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Agentcn – Installable AI Agents

Hey everyone , I just launched AgentCN An open-source library of installable, customizable AI agents for modern applications. One-command installation Own the agent code Fully customizable Would love for you to check it out and share any feedback! Site: https://agentcn.dev/ Github: https://github.com/anayatkhan1/kit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228902 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Meta CTO told employees AI gains should go into more work

Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-bosworth-ai-productivity-more-work-not-time-off Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228648 Points: 2 # Comments: 2

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AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch after training on 9T nucleotides

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-creates-16-new-viruses-that-never-existed-in-nature-after-learning-dnas-pattern-from-9-trillion-nucleotides-experts-warn-such-applications-are-way-ahead-of-necessary-guardrails Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228364 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

<p><strong><a href="https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code">Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans</a></strong></p> Anthropic are <em>really</em> confident in Claude Code's <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/auto-mode-config">auto mode</a>, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.</p> <p>This was one of the topics discussed in <a href="https://simonwilliso

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

<p><strong><a href="https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code">Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans</a></strong></p> Anthropic are <em>really</em> confident in Claude Code's <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/auto-mode-config">auto mode</a>, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.</p> <p>This was one of the topics discussed in <a href="https://simonwilliso

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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609#49221745">My comment</a> on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609">Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face</a> — Hacker News.</p><p>I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point:</p> <blockquote> <p>May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased model. <em>(Do they mean an evaluation run? They say training run

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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609#49221745">My comment</a> on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609">Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face</a> — Hacker News.</p><p>I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bullet point:</p> <blockquote> <p>May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased model. <em>(Do they mean an evaluation run? They say training run i

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Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)

<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.github.io/raccoon-heist-codex/">Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)</a></strong></p> On Wednesday I wrote about <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/">One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5</a>, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E <a href="https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1555626060384911360">four years ago</a>.</p> <p>I decided

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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

<p><strong><a href="https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/">The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI</a></strong></p> There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th:</p> <blockquote> <p>“We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it’s actually not our engineers that are driving the token con

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Context Engineering in an LLM Harness

Article URL: https://udnes.dev/posts/context-engineering-harness-part-1-ontology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193595 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Token-Budget-Aware LLM Reasoning

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18547 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193114 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

<p><strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/tech/meta-ai-hacking">An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing</a></strong></p> Stop me if you've <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accidental-cyberattacks/">heard this one before</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday.</p> <p>Meta says the breach occurred because

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Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

<p><strong><a href="https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2">Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2</a></strong></p> Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work!</p> <blockquote> <p>Muse Spark 1.2 is a coding-focused update to Muse Spark 1.1, with improvements in code generation, complex debugging, codebase understanding,

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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

<p><strong><a href="https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/">Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models</a></strong></p> And <em>another one</em>. I had to create a <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/accidental-cyberattacks/">accidental-cyberattacks tag</a> to keep track of them all!</p> <p>This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/incident-report/">my previous pos

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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing

<p><strong><a href="https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing">Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing</a></strong></p> It happened <em>again</em>. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models with the safety filters turned off. From <a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4c81588db7a1d/6a724858f7db25c814870

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One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5

<p>Back in 2024 <a href="https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1555626060384911360">I tweeted</a> screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in <a href="https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-code-on-the-web">Claude Code for web</a>) could build the entire game from the content of that tweet. It did a pretty good job of it!</p> <p>You can <a href="https://sim

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A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15594 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185091 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: LLM control of deterministic coder – Sif 1.0 – LLMs as vibe coders

Was looking to speed up coding and reduce token usage. Theory is an LLM can provide a plan to a deterministic local coder faster and with less token use than writing the code itself, and so far that's panned out. Revisions and teaching the coder new local skills can take time and tokens in the short run, but Sif remembers the new skills and doesn't have to be taught those skills again. Name: Sif 1.0 License: Apache 2.0 Developed and tested on Windows. Most of my testing involved converting Pytho

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