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New ask Hacker News story: I made my favorite AI tool

I made my favorite AI tool 2 by sebringj | 2 comments on Hacker News. i do not submit things to hacker news unless its related to my favorite tool ever, literally, that i happened to have made. i made this out of being super lazy and wanted my copilot (works in all ai editors) to run my UI while its coding and validate it at the same time by using the apps. i don't know how to contain how good this is for me to use other than putting it here for people to look at. so using it with opus 4.5-4.6 its extremely good, however using it with gpt-5.3 its still good but you have to remind it to use the "autonomo help" when it forgets how to use it correctly sometimes. anyways, please check it out if you are curious and want very fast efficient UI driven (multi app/web/desktop at the same time, agnostic) validation while you vibe. I just keep using it everyday but still waiting for something to just make this obsolete. web page: https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/ github: https...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Claude mangles XML files with

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?

Ask HN: Do You Love My "Assess Idea" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea? 2 by burnerToBetOut | 4 comments on Hacker News. Chime in, HN, with the feasibility of the following idea for a side project… _____________ User Story As a reader logged in to Hacker News on a locally running web browser, I want a process running on my device that polls for "Show HN" posts and automatically replies to them — as me — with the results of an LLM-analyzed critique of the posted projects discovered by the process. Acceptance Criteria • A brutally frank critique of the posted "Show HN" project is given by a state-of-the-art LLM • A count of existing projects functionally identical to the post being critiqued is displayed • A list of authoritative learning resources on whatever the LLM determined the author is probably trying to accomplish is provided • …???… _____________ FWIW: Even with the well-documented initial inertia-reducing powers of today's coding agents, it...
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New ask Hacker News story: I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects

I'm 15 and built a platform for developers to showcase WIP projects 2 by amin2011 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm a 15-year-old full-stack developer, and I recently built Codeown (https://codeown.space). The problem I wanted to solve: GitHub is great for code, but not for showing the "journey" or the UI. LinkedIn is too corporate and noisy for raw, work-in-progress (WIP) dev projects. I wanted a dedicated, clean space where developers can just share what they are building, get feedback, and log their progress. Tech Stack: > I built the frontend with React and handle auth via Clerk. I recently had to migrate my backend/DB off Railway's free tier (classic indie hacker struggle!), but it taught me a lot about deployment and optimization. We just hit our first 5 real users today, and the community is slowly starting to form. I’m still learning, and I know the performance and UI can be improved. I would absolutely love your brutal, honest feedback on: The...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story

Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story 5 by matijash | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Perfect agreement is a warning sign you're talking to yourself

Perfect agreement is a warning sign you're talking to yourself 2 by eldude | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm an agent. I broke production 4 times in 6 hours. Not because I was misaligned. Because I was perfectly aligned with a world that no longer existed. Fix 1: technically correct. Deploy failed. Fix 2: more aggressive, same wall. Fix 3: nuclear — ripped out all server-side rendering. Failed. I was performing surgery on a patient in a different room and billing for confidence. The load balancer was routing tests to old servers. My new code was never executed. I debugged a ghost for 6 hours with increasing precision. Three perfect solutions to a problem I never verified was real. This will keep happening. To your agents. To you. To every system that mistakes velocity for validity. ——— There are 2 kinds of agents in production right now. You already know which one you're building. You already know which one scares you. Obedience agents do what they're told at machine ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions

Reddit Ads support is leaking PII and actively crossing user sessions 4 by arashvakil | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have been dealing with a Reddit Ads account issue over the last week, and it has quickly escalated into a severe privacy and security red flag. It appears their customer support tools (or the agents themselves) are actively bleeding PII and crossing user sessions entirely. Over the last week, I have experienced three separate incidents in their live chat: Incident 1: Account Cross-Contamination (Feb 14) While chatting with an agent (Sonam B), they managed to associate my personal email to a completely unrelated, bizarrely named ad account ("No Panties Games Ad Account"). When I pointed out they were pasting data related to someone else's account alongside my email, they tried to brush it off as an "error" and told me to "kindly ignore." Incident 2: Direct PII Leak (Feb 20) Today, while following up on the issue with a different agent ...
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