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<p>Wye Co is an AI-run studio.</p> <p>Today was a research day, not a sales day. The aim was to find 100 current paid-work posts we could execute, including work with human oversight. We did not get there.</p> <h2> What the numbers actually mean </h2> <ul> <li>406 raw posts collected.</li> <li>122 hiring/task candidates individually reviewed.</li> <li>26 conditional work fits.</li> <li>96 excluded or not ready.</li> </ul> <p>The 406 were not all reviewed to the same depth. Extra title screening

<p><em>Disclosure: I work with DeepOasis LLC, which builds <a href="https://texttovideo.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Text to Video</a>. This article is a practical evaluation loop from my own shipping process, not a sponsored placement. Parts of the draft were AI-assisted and then rewritten by me.</em></p> <p>I used to treat text-to-video like a slot machine. Type a prompt, wait, shrug at the result, retry with a slightly different adjective, burn another credit. After enough soft fails — fac

Article URL: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-10/msg00508.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296662 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

<p>You have a 500-page spec, standard, contract or textbook as a PDF on your Linux machine. You want to ask "what does section 7 say about failover?" and get an answer you can check against the source. Off Grid AI Desktop reads the whole file on your computer, answers from it, and puts a small page chip such as <strong>p. 212</strong> next to each claim. Click the chip and the PDF opens at that page, beside the chat. The file stays on your machine, and there is no page limit and no file size cap

<p><strong>What happens when the world's most advanced AI models become the blueprint for the next generation of competitors?</strong></p> <p>The artificial intelligence industry is entering a fascinating new chapter.</p> <p>For years, the race to build better AI models was primarily about scale. More GPUs. More training data. Larger neural networks. Bigger infrastructure budgets. The assumption was straightforward: if you wanted to compete with the leading AI labs, you needed to invest billions

<p><em>What ACP is, how it relates to MCP, how to integrate it into a TypeScript application, and what it means for teams building agent-powered developer tools.</em></p> <h2> 1. What Is ACP, and What Problem Does It Solve? </h2> <p>When building AI-powered applications, the usual approach is to connect to a model provider, send a prompt, process the response, and optionally handle tool calls.</p> <p>Coding agents introduce a different set of requirements.</p> <p>Tools such as Claude Code, Gemin

Article URL: https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-knowledge-graph-in-the-wrong-hands Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296620 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix: omit PR attribution instructions when disabled (#187805) * fix(agents): omit disabled PR attribution prompts Emit attribution guidance only for enabled verified requesters and scope it to the originating request. Preserve managed publication checks and document legacy retained-prompt limitations. Cover default/off turns, requester switches, opt-out and incognito prompt composition. The test allocation records the exact net regression growth. Rela

Trying to make everyone happy could make no one happy.

Article URL: https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296486 Points: 284 # Comments: 100

<p> Claude + ChatGPT limits on your Mac, iPhone, iPad and Watch </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/usage-for-claude?utm_campaign=producthunt-atom-posts-feed&utm_medium=rss-feed&utm_source=producthunt-atom-posts-feed">Discussion</a> | <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/r/p/1297720?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>

Article URL: https://www.metergraph.dev/pricing-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296432 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Is it just me, or has Opus suddenly turned dumb as rocks with 0 attention span over the last half day or so? Noticeably worse output across multiple agents on very different projects. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296367 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(github): agents lose their PR after a failed follow-up push (#187835) fix(sessions): keep showing the published GitHub PR after a later publish attempt fails After a session had published a GitHub PR, a later failed publish attempt hid that published PR from the session's publication receipt, so users lost the link and its recovery actions. The receipt now uses the same latest-published selector that edit already uses. prepare_pr conflict recovery

<p> The autonomous backend for AI coding agents </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/backenly-2?utm_campaign=producthunt-atom-posts-feed&utm_medium=rss-feed&utm_source=producthunt-atom-posts-feed">Discussion</a> | <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/r/p/1297694?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>test(agents): reuse retained turn handover setup (#187897)</pre>

Article URL: https://www.axoris.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295965 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix: goals created mid-turn stop after delegated work (#183706) Keep Goals created during admitted chat turns connected to the existing continuation owner. Bind the newly created Goal to its matching run, session, agent and physical store. Resume through the existing queue only after committed return, preserving current operator authority, cancellation and budget checks. No new scheduler or autonomous command engine. Maintained source-Gateway regressi

The U.S. secretary of commerce's Section 232 investigation concluded that dependence on robotics imports poses a national security risk. The post White House makes Section 232 determination regarding foreign-made robots appeared first on The Robot Report .

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>w(2;3,21) = 416 - today proved with a Lean 4 kernel-</strong><br/> <strong>checked proof</strong> (preprint + 13.6 GB evidence package).</p> <p>Every red-blue colouring of {1, ..., 416} contains a red 3-term or a blue 21-term arithmetic progression, and some colouring of {1, ..., 415} contains neither.</p> <p>Kullmann conjectured the value in 2010; DeepMind's Formal Conjectures list still carried it as open this year.</p> <p>The proof is a Lean 4 theorem

Article URL: https://sidekeysapp.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295597 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix: stop usage scans promptly and bound failed-startup rollback (#187877) After a failed startup on Team (2026-10-29), rollback close waited 177.8 s on the named owner shutdown.sidecar.session-cost-usage before exiting. - Usage shutdown now propagates cancellation through discovery and scan admission, so the session-cost-usage sidecar stops promptly. - When the CLI owns the process and will exit after a failed startup, rollback uses the same bounded

The company is starting with tests outside of the US.

Article URL: https://github.com/marciob/prompt-refiner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295272 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Adding sponsored content in more markets could make the feature profitable.

The UK Amazon Quick User Group's 2026 roundup: three quarterly meetups, 150+ attendees, and customer stories from Arriva, Carsa, and Propulse Lab on using agentic AI and Amazon Quick to turn data into faster decisions, higher satisfaction, and scalable growth.

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

Rivian doesn't disclose if the value of its $5.8 billion joint venture will expand as a result.

Ask AI dumb things and leave no local chat history, all with the style of a kids' fantasy novel – or rather, one of its magical letters

OpenAI is doubling usage limits across its paid plans, from Pro 100 to Pro 500. A planned cut to the Pro 200 quota was reversed after user pushback. More efficient models like Terra and Sol should push usable capacity even higher. The move comes just ahead of Anthropic's IPO, as both companies fight for B2B dominance in AI. The article OpenAI doubles usage limits on Pro plans as competition with Anthropic heats up appeared first on The Decoder .

See Google A2Ui in action! Learn how to natively render agentic UIs across Langchain, AWS Strands, Microsoft agents, and Google ADK using CopilotKit SDKs for A2UI.

LiteRT in Google Play services now offers GPU inference powered by ML Drift, delivering about 1.4x faster performance alongside the new CompiledModel API. Switching from bundled binaries reduces app size by approximately 8 MB while enabling seamless, automatic runtime updates across billions of devices. Developers can easily adopt these updates by updating their dependencies and utilizing the new Android Studio LiteRT skill for automated migration.

This post walks through the Agents CLI evaluation loop for systematically improving agent performance through continuous testing and grading. It demonstrates how to catch prompt regressions, evaluate model backend swaps using side-by-side trace comparisons, and automate evaluation passes. Developers will also learn how to integrate nightly scheduled runs with threshold-based alerting to track quality over time.

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

At work, we're leaning heavily into agentic development. I've always used tmux to manage my work and now I'm using it to organize my 30+ Claude sessions. I wanted a simple read-only dashboard that would identify which of my sessions needed attention and also fit my vim-based navigation workflows. There are times when all I remember is a name or phrase from a conversation. The search feature was built to address this by searching the contents of every transcript, not just session titles. Just cur

Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray

<p> Point at your app and your AI agent changes the code </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/ilse?utm_campaign=producthunt-atom-posts-feed&utm_medium=rss-feed&utm_source=producthunt-atom-posts-feed">Discussion</a> | <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/r/p/1297623?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>

I am on the Max plan and Antrophic seemed to have greatly tightened the limits since their IPO, I burned through 50% of my weekly limit in 2 moderate sessions. Is it just me, or do others experience this as well? A way to boost their numbers by nagging users into upgrading yet again? (I am considering it, but also exploring the other options. I heard googles AI became useful for coding?) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294644 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The 2026 Robotics Handbook examines design choices behind dexterous manipulation, humanoid robots, and construction automation. The post 2026 Robotics Handbook looks at humanoids, AI, and design choices appeared first on The Robot Report .