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<h1> I'm building CortexDB — an agent-native context database for AI agents </h1> <p>Most modern RAG systems work like this:</p> <ol> <li>Split documents into chunks </li> <li>Generate embeddings </li> <li>Store them in a vector database </li> <li>Retrieve top-k similar chunks on query </li> <li>Send them to an LLM</li> </ol> <p>It works for simple use cases. But as AI agents become more autonomous and complex, a clear problem appears:</p> <blockquote> <p>Agents don’t just need similar text chun

Hi HN! ODocs.co is a free, no-login collaborative doc system that humans and their AI agents edit together (REST-native or MCP-native). https://odocs.co I was having trouble sharing Claude Code context and collaborating with our product managers, and I realized there might be an easier interface to collaborate on PRDs (product requirements docs) and engineering design docs. The workflow I kept running into: 1. I would draft something with an agent or Claude Code session, 2. I'd share those thoug

<p>Justice department urges judge to throw out suit brought by NAACP over xAI’s methane-gas turbines in Mississippi</p><p>The Trump administration is coming to the defense of Elon Musk in a lawsuit over claims that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, is polluting residential neighborhoods in north Mississippi. The justice department told a federal court late on Monday to throw out the case.</p><p>The lawsuit was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/naacp-lawsuit-elon

<p>The coding got 10x faster. The launching didn't.</p> <p>Point a coding agent at a half-formed idea and it will hand you a working app before your coffee is cold. Backend, frontend, schema, a couple of API integrations, tests that pass. The part that used to take a week of focused work now takes an afternoon of prompting. That much is real, and you've felt it.</p> <p>Then you try to ship the thing, and time stops moving.</p> <p>Because the agent didn't write the part that turns code into a pro

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Today we are introducing Vercel for Enterprise Apps and Agents , a platform that gives your entire company the ability to ship with AI safely, behind your access and security boundaries. Over the past year, employees across Vercel shipped hundreds of agents and internal apps. Getting to production was the easy part, because we built them with eve on top of the Agent Stack and deployed them on Vercel. The difficult questions came after those agents were being used by our employees across the comp

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/27/4-in-10-ai-agents-headed-for-demotion-or-the-rubbish-bin/5246964 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563433 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(ui): scope Skill Workshop proposals to selected agent (#93773) * fix(ui): scope skill workshop proposals to selected agent * fix(ui): scope Skill Workshop proposals by agent --------- Co-authored-by: Vincent Koc <25068+vincentkoc@users.noreply.github.com></pre>

<p> OS runtime unifying GA4, PostHog, + Stripe into a local db </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/infinite-the-growth-engineering-agent?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/1173801?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>

Today, we’re announcing a new API with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. With this API, you can apply individual safeguards, also referred to as safety checks, at any point in your agentic AI applications without creating guardrail resources. In this post, we walk through how the InvokeGuardrailChecks API works and how to use it to build safe, multi-turn agentic AI applications.

Article URL: http://xfgr.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563217 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://code.intellios.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563214 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Now on its 32nd edition, the Ruby AI Newsletter tracks what’s happening at the intersection of Ruby, Rails, and AI coding agents. YC recommends Rails for new startups, YC’s internal software like Bookface, Work at a Startup, and the software that runs the accelerator all run on Rails. Garry has been a vocal advocate for Ruby on Rails for agentic startups, calling it a "crazy unlock". And there is an incredible ecosystem forming around RubyLLM. Ruby and Rails gives agents conventions, structure,

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

Article URL: https://github.com/agiwhitelist/tokdiet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563156 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

NVIDIA XR AI is now available in public beta, giving developers a framework for building multimodal AI agents for AR glasses and XR devices.

Developers building for AR glasses and wearable devices face an infrastructure gap. The hardware is ready, but creating AI experiences requires integrating live...

<p>As agents start using paid APIs, browsers, and external services, the control problem becomes very real.Most teams are currently stuck between two bad options:Give the agent direct access to payment methods and hope it doesn’t do something expensive<br> Require human approval for every paid action and lose most of the autonomy benefit</p> <p>Writing custom guardrails in code helps at first, but they’re difficult to audit and tend to break as prompts and agent behavior evolve.What seems to be

<h1> x402 hit 119M transactions — here's the layer that still isn't built </h1> <p>base's cumulative x402 transaction count passed 119 million. total volume: $35M+. cloudflare built it into pay-per-crawl tooling. nous research uses it for per-inference billing of hermes 4. gas costs are nominal (<$0.0001 per transaction).</p> <p>x402 is production-viable. this is no longer an "interesting protocol" — it's live infrastructure with real volume.</p> <p>that makes the missing layer more urgent, not

Article URL: https://github.com/andrewyng/aisuite Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562975 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. The company makes the lasers, optical components and compound semiconductors that wire AI systems together — and runs what it calls the world’s first 6-inch indium phosphide […]

Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion

Google just prompted me to select a certificate for lh3.googleusercontent.com:443 I'm not alone in this, also happened to my friend, and also posted to Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1u7h672/browser_asking_me_to_select_certificate_is_it_a/ Seems like somebody definitely misconfigured something somewhere. The question is then was this the direct result of the misconfiguration, or someone abusing a misconfiguration. Client certificates can be used to identify people so this

Article URL: https://github.com/apvcode/PromptShark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562707 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

Today, Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2 , a 753-billion parameter open-weights large language model (LLM) engineered specifically to dominate "long-horizon" autonomous coding and engineering tasks. Available immediately on Hugging Face , the Z.ai API , and more than 20 third-party coding environments, the model boasts a highly stable 1-million-token context window alongside enterprise subscription tiers starting at just $12.60 per month. In e

Article URL: https://kronyqldemo.netlify.app/demo/ase-proof Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562293 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://github.com/akshaylakkur/Q Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562253 Points: 1 # Comments: 2

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sat with us to discuss the Snap Specs, privacy, parental controls and more. Spoiler: He says "computing" a lot.

Discuss: https://github.com/hsbay/ClimateSOS/blob/main/docs/foundationalcharter.md I wrote this as part of ClimateSOS, an open-source project for inspecting net-zero transition pathways. The Charter is designed to be reused by AI/LLM systems, especially AI-assisted climate, infrastructure, and transition-planning tools, with attribution. It includes climate justice and planetary boundaries, as well as more common safeguards and guardrails around accountability, traceability, competence, misuse,

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>feat(inbound-meta): expose per-turn source modality (#93754) * feat(inbound-meta): expose message_type in trusted inbound metadata (fixes #50482) Add resolveInboundMessageType() that extracts the media type prefix (e.g. 'audio' from 'audio/ogg') from MediaType or MediaTypes fields. Expose it as message_type in the inbound metadata JSON so agents can distinguish voice messages from typed text for turn-completion heuristics. * fix(inbound-meta): preserv

Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.

Article URL: https://www.privatemode.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561896 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

I analysed 10K open-source PRs for something I'm building and found that anywhere between 42% and 67% of review friction is due to context beyond the codebase. From a workflow PoV, how annoying is the manual context synthesis to curate the prompt/agents.md? Is review a solved problem for teams with review agents, or is it now the real blocking step? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561881 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

We'll see how players react.

Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews

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A newly discovered Microsoft Copilot vulnerability enables hackers to access your email and other sensitive data.

Every swipe, transfer, and payment on a modern financial network encodes a pattern of human behavior. Transaction data is one of the richest signals an...

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/06/16/did-ai-write-this-article Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561511 Points: 3 # Comments: 2