machine learning Oct 20 Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant Yelp introduces Check for Me feature that lets AI agent call restaurants on user's behalf Over the last few weeks personal assistants like Instinct Fo and Muse have enabled users to call businesses for customer support and appoint... ai Oct 20 Presentation: Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray Deepak Mohanakumar Chandramouli and Bhumik Vinodkumar Thakkar presented a session on building agents and running them at scale with Ray. Ray is an open-source distributed computing framework that specializes in machine learning wo... machine learning Oct 20 Show HN: Local embedding and ranking for tech feeds A calm localhost homepage for science and tech feeds Many readers tire of social feeds optimized for engagement rather than substance. okaeri offers an alternative: a localhost homepage that gathers the latest papers blogs forums... ai Oct 20 Ask HN: How to get the most intelligence out of your agents? When LLMs outpace agent tooling The Ask HN thread "How to get the most intelligence out of your agents?" struck a nerve among developers who have noticed a consistent pattern: ChatGPT often feels "smarter" than coded agents, even... programming languages Oct 20 Show HN: Rouler – Steer Windows traffic per app or IP across multiple interfaces Rouler brings per-app split tunnelling to Windows A new Windows tool called Rouler lets developers route traffic from specific applications through different network interfaces at the same time. You can send browser traffic throug... programming languages Oct 20 Show HN: An Open Source Aircraft OpenPlane: parametric aircraft design in the open A new open-source project called OpenPlane brings parametric methodology to homebuilt aircraft design. The repository contains cost tables, structural specifications and a qualific... ai Oct 20 Refuseless: Open and Abliterated LLMs Refuseless: hosted API for abliterated GLM models A new hosted inference API called Refuseless puts abliterated open-weight models within reach of any application that can speak the OpenAI SDK format. The service runs Z AI's GLM-5... cybersecurity Oct 20 Show HN: Search for AI-agents and usefulness score Xtract prices search results before your agent fetches them A new search API called Xtract returns every result with a usefulness score and a price in cents before an agent commits to pulling the full page. The service sits on top... cybersecurity Oct 20 Show HN: AppMaker – Build business apps with AI, visual editing and code AppMaker focuses AI on structured business apps with two editing modes A platform called AppMaker applies AI to a narrow but common category of software: structured, data-driven business applications. The premise is that every app... programming languages Oct 20 Show HN: Yana – A local-first, human-governed AI runtime and IDE in Rust Yana AI inserts a governance layer between models and machine actions A new open-source system called Yana AI positions itself as the control plane between an AI model and the real powers it can exercise on a user's machine. The p...