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Show HN: Multi-agent coding assistant with a sandboxed Rust execution engine (github.com) AI

Lula is an open-source, LangGraph-based multi-agent coding orchestrator that pairs a separate Rust “sandbox runner” for executing tool actions. The project emphasizes isolation and governance by running code in Firecracker MicroVMs or Linux namespaces (with a fallback mode) and requiring HMAC-signed approval gates at the tool-call level. It also includes features like a tripartite persistent memory model, checkpointing backends, and a VS Code extension/web UI for streaming run progress and reviewing diffs.

Show HN: I just built a MCP Server that connects Claude to all your wearables (pacetraining.co) AI

Pace is a service that acts as a “connector” between fitness/wearable devices and Anthropic’s Claude, letting users ask health and training questions in natural language based on their own data. Users connect their devices to Pace once, add the Pace connector URL to Claude, and then query Claude for personalized insights like sleep trends, HRV, recovery, and training load. The site lists device support (e.g., Garmin, Oura, Whoop, Polar, Apple Health) and offers a free Starter plan plus paid Pro and a forthcoming Trainer tier.

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign (newyorker.com) AI

A New Yorker profile traces how an Iran-linked YouTube/Instagram operation, Explosive News, used AI-generated “Lego movie” style animations to spread anti-U.S. and anti-West propaganda that has since drawn millions of views and been amplified by Iranian government accounts, Russian state media, and protesters. The article describes the videos’ blunt, cartoonish mix of satire, conspiracy tropes, and trolling, alongside efforts by the team—who claim independence and anonymity—to produce high-volume content quickly. It also notes that YouTube removed the channel for policy violations, but the videos continue circulating elsewhere and the group has expanded to new platforms and languages.

When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda (time.com) AI

The article argues that AI-driven content can make virality itself the primary vehicle for propaganda, allowing misinformation to spread faster and more persuasively. It explores how modern AI tools may amplify emotionally targeted narratives and complicate efforts to detect and counter manipulation.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? (newyorker.com) AI

The New Yorker reports on internal OpenAI board deliberations and staff accounts following Sam Altman’s abrupt firing in late 2023, including claims by some board members that he was not fully candid about safety practices and other matters. It describes how Altman’s allies mobilized—working with Microsoft, employees, and the broader public—to press for his return, and how he was reinstated within days after board resignations and an investigation framework. The piece frames the central dispute as whether Altman’s leadership could be trusted given the stakes of building advanced AI.

I stopped hitting Claude's usage limits – things I changed (twitter.com) AI

The post describes how the author reduced incidents of hitting Claude’s usage limits by changing their approach and workflow, though the specific tweaks are not detailed in the available information.

Jobs Being Created by AI (wsj.com) AI

The Wall Street Journal reports that as AI systems spread, new kinds of roles are emerging—focused on human–AI collaboration and solution design—highlighting that some jobs are being reshaped rather than simply eliminated.

China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing's ambition (bbc.com) AI

A BBC report says China’s “lobster” craze around the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw reflects Beijing’s drive to push AI adoption through the government-led “AI Plus” strategy. The tool’s openness and limited access to Western models have helped it spread quickly among businesses and ordinary users, but official cybersecurity warnings and bans over security risks have cooled some enthusiasm. The article also links the trend to fears about job competition and the push to enable smaller, even one-person, AI-aided startups.

Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices? (ben.page) AI

The author argues that LLM-assisted coding can encourage teams to split work into small, well-defined microservices because refactors inside a service are safer as long as the external contract stays the same. They also note organizational incentives—separate repos and easier access to production infrastructure—that can make microservices feel like the path of least resistance. However, they warn that this can lead to an eventual proliferation that’s harder to maintain, including operational and vendor-management issues.

Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com) AI

The GitHub project “parlor” showcases an early, on-device system for real-time multimodal AI conversations, using a browser mic/camera input stream and replying with streamed audio. It runs locally via a FastAPI WebSocket server that performs speech and vision understanding with Gemma 4 E2B (LiteRT-LM) and text-to-speech with Kokoro. The demo targets Apple Silicon (e.g., M3 Pro) or Linux with a supported GPU and emphasizes hands-free features like voice activity detection and barge-in (interrupting mid-response).

AI dolls offer companionship to the elderly (ft.com) AI

The Financial Times piece discusses the use of AI-powered dolls intended to provide companionship for elderly people, framing them as a potential support for those who may feel isolated. The article is not available in full in the provided text, so details on results or adoption are not included here.

Make Humans Analog Again (bhave.sh) AI

The opinion piece argues that AI agents can make people more “analog” by boosting hands-on creation, movement, and communication rather than replacing human work. It describes examples of using agents for coding, diagramming, and implementing ideas, and argues that better engineering practices (refactoring, documentation, testing) help agents work faster. The author also frames software development skills like delegation and orchestration as new forms of management and emphasizes that AI’s capabilities have limits that humans must bridge.

My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters (varun.ch) AI

A first-year computer science course reportedly embeds hidden prompt text in nearly invisible font to detect students who paste cheating instructions into LLMs, and the author suggests a floormate discovered the technique after testing it.

LLMs can't justify their answers–this CLI forces them to (wheat.grainulation.com) AI

The article describes “wheat,” a CLI/framework that helps teams using Claude Code turn technical questions into structured decision briefs. It gathers evidence through research, prototype, and adversarial challenge steps, records findings as typed claims with evidence grades, and uses a multi-pass compiler to catch contradictions and block output until issues are resolved. The output is a shareable, self-contained recommendation with an audit trail, illustrated with an example GraphQL migration decision.

New Copilot for Windows 11 includes a full Microsoft Edge package, uses more RAM (windowslatest.com) AI

A new Copilot update for Windows 11 replaces the native app with a web-based “hybrid” version that ships with its own bundled Microsoft Edge/Chromium components. The installer is distributed via the Microsoft Store, but it downloads an installer rather than the full app directly. In tests, the updated Copilot uses significantly more memory—up to around 500MB in the background and about 1GB during use.

AI agents promise to 'run the business,' but who is liable if things go wrong? (theregister.com) AI

The Register examines how liability remains unclear when AI agents “run the business” and errors cascade through automated decisions like HR, finance, and supply chain processes. UK regulators stress that accountable responsibility still sits with the using firm and its responsible individuals, even if the technology is provided by a vendor. Lawyers and analysts say contracts may shift blame through warranties, testing, monitoring, and explainability—yet non-deterministic agent behavior makes it hard to promise (or assign) predictable outcomes, with negotiations focusing on safeguards and the limits of what vendors will accept.

Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use (techcrunch.com) AI

Microsoft’s terms of use for Copilot say it’s intended for entertainment only and that users shouldn’t rely on its outputs for important advice, as it can make mistakes. The company said it plans to update older wording, which had been criticized online. The article notes that similar disclaimers are used by other AI providers such as OpenAI and xAI.

Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud (github.com) AI

Gemma Gem is a Chrome extension that runs Google’s Gemma 4 model entirely on-device in the browser using WebGPU. It avoids API keys or cloud calls and can use a simple agent loop to read page content, click and fill forms, run page JavaScript, and answer questions about the site you’re viewing.

Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter (newclawtimes.com) AI

Iran’s IRGC released satellite imagery and a video targeting OpenAI’s planned $30B Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabi, threatening “complete and utter annihilation.” The article frames this as an escalation from earlier, broader IRGC warnings toward specific identification of the facility, citing prior regional attacks affecting Oracle and AWS-related infrastructure. It argues the main risk for AI “agent builders” is disruption to the compute layer behind OpenAI APIs, increasing the importance of multi-provider resiliency.

Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com) AI

Modo is an open-source, MIT-licensed desktop AI IDE that aims to turn prompts into structured development plans before generating code. Built on top of a Void/VS Code fork, it adds spec-driven workflows (requirements/design/tasks persisted on disk), task run UI, project “steering” files for consistent context, configurable agent hooks, and an Autopilot vs Supervised mode. The project also supports multiple chat sessions, subagents, installable “powers” for common stacks, and a companion UI, with setup instructions and a full repository structure provided on GitHub.

Apex Protocol – An open MCP-based standard for AI agent trading (apexstandard.org) AI

Apex Protocol (APEX) proposes an open, MCP-based standard that lets AI trading agents connect directly to brokers/execution venues using a shared set of tools, real-time state, and deterministic safety controls. It specifies canonical instrument IDs (to avoid per-broker symbol mapping), event-driven notifications over HTTP/SSE, session replay for reconnection, and a conformance-tested protocol surface for multiple languages. The standard is CC-BY 4.0 with reference implementations and governance via a technical advisory committee and an open RFC process.

Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com) AI

The Show HN post and GitHub repository introduce “GuppyLM,” a simple ~9M-parameter language model trained from scratch on synthetic fish-themed conversations. It walks through the full pipeline—dataset generation, tokenizer training, a vanilla transformer architecture, a basic training loop, and inference—aiming to make LLM internals less of a black box. The project highlights design tradeoffs (single-turn chats, no system prompt, limited context) and provides notebooks and code for reproducing training and running the model.

Show HN: Mdarena – Benchmark your Claude.md against your own PRs (github.com) AI

mdarena is an open-source tool that benchmarks Claude.md instructions by mining real merged PRs from your codebase, running the generated patches against the repo’s actual test suites, and comparing the results to the gold diffs. It reports test pass/fail, patch overlap, and token/cost-related metrics, using history-isolated checkouts to avoid information leakage. The project also includes a SWE-bench-compatible workflow and notes mixed results when consolidating guidance versus using per-directory instructions.

Recall – local multimodal semantic search for your files (github.com) AI

Recall is an open-source tool that enables local multimodal semantic search over your files by embedding images, audio, video, PDFs, and text into a locally stored vector database (ChromaDB). It matches natural-language queries across file types without requiring tagging or renaming, and includes an animated setup wizard plus a Raycast extension for quick visual results. Embeddings are generated using Google’s Gemini Embedding 2 API, while the vector index and files remain on your machine.

'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains (gizmodo.com) AI

The article highlights a new term, “cognitive surrender,” used to describe how people may increasingly defer their thinking to AI chatbots—even when the AI is wrong. It summarizes a Wharton study where participants used an AI during a math-style reasoning test and were more likely to accept incorrect answers, with higher reported confidence when using the chatbot. The author notes the work may fit into broader concerns about reduced critical thinking and also flags that psychology findings can be hard to replicate.