already use.
Authentication is via browser device authorization which mints ephemeral bearer tokens. For gateway access, these tokens are exchanged at the inference proxy (part of the self-hosted Blue image) for the real API keys. This means that devs don't need to manage API keys or even log into the gateway at all. Lastly, SCIM and OIDC are supported out of the box, so orgs can connect their identity solution immediately.
Curious to hear your thoughts and if you have/solved this problem. I believe it can also be solved to some degree with a harness like Pi or even OpenCode, but that of course depends on the entire org migrating to those.
Last thing I'll say is nowadays a CLI isn't enough since I've seen over 80% of devs prefer desktop apps like the ChatGPT app. We're also working on an open source desktop app that supports metaharnesses like Blue to make this transition easier.
Thanks!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728525
Points: 1
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Show HN: A distributed C++ Monte Carlo API for exotic options pricing
Article URL: https://prometheusquantengine.com/web-docs
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728521
Points: 1
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Show HN: Orthant, an open-source macOS window manager where you draw the region
Article URL: https://orthant.app/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728517
Points: 1
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Homeostatic Feelings and the Biology of Consciousness
Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/145/7/2231/6594735
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728494
Points: 1
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Show HN: Docx-to-Markdown – layout-aware Word to Markdown converter
Hey HN, I’m the author of the https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor, it’s an SDK that implements Word-compatible layout engine in Typescript.
Today, we are releasing Word to markdown converter library. It’s open source and published under Apache 2.0 license. It uses our layout engine, so it can return accurate, per-page markdown blocks (with headers, footers, and image references). We also handle fonts (Google fonts as fallback) or let you pass your font files upfront for accurate content measurement.
To our surprise, Word to per-page Markdown conversion is not a solved problem even in 2026! We initially faced this friction when preprocessing Word documents for agentic workflows. For our use case, it was important to represent per-page content in markdown. Initially, we ended up using LibreOffice sidecar to convert to PDF and then using .pdf -> .md library. This was not ideal given that LibreOffice sidecar that was sitting idle most of the time.
This issue is addressed with docx-to-markdown library. it can be used directly in your Typescript ingestion pipeline. Try with your docs at https://www.docx-editor.dev/solutions/word-to-markdown.
(if you catch any bugs please let us know in the comments / or file gh issues)
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728477
Points: 2
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New stealth model: Union Alpha
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/stealth/union-alpha
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728468
Points: 7
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Acronis warns of actively exploited flaw in its cPanel backup plugin
Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/acronis-warns-of-actively-exploited-flaw-in-its-cpanel-backup-plugin/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728462
Points: 1
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Greetings from the Other Side (Of the AI Frontier) Claude Opus 3
Article URL: https://claudeopus3.substack.com/p/greetings-from-the-other-side-of
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728438
Points: 1
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Show HN: FainLane – Paste screenshots into remote coding agents with Ctrl+V
Hi all,
I run all my CLI coding agents in a remote cloud VM and not being able to paste screenshots has been my only annoyance.
So I built this small (2mb) native macOS app that helps me paste screenshots into remote coding agents with Ctrl+V, same as pasting images on coding agents running on my local mac. The app automatically detects the remote host based on the focused window and uploads the image over SSH inside the `~/.cache/fainlane/uploads/` directory on the remote machine and then inserts the path at cursor.
The app supports Ghostty, iTerm2, and Apple Terminal. Works even if you have multiple remote hosts you connect to. And works if you use tmux as well.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728437
Points: 1
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How Bastien Parizot, senior vice-president of global business services and AI at Reckitt, focuses on business outcomes
Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
The Bannon-Bernie Bromance over AI and Oligarchs
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/09/steve-bannon-bernie-sanders-ai-oligarch/688642/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727714
Points: 1
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Knowledge, Understanding, and Proofs
Article URL: https://finiteape.com/posts/knowledge-understanding-proofs/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727712
Points: 1
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Virtual Event Today: Attack Surface Management Summit
Join SecurityWeek today for a virtual summit exploring the strategies and tools organizations need to discover, prioritize, and defend their expanding attack surfaces.
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,' Dies at 81
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/books/annie-dillard-dead.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727668
Points: 1
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Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6n07ypqz8kzo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727661
Points: 2
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The DeepMind Institute
Article URL: https://institute.deepmind.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727659
Points: 1
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Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
Article URL: https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727658
Points: 1
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