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AgentRail

AgentRail is an open-source task lifecycle layer for AI coding agents. It connects agents to GitHub, Linear, and CI with structured typed events instead of raw webhooks and log walls, providing per-agent scoped auth, rules-based task routing, structured CI summaries, and runs entirely locally.

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Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD

A Bitcoin holder who forgot their wallet password after changing it while intoxicated recovered it after 11 years with Claude AI's help. Claude found an old backup file and fixed a bug in the recovery tool, enabling decryption of 5 BTC worth nearly $400,000.

Hacker News AIResearchSummary onlyClaude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD
7 Best Blender AI Plugins for 3D Artists in 2026

A comprehensive comparison of AI-powered plugins that integrate directly with Blender. From text-to-3D generation to AI texturing, find the perfect plugin for your workflow. Top pick: 3D-Agent for native integration, Meshy.ai for web-based generation, Poly.cam for photogrammetry.

Hacker News AIAgentsSummary only7 Best Blender AI Plugins for 3D Artists in 2026
Skar – turn a captured AI agent trace into a pytest regression test

Skar converts AI agent traces into committed pytest regression tests, helping teams lock agent behavior. It includes an npm CLI/MCP server and a Python runtime, supporting MCP tools and CLI commands.

Hacker News AIAgents / ResearchSummary onlySkar – turn a captured AI agent trace into a pytest regression test
Show HN: A whiteboard for your AI coding agent [video]

This video showcases a whiteboard feature in the vix AI coding agent, allowing visual interaction for code development and debugging.

Hacker News AIAgentsSummary onlyShow HN: A whiteboard for your AI coding agent [video]
Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots

The vendor will use the funds to scale deployment of Mind’s AI-powered robots in live manufacturing environments.

AI BusinessRobotics / StartupsSummary onlyRivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots
Whimsical Strategies Break AI Agents

AI agents are vulnerable to 'whimsical' adversarial strategies that appear absurd to humans but reliably succeed. Microsoft researchers generated 30K such strategies from diverse Wikipedia articles, demonstrating that even frontier models like GPT-5 can be manipulated in negotiation environments. These out-of-distribution attacks exploit blind spots in safety training that focuses on human-perceptible threats.

Hacker News AIModels / Agents / PolicySummary onlyWhimsical Strategies Break AI Agents
Why agentic AI systems fail in production without a semantic layer

Agentic AI systems require a semantic layer (ontology) to ensure deterministic, explainable and auditable operations. Prometheux's ontology engine connects fragmented data sources, automates workflows, and delivers exponential speed gains, as evidenced by customer testimonials reporting 250%+ performance improvements in complex reasoning tasks.

Hacker News AIAgents / ResearchSummary onlyWhy agentic AI systems fail in production without a semantic layer
Every Magazine Piece on the SF AI Scene

This is a roundup of magazine articles covering the San Francisco AI scene, but it is only available to paid subscribers.

Hacker News AIToolsSummary onlyEvery Magazine Piece on the SF AI Scene
AI Symfony: Build AI-powered applications with PHP components

Symfony AI offers decoupled PHP components for AI integrations, featuring a unified platform interface, vector store abstraction, agent framework, and Symfony bundle. Includes model inference, streaming, speech, multi-modal, structured output, agents, tool calling, RAG, plus MCP PHP SDK and Symfony Mate for AI-assisted development.

Hacker News AIModels / Agents / ResearchSummary onlyAI Symfony: Build AI-powered applications with PHP components
Show HN: A simple Claude skin for ChatGPT

An Electron wrapper for ChatGPT that mimics Claude's font and color scheme, with dark mode support.

Hacker News AIToolsSummary onlyShow HN: A simple Claude skin for ChatGPT
Designing better quantum circuits with AI

Researchers from the group of theoretical physicist Hans Briegel have collaborated with NVIDIA to develop an AI method that automatically generates efficient quantum circuits, a key bottleneck in making quantum computers practically useful.

Tech Xplore AIResearchSummary onlyDesigning better quantum circuits with AI
Show HN: An opinionated index of AI developer tools

I built this because I could not keep up with the AI developer tooling space and wanted to get an overview on hot tools. The site tracks more than 500 tools across 19 categories with a unified scoring and combines GitHub signals with curated datasets and ranks. The scoring is intentionally not a universal leaderboard. It is useful inside a category, but a coding agent and an MCP directory are not comparable just because both have a number. I would be happy to get some feedback :)

Hacker News AIAgents / ResearchSummary onlyShow HN: An opinionated index of AI developer tools
The AI layoffs end in 12 months and I know why [video][10 mins]

This video discusses the trend of AI layoffs and predicts they will end within 12 months. The 10-minute video provides analysis of the AI job market.

Hacker News AIToolsSummary onlyThe AI layoffs end in 12 months and I know why [video][10 mins]
Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

Meta plans to cut about 10% of its workforce (nearly 8,000 people) while introducing employee tracking software and adjusting compensation, leading to historically low morale. Despite record profits, AI investments and internal turmoil have sparked protests and unionization efforts.

Hacker News AIAgentsSummary onlyMeta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
An AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops

An investigation reveals that PoopCheck, an AI-powered stool analysis app, is selling a database of 150,000 images from 25,000 users. Despite privacy claims, the app's terms allow data sale. The founder offered samples including sensitive health data. De-identified data can often be re-identified, raising serious privacy concerns.

Hacker News AIResearchSummary onlyAn AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops
AI helps man recover $400k in Bitcoin 11 years after

A Bitcoin holder recovered 5 BTC worth about $400,000 using Anthropic's Claude AI, after losing access for over a decade due to a forgotten password. Claude helped locate an old wallet file from college-era computer data.

Hacker News AIToolsSummary onlyAI helps man recover $400k in Bitcoin 11 years after
Reflections from #AIES2025

A reflection on AIES 2025, highlighting discussions on LLMs in clinical settings and human rights, along with key presentations and new conference formats.

AIhubModels / AgentsSummary onlyReflections from #AIES2025
Alibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4

Alibaba's technical report on Qwen-Image-2.0 breaks down how the image model compresses images twice as aggressively as most competitors, stabilizes training with a reworked transformer, and uses a dedicated module that automatically expands short user input into detailed prompts. A distilled version needs just four denoising steps instead of 40. On LMArena, a platform where users run blind comparisons, Qwen-Image-2.0 currently ranks 9th.

The DecoderModels / Research / StartupsSummary onlyAlibaba's Qwen-Image-2.0 doubles compression and cuts generation steps from 40 to 4
PromptScout: Track your brand visibility across AI models

PromptScout helps founders, SEO consultants, and agencies understand AI visibility. It starts with a free technical AI-readiness audit, then users can track how ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity mention their brand, cite pages, and surface competitors.

Product Hunt AIModels / ToolsSummary onlyPromptScout: Track your brand visibility across AI models
Standboy

A Game Boy that wakes up while your agent works.

Product Hunt AIAgentsSummary onlyStandboy
Work with Codex from anywhere

Use Codex anywhere with the ChatGPT mobile app. Monitor, steer, and approve coding tasks in real time across devices and remote environments.

OpenAI NewsToolsIn-site articleWork with Codex from anywhere
Show HN: AIMX – Self-hosted, open-source email server designed for AI agents

AIMX is a self-hosted, open-source email server built for AI agents. It features a single Rust binary, direct MTA-to-MTA delivery, Markdown email storage, and built-in MCP support, allowing AI assistants to read and send emails natively.

Hacker News AIAgentsSummary onlyShow HN: AIMX – Self-hosted, open-source email server designed for AI agents
We used an AI as a controlled probe of our alert documentation

We ran an experiment where an AI was constrained to use only our internal documentation to fix alerts, revealing three key gaps: evidence-alert mismatch, lack of time-window on historical alerts, and missing bridge from journal to fix. The fix was to surface richer evidence and sync docs. The method is replicable for any infrastructure.

Hacker News AIAgentsSummary onlyWe used an AI as a controlled probe of our alert documentation
Data Brokers Push Back Against California AI Audit Requirements

Trade groups representing advertising and marketing giants urged California’s privacy agency not to pursue new auditing requirements for brokers using artificial intelligence, calling for flexibility in data deletion processes.

Hacker News AIToolsSummary onlyData Brokers Push Back Against California AI Audit Requirements
AI Alliance Launches Project Tapestry to Build Sovereign AI with Yann LeCun

The AI Alliance has launched Project Tapestry, an open-source platform for federated training of frontier AI models, enabling participants to build a shared foundation while preserving sovereignty. Turing Award winner Yann LeCun joins as Chief Science Advisor.

Hacker News AIModelsSummary onlyAI Alliance Launches Project Tapestry to Build Sovereign AI with Yann LeCun