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Article URL: https://taonaw.com/2026/07/10/auth-and-curl.html

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Article URL: https://aras-p.info/blog/2026/06/28/Joys-of-cancelling-a-TBB-task-group/

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Hello HN!

As part of our work at Kenobi[0], I used Codex to analyse an HTTP archive (HAR) for a website I was trying to see if I could use programatically, i.e. by exposing its underlying / undocumented API. That approach worked much better than I expected, so I started looking for a way to do this easily for other websites.

I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so we decided to build Harpist -- a product in two parts: i. A Chrome extension, that allows you to record HAR files and view generated documentation; and ii. A CLI that can be used by agents to refine these HAR files and create oRPC contracts, documentation, and allow you to replay HTTP requests.

There's an agent skill that lets you use Claude or Codex to manage all of the refinement and CLI usage, so right now the workflow is as follows:

1. Open the Chrome extension and record yourself using a website (the parts you'd want to automate).

2. Tell your agent to "use Harpist to refine my latest recording".

3. When it's done, the extension lets you view documentation for the discovered endpoints.

4. Replay the endpoints and view captured auth data in the CLI yourself, or just...

5. Ask your agent to do something for you on one of the website's you've captured and processed using Harpist.

It's all open source (MIT licensed)[1], and under the hood it uses oRPC to create TypeScript-compatible API contracts, but I've mostly been focussing on the documentation for now which just uses the oRPC Scalar integration[2] to generate OpenAPI-looking docs.

I'm keen to learn what other people are doing to discover and automate web workflows at the moment, and what kind of things people _wish_ existed too.

[0] - https://kenobi.ai

[1] - https://github.com/kenobi-ai/harpist

[2] - http://orpc.dev/docs/openapi/scalar

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well from thousands of ai written lines of code to some system specific moves that might break tons of installs where people have customized things quite a bit might break, or am i over thinking this?

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Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/32806

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Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/06/15/finnish-company-sues-dell-over-70m-price-increase-for-data-centre-servers/

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Article URL: https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q2-2026-us-pe-breakdown

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Article URL: https://alec.is/posts/llm-honeypots-the-perfect-use-for-llms/

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Article URL: https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/zhipu-founder-backs-open-source-ai-as-global-security-debate-intensifies-126071200342_1.html

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Article URL: https://www.yacnews.com/sysdig-documents-the-first-ransomware-attack-run-end-to-end-by-an-ai-agent/

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I created an app that compares real-time prices and wait times across Uber, Lyft, Waymo, Tesla Robotaxi, Curb, and Empower. It shows you all ride options in one list, then once you’re ready to book, it deeplinks you to the provider’s app with the route pre-filled.

I reverse-engineered ride-hailing mobile apps to understand how they fetch prices from their servers. You sign in to my app with your ride-hailing accounts, and then my app requests live prices from the same APIs that ride-hailing apps use. Importantly, my app is built using an on-device approach: the app on your phone stores authentication tokens locally and sends network requests directly to each ride-hailing company’s servers. This keeps your accounts private. I wrote a blog post showing network requests sent by my app, which you can verify yourself: https://blog.hackney.app/p/how-hackney-works

This seems like an obvious app. Why doesn’t it already exist? That’s because most ride-hailing companies don’t offer public APIs for prices and wait times. Uber does offer one, but they prohibit using it for price comparison. When someone built a comparison app using the official API, Uber terminated their API access (https://www.benedelman.org/news-053116). There are apps today that don’t use official APIs, but they run your account tokens through their servers and send price requests server-side.

To integrate a ride-hailing provider, my app sends network requests for sign-in, token refresh, ride prices, and ride history (to power a feature that shows you unified ride history across apps and how much you’ve saved on each ride). Some ride-hailing apps implement certificate pinning to prevent you from viewing their network requests, and some communicate with their server using Protobuf, a data format that doesn’t include the original field names. Building an app using this approach is technically complex, but it makes possible all sorts of useful products that couldn’t otherwise exist.

The app is completely free. In the future, I may monetize through a subscription or partnerships with ride-hailing companies. I’d love to hear your feedback. You can download it today.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackney-compare-rideshares/id6...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.hackney

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Article URL: https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-07-13-salience-driven-development.html

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Article URL: https://github.com/Dawnfz-Lenfeng/tikos

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Article URL: https://doerpmund.com/musings/death-of-open-channels

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Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/

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Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo

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Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-25/sydney-mp-alex-greenwich-human-composting-bill-explained/106828252

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Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/linkedin-dating-app-22340622.php

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