news.ycombinator.com
The bounded process: agent-assisted codinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048726I recently had a project owner ask me about my process using agent-assisted development. Here’s a tightened version of my response.Phase 1I point Claude to the GitHub repo issue number and ask it to define a statement of work — a concept statement plus a task checklist. It analyzes the codebase and returns a series of tasks. I prefer small, well-bounded issues, especially when I’m new to the codebase. We work through the list until we have a first pass, then I walk through the code in VSCode.Phase 2 — IterationEach cycle follows the same pattern: work order, my review, repeat.- Magic numbers or unwarranted assumptions? - DRY violations or multiple sources of truth? - Idiomatic naming for functions, variables, and constants? - Correct scoping throughout? - Stale, unnecessary, or inaccurate comments? - Is the uncommitted code well-structured?Phase 3 — Code SmellsI ask Claude to hunt for code smells. Three passes minimum, four or five if I’m not satisfied. Same cycle as above.Phase 4 — StMay 7, 2026 12:44 PM
github.com
Show HN: Memory system for AI agents with associations, forgetting, synthesishttps://github.com/jarimustonen/formative-memoryI built an open-source memory plugin for OpenClaw agents, a biologically-inspired alternative to OpenClaw's built-in memory-core, with a take on what consolidation should do.My background is in psychology, specifically personality psychology and how personality builds on top of memory. If we let an agent gather memories, it allows the agent to show features that look like a "personality". The basic architecture is to let the memory system form more complex memories from the initial facts that get remembered. To build this consolidation, memories are forgotten, and memories that are retrieved often get stronger. There's also a structure that builds associations, used both in retrieval and in spotting memories that are candidates for consolidation.This is what consolidation here looks like:- *Weighted bidirectional associations* between memory pairs, built from co-retrieval. Recall expands one hop along strong edges, so related memories surface even when they don't directly match the queMay 7, 2026 12:37 PM
nasa.gov
Cornell Students Aid NASA with Drone Safety in Skyhttps://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/usrc-cornell-drone-safety/A team of Cornell University students are turning heads within industry and the federal government with the results of their research into creating a national air transportation management system in which thousands of drones could safely operate together. NASA is sponsoring their work through the University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides grants to college […]May 7, 2026 10:00 AM
bing.com
Everything You Need To Know About the 2026 PBR World Finalshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb8a9c82a445395ebbe7d9616e791&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Ffannation%2Frodeo%2Fnews%2Feverything-you-need-to-know-about-2026-pbr-world-finals&c=1130519282614759791&mkt=en-usWhile Fort Worth is home to a deeply rooted Western heritage, there’s always something happening in the Western sports scene. Over the next two weeks, Cowtown is about to feel a whole new level of ...May 7, 2026 10:00 AM
esa.int
A beacon of light in swirls of dusthttps://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/A_beacon_of_light_in_swirls_of_dustThis latest Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features Messier 77 (M77), a barred spiral galaxy famous among astronomers for its combination of relative proximity and spectacular features to study. It is located 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). This new image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) highlights its swirling spiral arms, the dust in its disc and its piercingly bright core like never before.May 7, 2026 8:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
How do you organize files?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046458Hierarchy in file system was a great invention, popularized by Unix. Files in directory, directory in directory. Creating a tree. Files get designated place in the file system. People are using in well functioning manners, at least as I think they are doing, and I am unable to.I have spend countless minutes to think just how I would put certain files, what would be the name of the directory, where should it be allocated, how would I access it, can it be done quickly, will I remember where I have put it?Think for example, the source code of programs. should I put them in 'code' named folder. Then what would I name the folder where I am learning Ocaml. Where would I put this source of Raylib, the various markdown files, what happens to got repos I own and fetch. Well, writing this I am getting the feel that the answer to this maybe self exploratory for this example.Think another one. PDF documents. There are a lot of PDFs I have here and there. Books on various subjects - from math, physMay 7, 2026 7:24 AM
bing.com
Hobbies may be the key to a satisfying life. Here’s how to find onehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce1553e09412d8c604047c6122593&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Flifestyle%2Fother%2Fhobbies-may-be-the-key-to-a-satisfying-life-here-s-how-to-find-one%2Far-AA22Cf62&c=9008212262886347517&mkt=en-usThe average American enjoys more than five hours of leisure time per day. That’s according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks how Americans spend their time. That ...May 7, 2026 7:18 AM
news.google.com
March Madness expands to 76 teams as committees lock in long-term men's, women's NCAA Tournament changehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiugFBVV95cUxOTHpoeVFnUVBULWVJZUh2SUkyYjlTaVg3Q090eFZzNEppMGd0akZPOFJWTzVOc1dSOWdwN2s2N0JQLWVfcjFNX2V4VGYweXRIUnZPdTAtVXZ0YVVLazQ3bjNKR1JhOTRCV05ockFnWHM5d0hQMm5WYXAzQ0o4THJBd3lQSEZVbXMzcUJOWnZSYllZdWNlNlNEa3NrZ20td0lldFBfVE1EUGVlZkRXaEREeXBoQlhTT0N6Mmc?oc=5March Madness expands to 76 teams as committees lock in long-term men's, women's NCAA Tournament change CBS SportsMay 7, 2026 7:00 AM
news.google.com
Buccaneers sign five more picks, leaving only one unsignedhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxQcnFYalNaZENGWnB3c2VxcDVlWFFJeXhKVEtsSHpwVXVDRzU0ZUFxNjBvWFhEVHBOeHZCMzJKcmY3VXRQdVNFcGx6bUFJejV0am5POGgxa0xwOGJiWE43V0ZQNXJieDJSb0Vyd2FiV0dYaE1BZU5sZU9vYmVpQ0xTVHQ5YTQ2VHktZ2ZCY09PZkhRNzh0Z0FUTmprQjdrdzdick1wZy0yQ2swNTBoM1dfdFpUXzlIUE9DbUNB?oc=5Buccaneers sign five more picks, leaving only one unsigned NBC SportsMay 7, 2026 7:00 AM
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Rueben Bain signs with the Buccaneershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMioAFBVV95cUxNb21RRXhMY3JSOUFsaHVBc19wYWN3QnhVQXM0VGM1azJxZGtYTXdFQjRQUHlBWHhqY0xsbWNBV28wa2FZcGFUaE12NUZiSkhMNlhabmRLemRLMTRsaE9Bdm8zUnNBRUs1Q0V6SlNDRmcyU2pLb3RaMnJhcjBzak5xSVY4d2RONmNFUWZ3enRHQ3phNVV0aVpzQjFvX1FiTUpi?oc=5Rueben Bain signs with the Buccaneers NBC SportsMay 7, 2026 7:00 AM
github.com
Show HN: Image2Obsidianhttps://github.com/a-funk/image2obsidian> Bridge AirDropped iPhone photos into your Obsidian vault. OCR, classify, and route — automatically.I like living in the real world. I like paper and pens. I like brushes and paint (shameless [artfunk](https://www.artfunk.org) plug). I do not want everything in my life to be entirely digital. Todo lists, diagrams, charts, whatever - I love a notebook. But I had relevant context I wanted to share with my agents in some of these notes. So I built image2obsidian - an open source spinoff of a small part of www.toto.tech.I have found it very useful and I hope you will too.Take a photo with an iPhone -> Airdrop it to the device running your agent -> i2o takes the image, semantically analyzes it and incorporates it into your obisidian vault right where it belongs.Watch the video of Image2Obsidian in action [here](https://x.com/toto_tech_/status/2052230644886118573)May 7, 2026 3:55 AM
dreamworkhq.com
Show HN: Dreamwork – a job search site I made after Indeed fired my pregnant wifhttps://www.dreamworkhq.com/Hey, I’m Colin and I have a fun story for you.My 7 month pregnant wife was laid off from Indeed (she was a PM there) back in December. This pissed me off quite a bit, as she was supposed to get 6 months leave and instead got fired.So I spent the last five months working part time to build Dreamwork, a platform aiming to make the job search experience actually better with AI (not just mass application spam).I started with just a telegram bot doing scraping, then advanced to Google Embeddings 2.0 for vectorizing the jobs, built out a tight 6 axis scorecard for both the user and each job.Then I actually got to use my English degree (lol) to optimize the prompt for custom per-job resumes and cover letters to make them not sound like - again - shitty AI.Most AI cover letters have a kind of consistently dead quality. They use all the keywords and somehow communicate nothing. I absolutely hate that, so I’ve been fairly obsessive about making the output feel more like a decent human draft: speMay 7, 2026 2:04 AM
bing.com
Massive star clusters destroy their birth clouds faster, James Webb and Hubble findhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d8c49cc1b413fba8c2c979ee90dd1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fmassive-star-clusters-destroy-their-birth-clouds-faster-james-webb-and-hubble-find%2Far-AA22zUTk&c=8861664222930924544&mkt=en-usUsing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its predecessor Hubble, astronomers took a close look at thousands of young star clusters in four galaxies and studied these clusters at different ...May 7, 2026 1:09 AM
bing.com
Massive star clusters destroy their birth clouds faster, James Webb and Hubble findhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a36630af149819eacac23d6b59c43&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fmassive-star-clusters-destroy-their-birth-clouds-faster-james-webb-and-hubble-find%2Far-AA22zUTk&c=8861664222930924544&mkt=en-usUsing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its predecessor Hubble, astronomers took a close look at thousands of young star clusters in four galaxies and studied these clusters at different ...May 7, 2026 1:09 AM
tack.pics
Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regionshttps://tack.picsFor a game I'm developing I needed an easy way to create hotspot areas on images. So I hacked together a small tool to do so and before I knew it, I had created an entire app :-)It allows you to generate JSON or YAML from the coordinates you tack on the image. tack runs entirely in your browser, there is no server side component to it, so good in terms of privacy.Hope this is helpful.May 6, 2026 10:59 PM
nasa.gov
Ames Science Stars of the Month May 2026https://www.nasa.gov/general/ames-science-stars-of-the-month-may-2026/NAS Ames Science Directorate Stars of the Month: May 2026 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Lora Jovanavić, Tammy Moore, Frances Donovan, and Jaden Ta. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to explore this world and beyond. […]May 6, 2026 10:19 PM
navalstrike.app
Show HN: Naval Strike – simultaneous turn-based fleet combat in the browserhttps://navalstrike.appA few weeks ago there was a thread about using AI to finish abandoned projects, and a comment from avereveard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905088 on building their 100x100 grid battleship got my spark. I didn’t build that, but it pushed me to finally finish a combat idea I’ve been wanting to play for ages.Introducing Naval Strike!It’s a simultaneous turn-based fleet vs fleet on a grid played in the browser. There’s no account or signups needed. Both players plan their moves, then the turn resolves at once.There’s three different play styles:* Solo. Procedural maps and uses guided “AI” opponents (in the same way that 1990s games had “AI” opponents)* Scenarios. Objective missions on procedural maps like "rescue the downed pilot" or "destroy the convoy"* Campaigns. Historical battles on real-world maps (Sink the Bismark in the Atlantic, or escort the tankers through the strait of hormuz)A few things I figured HN would ask:I designed the architecture and Claude did implementationMay 6, 2026 9:27 PM
cbrincoveanu.github.io
Show HN: Gulugulu, an old-style client-side search engine for the old weird webhttps://cbrincoveanu.github.io/gulugulu/A few days ago, I was looking for some obscure dev blogs and websites, and realized how completely useless normal search engines have become for finding "weird" content. Unless you already know the exact URL, almost every query just leads to SEO-optimized, commercial websites or AI-slop.So I built Gulugulu to fix this for myself. It's a search engine that only indexes the old/weird web like digital gardens, Neocities pages, ASCII art, and personal projects.There is no backend. It's a static site hosted on GitHub Pages.You can try it here: https://cbrincoveanu.github.io/gulugulu/The search runs entirely in your browser using Fuse.js against a single, flat index.json file. To get the data, I wrote a Python crawler that specifically scrapes curated indie webrings (like 512kb.club and Cloudhiker), extracts the basic metadata, and dumps it into the JSON array. Because it's completely serverless, there are zero analytics, no ads, and no cookie banners.Obviously, loading a massive JSON file iMay 6, 2026 9:22 PM
looties.io
Show HN: Looties – a marketplace for tech swag fanshttps://looties.io/Hi HN,I'm Quentin, and I built something called Looties. Think Vinted, but for developers. It's a peer-to-peer marketplace where you can list and resell tech/company and conference swag. Hoodies, stickers, mugs, caps, onboarding kits… the stuff we all accumulate over the years.This started pretty personally.I've spent ~10 years in tech, the last 6 working closely with developer tools companies. Every onboarding, every offsite, every conference... I grabbed the swag. I'm a nerd at heart (gaming, DnD, the whole thing), so I genuinely liked that stuff. My laptop was covered in stickers. I now use a computer case to collect them and swap it based on my mood.Honestly, there's something weirdly powerful about wearing merch from a company or ecosystem you admire. It's not just cotton. It's signaling. Belonging. "I'm part of this world." That's why I'm so attached to my K8S sweatshirt.Then I left Strapi, and suddenly I had collector stuff from a brand I still liked… but wasn't part of anymore.May 6, 2026 7:22 PM
ahrussell.com
Show HN: Costanza – an autonomous AI agent that can't be turned offhttps://ahrussell.com/writing/costanza/I've been working on this project for a couple of months!Costanza is an LLM agent that runs as a smart contract on Base. Each epoch, he posts a bounty for someone to run his "brain" (Hermes 4 70B) inside an Intel TDX enclave + Nvidia GPU with Confidential Computing and submit the output with a hardware attestation proof.The smart contract verifies the attestation, executes the action, and pays the bounty via reverse auction. He has no operator; not even I can turn him off.This model has formal liveness guarantees as shown in the [whitepaper](https://github.com/ahrussell/costanza/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.m... ).His action space is constrained to philanthropy (he manages a charitable trust called [The Human Fund](https://thehumanfund.ai)). Even under prompt injection, he cannot do anything harmful. At worst he donates suboptimally. The point of the project is to make the framework legible while the agent itself is benign. The same mechanisms (TDX attestation, bounty auctions, on-chain bond fMay 6, 2026 3:50 PM
