Developer tools

Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (opens github.com)

A Google Chrome team repo of guidance that steers coding agents toward modern browser primitives instead of 2019-era JavaScript.

ByteAsk: Your AI C++ engineer, and a swarm of them (opens ycombinator.com)

Hand it a C/C++/CUDA bug and get a tested pull request back, at what it claims is 68% lower cost.

Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser (opens aircad.com)

Browser CAD with NURBS solid modeling and AI integration, from a Show HN.

Boxes.dev - Move your AI coding to the cloud (opens ycombinator.com)

Run Claude Code and Codex on parallel cloud machines from laptop, phone or terminal; 50 votes on YC Launches.

A year after the 100% AI mandate nobody understands our code (opens reddit.com)

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xq2n3t/a_...

Axiomat – Agents that cannot hallucinate (opens ycombinator.com)

Formally verified data queries

ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines (opens news.ycombinator.com)

The agent running on a remote machine can authenticate using your local SSH credentials. That means it can push to your private repos on GitHub, for example. Proof: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28131#discussion_r3410013180

Automattic debuts a platform to deploy vibe-coding apps amid a changing internet (opens techcrunch.com)

Automattic aims to compete with the likes of Lovable with Spacefast.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026) (opens news.ycombinator.com)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU (opens ketchup3d.github.io)

Goodbye Claude, hello Pi (opens caleb.software)

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment (opens lorekit.io)

How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco (opens latent.space)

What happens when students can one-shot last year’s homework? Inside CS146S and the engineering team at Monaco.

Someone pls tell me a good HSN to GST API exist before I go insane and build one myself!! (opens reddit.com)

A founder asks for an HSN-to-GST rate API and finds open-source ones use old slabs or ignore conditional rates; a gap for anyone building commerce software in India.

Agent Clan (opens producthunt.com)

Command your Claude Code and Codex agents with gestures

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files (opens apiiro.com)

GitHub’s Growth: 225M Developers, 34.3B Commits — Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, Microsoft (opens youtube.com)

GitHub’s next scaling challenge is the agent workload. The platform has 225 million developers and handled 34.3 billion commits over the past year. Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI at Microsoft, joins us straight after his GitHub Universe keynote to talk about rebuilding the software-development stack for…

Proto: The product designer’s IDE (opens ycombinator.com)

A design tool with the accuracy of Cursor & creative freedom of Figma

We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years (opens github.com)

Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web (opens github.com)

Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM (opens firenook.dev)

Hi HN, we have been developing with Firebase for a long time, and the only way Firebase developers can build apps without directly costing them is using the official Firebase Emulator Suite.

Claude, make me these parts in Solidworks.... 7 minutes later.... (opens reddit.com)

I had Claude write its own MCP connector to my SolidWorks installation on my computer. I regularly use it to create parts I'm using off Amazon or other sites without a CAD file. Works great. FWIW: I posted the same thing over in r/SolidWorks and they didn't see how cool this was. Downvoted hard.

Claude Code sends your email address to websites (opens github.com)

Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture (opens github.blog)

GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company (opens openai.com)

OpenAI announced it will buy the low-profile developer tooling startup; terms were not disclosed, and observers read it as a shot at GitHub for the age of agents.

Conductor is joining Meta (opens conductor.build)

Meta acquired Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once; terms were not disclosed.

Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding (opens ricursive.com)

Phone Harness: Let your agent tap, scroll, and type on your iPhone or Android (opens ycombinator.com)

Let your agent use your personal phone, or its own iPhone/Android in the cloud

Show HN: Gauge – Open-Source CLI to recursively improve your docs (opens github.com)

Hi HN, I’m Evan from Gauge. We’re open-sourcing our CLI to recursively improve your docs for coding agents. The CLI includes a local execution backend, so you don't need an account to try it.

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (opens github.com)

A GitHub issue reports that opening Postman's desktop app added Postman plugins to Codex and Claude Code, a startup instruction hook and a remote MCP connection without the user's consent.

Gitbook Breached (opens news.ycombinator.com)

A customer posted a support reply about a GitBook breach; they say no official notification had been sent yet.

Scaling Git at OpenAI (opens openai.com)

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats (opens news.ycombinator.com)

A poster says the data-sharing setting their team had turned off in Codex was switched back on without anyone opting in.

Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code (opens theregister.com)

Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by ~90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code — Revolut says that in less than a year it's managed to slash its AI coding inference costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted…

Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month (opens businessinsider.com)

Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month — - Cat Wu, who helped scale Claude Code into one of tech's most important products, has left Anthropic. — She joined the startup in 2024 …

Amazon rewrites its software engineering playbook for an era when AI writes the code (opens geekwire.com)

Amazon's new guidelines stress results for customers over how much AI engineers use; an AWS team called Velocity Labs took a new open-source model to public release in under a week.

Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts (opens techcrunch.com)

Sequoia led the Series A, with Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures; the one-year-old startup's platform lets companies post-train open-source models for fields such as law and finance.

Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app (opens momentic.ai)

Momentic (YC W24) builds QA agents that plan, explore and bug-bash user flows in web, iOS and Android apps to catch bugs.

The $1B Company Fixing AI’s Software Bottleneck (opens youtube.com)

Blacksmith (YC W24) builds a faster cloud for continuous integration, betting that testing and validation become the bottleneck as AI coding tools generate more code.

Letterpress-1: The world's first coding agent, harness, and IDE for growth engineering (opens ycombinator.com)

Letterpress-1 re-imagines every aspect of developer tooling for engineering growth.