What changed in Tech today
Articles, releases and code from Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub and the people building RPA, workflow automation and AI agents — plus what the community pushed to the top today.
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Show HN: Shipback – SFTP deploys your AI agent can undo
AIShipback released an SFTP deployment tool and MCP server that lets AI agents safely deploy to shared hosting with automated backups and one-command rollbacks.
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I run my one-person business with ~17 narrow AI agents
AIA solo founder detailed deploying 17 specialized AI agents with separated contexts to handle publishing, trading diagnostics, and ERP administration across a distributed system architecture.
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My AI agent caught most of our sites saying sent while no email left the server
AIAn agent workflow caught false success logs by validating actual email delivery, reminding builders to verify real end-state outcomes rather than trusting returned API status codes.
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How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering
AIApple research shows minimal coding agents match complex multi-agent harnesses, allowing developers to simplify agent architecture and rely on frontier models rather than elaborate orchestration layers.
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Astrax – Open-source MCP server for Windows desktop AI control
AIAstrax released an open-source MCP server that lets AI models automate desktop GUI and terminal tasks across operating systems using local state management to prevent context bloat.
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Agentic Scientist, Orchestrator for Automated Scientific (Co-)Discovery
AISakana AI released Agentic Scientist, an open-source orchestrator that directs coding agents to autonomously run end-to-end scientific research workflows from idea generation through paper writing.
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The Radxa Linkr – A KVM for Your AI Agent
AIRadxa's Linkr is a compact Wi-Fi KVM device that provides hardware-level keyboard, mouse, and video control, allowing AI agents to automate physical computers without native network access.
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I’m building an open-source MCP for independent AI agent verification. Looking for early feedback.
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Major update for Agent Code: 2.0 Development Preview
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My AI kept making up timestamps, so I stopped asking and made it impossible
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AuroraASR-1M Releases!
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Meta Muse AI 1 billion free tokens
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I built kimo, an open-source MCP video editor your coding agent can drive
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Dead ends are the most expensive thing my agents keep relearning
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Show HN: AIOps Cockpit – An open-source AI SRE with human-in-the-loop safety
AIAIOps Cockpit released an open-source AI SRE tool that investigates infrastructure incidents and proposes remediation diffs requiring two-person human approval before execution.
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Trustbut checks if an AI agent's new tests fail without its change
AITrustbut is a local CLI tool that verifies AI coding agent outputs by checking whether newly generated tests actually fail without the agent's code changes.
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Minimum viable quant for agentic tasks?
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How are you handling long-running requests in MCP?
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Google Open Sources Harness2 for Self Improving AI Agents
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Three coordination patterns for multi-agent teams, and the 3 rules that stopped mine from looping
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How are you handling long-term memory for your agents? Mem0, Zep, or rolling your own?
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How to catch workflows that succeed but do nothing (free method)
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a GitHub repository analysis workflow using n8n and Gemini
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Before you automate a workflow, map where it can fail
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the five SaaS workflows agents are asked to run all fail the same way
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What evidence should let an agent retry a timed-out ticket creation request?
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I gave my agent one MCP that reaches 70 GTM tools
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An agent can remember perfectly and still be wrong. What proves “done” after a context reset?
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Email enrichment waterfall in one HTTP node per step (76% to about 9 in 10)
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hubspot-auditor: a read-only MCP server that scores a HubSpot portal
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MCP server for Active Directory
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Build your own Claude Code
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Built a Telegram bot that summarizes YouTube videos, splits long ones into parts
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What’s the hardest part of checking whether a RAG change actually helped?
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the agent says "done" and that's when my actual job starts
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HotKV cut Claude token use by 70% in our Banking77 benchmark
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I spend more time steering agents than actually coding
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I wanted one phone + browser app for all my AI agents, not one app per agent, so I built it
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Are, ai agents in,Slack actually useful orjust hype?
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unsloth/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GGUF · Hugging Face
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MCP server for a Svelte data grid
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Agents running 24/7 on your laptop
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72 hours, four big open weights drops. The only one that fits in 24GB came from NVIDIA, of all companies.
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Any ways to take a high quality screenshot for n8n workflow?
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Expense Handling Bot
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How to claude? Repo/skills/mcp
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Ur agents’ memory
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Chinese models for vibe coding (Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM)
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I made a video about key concepts in building AI pipelines
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What to do next? (n8n-docker setup)
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AI Agent for music law firm
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Expense Handling Bot
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When does a shared spreadsheet need to become an actual app?
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Job hunting was eating my nights, so I automated the part everyone hates
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Embedding model can be used to search text inside image
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Has anyone tried some kind of automation for classifieds product listing?
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