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Show HN: Shelf Protocol – Robots.txt for Commerce

https://github.com/Signal-All/shelfprotocol
1•Lui371•48m ago
My project helps merchants, consumers, and ai agents. We are at the point ai agents will be buying things for consumers. My product verifies the merchant, highlights the store to agents, brings stores and their products into one registery and gives the ai agent speed by calling my registry instead of the agent going searching each merchant one at a time. I have a function "can_buy()" that does a few things. It gives agents an understanding of what they can and can't do. It helps them know if a merchant allows ai agents to buy without a human involved, it lets the agent know my product prove the store is really who it says it is and not a fake site, and it lets the agent know how much it can spend before it has to ask a human for permisssion to proceed. For the consumer it lets your agent do things autonomously without always asking for permission to buy if its under a certain amount. And the agent is going to a store that is verified by my system. For the merchant this gives you another avenue to sell. Where things are heading agents using this system will skip stores that it can't verify. With guardrails that will most likely be in place for agents if you're not listed in this system you'll be invisible. It's one DNS record, free and five minutes. It gives you control on what agents see. Such as your products, how much you allow them to purchase and you are verified as the domain owner of your store for AI agents. I didn't want to launch with an empty directory so I pre-filled the registry with already public product data from real stores on Shopify. I have 8 real merchants and 834 real products. They aren't verified and there is a 0 spending limit at this time. I need the merchants to claim their listing first. It's early and I would love some feedback, especially on the shelf.json schema. I would also like your thoughts on whether DNS-TXT is the right verification long term.

1•piotrbednarsalt•30s ago

Running out of runway: migrating Temporal Cloud's billing store to ClickHouse

https://temporal.io/blog/migrating-temporal-clouds-billing-store-to-clickhouse
1•gk1•41s ago•0 comments

Meta Agrees to Fork over $16B Settlement in Landmark Child Safety Case

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/meta-agrees-to-fork-over-16-billion-settlement-in-landmark-ch...
1•ilamont•49s ago•0 comments

Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electricity-generators-are-not-sustainable/
1•baud147258•1m ago•0 comments

Passkeys in Node.js Without Locking Users Out – Whoooop Ltd

https://whoooop.co.uk/blog/passkeys-nodejs
2•cashy•2m ago•0 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
2•GavinAnderegg•2m ago•0 comments

Round Rects Are Everywhere

https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html
2•romanhn•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PairBook – correlation and holdings overlap for +4,700 US stocks/ETFs

https://www.pairbook.io/
2•vincentjouanne•3m ago•0 comments

How we made scalable long-horizon RL environments for Browser Use

https://twitter.com/Alezander9/status/2092613031381656019
2•Alexander9•3m ago•0 comments

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/
1•sreenathmenon•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BumbleTap – Bind a key to any element, or automate the whole sequence

https://bumbletap.com
1•umershahzeb•4m ago•0 comments

Email Verification API

https://github.com/WICG/email-verification
1•carlos-menezes•5m ago•0 comments

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

https://github.com/AurionMail/docs
1•polo46•5m ago•0 comments

Notes on Private Trackers

https://www.jenn.site/notes-on-private-trackers/
2•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

Chinese Hackers Broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-sponsored-hacking-platforms-seized-by-us-justice-depart...
2•thisisauserid•6m ago•0 comments

Boost Your WordPress Site with the Fastest APCu Object Cache Available

https://medium.com/@chris.ahrweiler/boost-your-wordpress-site-with-the-fastest-apcu-object-cache-...
1•docjojo•6m ago•0 comments

I had some free time, so I tried to pwn V8

https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/i-had-some-free-time-so-i-tried-to-pwn-v8/
1•unknownhad•7m ago•0 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash
1•theanonymousone•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Splitright – split group expenses without anyone making an account

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/splitright-split-expenses/id6608980374
1•sleipner42•9m ago•0 comments

Beetles AI

https://beetles-ai.streamlit.app/
1•MaryamRashid•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bury.lol – a $2 pixel-art graveyard for things that died

https://bury.lol/
1•alertcubes•11m ago•0 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint
1•hellerve•12m ago•0 comments

MicroLighter – A zero-dep syntax highlighter

https://davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/
1•ibobev•13m ago•0 comments

Hover Proximity Using Modern CSS

https://blog.master.dev/hover-proximity-using-modern-css/
1•ibobev•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Neoswarm – Neovim for controlling AI agents

https://neoswarm.dev/
1•meszmate•14m ago•1 comments

Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/unifi-u5g-backup-debugging/
1•Brajeshwar•15m ago•0 comments

An API proxy that trims redundant LLM tokens using AST pruning

https://driftwatchproxy.com/
1•HueBosh•15m ago•0 comments

Commodore Unveils Cyberpunk 2077 Themed Special Edition Commodore 77

https://www.eteknix.com/commodore-unveils-cyberpunk-2077-themed-special-edition-commodore-77/
2•theanonymousone•16m ago•0 comments

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/
4•polyrand•16m ago•0 comments

Requests for Startups: Energy

1•NarcisMirandes•17m ago•0 comments