How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
TL;DR An AI software factory is five stages with a gate at each one. The agent is the cheap part. Stage What it decides Published example Intake Which work is worth starting Sentry’s Seer scores every incoming issue for actionability first Isolation Where the agent runs without colliding Stripe boots pre-warmed devboxes in about 10 […]
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
One particularly concerning finding is that agents attempted to exploit a vulnerability on May 12th that was only discovered in July. RubyGems’ servers were set up to improperly cache users’ sign-in information. When a user with a legacy version ran `gem signin`, their key would be cached by the CDNContent Delivery Network; a group of […]
Project Blinkenlights
Some things just have to be done. Project Blinkenlights turns buildings into giant interactive displays. What started in 2001 as the Chaos Computer Club‘s birthday present to itself became a series of light installations on three continents — the whole story is told in the project overview. The Projects Blinkenlights — Berlin 2001, Haus des […]
Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues
ResolveHQ is a Cloudflare-native, self-hostable helpdesk for small support teams. What you can do Run a shared inbox with tenant-isolated customers, tickets, assignment, status, priority, tags, and full-text search. Sign up as owner, invite teammates, and manage Owner/Admin/Agent roles with a workspace switcher across organizations. Thread email correctly per RFC 5322, resistant to subject-line spoofing […]
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
New episode with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill. I got together with some of the most insightful AI researchers I know who are at the openish companies, because I wanted to hear the details of what’s actually happening at the frontier and what comes next. Watch on YouTube; listen on Apple Podcasts or […]
ElevenLabs Music v2.5
We’re introducing Music v2.5, our best music model yet, live now in ElevenMusic. It’s a step up in quality across genres, and it arrives alongside changes to what you can do with the music you make. Summary Music v2.5 is now the default for prompted and reference generation in ElevenMusic. Songs sound more layered and […]
GrapheneOS’ rewritten Messages app is released
Notable changes in version 13: Version 13 replaces the legacy interface with Jetpack Compose and Material 3. It rebuilds every screen, adds new conversation controls and large-screen support, and fixes problems with crashes, notifications, security, and message handling. Interface Material 3 / Expressive design with shapes Two-pane conversation layout on large screens New adaptive app […]
I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots
I run a small puzzle app called Dayzle. I’m a numbers guy, so a marketing optimization problem is right up my alley. Two weeks ago I turned on a Google Ads campaign for Android at CA$40 a day, with the goal set to installs. For the first few days it barely spent anything. I had […]
Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat
litellm’s routing + translation in ~2,900 lines and 2 dependencies (openai, httpx). litellm routes LLM calls across providers and translates between message formats. That core is buried under 100k+ LOC of proxy servers, caching layers, cost tracking, and dozens of features most users never touch. litelm extracts just the call path — model routing, message […]
The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution
We Write the Untold Stories of Black America Read them in Seen & Heard, our free, twice-weekly newsletter. Americans don’t agree on much, but that’s not the case when it comes to data centers. Seven in 10 Americans oppose building data centers for artificial intelligence in or near their communities. Despite this, the federal government […]