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Show HN: I built a tool that gives any website an API and MCP
The gap between websites that offer APIs and websites that do not is becoming one of the more pressing obstacles for the growing class of AI-powered agents that need to interact with external software. A recent Hacker News submiss...
Agentboxd – Email inboxes for AI agents that treat mail as hostile
AI agents can already write code, browse the web, and call APIs, but giving them an email address that actually works, with proper authentication, spam filtering, and deliverability, has remained a surprisingly hard problem. Agent...
Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design
Mallika Rao, a longtime practitioner in search, discovery, and personalization, makes a case in a recent presentation that the most common mistake organizations make with recommendation systems is treating them as isolated modelin...
Show HN: CStructSharp – C-struct (de)serialization for C# and JavaScript (WASM)
Parsing binary data formats is a routine task in systems programming, but it has never been particularly enjoyable. Developers typically find themselves juggling manual byte offsets, endianness conventions, and platform-dependent...
The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
The Copilot+ PC label that Microsoft and Qualcomm introduced in 2024 as the defining brand for AI-capable Windows hardware is effectively dead, retired quietly by both the company and its hardware partners without a formal announc...
Drum Machines (LLMs) Have No Soul
A software developer who builds tools for musicians is wrestling with a question that has become common across the industry. As large language models grow more capable, what is left that only a human can do? The answer, for one de...
Cloudflare Details Its Migration from WordPress to EmDash
Cloudflare has completed the migration of its own blog from WordPress to EmDash, an open source content management system it built internally and released as a developer preview in April 2026. The company describes itself as "Cust...
LLM Red-temaing vs. Agent Red teaming
As organizations move from deploying language models in isolation to deploying AI agents that can call tools, access databases, and take actions on behalf of users, the approach to security testing has to change as well. The pract...
Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts
The article is at 719 words and ready. It covers the problem, the service mechanics, MCP integration, technical constraints, and the practical takeaway for developers. The file is at `/var/www/simpleprog-website/article_botbin.md`...
Evolving programming languages in the AI era
José Valim, the creator of the Elixir programming language, has published a detailed reflection on how programming languages and their tooling may need to change when AI agents become the primary writers of code. The essay, split...