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Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors
Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus (https://www.rudus.ai/), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors.Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete structure (footings, walls, columns, slabs), pulls in related details, and eliminates hours of manual quantity calculation. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMNDRWEdlI.The probl
Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers
I’ve spent the last seven months building a tool I wish I’d had in my previous roles. MimicScribe is a macOS menu bar app that fits the "AI notetaker" category. It has accurate on-device speaker identification (a first possibly?), real-time meeting talking points for discovery calls, and a fully keyboard- and voice-driven interface.I believe the accuracy of the speaker ID system is its biggest strength. I used fluid audio’s port of (https://github.com/fluidInference/
Ask HN: Does robotics capabilities research accelerate AGI timelines?
For context, I am a final-year math + CS undergraduate considering pursuing a career in theoretical robotics, particularly in continual learning and the development of robots that can learn from and adapt to / navigate their environments in a human-like manner. One concern I have, however, is that such research might advance AGI timelines. Specficially, it seems possible that architectures developed for continual learning in robots could transfer to general AGI systems (even if the AGI syst
Ask HN: Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails?
From what I've seen it sits at three levels:<p>Layer 1: Personal (memory MCP tools, personal *.md files)
Layer 2: Repo (CLAUDE or AGENTS.md, in-repo docs)
Layer 3: Org-wide (Unblocked, Glean, or similar)<p>Most people have strong opinions on 1 and 2. Layer 3 seems underinvested.<p>Curious, do you think 1 and 2 make 3 redundant, or would a strong 3 mean you'd stop/reduce patching with 1 and 2?
Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call
We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588) where our CLI generated cost estimates for infra-as-code, e.g. "this Terraform PR adds $400/mo". The idea was to shift cloud costs (FinOps) left, so engineers get visibility of costs before deployment and make better decisions.Earlier this year we started seeing agent traffic in our logs and it looked like coding agents were calling our CLI. But that CLI wasn't designed w
Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
I'm pretty tired of seeing AI-related content everywhere.
When I open Hacker News, close to half of the top submissions are AI-related. It's the same on social networks as well.I miss the times when there was a lot of technical content that took time and mental energy to understand.Nowadays, it's pretty hard to discover it. On HN, I see that a lot of technical articles don't make it to the front page, so sometimes I just search for them in the submissions. Not only is there l
Ask HN: AI efficiency in the workplace
Someone at my workplace took 3 days to write a PROMPT to Claude to write a PRD.
It generated magnificent 12 notion pages with graphs, schema defenitions, expected behaviors, what-have-you.
I read through all of them and raised some questions regrading the architecture he decided to go with, as he went on a different direction that what we discussed, and thats OK. Most of his responses where "oh just ignore that, claude added that".
What are we even doing here? The same 3 days could
Show HN: Jin – a machine-readable protocol making internet legible for AI
Hi HN!I'm building Jin - an open-source protocol for agent builders and webmasters to make the everyday internet legible for AI agents.I use AI agents for coding & research and one thing I've observed is that we spend to much time, money or both on giving scraping powers to our agents. That got me thinking, what if there was a system for my AI agent to deliver what I want from the internet without having to break a sweat? And that gave me the intent layer idea.Here's how Jin w
Words do not have determined meanings
The vocabulary itself is reflexive. It is self-referential, looping back into its own structure rather than anchoring in fixed reality. What we treat as stable meaning is continually reconstituted in the act of using it. The observers own interpretations molding each word like clay with every utterance.All large language models to date treat words otherwise. At the moment of softmax crystallization they determine the meaning of every token. Probabilities collapse into a single output. Meaning is
Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens
Hi HN,Not sure if anyone would be interested.But, just wanted to share that I've been maintaining my small tool called 'lowfat' that helps me filters some of my verbose CLI output.It's a single binary, works as an agent hook or a shell wrapper.
It has a plugin system to customize filters per command.The idea is pretty simple: agents don't need the full kubectl get -o yaml or any 10k-line dump to make decisions.
So that lowfat sits in between, strips the noise, and pass
Bad MCP design cost your Agent 5× more tokens
I recently did some tests on two MCPs with identical functionalities. Turns out one of them has really bad performance. So I wanna share those bad MCP design patterns that cause this.It all started when I wrote an MCP Server (MCP-A) for a to-do list app. Later, the app officially released its own MCP Server (MCP-B). Both MCPs have the same functionalities and hit the same backend API.The experiment is set up as follows:- Both MCP Servers connect to the same ToDo list account, and it will be rese
We built Tixio to replace 5 other expensive tools
Hi HN,We started making Tixio as a simple bookmark manager. Then we brought wiki. Users kept rising along with its popularity. Our team grown over time. And one day we realized how we've been spending fortune on different productivity tools for team coordination, still not getting enough of it. That's when we decided to build Tixio as a collaborative workspace that can replace all 5 tools we've been spending on - project manager, chat, whiteboard, HR and CRM.Tixio is a workspace w
Beyond Meat Drops the 'Meat' From Its Name as It Expands to Plant-Based Drinks and Snacks
Beyond Meat Drops the 'Meat' From Its Name as It Expands to Plant-Based Drinks and Snacks Beyond Meat is dropping “meat” from its name as it moves beyond the struggling market for plant-based burgers, ...
Think you know Beyond Meat? Here's 1 little-known fact you can't overlook.
Beyond Meat makes plant-based meat alternatives. When the company first introduced its "hamburger," everybody wanted to try it. That excitement around Beyond Meat's products has been waning for years.
Will Beyond Meat’s New Clean-Label Beverage Line Redefine BYND’s Brand and Risk Profile?
Earlier this week, Beyond Meat announced the launch of Beyond Immerse, a clean-label, plant-based functional beverage line in New York, developed through direct-to-consumer testing and rolled out with Big Geyser’s distribution network spanning more than 26,000 retail and foodservice outlets. This move marks a meaningful step beyond the company’s core plant-based meat products, testing whether its brand can carry weight in the competitive ready-to-drink protein and wellness beverage...
Lab-grown meat has just been approved for consumption in Australia. What is it and how is it made?
Regulators approve a product grown from animal cells in a factory setting, putting Australia among only a handful of countries around the world to have deemed it safe for sale, while several countries and US states have banned it. Will people be lining up to give it a taste?
The 7-Day Switch: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transitioning Your Dog's Diet
Making the decision to switch to Raw Dog Food is the best thing you can do for your pet's health, but the actual process of transitioning their diet can leave many owners feeling nervous. Unlike traditional kibble guidelines that suggest slowly mixing old and new food together, introducing Raw Dog Food requires a completely different tactical approach to avoid digestive upset. If you are staring at a new delivery of fresh meals and wondering exactly how to get started safely, this step-by-step e
21 Times Jake And Amy's Love On "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" Made Us Melt
"I love you and I treasure you, and YA BORE ME."
If Your Summer Plans Are “Backyard,” These 27 Products From Ikea Will Make It The Hottest Spot In The Neighborhood
If you're going to be out in the heat, might as well make your space look cool.
Restaurants really don't want to sell fake meat - and Beyond Meat is suffering
Beyond Meat's stock fell further Wednesday after it offered a weak forecast, and as it prepares to move further into a crowded protein-drink market Shares of Beyond Meat have fallen nearly 56% over ...