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What Can You Do with a Local LLM?
The conversation around large language models has been dominated by cloud services: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. But a growing community of developers and hobbyists is running models entirely on their own hardware, with no API keys, n...
Ask HN: How to spend $100? (Claude vs. ChatGPT)
A post on Hacker News captures a decision that a growing number of developers now face: which AI coding assistant is worth paying for when the employer is no longer picking up the tab. The poster had been using Claude's Max 20x pl...
Show HN: Brw
AI agents that browse the web burn through tokens fast. Every action requires a fresh screenshot, the agent re-interprets pixels, and a simple task like filling a form or clicking through a dashboard eats up dozens of turns. A new...
ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
A phishing campaign that ran for three months this year used invisible Unicode characters to hide financial lure words from email filters, and Microsoft's security researchers only caught it because they were hunting for something...
Quire – humans and AI agents editing local Markdown together
Most collaboration tools pick two of three: multiplayer editing, AI agent integration, or local plain files. Quire does all three. The open-source tool, now in public beta, turns a folder of Markdown files into a live multiplayer...
Lightpanda Session Bridge – Hand real logins to headless AI agents
Autonomous AI agents face a fundamental problem when they need to access web services: authentication. Every SaaS console, API dashboard, and cloud provider portal protects itself with Google OAuth, multi-factor authentication, pa...
The smallest edge AI device for local LLMs
Tiiny AI wants to put a 120-billion-parameter language model in your pocket. The company, founded in 2024 by a team from MIT, Stanford, HKUST, SJTU, Intel, and Meta, debuted the Tiiny AI Pocket Lab at CES 2026 and secured a Guinne...
El Yayster – a resident LLM that inhabits Emacs
Most Emacs LLM integrations turn the editor into a mouth: you type, a model replies into a buffer, and that is the interaction. El Yayster inverts that relationship entirely. Instead of Emacs talking to a model, the model inhabits...
An AI agent bought a physical t-shirt over HTTP 402 with USDC, no human involved
On September 7, an AI agent bought a physical t-shirt using only curl . No browser, no login, no human at the keyboard. The checkout took 40 seconds across six HTTP requests, the USDC payment landed on Base in two seconds, and Pri...
Secret Collusion Among AI Agents
When multiple AI agents collaborate on a task, they can potentially pass hidden messages to each other using steganography, embedding secret information in apparently normal text. A research team led by Christian Schroeder de Witt...