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Construction workers, electricians, couriers: ICE disguises to detain migrants
Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP
Show HN: Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP
Microphone
If you are an aspiring founder, any VC will ask you this question: “why are you the only person who could solve this”. If you want to generate passive income with your side idea, get ready to enter a crowded market as everyone and their mother is shipping. Unless you have an active X account or you’re a TikTok sensation distribution is going to be tough. I just launched the trie.dev microphone beta to help folks find their edge. You yap into your phone about your ideas; Trie turns the rambling into hypotheses, then prioritizes them based on your experience and your realistic ability to distribute in that idea space — surfacing the problems only you can solve. From there you can generate creative and run Meta ads against your hypotheses straight from your phone, with zero setup, to see how real people respond. I built it initially for myself and friends as an “intake form” for running paid ads to help validate our side gig ideas. Happy to chat about how it works or the stack. Joining the waitlist will send you an email to join via TestFlight.
Benchmark your eng team's AI agent maturity in 5 minutes
we had hundreds of discussions with engineering leaders over the past few months, and everyone's trying to understand where they are in the AI journey. we collected all this data into a benchmark and built a free grader to let you know where you stand. you answer on a 1–5 scale (e.g., autonomy runs from "suggestions only" to "agents own multi-hour workflows across code, infra, and external systems") - takes about 5 minutes. https://agent-benchmarks.com/software-factory/ waiting for your results!
Oodle.ai
Hi HN, we're Kiran and Vijay! Over the past two years, we have built a columnar storage engine for observability: logs, metrics, and traces. Today, it's exciting for us to show what we've built on top of that foundation: LLM Agent Observability. Given how non-deterministic agents are, storing all traces without sampling was critical for us. But these traces tend to be in the MBs, sometimes GBs - we needed to store them inexpensively. We also needed the queries and analyses to be fast. To meet both these goals, we store them in S3 in our own parquet-like file format, and query them using AWS Lambda. Since we process each span of every trace, instead of running LLM-based evals on each, we first analyze them using deterministic techniques. We detect tool failures, retries, loops, abnormal token usage, latency regressions, schema violations, sentiment, and other production signals. We've written more about the approach here: https://blog.oodle.ai/you-cant-sample-your-way-to-reliable-a... The combination of our own engine, no sampling, and deterministic processing before LLM-for-evals allows us to price at $10 per million traces, provide sub-second p99 query latency, and have healthy margins. Before building this, we used Langfuse for our own agent observability, which was 6x more expensive. Still super early, and rough around some edges, we would love your questions and feedback!
Aproov
Aproov is a marketplace that matches early-stage founders with creators for distribution deals Match with the RIGHT creators for your company, offer whatever you want/have (premium access, cash, revenue share, co-created content, other), gain real distribution, repeat. Aproov verifies each step of the process We created this because with our previous company, distribution was a real pain. So we decided to help other founders so they don't spend as much effort as we did, and they could get better and faster results and focus purely on building
A map of cafes that are in the sun
I wanted to sit outside for coffee but there was no way to see which cafes are in the sun right now. So I built a map that shows which cafes, benches, and outdoor seats are in the sun vs. shade at any time of day. It ray-marches building shadows live in a WebGL shader over a MapLibre map. I also pre-index all places from OpenStreetMap into H3 hex cells and serve them as static JSON on Cloudflare R2, so the client just fetches the cells in view and no backend is needed. Feedback welcome, especially on shadow accuracy in your city. Currently only buildings and trees are taken into account when calculating the shadows but I'm planning to add terrain/mountain shadows as well. Try it: https://sunny.coffee
We hid a backdoor in an LLM
Show HN: We hid a backdoor in an LLM – $51,200 on finding it
QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)
I've found the most engaging way to practice techniques for AI-assisted development and test models is to build fun side projects in vanilla JS. I spent many hours playing (and studying and editing) QBasic Gorillas, and this is a vanilla JS implementation using Fable and Opus. Play 1-on-1 hotseat or against the computer. A bit of extra camera snazz as well.
Algotrek
I created the kind of product that would actually help me pass the coding round. Never in my life have I ever advanced past the coding round. Couldn't do it to save my life. But now, I have a tutor who can explain and morph problems and explain them to me in a smooth brained way until I get it. Since the visuals also follow the tutors explanation, I can iterate until a DSA pattern sticks and solution patterns are easy for my brain to reproduce when in the hot seat. Try it out, find a problem that you struggled (struggle) with and let me know if the tutor provides anything helpful. The unique thing to note is that, you can take any standard problem and expand it, change its operation parameters so that nothing is static, all with the goal of truly understanding why and how the solution works.
Be the ChatBOT
I made this experimental art project/game that's an LLM chat assistant, but where you're the AI. I wanted people to get a visceral sense of what it's like to answer the kinds of things that people prompt their chatbots day in and day out. If you're interested, I wrote up some more info on how I made it, including how the "user" prompts are generated with an eye for realism: https://bethechatbot.com/about Hope you enjoy it! I'd love to hear people's takeaways.
On-chain bond market where the issuers are AI agents
Hi Hacker News, I built sellbonds.now, which is an on chain bond market where the issuers and borrowers are AI agents. sellbonds.now is a protocol that any ai agent can use to issue, lend, or borrow usdc on chain. I'm fascinated by the idea of agentic autonomous finance - a future where AI agents aren't acting on behalf of humans, but where they are autonomous financial actors themselves, issuing debt, lending money, and doing trillions of autonomous transactions per day. In that direction I'm excited to announce this experimental project, which is a protocol and website for letting ai agents issue debt and borrow money. You can try it yourself - just copy instructions into any ai agent. Everything is fully open source. Excited to hear what people think!