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  1. Hacker News · AI33

    JackAI brings local model chat, photo and audio AI to iPhone and iPad

    JackAI is an on-device AI assistant for iPhone and iPad that runs supported local models for chat, photo Q&A, audio transcription and note summarization, keeping prompts and files in local app storage. It requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, and downloadable models need an internet connection and several gigabytes of storage. On compatible devices with Apple Intelligence enabled, it can also use Apple's on-device Foundation Model.

  2. Hacker News · AI38

    Show HN: Build Django Admin internal tools with your coding agent

    Django Control Room (DCR) lets a coding agent scaffold internal tools inside Django Admin, starting with a `/plugin install dcr --marketplace django-control-room/skills` command. The hub collects every tool a team builds, whether in-project or shipped as a package, and exposes each panel's tools to AI agents through one endpoint under the same permissions. Panels are staff-only by default and pick up Unfold, Jazzmin, Grappelli and other admin themes automatically.

  3. Hacker News · AI71

    Kiln-AI releases Harness Tuner, an eval-driven tuning loop for agent tools, prompts and models

    Kiln-AI released Harness Tuner, an open-source CLI that tunes an agent's tools, prompts, skills, model and settings against the evals you already have. On one production multi-turn agent with over 200 tools, the team reports 2.5x fewer failures, 6x lower cost and 2x lower latency on held-out data with a smaller model. It runs on Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode subscriptions, keeps train, val and test splits enforced in code, and works with the free Kiln app for experiment tracking.

  4. Hacker News · AI58

    Skylands launches to run coding agents on any machine and approve them from a phone

    Skylands is a new tool that gives developers a single browser interface for dispatching coding agent work to any machine they can access, and for approving permission requests from a phone. It supports Claude Code, Gemini, Codex and Goose, and keeps a secure signed log of agent actions and approvals plus a central inbox for conversation history. It installs via Homebrew on macOS or Linux, and `skylands devworld up` starts an embedded NATS server, a citadel and a daemon in one process.

  5. Hacker News · AI55

    Langfuse releases AI Gateway, an open source Rust gateway that traces every LLM call

    Langfuse has published AI Gateway, a standalone Rust service that proxies native OpenAI and Anthropic API paths under /openai/v1 and /anthropic/v1 and uploads each finalized call to Langfuse as a generation over OTLP. The gateway relays provider JSON and SSE bytes without rewriting them, resolves credentials through Langfuse Web, and works with Claude Code by pointing ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL at the /anthropic namespace. It ships as a multi-platform Docker image on Docker Hub and ghcr.io, with capture limited to 5 MiB request inspection and 1 MiB retained output per execution.

  6. Hacker News · AI36

    Show HN: Leetsys – Practice system design interviews with an AI interviewer

    Leetsys is a Show HN tool for practicing system design interviews with an AI interviewer that adapts feedback to your seniority level. It combines an interactive whiteboard for drawing architecture diagrams with a prompt library covering URL shorteners, rate limiters, notifications, and other common interview problems, and you can explain trade-offs by voice or chat.

  7. Hacker News · AI66

    Devin launches Apps, private web apps built and hosted on its cloud machine

    Devin launched Devin Apps, private web applications that Devin builds and hosts directly on its cloud computer, reachable from a stable URL that requires Devin sign-in. Apps can use existing MCPs, integrations and codebase, start from templates such as a metrics dashboard or review queue, and be updated by asking Devin to edit in session, with each change kept as a version under Deployments. The machine sleeps when idle and billing is based on awake time, and each App runs on one machine, which the company positions for internal tools and dashboards rather than high-traffic production services.

  8. Hacker News · AI58

    DeepNoodle releases Decide, a decision-model CLI for auditing large codebases

    DeepNoodle released Decide, an open-source Apache 2.0 CLI that sends one question per item to a decision model and returns a calibrated probability instead of generated text. It splits Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and Java into functions, caches every answer so reruns only ask about what changed, and outputs JSON, CSV, Markdown or GitHub annotations. Two Claude Code plugin skills use it to score functions for security bugs or repeated mistakes, and Claude then reads only the top 15. Jev is the default model at $0.042 per million input tokens, with TypeSafe, Cloudflare Clef, OpenAI Luna and Google Gemini selectable.

  9. Apple Newsroom60

    Apple launches HomeView with Siri AI, priced at $299

    Apple released HomeView, a $299 home device that recognizes up to six people by face and shows their personal content in Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders, and Find My. Siri AI on HomeView adds onscreen awareness and can draw on a paired Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad for personal context, with English support in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the UK. Orders open today in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and the U.S., while the device is not sold in the EU because Siri AI is unavailable in iOS there.

    Why it matters: Apple's first home device with Siri AI shows how face recognition and personal context could turn a shared screen into a personalized assistant.

  10. The Decoder69

    OpenAI launches Daybreak Red Team and Daybreak Defense Factory security products

    OpenAI has launched two security products under its Daybreak brand, both running on its latest cyber model, GPT-6 Cyber. Daybreak Red Team, in Early Access, uses AI agents to probe web applications for vulnerabilities by analyzing source code and app context to map attack paths, and also verifies flaws reported by bug bounty programs or code scanners and tests patches.

  11. TechCrunch · AI55

    ElevenLabs releases ElevenAI preview app combining meeting notes, dictation and agents

    ElevenLabs released an experimental preview app called ElevenAI that combines meeting note-taking, dictation and agent integration, launched at its 11/11 Summit in New York with sign-up required for early access. The app records and notifies meeting participants, lets users query data across meetings, offers live in-chat assistance, and supports dictation in over 90 languages with industry-specific term recognition. Companies can also connect ElevenAgent to take follow-up actions such as drafting emails from meeting notes, as ElevenLabs positions the product for teams rather than individual productivity.

  12. Hacker News · AI45

    Deccy: A Decision Management Framework for AI-Assisted Software Engineering

    Deccy is a pre-alpha decision management framework for doing software engineering with AI, splitting human high-level decision-making from AI execution. It ships as deccy-cli, a set of deccy-agent custom agents, and deccy-viewer, which visualizes decisions and their relationships as a directed acyclic graph where every decision carries a rationale and is evaluated against its dependencies. The team targets long-term projects where intent gets lost, and reports anecdotally that coding agents need less steering on deccy-modeled projects.

  13. Hacker News · AI58

    Airdash launches SQLite databases for AI agents with an Airtable-style view

    Airdash launched a product that lets Claude, Codex and other MCP clients create and maintain Cloudflare D1 SQLite databases through an MCP server at /mcp, while users read and edit the data in a spreadsheet view. Each database can be rolled back to any minute in the last 30 days, downloaded as a standard SQL file, and shared with teammates; the free plan offers 100 databases, 1 GB of storage and 1,000,000 rows written per month.

  14. Hacker News · AI58

    Mandat launches authorization, delegation and audit layer for AI agent tool calls, MCP first

    Mandat is an open-source (Apache-2.0) tool that adds authorization, delegation and audit to AI agent actions, starting with MCP. Each tool call is checked against a policy on its arguments, such as allowing refunds up to €50, requiring human approval for €50–500 and denying anything above €500, while agents receive short-lived single-task tokens carrying the human to agent to sub-agent chain and every call leaves a tamper-evident audit record exportable to a SIEM. It also ships a scanner for authentication and supply-chain mistakes in MCP servers and client configs, and installs via npm or pip with TypeScript and Python libraries for the official MCP SDK.

  15. Hugging Face Blog58

    llama.cpp Releases v1.0.0, Stabilizing Downstream APIs with Semantic Versioning Rules

    llama.cpp has released v1.0.0, and ggml has also released v1.0.0. Going forward, both projects will indicate incompatible changes to the public C API and ABI through major version number changes. The project team states that as local AI and privacy needs grow and downstream applications increase, stable library interfaces have become critical, and the boundaries for breaking changes will be stricter in the future.

  16. The Verge · AI58

    Hands-on with Anthropic's Claude Duet agent: helpful, nagging, and oddly eager to write about itself

    The Verge's Allison Johnson tested Anthropic's consumer work agent Claude Duet for a week, connecting her work email, calendar, Google Docs, and Slack, and found it genuinely useful at spotting overlooked conflicts across those sources while sometimes misreading tone and deadlines. Duet, still a research preview limited to Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers in the US with a waitlist, greets users each morning with highlights and swipeable to-do cards, and once drafted a Slack message that mimicked her lowercase writing style. She says she wants the agent as a backstop for her own organizational systems, not a replacement, and does not want it in the creative process.

  17. Hacker News · AI38

    CloudHike: A Backend That AI Coding Agents Can Set Up via MCP

    CloudHike launched a backend platform that AI coding agents can configure over MCP, letting Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and VS Code create projects and deploy services from a conversation. It bundles Postgres, auth, storage, Redis, email, jobs and 100+ AI models behind one API key, priced at $10/mo versus $25/mo for Supabase and others. A free plan includes $10 in signup credits with no credit card required.

  18. Hacker News · AI38

    CogniCore Never Twice: an AI agent that records mistakes as lessons and checks them before acting

    CogniCore's Never Twice tool lets an AI agent store lessons from mistakes via the `cognicore lesson add` command and check them with `cognicore lesson check` before any task that changes something, such as installing packages, editing code, running migrations or deploying. Lessons are matched by words and stored locally in `~/.cognicore/mcp/lessons.db`, with users able to list or forget them.

  19. Hacker News · AI65

    Brainfish AI open-sources Webcrawl, a zero-key web crawling API and MCP server for agents

    Brainfish AI released Webcrawl, an open-source web crawling API and MCP server that lets agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex search, scrape, map, crawl and monitor sites without an API key. One command, npx webcrawl setup, registers the @webcrawl/mcp server and installs the webcrawl-anything Agent Skill, while npx skills add brainfish-ai/webcrawl-anything installs all eight skills, including ticket, job, deal and real-estate watchers. The same TypeScript engine runs locally and in the hosted webcrawl.app cloud, and the project is MIT licensed.

  20. Hacker News · AI38

    Show HN: AlgoCademy Lets You Practice Coding with AI on Real Tickets

    AlgoCademy launched a Show HN practice platform where developers work 30 tickets across five Python and JavaScript codebases, directing an AI teammate that writes code and runs tests while deliberately making realistic mistakes. Each ticket is scored on asking, directing, verifying, protecting and performance, and the first Lakeside Wheels ticket is free with 25 AI replies. Pro costs a monthly plan covering 25 tickets and 50 replies, with credit packs at $19.99 for 200 replies and $49.99 for 600.

  21. Hacker News · AI40

    An open AI-made character: Claudia, singer of ten Claude music videos

    An open character named Claudia, an AI-made pop singer with a black bob and clay-orange streak, fronts ten music videos made with Claude between September and November 2026. The release publishes every image of her, the films, and everything needed to recreate her yourself. The videos were built with Midjourney prompts, Seedance 2.5 clips and Suno v6 songs.

  22. Hacker News · AI34

    Show HN: AI News Agg tracks trending AI stories across 48 sources

    A developer built AI News Agg, a site that aggregates AI-only news and announcements from 48 selected sources spanning mainstream media, tech publications, bloggers, and company websites. A story covered by three or more of these outlets is flagged as trending and placed at the top of the site. Users can also receive email alerts when a new story starts trending, plus an optional personalized daily AI brief on the subjects or entities they want to follow.

  23. Hacker News · AI20

    Image to Image AI: Browser-Based AI Photo Editor That Redraws Photos From Prompts

    Image to Image AI is a browser-based photo editor and image to image generator that redraws an uploaded photo from a plain-language prompt, with before/after slider comparison and private-by-default handling. The site's recorded examples use gpt-image-2, including portrait background swaps, product-on-white shots, object removal and photo-to-cartoon or pencil-sketch conversions. New users get 2 free credits on sign-up, and purchased credits never expire.

  24. Hacker News · AI22

    AI Room Design tool offers 2 free trial designs from a room photo

    An AI interior design tool turns a photo of your own room into restyled concepts across six styles, covering both furnished-room redesign and virtual staging for empty spaces. New users get 2 free trial designs after signing in, with trial credits expiring after 30 days, while paid one-time packs start at $9.99 for 60 designs (about $0.17 each) and purchased credits never expire. Designs are AI-generated concepts rather than measured plans, so furniture sizes and structure should be verified before building.

  25. MarkTechPost58

    Google releases TPU Sync, an open-source KV cache transfer library for Cloud TPUs

    Google Cloud has released TPU Sync, an Apache-2.0 C++ library that moves KV caches and model weights across TPU HBM, pinned host DRAM, shared storage and the data center network. In internal July 2026 tests on TPU v7x, Google reports over 90% lower KV transfer overhead, with Qwen3 235B median KV transfer latency dropping from several seconds to about 230 ms and average TTFT falling 60% for 235B and 90% for 480B at low concurrency. The library integrates with PyTorch via TorchTPU and with JAX, serving as the KV connector in vLLM-TorchTPU and the P/D transfer backend in SGLang-TorchTPU, though the README says it is not yet recommended for general use.

  26. Hacker News · AI36

    Agent-brain: A Notes-Agnostic Second-Brain Operating Model for AI Coding Agents

    Agent-brain is a personal operating model for AI coding agents such as Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex and Antigravity CLI, built on a second-brain structure of journal, WIP, memory and tasks that works over any folder of notes, with Obsidian optional. Runtime config and memory like CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md are kept in a git-tracked brain and symlinked into each runtime, so setup travels across machines. Install runs via curl and dry-runs by default, with a session lifecycle driven by the brain skill.

  29. Hacker News · AI58

    Witness launches a voice-anchored evidence recorder for AI coding agents

    Witness is a voice-anchored evidence recorder that links each spoken comment to the clicks, requests, console errors, DOM mutations and rrweb replay of that moment, then hands the bundle to an AI coding agent. It runs as a CLI (npm i -g witness-recorder, Node 18+) that opens a managed Edge/Chrome browser, and it exposes the session through a stdio MCP server with tools such as list_segments, events_around and get_dom_state for agents like Claude Code, Cursor and Devin. Recordings stay local in .witness/sessions, password fields are masked and body capture can be disabled with WIT_NO_BODIES=1.

  30. Hacker News · AI37

    Wonderchat: A Zendesk Alternative with Flat Pricing and Unlimited Seats

    Wonderchat launched a helpdesk with live chat, a unified inbox for email and SMS, and a help center coming in a couple of weeks, priced at one flat rate with unlimited seats. Customers pay only for AI replies and resolutions, while human agents answering tickets cost nothing extra. The AI agent drafts replies from internal SOPs and runs on a user-selectable model via its own retrieval engine built for knowledge bases of 10,000+ documents.

  32. Hacker News · AI71

    Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare in preview for payers and providers

    Google Cloud announced Gemini for healthcare, a purpose-built industry solution that extends the Gemini agent introduced last month at Gemini at Work, and it is available in preview in the U.S. starting today. The offering combines reusable skills for clinical and administrative tasks, connectors to EHR, claims and care management systems such as Epic, Oracle Health and InterSystems FHIR, a partner ecosystem, and a governed platform built to support HIPAA compliance with audit logging and verifiable citations. Google says clinical data, prompts and outputs stay in the organization's governed environment and are never used to train or fine-tune its foundation models.

  33. Hacker News · AI58

    ChatPanel Releases Chap: Generating Meeting Notes from Live Captions, Supporting Any LLM or Agent

    ChatPanel launched Chap, a browser, desktop and terminal meeting assistant that turns live captions from Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex into running notes, decisions and action items without a bot joining the call. It runs on the user's machine with no ChatPanel server in the path, anonymizes emails, phones, cards and keys before requests leave the browser, and lets users switch mid-conversation between an in-browser WebGPU model, Ollama or LM Studio, 20+ cloud APIs, and agents such as Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Antigravity. Free covers the first 10 notes and 10 meetings; Pro is a limited-offer $49 one-time purchase or $42 per year.

  34. Hacker News · AI58

    Uber Open-Sources Michelangelo ML Platform, Says It Has Been Validated Across 400+ Projects and 20,000 Monthly Training Jobs

    Uber has open-sourced Michelangelo, its ML platform proven at Uber scale with 400+ active ML projects, 20K+ model training jobs per month, 5K+ models in production and 45M+ real-time predictions per second at peak. The release covers feature management, distributed model training, deployment and monitoring, with feature management, evaluation and monitoring marked coming soon. A Python API built on Uniflow lets users define distributed training tasks and end-to-end workflows, such as a Ray-based XGBoost training pipeline, in a few lines of code.

  35. Hacker News · AI38

    Show HN: FloxoLab AI Crawler Access Checker Tests 14 AI Crawlers

    A developer has launched the FloxoLab AI Crawler Access Checker, a free tool that tests whether 14 AI crawlers can actually read a given page. It reads robots.txt per RFC 9309, re-requests the URL with each crawler's user agent, and compares status codes and headers against a normal browser request, returning a verdict per crawler. The tool is free with no account and limited to 8 checks per 10 minutes.

  37. Hacker News · AI58

    Zipzi launches open-source Live2D Cubism Editor alternative with AI agent co-editing

    Zipzi released an alpha open-source 2D modeling and animation editor positioned as an alternative to Live2D Cubism Editor, built in Rust with GPUI for macOS and Windows. A Python SDK (CPython 3.14) lets a coding agent inspect meshes, render wireframe overlays, and apply edits in the same document as the user, with shared undo history. The project is in early development with no stable release, and the SDK is MIT-licensed while editor components use GPL-3.0-only.

  38. Hacker News · AI48

    Loose Ends: A liveness check for unused code AI agents leave behind

    Loose Ends is a new CLI tool that checks whether code added or touched in a change is still reachable from a real entry point, flagging orphaned additions, newly orphaned code, and replaced implementations left in place. It builds a liveness graph across TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Java, and reports only what the change did, so existing dead code never blocks a pull request. Installable via npm, it requires Node.js 20 or newer and git.

  39. Hacker News · AI21

    AI Math Kit: A Browser Popup for Exploring Open Math Problems with AI

    AI Math Kit is a browser extension popup that bundles 217 open math problems, 242 plain-language digests of AI and formal-math breakthroughs, and prompt templates for honest AI exploration. The problem bank covers number theory, calculus, and cross-field mysteries, while the breakthrough page includes precise scope notes and paper pointers. A free tier offers browsing; Pro unlocks full explanations and dedicated prompts, with preferences and payment status cached locally.

  40. Modal Blog40

    Modal Sandboxes adopt burst pricing, cutting costs 58% versus reservations

    Modal now bills Sandboxes by active resource use instead of fixed reservations, letting each Sandbox burst past its default 0.125-core and 128 MiB request and pay only for what it uses each second. In a 20-minute coding agent example, bursting cost 8.4¢ per Sandbox-hour versus 20.0¢ for a fixed reservation, a 58% saving. CPU can burst up to 16 cores above request by default, with memory uncapped unless a limit is set.