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Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

https://github.com/kklimuk/docx-cli
9•kirillklimuk•59m ago

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kirillklimuk•59m ago
I originally started this project just to build a TA agent for a professor who didn't have any TAs (my wife). So as you can imagine, it was critical that it could properly write comments and only edit with track edits mode on... and do all of this without accidentally breaking the structure of the doc that couldn't be read.

It's since then expanded to cover everything from editing tables, hyperlinks, footnotes, and a lot more. Now it's a pretty powerful tool that can trivially fill out a MNDA form, mark up a contract, author a poetry booklet, and fill out an invoice, which is now the eval suite where the numbers in the title come from.

You might be asking, "why did you do all of this?" Well, I'm building an agent harness for normies that are not gonna know what a token even is but just want their stuff not to take an epoch and a half to run. So I've got to make the tools be MUCH more optimal than they've even been.

I figure putting them out to the community and inviting all of you to help me might be a way to do that =).

firasd•20m ago
Very cool. So much of the 'capability overhang' of AI can be addressed with tools like this--data manipulation etc without LLMs having to galaxy brain everything in token space
MoAz06•12m ago
I like it

AI recommends crap travel services

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/02/ai-summaries-tripadvisor-hotel-reviews-downplay-...
1•mikelgan•20s ago•1 comments

Show HN: Claudeometer – Share and pool Claude usage across a team (macOS, OSS)

https://github.com/SGSI/claudeometer
1•WableSanket•1m ago•0 comments

Discord banned 8k users for posting benign grid images

https://www.theverge.com/games/962156/discord-accidental-bans-grid-images
1•logickkk1•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bike4Mind – open-core AI workbench; any model, agents, RAG, self-host

https://github.com/Bike4Mind/bike4mind
1•erikbethke•1m ago•1 comments

The Unspoken Rule: A Cover Artist's Reckoning with Race in Publishing

https://myadventuresasanillustrator.substack.com/p/the-unspoken-rule-a-cover-artists
1•pavel_lishin•2m ago•0 comments

US cyber agency is using Anthropic Mythos to audit government code, sources say

https://whbl.com/2026/07/06/exclusive-us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-to-audit-governm...
3•billybuckwheat•2m ago•0 comments

Local AI is re-reading its own prompt

https://github.com/thekiraproject/kira-project-site/blob/main/posts/2026-07-06-prefill-tax.md
1•thekiraproject•3m ago•0 comments

New York City high rise at risk of collapsing

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/07/nyregion/pfizer-building-midtown-collapse
1•guardiangod•4m ago•0 comments

Preparing My Vacation Laptop

https://j11g.com/preparing-a-vacation-laptop
1•speckx•4m ago•1 comments

Cory Doctorow: Reverse Centaurs (2025)

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/
1•mooreds•5m ago•1 comments

Anthropic is now a banned vendor at comma_AI

https://twitter.com/___Harald___/status/2074561342539956403
2•sk4rekr0w•6m ago•0 comments

Data centres account for almost a quarter of Irish electricity usage in 2025

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/07/07/data-centres-account-for-almost-one-quarter-of-iri...
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Deir El-Medina Strikes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes
1•mooreds•8m ago•1 comments

One million more UK homeowners set to face higher mortgages 4 hours ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze9kpxx6d8o
1•theanonymousone•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Brief: a news reader that condenses ~140k daily articles to few stories

https://briefnews.co/
1•pacifist1989•10m ago•0 comments

EP approves free cabin luggage+new delay compensation rules for air passengers

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/07/european-parliament-approves-free-cabin-luggage-and...
1•Markoff•11m ago•0 comments

Meteor 3.5 is here: Change Streams by default, Pluggable DDP transport and more

https://blog.meteor.com/meteor-3-5-is-out-426cbe4877ea
1•o_gabsferreira•11m ago•0 comments

Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch (2022)

https://ebitengine.org/en/blog/native_compiling_for_nintendo_switch.html
1•gnabgib•11m ago•0 comments

Sixteen Failed Attempts to Write a Eulogy for My Father (2024)

https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/untitled-21/
1•NaOH•11m ago•0 comments

Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene: Live in Your Living Room (2007) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9UzNh_2TXk
1•WaluigiBSOD•11m ago•0 comments

Nvidia CEO blasts bosses using AI as a layoff excuse: 'We're scaring people'

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/nvidia-ceo-blasts-bosses-using-070000315.html
1•haritha1313•11m ago•0 comments

MMAP vs. pread in a real Go storage engine

https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/mmap-vs-pread-go-storage-engine/
1•valyala•12m ago•0 comments

Codeberg proposing prohibitting sharing of AI-generated code

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253/files
1•monneyboi•12m ago•1 comments

The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second-derivative-why-no-one
1•samizdis•12m ago•0 comments

'Buy Canadian' in defence software is hollow without teeth

https://vantechjournal.com/p/buy-canadian-in-defence-software-is-hollow-without-teeth
1•ClearwayLaw•14m ago•1 comments

Do I prefer Linux now?

https://baty.net/notes/2026/07/do-i-prefer-linux-now/
5•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Wirth's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
1•theanonymousone•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Strays – See the ports and AI coding sessions your Mac is running

https://github.com/mayur-25-cd/strays
1•kordio•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My Approach to HTML Obfuscation

https://github.com/hirasso/html-obfuscator
1•rasso•18m ago•0 comments

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with the SKA

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27565
1•root-parent•19m ago•1 comments