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Anthropic teams use Claude Code
9 months ago
- Anthropic teams use Claude Code to transform workflows, automate tasks, and bridge skill gaps across various departments.
- Data Infrastructure team uses Claude Code for Kubernetes debugging, plain text workflows for finance, and onboarding new hires with codebase navigation.
- Product Development team leverages Claude Code for fast prototyping, synchronous coding for core features, and building Vim mode autonomously.
- Security Engineering team applies Claude Code for complex debugging, Terraform code reviews, and documentation synthesis.
- Inference team relies on Claude Code for codebase comprehension, unit test generation, and machine learning concept explanations.
- Data Science and ML Engineering teams build sophisticated dashboards and handle repetitive refactoring tasks with Claude Code.
- Product Engineering team uses Claude Code for workflow planning, independent debugging, and model iteration testing.
- Growth Marketing team automates ad creative generation and builds Figma plugins for mass production using Claude Code.
- Product Design team implements front-end changes directly and uses Claude Code for rapid prototyping and edge case discovery.
- RL Engineering team employs Claude Code for feature development, test generation, and Kubernetes operations guidance.
- Legal team builds custom accessibility solutions and automates legal workflows with Claude Code.
Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
9 months ago
- Efrit is an AI coding assistant integrated with Emacs, offering multiple interfaces for different tasks.
- Interfaces include efrit-chat for multi-turn conversations, efrit-do for natural language commands, and efrit-agent-run for automation.
- Features include direct Elisp evaluation, multi-turn conversations, tool integration, and safety-first design.
- Requires Emacs 28.1+, an Anthropic API key, and internet connection.
- Installation involves cloning the repository, adding to Emacs config, and setting up the API key.
- Usage examples include creating buffers with poetry, modifying content, and executing multi-step tasks.
- Customizable settings include model selection, token limits, and debug options.
- Troubleshooting tips cover common issues like API key errors and connection timeouts.
- Development includes build, test, and installation procedures, with contributions guided by CONTRIBUTING.md.
- Latest version (v0.2.0) includes stability improvements, enhanced token limits, and better documentation.
Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech
9 months ago
- Jared, a Canadian truck driver, shares his experience transitioning from traditional trucking methods to using digital platforms for finding work.
- New technology, including 'Uberised' platforms, has made it easier for truckers to find jobs but has also led to lower wages.
- Uber Freight and Freightera are key players in digitizing the trucking industry in Canada, offering flexibility and efficiency.
- Concerns about the 'Uberisation' of trucking include stagnant wages and the potential undermining of unionized carriers.
- Digital freight platforms like LORI in Kenya are optimizing truck usage, reducing empty trips, and potentially lowering CO2 emissions.
- The future of trucking may include AI and automation, with some companies already testing driverless trucks, though widespread adoption faces hurdles.
Show HN: Auto Favicon MCP Server
9 months ago
- MCP server for generating complete favicon sets from PNGs or URLs
- Features: multiple sizes, Apple touch icons, manifest.json, ICO format
- Supports both local PNG files and image URLs
- Includes commands: generate_favicon_from_png and generate_favicon_from_url
- Requires Python 3.12+ and uv package manager
- Easy setup with git clone and uv sync for dependencies
- MCP client configuration example provided
Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you
9 months ago
- Piper is a personal AI phone call agent designed to handle customer service calls so users don't have to.
- Built by founding engineers from AssemblyAI, Piper excels in voice AI and can make calls directly from a browser or any website via a Chrome extension.
- Piper can handle various tasks including booking restaurants, disputing bills, scheduling appointments, canceling subscriptions, and more.
- The AI navigates phone trees and automated systems efficiently, providing live transcripts and updates during calls.
- Piper simplifies dreaded tasks like canceling subscriptions, booking medical appointments, handling utility issues, and dealing with government services.
- Users can try Piper for free with no credit card required, and beta users get exclusive lifetime pricing.
GitHub Having Several Issues
9 months ago
- GitHub Action to enable automated security updates and open issues/PRs in repos without dependabot.yaml
- Actions for running CodeQL analysis
- Repository containing DMCA takedown notices text
- CodeQL queries and libraries supporting various Coding Standards
- CodeQL libraries and queries powering security researchers and GitHub Advanced Security
- Bypass approval and checks for emergency changes to main branch with audit controls
- Recommended RuboCop configuration and additional accessibility RuboCop Rails cops for Rails projects
- Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub
- GitHub Action producing contributor information for an organization or repository over a specified time period
Facebook Rigorously Removes News Articles Mentioning Pirate Service "MagisTV"
9 months ago
- Facebook uses automated tools like 'Rights Manager' to detect and remove copyrighted content.
- Automated systems sometimes incorrectly flag content, such as articles mentioning 'MagisTV', leading to unjust removals.
- Facebook removed posts linking to news articles about MagisTV, including those from anti-piracy coalition ACE.
- Affected users can appeal removals, but responses are slow, and repeated violations may lead to account suspension.
- False positives in automated takedowns can harm users reliant on Facebook for content sharing.
Golden Literal Testing in UTest
9 months ago
- uTest 0.9.0 introduces Golden testing, also known as Snapshot testing, which compares code output against pre-defined 'Golden' values.
- Golden tests are useful for large outputs that shouldn't be manually maintained, such as logs, ensuring they 'look right' without unexpected changes.
- The new `assertGoldenLiteral` method simplifies test setup and maintenance by automatically updating test assertions when the output changes.
- Users can update multiple golden tests at once by running tests with `UTEST_UPDATE_GOLDEN_TESTS=1`, which modifies the source code directly.
- `assertGoldenLiteral` works by capturing the location of the golden value in the source code, allowing it to update the value when discrepancies are found.
- The feature is inspired by the desire to reduce tedious manual updates in test suites, making test maintenance more efficient.
- While `assertGoldenLiteral` is powerful, it's limited to literals that can be pretty-printed, such as primitives, collections, and case classes.
- The implementation leverages the PPrint library for well-formatted output and uses source code manipulation to update test assertions automatically.
AI's Pogo-Stick Grift
9 months ago
- AI's pogo-stick grift: The article critiques agentic AI, comparing it to past automation failures, where AI promises seamless integration but often demands unrealistic world adjustments.
- Self-driving cars: Initially promised as autonomous solutions, they now require societal changes, illustrating the 'pogo-stick problem'—products that only work in ideal conditions.
- Agentic AI challenges: The technology struggles with navigating the unstructured internet, prone to errors and hallucinations, and demands standardized APIs, a challenge similar to the semantic web's unfulfilled promises.
- Market manipulation: Companies like Amazon and airlines manipulate prices and data, making it difficult for AI to perform accurate comparison shopping without comprehensive, real-time data access.
- Legal and ethical issues: The article highlights how companies sue those attempting to collect and analyze pricing data, further complicating the transparency needed for effective AI operation.
- Historical context: The auto industry's invention of terms like 'pedestrian' and 'jaywalker' to shift blame is paralleled with AI's current demands for world adaptation to its limitations.
- Future of AI: The piece concludes with skepticism about AI's ability to deliver on its promises without significant, unrealistic global cooperation and standardization.
Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
9 months ago
- Author moves self-hosted services from a VPS to a home setup using a Minisforum UM880 Plus mini PC.
- Objectives include experimenting safely without disrupting production, learning Kubernetes, and ensuring data security with disk encryption and backups.
- Threat model considers burglary, hardware failure, and personal fallibility, leading to needs like disk encryption, automated setup, versioned configuration, and Wake on LAN capability.
- Proxmox Virtual Environment chosen as hypervisor for flexibility, with VMs considered disposable but service data and configurations backed up.
- Implementation involves Proxmox on Debian with disk encryption, static IP configuration, and bridged networking for VM connectivity.
- Automation tools include Opentofu for VM provisioning, cloud-init for VM configuration, and Ansible for server state management.
- Detailed steps for installing Debian with encryption, configuring SSH for secure access, and setting up Proxmox with troubleshooting for boot issues.
- Ansible playbook created to automate Proxmox installation and configuration, including network setup, package installation, and system reboots.
- Future plans include using Opentofu, cloud-init, and Ansible for reproducible VM setups and exploring Kubernetes on the homelab.
Demystifying Claude Code Hooks
9 months ago
- Claude Code hooks are powerful but can be confusing to implement.
- Hooks can be configured globally (~/.claude/settings.json) or per-project (.claude/settings.json).
- Project settings are ideal for team-wide automation like running linters before commits.
- To catch all file modifications, use the regex pattern "Edit|MultiEdit|Write".
- Organize hook scripts in a dedicated directory (e.g., claude-hooks/) for maintainability.
- Example pre-commit hook runs Rubocop and RSpec before git commits.
- Use $CLAUDE_TOOL_INPUT to inspect and react to Claude's tool execution details.
- Debug hooks by capturing output to a file (e.g., foo.json) for inspection.
- Manage hooks interactively using the /hooks command in the Claude CLI.
- Hooks enable consistent, automated development practices across teams.
New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
9 months ago
- Gemini CLI GitHub Actions is introduced as a no-cost, powerful AI coding teammate for repositories.
- It automates tasks like issue triage, pull request reviews, and on-demand collaboration triggered by repository events.
- Features include intelligent issue triage, accelerated PR reviews, and delegation via @gemini-cli mentions.
- Built with enterprise-grade security, offering credential-less authentication and granular control.
- Integrated with OpenTelemetry for transparency and monitoring.
- Available in beta with free quotas for Google AI Studio and support for Vertex AI and Gemini Code Assist tiers.
Automate security reviews with Claude Code
9 months ago
- Introduction of automated security reviews in Claude Code via GitHub Actions and a new /security-review command.
- Allows developers to identify and fix security concerns in their code.
- Critical for ensuring code security as developers increasingly rely on AI.
- New /security-review command for ad-hoc security analyses from the terminal.
- Checks for common vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, authentication flaws, insecure data handling, and dependency vulnerabilities.
- GitHub action automates security reviews for new pull requests, integrating with CI/CD pipelines.
- Action triggers on PRs, reviews code, filters false-positives, and posts inline comments with fixes.
- Anthropic uses these features internally, catching vulnerabilities like DNS rebinding and SSRF attacks.
- Features available now for all Claude Code users; documentation provided for setup and customization.
Cursor CLI
9 months ago
- Cursor CLI is designed to enhance productivity directly from the terminal.
- It can be installed via a simple curl command and works in any IDE or terminal environment.
- Features include reviewing agent edits, real-time guidance, and setting custom rules.
- Supports the latest models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and more.
- Integrates seamlessly with existing workflows and preferred IDEs.
- Enables writing powerful scripts for automation, documentation updates, and custom coding agents.
Jules – An Asynchronous Coding Agent
9 months ago
- Jules automates coding tasks you don't want to do, freeing up your time for preferred coding.
- Select a GitHub repository and branch, then provide a detailed prompt for Jules to execute.
- Jules clones the repository to a Cloud VM and uses the Gemini 2.5 Pro model to develop a plan.
- It updates files to new app directory structures and provides a diff of changes for review.
- Jules creates a PR for the changes, which you can approve, merge, and publish on GitHub.
- Offers different plans to fit various workflows, from quick fixes to multi-agent development.
- Designed for developers who ship daily and want to maintain workflow efficiency.
- Scalable for builders who need to run agents at scale with varying speed and model access.
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
9 months ago
- GPT-5 demonstrates advanced capabilities by autonomously performing complex tasks, such as creating coherent and stylized text with hidden linguistic tricks.
- GPT-5 automates model selection, choosing the appropriate AI model and reasoning time based on the perceived difficulty of the task, improving user experience but sometimes unpredictably.
- Premium users can access more powerful models like 'GPT-5 Thinking,' which delivers higher-quality outputs with additional features not explicitly requested.
- GPT-5 is proactive, suggesting and executing tasks beyond initial prompts, such as generating business plans, documents, and even functional apps like a 3D city builder.
- The AI reduces the burden of prompt engineering, allowing users to gesture vaguely at their needs while the system autonomously delivers sophisticated results.
- GPT-5's ability to 'just do stuff' marks a shift from command-based interaction to collaborative cognition, where AI suggests goals and next steps.
- The distinction between coding and describing behavior blurs, enabling non-coders to create software effortlessly, leading to rapid software proliferation.
- Human oversight remains crucial to check for errors and hallucinations, but the AI's proactiveness raises questions about embedded values and decision-making autonomy.
- The article highlights both the impressive potential of GPT-5 and the societal challenges posed by its autonomous, prolific capabilities.
Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Prior Auth in Healthcare
9 months ago
- Trellis automates document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals to streamline healthcare operations.
- Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) work directly with healthcare providers to implement AI-powered solutions.
- Trellis reduces time to treatment by over 90% and improves prior authorization approval rates.
- Administrative costs account for over 20% of U.S. healthcare spending, which Trellis aims to reduce.
- FDEs at Trellis have responsibilities ranging from technical implementation to strategic planning.
- Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI lab and backed by leading investors like YC and General Catalyst.
- The company focuses on transforming patient care through AI and structured healthcare data.
Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit
9 months ago
- Exposes a virtual HomeKit Television accessory where each input corresponds to a Steam user.
- Selecting an input updates Steam’s AutoLoginUser; turning the "TV" off restarts Steam.
- Designed for headless gaming machines to switch Steam users easily without a KVM.
- HomeKit Television service with Active + ActiveIdentifier.
- Inputs are Steam users (PersonaName as label, AccountName as slug).
- Switching input sets AutoLoginUser accordingly.
- Turning the TV off restarts Steam (killall steam).
- Pairing/state stored under XDG state: ~/.local/state/homekit-steam-user-switcher/.
- Requires Linux with Python 3.9+.
- Install dependencies with pip install --user -r requirements.txt.
- Install script into user bin directory.
- Create and enable a systemd user unit for the service.
- Pairing code: 111-11-111.
- Add accessory in Apple Home via More Options.
- Supports custom name, port, bind IP, or manual inputs.
- Delete state directory and disable service for uninstallation.
- MIT License.
Show HN: OpenAVMKit – open-source toolkit for real estate mass appraisal (AVMs)
9 months ago
- Download spatial variables from public sources to automatically tag parcels.
- Utilize OpenStreetMap for street adjacency data.
- Access building footprints from Overture.
- Incorporate statistics from the US Census.
- Use USGS for topography data.
- Automatically calculate distances between parcels and key landmarks like CBDs, universities, and golf courses.
Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer"
9 months ago
- Ralph Wiggum is a technique for software engineering, primarily a Bash loop that leverages AI tools like @sourcegraph/amp.
- Ralph is designed for greenfield projects and can replace much of the outsourcing work, though it has identifiable and resolvable defects.
- The technique is deterministic in its approach but operates in an undeterministic world, requiring continual tuning based on LLM behavior observation.
- Ralph is currently being used to build a new programming language called CURSED, demonstrating AI's capability to work without prior training data.
- Building with Ralph requires faith in eventual consistency and hands-off coding, trusting the AI to decide the most important tasks per loop.
- Key principles include one task per loop, minimal context window usage, and spawning subagents for parallel operations while maintaining control over parallelism.
- Specifications (specs) are crucial and are formed through initial conversations with the AI, ensuring a clear understanding before implementation begins.
- Backpressure mechanisms like tests, static analyzers, and security scanners are essential to validate AI-generated code and maintain correctness.
- Documentation and test explanations are vital for future loops, as they provide context that the AI won't retain in subsequent iterations.
- Ralph can self-improve by updating its own instructions (AGENT.md) and documenting bugs or learnings in fix_plan.md.
- The technique is not suitable for existing codebases but excels in bootstrapping new projects, potentially displacing many traditional SWE roles for greenfield work.
- Senior engineering expertise is still required to guide Ralph, debunking the notion that AI can fully replace human engineers.
- The current prompts for building CURSED emphasize strict adherence to specifications, avoiding placeholder implementations, and maintaining up-to-date plans and documentation.

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Anthropic teams use Claude Code

Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs

Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech

Show HN: Auto Favicon MCP Server

Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you

GitHub Having Several Issues

Facebook Rigorously Removes News Articles Mentioning Pirate Service "MagisTV"

Golden Literal Testing in UTest

AI's Pogo-Stick Grift

Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers

Demystifying Claude Code Hooks

New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions

Automate security reviews with Claude Code

Cursor CLI

Jules – An Asynchronous Coding Agent

GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff

Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Prior Auth in Healthcare

Homekit-steam-user-switcher: A way to remotely switch Steam users using HomeKit

Show HN: OpenAVMKit – open-source toolkit for real estate mass appraisal (AVMs)

Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer"