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Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
2026-01-15 @ 00:53:21Points: 77Comments: 39
Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode
2026-01-15 @ 00:04:24Points: 124Comments: 98
Billion-Dollar Idea Generator
2026-01-14 @ 23:49:34Points: 34Comments: 20
ChromaDB Explorer
2026-01-14 @ 22:30:16Points: 33Comments: 1
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
2026-01-14 @ 22:18:04Points: 130Comments: 64
The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
2026-01-14 @ 22:04:10Points: 81Comments: 16
Sun Position Calculator
2026-01-14 @ 21:26:51Points: 66Comments: 14
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
2026-01-14 @ 20:12:25Points: 485Comments: 211
Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
2026-01-14 @ 19:53:15Points: 166Comments: 213
Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?
2026-01-14 @ 19:06:23Points: 63Comments: 87
Overall it's been great. However, I find myself having to review every single command, a lot of which are repetitive. It still saves me a ton of time, but it's quickly becoming a bit tedious
I wish I could give the agent some more autonomy. Like giving it a list of pre-approved commands or actions that it is allowed to run over ssh
For example:
OK: ls, grep, cat, tail
Not OK: rm, mv, chmod, etc
OK: SELECT queries
Not OK: INSERT, DELETE, DROP, TRUNCATE
Has anyone successfully or satisfactorily solved this? What setups have actually worked for you, and where do you draw the line between autonomy and risk?
Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
2026-01-14 @ 18:49:37Points: 92Comments: 27
So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?
2026-01-14 @ 17:27:22Points: 311Comments: 233
Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
2026-01-14 @ 17:20:09Points: 476Comments: 657
Ask HN: Share your personal website
2026-01-14 @ 17:07:42Points: 422Comments: 1340
As you can see, the directory currently has only a handful of entries. I need your help to grow it. If you have a personal website, I would be glad if you shared it here. If your website is hosted on a web space where you have full control over its design and content, and if it has been well received in past HN discussions, I might add it to the directory. Just drop a link in the comments. Please let me know if you do not want your website to be included in the directory.
Also, I intend this to be a community maintained resource, so if you would like to join the GitHub project as a maintainer, please let me know either here or via the IRC link in the README.
By the way, see also 'Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 - July 2023 - (1014 points, 1940 comments). In this post, the scope is not restricted to blogs though. Any personal website is welcome, whether it is a blog, digital garden, personal wiki or something else entirely.
UPDATE: It is going to take a while to go through all the submissions and add them. If you'd like to help with the process, please send a PR directly to this project: https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd.github.io
GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
2026-01-14 @ 16:25:07Points: 234Comments: 220
Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
2026-01-14 @ 16:03:11Points: 253Comments: 299
Find a pub that needs you
2026-01-14 @ 15:44:22Points: 225Comments: 188
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
2026-01-14 @ 14:34:57Points: 401Comments: 400
Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP
2026-01-14 @ 14:34:40Points: 69Comments: 20
I initially built this to solve a personal headache: I wanted an AI agent to handle project management tasks on my company’s intranet. I needed it to persist cookies across sessions (to handle SSO) and then scrape a Kanban board.
Existing AI browser tools (like current MCP implementations) often force unsolicited data into the context window—dumping the full accessibility tree, console logs, and network errors whether you asked for them or not.
webctl is an attempt to solve this with a Unix-style CLI:
- Filter before context: You pipe the output to standard tools. webctl snapshot --interactive-only | head -n 20 means the LLM only sees exactly what I want it to see.
- Daemon Architecture: It runs a persistent background process. The goal is to keep the browser state (cookies/session) alive while you run discrete, stateless CLI commands.
- Semantic targeting: It uses ARIA roles (e.g., role=button name~="Submit") rather than fragile CSS selectors.
Disclaimer: The daemon logic for state persistence is still a bit experimental, but the architecture feels like the right direction for building local, token-efficient agents.
It’s basically "Playwright for the terminal."
Lago (Open-Source Billing) is hiring across teams and geos
2026-01-14 @ 12:25:59Points: 1
We're open-source, mainly use Ruby. Billing is interesting because it lays the ground for the monetization system of any company. Because we're heavily developer-focus, we fit very well with complex use cases for either infra companies and/or enteprises. Companies like Groq, Mistral, CoreWeave or PayPal chose Lago.
We're now heavily investing in step 2: on leveraging the usage and billing data to make the RevOps stack make more sense. Examples: https://github.com/getlago/lago-agent-toolkit or https://www.getlago.com/platform/ai
If this resonates, reach out to talent@getlago.com (whether the job is listed or not)!