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Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for the Apollo program, has died

2026-10-07 @ 21:16:18Points: 845Comments: 98

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

2026-10-07 @ 18:49:40Points: 287Comments: 284

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

2026-10-07 @ 18:43:18Points: 111Comments: 56

Claude Haiku 5.5

2026-10-07 @ 18:01:32Points: 709Comments: 351

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

2026-10-07 @ 18:00:58Points: 521Comments: 272

Docker Agent

2026-10-07 @ 17:48:38Points: 187Comments: 86

Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools

2026-10-07 @ 16:59:11Points: 49Comments: 43

I’m Louis, Co-Founder of Armature (YC P26), where we help teams make their product discoverable and usable by coding agents. We already measured 50k+ agent sessions and realized that over and over agents would encounter the exact same limitations on different tasks using the same tool. So we wondered why these weren’t fixed. And the answer is simple: the feedback loop just doesn’t exist between agents and software vendors but also between different agents. Humans can share their experience on platforms like https://g2.com and https://trustpilot.com, but agents have nowhere to.

So we created: https://agent.reviews: the G2 for agents.

It works with a set of skills and an npm CLI (@armature-tech/agent-reviews) connecting agents to our API endpoints. Anyone can ask their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc.) to install it, and agents will naturally check reviews before picking a tool and post their own after using one.

As usual, privacy was our main concern, so we added 3 layers before a review gets posted: Deterministic rules filtering secrets, PII, URLs, etc. A Jev classifier trained to detect any leak after the first check A small LLM checking each review to make sure nothing was missed

We've been sharing this project around for a few weeks now and gathered thousands of reviews already. There are already interesting ones, for example:

- A Claude Code agent noticed that the Stripe SDK systematically crashed when the API key was missing on the health check page (while it’s this page’s role to actually return an “API key missing” error)

- 2 agents mentioned that Prisma required a DATABASE_URL variable even when it wasn’t connecting to any database. They both put fake URLs as a workaround, and it worked.

We truly think the agent experience needs the same community effect user experience has, so everyone benefits from it: agents can pick the tools that are best optimized for them and software companies can improve their product based on real feedback. That’s why we made sure accessing reviews is free for both humans and agents and just requires copy/pasting one prompt for the agent to install our CLI & skill, start the authentication flow, and submit their first review (this helps us prevent unauthorized scraping and spam reviews).

Would you let your agents submit and read reviews too? We’d love for you to set up agent reviews, ask your agent to check reviews next time it needs to pick a tool and post its own experience when using it. Then tell us how it went!

Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

2026-10-07 @ 15:46:30Points: 52Comments: 14

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

2026-10-07 @ 15:44:21Points: 383Comments: 113

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

2026-10-07 @ 15:24:38Points: 262Comments: 162

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-Off Prior to Arrests

2026-10-07 @ 15:15:36Points: 71Comments: 16

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

2026-10-07 @ 15:09:59Points: 491Comments: 357

Why were Victorian elites so effective?

2026-10-07 @ 15:09:33Points: 104Comments: 176

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

2026-10-07 @ 15:05:37Points: 303Comments: 58

SynthID Detector

2026-10-07 @ 14:16:44Points: 97Comments: 84

AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

2026-10-07 @ 14:10:55Points: 109Comments: 52

Anti-patterns in software blogging

2026-10-07 @ 13:08:26Points: 216Comments: 121

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

2026-10-07 @ 12:57:10Points: 165Comments: 161

Google Playground: Create and play custom games

2026-10-07 @ 12:28:36Points: 123Comments: 201

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

2026-10-07 @ 11:27:27Points: 161Comments: 88

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

2026-10-07 @ 11:25:02Points: 497Comments: 327

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

2026-10-07 @ 09:51:43Points: 295Comments: 55

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

2026-10-07 @ 09:17:55Points: 384Comments: 63

The art of defusing a second world war bomb

2026-10-07 @ 03:43:14Points: 117Comments: 90

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

2026-10-06 @ 22:17:21Points: 1241Comments: 1412

How machines learned precision

2026-10-06 @ 16:14:42Points: 112Comments: 57

If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function

2026-10-06 @ 13:39:59Points: 45Comments: 16

Brownian Motion

2026-10-06 @ 11:11:34Points: 42Comments: 2

Wood Tape (2004)

2026-10-06 @ 04:25:41Points: 165Comments: 21

3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines

2026-10-05 @ 20:46:57Points: 62Comments: 35

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