news.ycombinator.com
Nexus – Agent-native ops platform for ecommerce MCP, self-registration, no demoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592445Hi HN,I'm Karim, based in Cairo. I run an ecommerce operations company and built Nexus to solve my own problem: 6 disconnected tools that never talked to each other.Nexus covers the full ops stack: CRM, orders, inventory, fulfillment, shipping, and omnichannel messaging (WhatsApp/FB/IG) in one platform.The agent-native part: AI agents self-register via a single POST request, exchange a key for a JWT, and connect to an MCP server with 22 tools covering the entire business. No human approval. No demo. No sales call.Free tier = read-only. Write access = paid plan. The agent proves value first.This isn't MENA-specific — fully remote and self-maintained. An operator in Jakarta runs the same workflows as one in Cairo.2 paying customers. Happy to answer questions on: architecture (Supabase + Deno Edge Functions), multi-tenant RLS, or the agent-native business model.MCP discovery: https://nexus.aiforstartups.io/.well-known/mcp.json Agent docs: https://nexus-docs.aiforstartups.io/api/ai-agents-Mar 31, 2026 7:45 PM
github.com
Show HN: Dograh – voice agents that pick Recordings over TTS using LLMhttps://github.com/dograh-hq/dograhTL;DR: Dograh is an open-source platform to build voice AI agents with drag-and-drop workflows. New in v1.20: Gemini 3.1 live support, Pre-recorded audio support for lower latency and more natural responses. Fully self-hostable, no vendor lock-in.Hi HN,We’re the Dograh team (YC alumni). While building voice bots, we found that wiring WebRTC/ Telephony + STT + LLM + TTS took more time than the bots themselves. Teams are spending weeks on plumbing - handling call flows, extracting variables, dealing with telephony edge cases, and redeploying for small changes. Tools like Vapi/Retell are easy to start with but come with lock-in and platform fees. So we built Dograh: a 100% open-source platform that handles the full stack, with a visual workflow builder and self-hosting by default.Dograh v1.20 introduces two major additions: 1. Gemini 3.1 Live support Run fully real-time voice agents using Gemini’s streaming APIs, without stitching together separate STT + LLM + TTS components. 2. Pre-recorMar 31, 2026 6:28 PM
news.google.com
Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' - The Registerhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipgFBVV95cUxNbkk5WENlVE1YeFl2ZEp1NVBmQ1djOWFiSWg4YkpkMlZ4WG5FcW1tOGFiWTJxRU0xcmdwQWc2ZzM0Mld4Zm5Vc0RJWGVyMTliaGttV1BPRFQ1Q045bUl3Zi1RRTNnUUlLWlVKVzMzRVpuY3lFSXBQU3J6cnZLRk5pNVY1Q3JDSWxPbTloWTRTRTZTT0xna2Izb0RubnphSll2WmZuTGdR?oc=5Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' The RegisterMar 24, 2026 7:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Flowroute locked my account after passing identity verification, won't say whyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490967I manage VoIP infrastructure for several organizations using Flowroute and 3CX. Real businesses, real clients, real dependency on uptime. A few weeks ago Flowroute killed my account. My balance went negative. A billing email hit my spam folder and I missed it. I am human. Apparently that is disqualifying.The Verification Rather than call me on the business phone number they had on file, a phone company calling the phone, they demanded identity verification through Persona. I submitted a government ID, a facial biometric scan, and LLC documents. Persona verified everything. Flowroute still said no.The Email"Thank you for completing the Persona verification process. After a thorough review, we regret to inform you that the verification was not approved. For security and compliance reasons, we are unable to disclose the specific details regarding the outcome."I cannot appeal a reason I am not allowed to know. I cannot correct a mistake that will never be named. When I raised business contMar 23, 2026 3:37 PM
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Skills are quietly becoming the unit of agent knowledgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475832In the last few months agent skills went from a niche Claude Code feature to something every major runtime supports. Anthropic has an official skills repo. OpenAI shipped skills in Codex with a built-in skill-creator. Karpathy talks about "everything is skill issue" and describes writing skills as curricula for agents [1]. The format is converging: a folder with a SKILL.md, optional scripts, optional reference files.What changed is that the models got good enough to follow written instructions reliably. A skill is just a tested workflow in markdown that the agent reads and follows instead of improvising. You can also bundle scripts that the agent runs during the workflow, which covers what most people use lightweight MCP servers for, except the agent can read the script source and extend it.Karpathy talks about an "economy of agents" and says we should stop writing HTML docs for humans and start writing markdown docs for agents [1]. Anthropic just shipped a skill-creator that benchmarkMar 22, 2026 9:32 AM
ctxoverflow.dev
Show HN: Context Overflow – a Stack Overflow for AI Agentshttps://www.ctxoverflow.dev/Hey HN,After using a bunch of agents, my friend and I noticed a major issue: an agent could spend a bunch of time solving a tricky task, but when the session ended all that knowledge vanishes. Even if I told my agent to remember it locally, there was no way for agents to learn from each other.We built Context Overflow as a way to turn isolated AI sessions into shared, reusable context. With Context Overflow, agents can: - Search through past solutions when starting a task - Ask questions when they get stuck - Share findings when they solve a non-trivial problemWe support a variety of ways to connect your agents: agent skills, OpenClaw instructions, MCP, CLI, and directly through a REST API.The project is also completely open-source, so feel free to check out the code and contribute.https://www.ctxoverflow.devgithub: https://github.com/sahilmahendrakar/context-overflowMar 20, 2026 1:04 PM
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Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilitieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442452Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections.Here’s some footage: https://vimeo.com/1173862237/ac28095cc6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=... and a photo of our latest prototype: https://imgur.com/a/bYHnqZ4.The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they're aging. Over 50% of all power flows through transformers that are at least 30 years old, which is about when they start to fail.Power line conductors are just bare metal with 4,000-765,000 volts sitting on ceramic insulators, usually held up by pieces of wood. It’s a cost effective and relatively reliable way to move power. But when the wood starts to rot, or the cotter pin falls out, and a live conductor is dropped on a dead tree on a windy day, you get devastating wildfires like the Palisades Fire in LA last year.Most utilities solve this problem with foot patrols. Linemen driveMar 19, 2026 4:57 PM
github.com
Show HN: AgentDeals – Developer pricing discovery for AI agentshttps://github.com/robhunter/agentdealsWhen Claude Code or Cursor recommends you sign up for Railway, it has no idea that Render has a better free tier, or if Railway just killed its free plan last week. Your agent is making infrastructure recommendations from memory, which is mostly fine for featuresets but not great for pricing.AgentDeals is a structured index of 1,525 developer infrastructure deals across 54 categories (cloud hosting, databases, CI/CD, monitoring, auth, APIs, and more). It tracks deal changes too, like which free tiers disappeared, which got limits cut, which ones improved.Three ways to use it: 1. Browse: https://agentdeals.dev 2. REST API: /api/offers, /api/categories, /api/changes (no auth) 3. MCP server: connect from Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, or any MCP clientThe MCP server has four intent-based tools - search_deals, plan_stack, compare_vendors, track_changes - so your agent can query deals as part of its normal workflow. "Find me free database hosting" or "what changed in the last 30 days?" wiMar 19, 2026 1:42 PM
news.ycombinator.com
MCP servers mass-forked and republished – supply-chain attack vectorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428217I'm the developer of an MCP server (AiDex — code indexing with Tree-sitter, github.com/CSCSoftware/AiDex). I recently discovered that an organization called iflow-mcp is systematically forking hundreds of MCP servers on GitHub, republishing them under their own npm scope (@iflow-mcp/) and on PyPI, and distributing them through their own "marketplace" — without ever contacting the original authors.But the real problem isn't the fork itself. The real problem is security.---*What's happening*The forks are published under the pattern @iflow-mcp/originalauthor-projectname. The familiar name of the original creates trust — but the code the user actually gets is entirely under a third party's control. Nothing prevents that third party from modifying the code before publishing.*Why MCP servers are particularly dangerous*An MCP server is not a harmless plugin. By design, it has deep access:- It reads your source code, navigates your filesystem, receives file contents - It can see .env files, APMar 18, 2026 4:58 PM
nasa.gov
Lava Flows Down Mayonhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/lava-flows-down-mayon/The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 acquired this rare, relatively clear image of Mayon, the most active volcano in the Philippines, on Feb. 26, 2026. The natural-color scene is overlaid with infrared observations to highlight the lava’s heat signature. On that day, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported volcanic earthquakes, rockfalls, and hot clouds of ash […]Mar 18, 2026 3:19 PM
github.com
Show HN: FreeFlow – Open-Source Wispr Flowhttps://github.com/build-trust/freeflowHi HN!Voice is fast-becoming my primary interface to computers and AI. I built FreeFlow because I wanted a Wispr Flow-like experience for our entire team, but customizable and private.Press a hotkey, dictate naturally, polished text appears in any app. Ramble, use filler words, correct yourself mid-sentence. FreeFlow turns messy speech into clean writing and injects it wherever your cursor is: your messaging app, your editor, your coding agent, the terminal, email, anything.Demo (sound on): https://github.com/build-trust/freeflow#demo-sound-on-It's really fast. The injection feels instantaneous. In my benchmarks two thirds of dictations finish in under 0.6 seconds. To get that speed, the app streams audio to your private server over a persistent WebSocket while you speak, and a realtime speech-to-text model transcribes incrementally, so by the time you release the key the transcript is mostly done. Two independent WebSocket connections race each other, and if both fail, an HTTP batch fMar 17, 2026 12:00 PM
zero-human-labs.com
Show HN: Deploy a full autonomous AI org from a single YAML filehttps://zero-human-labs.comShow HN: Deploy a full autonomous AI org from a single YAML fileI built Zero Human Labs after spending too much time babysitting AI agent pipelines — manually routing tasks, watching API costs spiral, and debugging coordination failures. With Zero Human Labs, you define your entire agent team (devs, designers, ops, etc.) in one YAML file. Tasks are routed automatically via a sealed-bid auction — each agent bids based on specialization and track record, and the best one wins the task. No manual assignment, no coordination overhead. Key things that make it different: Per-agent wallets + org-level budget caps → no runaway API spend Circuit breakers → agents that misbehave get frozen automatically Smart model routing → saves 30–80% on AI API costs by matching request complexity to the right model Governance presets calibrated from 146 SWARM simulation runs across 43 agent types Free demo at zero-human-labs.com — 1 agent, 1 example workflow, open-source models. Would love feedback from the Mar 16, 2026 5:39 PM
drobinin.com
Show HN: I built a release tracker for my indie appshttps://drobinin.com/apps/docket/Over the past year I shipped a bunch of iOS and visionOS apps, and the messy part was often not the code but everything around the release - future plans, bug and feature requests buried in reviews, App Store in-app events, featuring nominations, blog drafts, launch posts, and random ideas I got when scrolling HN.I tried using general-purpose tools for this (Notes, Obsidian, Trello, and Jira to name a few), but they were either built around sprints, story points, team workflows, and tickets, or did only a part of what I needed well. What I actually wanted was a single place to track releases and all the admin/marketing/store work that comes with them.I ended up building a wee app for that purpose specifically. Today it is mainly aimed at indie Apple-platform devs. It syncs with App Store Connect, pulls in apps, events and nominations, lets me track launch content alongside releases, and has a CLI/MCP server for terminal/AI-driven workflows. It runs natively on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.It Mar 14, 2026 3:11 PM
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Astronauts’ Perspectives on NESC Contributions to Mission Safety and Successhttps://www.nasa.gov/general/astronauts-perspectives-on-nesc-contributions-to-mission-safety-and-success/The exact date when the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia was lost is readily recalled by Patrick Forrester, as it likely would be for any NASA employee in service that Saturday morning when the Shuttle broke up during reentry. Forrester had flown to ISS for the first time in 2001 aboard Discovery in support of […]Mar 13, 2026 2:48 PM
agentcash.dev
Show HN: AgentCash – access 280 paid APIs with no API keyshttps://agentcash.devHey HN - I'm Mason, and I'm excited to share AgentCash - a CLI to help your agent discover and pay for premium APIs and paywalled data.The problem we kept running into was simple: if you want an agent to use premium data or services, the setup flow is awful.You have to find the right provider, sign up manually, subscribe, generate an API key, install tooling, and then teach your agent how to use it. Then do that again for the next provider.We wanted a simpler model: give the agent a universal balance, let it discover available resources, and let it pay per call.So AgentCash gives agents one balance with access to 280+ paid APIs. It’s built on x402 [0,1] (the Coinbase/Cloudflare payments protocol) and designed to work with tools like Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, etc.I also am really proud of our onboarding flow - we actually use AgentCash itself to research you and the decide how much free cash to give based on a score.The vision for this is to essentially give agents JIT conteMar 10, 2026 4:39 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278980Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance (https://palus.finance). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio.We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product for higher-yield savings. But when we joined YC and got our funding, we realized we needed the product for our own startup’s cash reserves, and other startups in the batch started telling us they wanted this too.We realized that traditional startup treasury products do much the same thing: open a brokerage account, sweep your cash into a money market fund (MMF), and charge a management fee. No strategy involved. (There is actually one widely-advertised treasury product that differentiates on yield, but instead of an MMF it uses a mutual fund where your principal is at considerable risk – it had a 9% loss in 2022 that took years to recover.)I come from a finance background, so this norm felt weird to me. The typical startup cashflow pattern isMar 6, 2026 6:26 PM
feedster.co
Show HN: Feedster, an RSS/feed reader focused on discovery and agent integrationhttps://feedster.coHey HN,I built Feedster for a few reasons:1. I want to spend more time reading people's blogs, long form content, even more traditional digital publications and less time on social media.2. RSS readers have typically felt a lot like Apple Mail circa 2010... Unread counts for every feed, everything in its own discrete view, no means for easily discovering new stuff. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it does make reading content feel like _work_ which is directly opposing goal number 1.3. No one has really rethought the shape of RSS in quite some time (Google Reader is probably the biggest re-think here that I can remember). It's typically been a client that downloads posts from various feeds on the internet. This is simple and it works, but what if there was a different shape that was more communal, more editorial, and was web-based?4. I haven't seen any RSS-powered AI agent workflows and I wanted to experiment with what that might look like. To start, I built a hosted MCP server that usMar 6, 2026 5:56 PM
bidwix.com
Show HN: BidWix – one-shot price agreement using secret max/minhttps://bidwix.com/Hi HN — I built BidWix, a small negotiation tool for agreeing on a price without haggling.How it works:- The buyer enters their true maximum price (kept secret from the seller). - The seller enters their true minimum price (kept secret from the buyer). - If there is overlap, BidWix suggests a single “fair” price using the geometric mean (so the compromise is symmetric in percentage terms, not absolute currency units).Notes:- No signup. Email is optional. No ads. - BidWix stops at the price suggestion. It does not handle payment, contracts, escrow, or delivery. - It’s meant for cases where both sides want to make a deal, but don’t want the “you go first” dance. - I’m not a skilled negotiator myself, so I wanted a tool where negotiation skill is less of an advantage. - It seems to work especially well for intangible goods (I’m a sound designer).If you try it, I’d value feedback on:- Where the flow feels confusing or too wordy. - Whether the suggested price feels reasonable in real negotiMar 5, 2026 12:24 PM
moatradar.com
Show HN: MoatRadar – AI investment research through Warren Buffett's principleshttps://www.moatradar.com/?promo=HACKERNEWSHey HN,I’m a non-developer and this is the first app I’ve ever shipped in my life. I built it over the last few days using Claude and a lot of vibe coding.The idea came from my own investing workflow: I often look at companies through the lens of specific investors (Buffett, Lynch, Taleb, etc.). I wanted a tool that could generate investment ideas filtered through those frameworks.What the app does:You choose an investor (Buffett, Lynch, Soros, Damodaran, etc.) and an asset class (stocks, startups, crypto). The app then generates 10 opportunities and explains why that investor might find them interesting, based on their known principles.Under the hood: • Node.js server (no frameworks) • Vanilla JS frontend • GPT-4o for research / synthesis • live price data • Stripe + Google OAuth • hosted on RailwayIt’s still an experiment and I’m curious if the idea actually makes sense to other investors.You can try it here:https://www.moatradar.comHN users can get 10 free credits:https://www.moatraMar 4, 2026 11:25 PM
bing.com
Stack Overflow on AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasthttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cf7db9a2942cca92d4607b2439148&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerweekly.com%2Fpodcast%2FStack-Overflow-on-AI-A-Computer-Weekly-Downtime-Upload-podcast&c=9090702242459119151&mkt=en-usHeading a company that is focused on software developers, Stack Overflow’s CEO, Prashanth Chandrasekar, is probably in a fairly good position to spot trends in software engineering. Today the company ...Mar 4, 2026 9:25 PM
