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The 387 Paper Model Houses of Peter Fritz (2013)

https://socks-studio.com/2013/12/06/the-imaginary-town-of-an-unconscious-architect-the-387-paper-...
1•NaOH•50s ago•0 comments

1.4B user records exposed by insecure Firebase instances in top Android apps

https://mrbruh.com/firewreck2/
2•MrBruh•58s ago•0 comments

'AI mirrors' are changing the way blind people see themselves

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260126-ai-mirrors-are-changing-the-way-blind-people-see-them...
3•devonnull•1m ago•0 comments

ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/
1•jjgreen•1m ago•0 comments

15 Months, 20k Visitors in the last 6, and 0 Product-Market Fit

https://www.gethopp.app/blog/15-months-of-building-a-pair-programming-app
1•iparaskev•2m ago•0 comments

List of obsolete occupations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_occupations
2•madrox•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Syntux – JSON-to-UI for Websites

https://github.com/puffinsoft/syntux
3•Goose78•6m ago•0 comments

A "kill switch" in the Defense Logistics Agency's rare earth RFI and contracting

https://www.themeridianreport.com/p/the-hidden-kill-switch-in-the-defense
1•stevezissouu•8m ago•1 comments

I built a Git firewall because I'm terrified of my own AI agents

https://github.com/Cocabadger/saferun-api
1•cocabadger•9m ago•1 comments

Securely Indexing Large Codebases

https://cursor.com/blog/secure-codebase-indexing
1•edwinarbus•10m ago•0 comments

Global vs. Local SPMD

https://blog.ezyang.com/2026/01/global-vs-local-spmd/
1•matt_d•10m ago•0 comments

Barev – XMPP flavoured P2P protocol

https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/barev-xmpp-flavoured-p2p-protocol/348
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Acme Proxy using step-ca

https://github.com/esnet/acme-proxy
1•netops2devops•13m ago•0 comments

Threading Microsoft into Zapier

1•nicola-hue•13m ago•0 comments

Blockbase: Git but for Minecraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdM-iNpv3nU
1•lukashahnart•14m ago•0 comments

Why Subscriptions Make Everything More Expensive [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIwY
1•mgh2•16m ago•0 comments

Spacecurve: A space-filling curve playground

https://corte.si/posts/spacecurve/announce/
1•cortesi•17m ago•1 comments

Waymo and Cybercab use very different sensors – which wins determines SDV future

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/13/seeing-like-a-sedan
1•bookofjoe•19m ago•0 comments

A true 'hello world' LLM pipeline

https://alganet.github.io/blog/2026-01-08-23-A-true-hello-world-LLM-pipeline.html
1•gaigalas•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How is AppLovin valued at $180B

1•gordon_freeman•24m ago•1 comments

The Darnella test of social media and smartphone regulation

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/16/the-darnella-test-of-social-media-and-smartphone-regulation/
1•hn_acker•26m ago•1 comments

Particle IoT acquired by Digi International for $50M

https://www.particle.io/blog/particle-is-being-acquired-by-digi-to-power-the-next-40-years-of-iot...
1•flycatcha•30m ago•0 comments

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/lick-theft
6•pavel_lishin•30m ago•0 comments

Ukraine, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, America

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/01/26/ukraine-sudan-syria-yemen-america/
1•hn_acker•31m ago•0 comments

Technology Artisan

https://life-prog.com/tech/technology-artisan/
1•mrngilles•31m ago•0 comments

Trump Says He's Not Concerned with Decline of US Dollar

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-not-concerned-decline-205831235.html
7•thomassmith65•32m ago•7 comments

New speech to text tool is better than willow and wispr flow?

https://www.breezevoice.com
1•NalinAtmakur•32m ago•0 comments

Photographer Transformed a Panasonic Lumix G9 II into a Leica Look-Alike

https://petapixel.com/2026/01/09/photographer-transformed-a-panasonic-lumix-g9-ii-into-a-leica-lo...
1•PaulHoule•33m ago•0 comments

NTSB Animation of Flight 5342 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ10ZOcWuC4
2•antongribok•34m ago•0 comments

Why is the app slow on Pixel 7?

https://binarysky.se/blog/2026/01/why-is-the-app-slow-on-pixel-7/
1•lindskogen•35m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Feedback on a starter kit for background agents (WINK / Python)

https://github.com/weakincentives/starter
1•andreisavu•1h ago

Comments

andreisavu•1h ago
Hi HN — I’d love feedback on a starter repo for building unattended/background agents in Python:

https://github.com/weakincentives/starter

It’s built on top of WINK (Weak Incentives). The goal is to make the “agent definition” a first-class artifact: prompt structure + tools + policies + feedback/evals, separated from whatever runtime/harness drives the loop.

The demo is a toy “secret trivia” agent, but it showcases: prompt sections that bundle instructions + tools, progressive disclosure, tool policies (ordering constraints), feedback providers, and evaluators.

Questions: - How are you approaching building agents that run unattended? - Are these abstractions useful, or would you do this differently? - What works? What doesn't? What feels weird?

Thanks for any critique.