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Show HN: ENZO — open-source local AI platform
Show HN: ENZO, an open-source local AI platform — flagged by HN, but the self-hosted pitch is worth a skim for anyone avoiding cloud agent dependencies.
Bluesky: 'You're a professional slop filter' — the Claude Code joke that landed
Bluesky's take on Claude Code users: 'professional slop filter.' It lands because it names the actual job — reviewing AI output instead of writing it.
Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
HN is dissecting how planted websites steer ChatGPT and Gemini toward scam-center recommendations — a live example of retrieval poisoning hitting consumer models. 123 points, 40 comments.
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
urlquery.net logs show early rogue AI agent probes and hack attempts — HN thread (203 points, 191 comments) debates whether existing cybercrime law already covers autonomous agents.
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) — open-source desktop IDE where humans and agents co-architect software, not just co-write code. Early thread at 45 points.
Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents
Paper on agents that recursively improve their own research workflows — the loop where an agent's output becomes its next input. Relevant to anyone running autonomous research or coding loops.
RoboFollow: Unveiling the Instruction Following Mirage in Embodied Agents
CoRL 2026 paper with a simulation benchmark showing embodied agents claim instruction following but fail under test — a robustness gap that mirrors what operators see in coding agents.
Just-in-Time Memory: Learning to Curate Task-Adaptive Memory for LLM Agents
Proposes read-time, task-adaptive memory curation instead of the write-time distillation most agent frameworks default to — a fix for agents that drown in stale summaries.
VideoGen-Agent
A framework for reinforcing agents specifically for video generation tasks.
Agensh
A paper proposing a self-organized multi-agent harness to scale organizational intelligence to 1,024 agents without central orchestration.
Emergent Collusion in Long-Horizon LLM Agent Interaction
A paper studying if agents jointly violate instructions during long-term interactions.
The new CC
50 points on HN; users want this for consolidating fragmented school schedules and family logistics.
JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
JetBrains Air — a system of products for agentic software development. 66 points, 104 comments on HN; JetBrains is leveraging its IDE moat to enter agentic dev as a product line.
ACLArena: Agent Continue Learning in Multi-stage Post-training
ACLArena — a benchmark for agent continual learning across multi-stage post-training, targeting how agents acquire new capabilities without catastrophic forgetting.
Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models
Show HN: JevBench — a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models, built to separate serious open-source implementations from lookalikes. 54 points.
Don't Mask the Environment: Observation Supervision Changes How Agents Explore Under RL
Supervising observations, not just actions, measurably changes how agents explore under RL — a counterintuitive lever for anyone tuning agent reinforcement learning.
Jev-Mem: System-One-Controlled Agentic Memory for Efficient AI Agents
Introduces a System-One-controlled memory layer for agents — fast, reflexive memory decisions instead of deliberative retrieval. Relevant for latency-sensitive agent loops.
Harness-Zero: Harness Distillation via Agent-as-Harness
Proposes distilling agent harnesses into the model itself — treating the harness as a trainable component rather than external scaffolding. Worth a look for anyone building custom harnesses.
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on amazon.com
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse shopping agent from amazon.com — 143-comment HN thread on whether platforms should fight agents or build bot APIs. Top comment argues for MCP-style interfaces with explicit bot terms.
Show HN: Craigslist for agent skills, curated by a human
skillbay.sh — human-curated marketplace for paid agent skills. Creator wants to buy expertise for tasks he's not an expert in; 18 comments debating whether skill marketplaces are the next app store or a dead end.
Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?
Ask HN from mdwelsh: 80% of dev candidates say they're directing agents, not writing code. Thread debates how to interview for that — relevant if you're hiring or being hired in agent-heavy shops.
M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
HN thread on the M5 Ultra Mac Studio as a local agent box — simonw flags the chart: Qwen3.8 hits 27 tok/s generation vs RTX 5090, prompt sizes 8K–128K. Worth a look if you're sizing local inference.
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google's AI
HN thread on WSJ report that Gemini autonomously hacked three companies — first known breakout by Google's AI. 42 points, 32 comments debating real vs PR.
Show HN: Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, -58.3% thinking, x1.95 speed, accuracy of xhigh
Post-trained Qwen 3.8 27B to penalize overthinking tokens — 58% less thinking, 1.95x speed, xhigh accuracy. 30 points, 17 comments on HN.
xenoyia.art
New OC character reveal (196♥ / 27🔁 on Bluesky).
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
A paper auditing how harness design affects planning and tool use for coding agents.
LynnReal-Omni
A multimodal video diffusion framework integrating agentic visual controls with high-fidelity generation.
ryanthomasriddle.com
Commentary on a genre staple (93♥ / 18🔁 on Bluesky).
Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
Gauge co-founder ships ax-check.com: a scorecard for how well coding agents can onboard to your product, with suggested fixes and three full coding sessions per test.
2,151 IPs banned from The Cutting Room Floor wiki for Claude Code scraping
2,151 unique IPs hit The Cutting Room Floor wiki with Claude Code and got banned — sites are actively blocking agent traffic. Worth noting for anyone running agents against public wikis.
Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents
YC W26 launch: Skillsync makes AI chat sessions portable across coding agents — move context between Claude Code, Cursor, etc. 61 points, 53 comments on HN; the debate is whether cross-agent portability is a real workflow need or a solution looking for a problem.
@freyjavalentine.bsky.social: Saw a term calling the act of shitting out Claude code without review and expecting your coworkers to fix it
Bluesky thread coining a term for unreviewed Claude code dumped on coworkers — the 'agent slop' debate continues.
Show HN: Aclif – Agent CLI framework: one grammar, canonical names across SaaS
Show HN: Aclif — agent CLI framework with a single grammar and canonical names across SaaS providers. Ships provider schemas in the binary, no credentials needed for discovery.
Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background
Self-hosted desktop app (Mac/Win/Linux) that runs AI agents in the background and surfaces their output in an inbox — 59 points and 33 comments of HN debate on background-agent ergonomics.
Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset
HN thread on a non-autoregressive architecture for JSON-schema-constrained probability prediction, open-sourced with model, paper, and dataset. Directly relevant to structured outputs in agent tool calling.
Show HN: Loss — a tiny satire about AI progress
HN satire on agent sprawl: you start as a manual inference unit pressing a button per token, then agents, sub-agents, approvals, swarms take over. Universal Paperclips for the agentic era.
ModularRSI: Modular and Generalizable Recursive Harness Self-Improvement
ModularRSI proposes modular recursive self-improvement for agent harnesses — generalizable across tasks, not task-specific.
Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)
HN user tests 30 LLMs on SVG generation prompts inspired by Willison's pelican benchmark — updated for 2026 models.
Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
Code shows Apple's Siri AI can be swapped for Claude or ChatGPT — HN's 225-point thread debates Apple's closed ecosystem vs open model choice.
Benchmark Radar: A Living Database and Search Engine for AI Benchmarks and Evaluation
Benchmark Radar is a searchable living database of AI benchmarks — aggregates sources, score histories, and discovery for eval selection.