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Manifesto: Rules for Standards-Makers (2017)

http://scripting.com/2017/05/09/rulesForStandardsmakers.html
1•antonalekseev•4m ago•0 comments

Did pihole mail donation list got leaked?

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/did-pihole-mail-donation-list-got-leaked/81441
1•taubek•5m ago•0 comments

Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Thinking (2022)

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
1•mschuster91•8m ago•0 comments

Hard reality about AI mobile app developers

https://substack.com/home/post/p-169651454
1•ykhandelwaly•12m ago•0 comments

The Design and Implementation of Extensible Variants for Rust in CGP

https://contextgeneric.dev/blog/extensible-datatypes-part-4/
3•Bogdanp•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source self-hosted LLM comparison tool for your own prompt

https://github.com/stashlabs/duelr
2•ycsuck•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: When Intelligence Becomes a Trap: A Wake-Up Call for the AI Industry

https://everydayai.top/
1•fishfl•17m ago•0 comments

Load Balancing AI/ML API with Apache Apisix

https://apisix.apache.org/blog/2025/07/31/load-balancing-between-ai-ml-api-with-apisix/
2•Yilialinn•20m ago•0 comments

Public Perspectives on AI Governance: Survey of Adults in CA, Illinois, and NY

https://zenodo.org/records/16566059
1•sebg•22m ago•0 comments

Claude Code and Tinder = 10 Dates in a Week

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/4FNn4ftdLj
2•cft•22m ago•1 comments

I built a design studio for people who can't design (like me)

https://glowupshot.com
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Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/open-source-repositories-are-seeing-a-rash-of-supply-chain-attacks/
1•_tk_•25m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding Things That Didn't Work

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/30/things-that-didnt-work/
2•sebg•27m ago•0 comments

RIP Amazon QLDB

https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/if-amazon-cant-figure-out-how-to
2•ohduran•32m ago•0 comments

General availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-ec2-g6f-instances-fractional-gpus/
3•mariuz•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Add Travel Time – Auto Travel Time in Google Calendar

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Show HN: Handelsregister.ai – Dev-friendly API for the German business registry

https://handelsregister.ai/de
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AI-Designed Enzymes Break Down Plastic in Hours

https://earth.org/plastic-eating-enzyme/
1•karlperera•46m ago•2 comments

Sharding Postgres at Network Speed

https://pgdog.dev/blog/sharding-postgres-at-network-speed
2•GarethX•50m ago•0 comments

KIRA project launches Germany's first autonomous public transport shuttles

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2•taubek•52m ago•0 comments

Claude Code: My Most Trusted Coworker and My Worst Enemy

https://lopezb.com/articles/claude-code-my-most-trusted-coworker-and-my-worst-enemy
3•GarethX•53m ago•0 comments

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/thai_cambodia_war_cyberscam_links/
1•romaniitedomum•58m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you measure "AI slop"?

4•crakhamster01•58m ago•1 comments

Agntcy: Building Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents

https://agntcy.org
1•thebeardisred•1h ago•1 comments

Gödel: The Limits of Logic and the Foundations of Modern Mathematics

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/godels-incompleteness-theorems/
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Categorising My Daily Todo List with Deepseek-R1

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Dine and dash mental health toll on restaurant staff

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd24ky4818o
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LangExtract: A Gemini powered information extraction library

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-langextract-a-gemini-powered-information-extraction-library/
2•thebeardisred•1h ago•0 comments

C++: "model of the hardware" vs. "model of the compiler" (2018)

http://ithare.com/c-model-of-the-hardware-vs-model-of-the-compiler/
1•oumua_don17•1h ago•0 comments

If the Coronation of Charles II Had Event Marketing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtJvrjiSmds
1•zb9461•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: An AI agent that learns your product and guides your users

https://frigade.ai
60•pancomplex•20h ago
Hey HN! My name is Christian, and I’m the co-founder of https://frigade.ai. We’ve built an AI agent that automatically learns how to use any web-based product, and in turn guides users directly in the UI, automatically generates documentation, and even takes actions on a user’s behalf. Think of it as Clippy from the old MS Office. But on steroids. And actually helpful.

You can see the agent and tool-calling SDK in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPe0t3A1Vpg

How is this different from other AI customer support products?

Most AI "copilots" are really just glorified chatbots. They skim your help center and spit out some nonspecific bullet points. Basically some ‘hopes and prayers’ that your users will figure it out. Ultimately, this puts the burden on the user to follow through. And assumes companies are keeping their help center up-to-date with every product change. That means constant screenshots of new product UI or features for accurate instructions.These solutions leverage only a fraction of what’s possible with AI, which can now reason about software interfaces extensively.

With Frigade AI, we guide the user directly in the product and build on-demand tours based on the current user’s state and context. The agents can also take actions immediately on a user’s behalf, e.g. inviting a colleague to a workspace or retrieving billing information (via our tool calling SDK).

This was only made possible recently. The latest frontier models (GPT 4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, etc.) are able to reason about UIs and workflows in a way that simply didn’t work just 6 months ago. That’s why we’re so excited to bring this technology to the forefront of complex legacy SaaS applications that are not yet AI enabled.

How does it work?

1. Invite agent@frigade.ai to your product. You can send multiple invitations based on distinct roles.

2. Our agent automatically explores and reasons about your application.

3. Attach any existing help center resources or training documentation to supplement the agent’s understanding. Totally optional.

4. Install the agent assistant Javascript snippet (just a few lines).

5. That’s it. Your users can now start asking questions and get on demand product tours and questions answered in real time without any overhead.

This process takes only a few minutes. Once running, you can improve the agent by rating and providing feedback to the responses it provides. If you want to integrate further, you can also hook up your own code to our tool calling SDK to enable the agent to look up customer info, issue refunds, etc. directly. These calls can be made with just a few lines of code by describing the tool and its parameters in natural language and passing a single Javascript promise (e.g. make an API call, call a function in your app, etc.).

Would love to hear what the HN crowd thinks about this approach! Are you building your own AI agent from scratch, or looking to embed one off the shelf?

Comments

lawlessone•16h ago
does it run locally?
pancomplex•16h ago
In theory it could -- but we currently still depend on modern LLMs due to their great latency vs locally run LLMs.
moomoo11•16h ago
The website makes my laptop explode with fans blasting at 100%.

A simpler site that jumps straight to the value prop would be nicer. You have a nice video.

pancomplex•16h ago
Thank you for the feedback! We may have gone a little too hard with the animations. What browser/system are you on?
moomoo11•9h ago
I'm on a 2020 MBP (intel). I have integrated graphics so that's probably why, but still.

Sorry I wasn't being critical, I liked your video :)

nottorp•16h ago
Oh cmon, my mbpro just jumped from 3 W to 16 W :)

Firefox with uBlock Origin tho, so maybe more without uBlock?

anyg•16h ago
I can see this being very useful in a lot of industries. Congrats on the launch!

How did you figure out which ones to start with? Also, have your customers raised concerns about their entire product workflows getting leaked to competitors via the agent?

Also, did you consider creating a browser extension so we can use it on sites that aren't yet your customers?

pancomplex•15h ago
Currently we work will all kinds of software products, so haven't settled on any specific industry yet. But we do see a lot of interest from software with less technical end users.

And we haven't really seen security or privacy issues in terms of competitor leakage. There is more concern around customer data and privacy, and in that regard, we invest heavily in security and have safeguards to help minimize the risk of any customer data issues.

saberience•15h ago
I really dislike this new style of corporate website which every startup seems to be using these days where you cannot scroll easily and random images are popping up as you scroll. It's such a shitty user experience and makes me immediately click away from the site, just let me scroll and see your content! Is this what ChatGPT or Claude is by default creating when you ask it to make your corporate landing page?
pancomplex•15h ago
Fair point :) believe it or not, this website was actually manually built from scratch.
yamazakiwi•15h ago
If I use the scroll bar or touchpad it's not too bad, but using a scroll wheel is causing me immense pain.

The design otherwise looks great, I just cannot be arsed to follow the flow they're forcing.

esafak•14h ago
It's called scrollytelling.
anonzzzies•12h ago
Claude makes far more traditional pages by default, which I prefer. Pages working as pages with content at least for the landing.
drewbeck•11h ago
Scroll hijacking to update animation states is always an exercise in frustration on the phone. Quick swipe down and now I’ve moved between 5 different states. Some kind of accordance for these states and a kind of “detent” on each would go very far toward improving it.
nico•15h ago
> Invite agent@frigade.ai to your product. You can send multiple invitations based on distinct roles

Most systems won’t allow creating multiple users/roles with the same email address

Can the invites be sent to agent+role@frigade.ai?

pancomplex•15h ago
That's exactly right. We also have other aliases for systems that don't allow + or require special auth via Google/Microsoft and even SSO.
flippy_flops•14h ago
Great concept, sharp looking website, and the marketing video looks amazing!

Personally, I've got some fatigue from most AI solutions being less than half baked. I'd love to see a long form video of letting frigade loose on something like Survey Monkey or whatever. Like... what does indexing look like? Does it produce artifacts? Can I see what users are asking? etc

pancomplex•14h ago
I personally use it in AWS and it has helped me resolve multiple production issues. Will record a demo some time in the future.
skeeter2020•11h ago
>> Invite agent@frigade.ai to your product. You can send multiple invitations based on distinct roles.

How does that work exactly? often email is the user is the context. Or worse for this approach email is not used at all. Then what?

lyime•8h ago
> 1. Invite agent@frigade.ai to your product. You can send multiple invitations based on distinct roles.

this is clever

twoodfin•8h ago
Slick!

Have you considered adding product feedback from the exploration & experiences of the agent back to the app developers? “Several users had difficulty navigating to their order history” etc.

Product managers I know would drool over this kind of insight.

pancomplex•7h ago
Didn't demo it here, but the product comes with an entire AI-powered insights module with exactly these kinds of data :)
superasn•5h ago
I like the concept but the landing page is not good and too heavy.

My browser just froze after scrolling half-way. Not sure if this is something to do with the scroll fx but i really don't understand why this simple site is maxing out my CPUs.

j45•5h ago
Very cool idea.

Will try it out.

In addition to the frontier model capabilities could it would be nice if the tool could tune into past and current user session click/interaction history.

Getting lots of ideas for this but I’ll stop here.