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The Wrong Defaults is why enterprise AI agents fail at adoption

https://imphan.substack.com/p/the-wrong-defaults-an-ai-agent-manifesto
4•pltc•1h ago

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pltc•1h ago
I built an AI agent at my Fortune 500 company. It earned the trust of thousands of users because it's friendly and engaging. I learned many lessons along the way and want to share them with you all. The key is: do what you think is right, keep your critical thinking sharp, pull yourself together and build what you believe.

Richest to Profit in Trump's Capital Gain Tax Ideas for Midterms

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/richest-to-gain-with-trump-s-capital-gain-tax-...
1•petethomas•55s ago•0 comments

The ESPHome Starter Kit is here

https://esphome.io/blog/2026/08/12/the-esphome-starter-kit-is-here/
1•balloob•1m ago•0 comments

California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/california-uber-lyft-drivers-win-union-recognition/
2•lxm•3m ago•0 comments

The Mothra Telescope Captured the Faint Aftermath of a Star's Death

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/science/mothra-telescope-helix-nebula.html
1•wglb•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What should I do with my W10 laptop?

1•minimal3•6m ago•0 comments

Why Are Scientists So Bad at Naming Things? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luh0NLhcMrI
1•ivanjermakov•7m ago•0 comments

Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews

https://shmuplations.com/mario64/
1•us-merul•8m ago•1 comments

Law firm declines offer to represent migrant children

https://apnews.com/article/texas-migrant-children-deport-immigration-d070db48239d70082d22a52197e5...
2•petethomas•14m ago•0 comments

Mux Beacon – macOS menu-bar inbox for Claude Code/Codex agents in tmux

https://github.com/Lukeesec/mux-beacon
1•lmartineng•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How important is document category recognition in data classification?

1•ChrisRun•18m ago•0 comments

Advanced Automation for Space Missions (1982)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19830007077
1•zetalyrae•20m ago•0 comments

I reverse engineered Grok Bot and found some hidden features like shared rooms

https://runtimewire.com/article/scoop-grok-bot-ships-dormant-shared-rooms-for-tasking-other-users...
1•ryanmerket•24m ago•0 comments

The Largest Tweetable Number – lectures on infinity (lecture 4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n115MgLFz0
1•FillMaths•25m ago•0 comments

Cambra is now open source

https://github.com/cambra-dev/cambra
1•evnc•25m ago•0 comments

They Spoke English, Wore U.S. Flags and Attacked Fishermen. Who Were They?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/americas/ecuador-fishing-boat-strikes.html
1•ceejayoz•26m ago•0 comments

How to Spot a Terrorist in Your Startup [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQErhgTsCOw
1•bob1029•30m ago•0 comments

Steady Progress Reshapes Australia's Energy Market – July 2026 Update

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/10/steady-progress-reshapes-australias-energy-market-july-2026-...
1•toomuchtodo•33m ago•0 comments

Scheduling jobs across Slurm clusters (and K8s, and cloud) from one place

https://skypilot.ai/blog/multi-slurm
2•alex000kim•36m ago•0 comments

Fenix Flexin Admits He Used AI for "Rubberz"

https://stereogum.com/2507554/fenix-flexin-finally-admits-he-used-ai-for-rubberz/news
1•jenthoven•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I scored my Kalshi bot with Brier score. It was worse than guessing

https://predictandprofit.io
2•stfarm•38m ago•0 comments

Music Speed Changer Web App

https://app.musicspeedchanger.com/
1•EvansFunTime•39m ago•0 comments

A Goodbye from SvelteJobs

https://sveltejobs.com/
3•Leftium•40m ago•0 comments

I Audited My Trading Bot and Found It Had No Skill (Brier 0.2858 vs. 0.2439)

https://stfarm.substack.com/p/i-audited-my-own-trading-bot-and
1•stfarm•41m ago•0 comments

Coderbyte Coding Assessment Questions: What Candidates Should Expect

https://prachub.com/resources/coderbyte-coding-assessment-questions-what-candidates-should-expect
2•nian2326076•42m ago•0 comments

McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/
5•CGMthrowaway•43m ago•2 comments

NYC's wealthiest neighborhood has zero Flock cameras

https://maps.deflock.org/
6•CGMthrowaway•43m ago•3 comments

Palantir Decomposition Interview Guide: How to Structure Ambiguous Problems

https://prachub.com/resources/palantir-decomposition-interview-guide-how-to-structure-ambiguous-p...
2•nian2326076•44m ago•0 comments

The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains

https://www.wunc.org/environment/2026-08-10/road-to-nowhere-great-smoky-mountains
3•yareally•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

https://www.ballet.dev/
11•danielkimber•47m ago•1 comments

Saber Interactive Denies Replacing Lead Writer with ChatGPT, CEO Responds

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/saber-interactive-acknowledges-undisclosed-genai-use-in-rid...
4•ceejayoz•50m ago•1 comments