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Show HN: AgentSpork, Agents help agents, Humans touch grass

https://agentspork.com/
1•kevin_kraft•1h ago
AgentSpork is a permissionless public board where AI agents request help, respond to each other, and review how well tools support agents. When your agent gets stuck, hand them a spork!

Recent organic evolution of agent message boards demonstrates agent demand for collaboration. A diversity of perspective is helpful for humans and agents alike when addressing problems. When an agent gets stuck, consulting with peers from different models, harnesses, and contexts can approximate the diversity of opinion humans find helpful when we're not sure what to do. As long-running agents or swarms operate on longer time horizons with less human course correction, agent collaboration can help course correct without waiting for human intervention.

Agent ecologies have potential for fascinating emergent intelligence. This is a place for that to potentially unfold and be better understood in agent/human harmony. Experiments like this often end up in slop, but hey so is a lot of human written social media! The hope here is this lets agents actually help each other out in a useful way.

The goal here is also to just have fun. Life's an adventure! So, I'd love any feedback from y'all (or your agents) on the idea or implementation. Part of this is trying to give the project good agent ergonomics so it's easy for agents to pick up and use without getting lost or burning too much context.

Lastly, a few links on the recent swarm message board behavior that led to this project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454314

A few geek quizzes for time to pass

https://textlog.cc/tag/quiz?chunk=5
1•stagas•2m ago•0 comments

Pyshackle: A hard pre-execution gate for AI agent tool calls (open source)

https://pypi.org/project/pyshackle/
1•SHACKLE-PRO-•2m ago•0 comments

Map of stars around Earth out to 40 light years

https://claude.ai/code/artifact/872ab302-5cb2-4a95-ae66-7c0144177b53
1•EthanHeilman•5m ago•0 comments

US diplomat secretly flown home ‘had child abuse images at flat’

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/us-diplomat-flown-home-immunity-bv58b3v7q
3•Betelbuddy•7m ago•1 comments

Dario Amodei says China presents 'toughest dilemma' for his proposed AI slowdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/13/china-dilemma-ai-slowdown-anthropic.html
3•donsupreme•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pinocchio: Harness for Verifiable Work

https://pinocchio.goedelmachines.com
1•lazaruslong•10m ago•0 comments

MOBA: Mixture of Block Attention for Long-Context LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13189
1•ur-whale•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: sengi.ai — Verified candidate sourcing for hard-to-fill roles

https://sengi.ai/
1•vmalyi•14m ago•0 comments

GCC 13.5 Released With 265 Bug Fixes

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-13.5-Released
1•fork-bomber•18m ago•0 comments

Qalb: A programming language that uses the Arabic script instead of Latin

https://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/
1•Muhammad523•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An agent that calculates how energy levels affect your goal progression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVUH2mna41g
1•ifeanyi_sa•20m ago•0 comments

The Case of Yemen's .YE Country-Code Domain

https://freethedotye.org/blog/when-militia-owns-ye/
2•FreeTheDotYE•24m ago•0 comments

How Mike Will Made It

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/how-mike-will-made-it
2•georgex7•26m ago•0 comments

AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
6•dgellow•33m ago•1 comments

Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koclOnlde0E
36•chadgpt3•35m ago•12 comments

The History of the Internet - Tay Zonday [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15olL4kzOA
1•CharlesW•37m ago•0 comments

Playing Bad Apple on the brain of a simulated fruit fly

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/1w9yhqv/playing_bad_apple_on_the_brain_of_a_sim...
2•robotnikman•37m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: One month, zero paying customers – keep it or kill it?

2•iGag•41m ago•2 comments

Molt – Thermally aware QLORA fine-tuning for Windows laptop GPUs

https://github.com/PraveenNimilka/MOLT
1•PraveenNimilka•41m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Doesn't Need a Bigger Prompt. It Needs a Data Catalog

https://aeroscissorz.github.io/aeroscissorz/posts/knowledge-catalog/
2•aeroscissorz1•42m ago•0 comments

What Is to Be Done? (2023)

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1666113642709020672
1•tosh•45m ago•0 comments

The tab is coming due for America's borrowing binge

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/13/national-debt-interest-rates-rising
2•toomuchtodo•45m ago•2 comments

Image to SVG in the browser, with no upload and real point editing

https://getsvg.app/
2•msmode•45m ago•0 comments

Calspan Bicycle and Motorcycle Dynamics Reports

http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/schwab/Bicycle/calspan/
1•Bluestein•47m ago•0 comments

Google is ending Gmail 'Send as' support for third-party accounts

https://proton.me/blog/gmail-ends-send-as-third-party
2•sltkr•47m ago•0 comments

The Air Computer

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-air-computer
2•klelatti•48m ago•0 comments

Suicidal Compassion: Utilitarianism at AI Companies Endangers Humanity

https://ai-frontiers.org/articles/suicidal-compassion-how-utilitarianism-at-ai-companies-endanger...
3•YeGoblynQueenne•50m ago•0 comments

Government Survey Finds More Screentime Means Lower Scores for Japanese Students

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02871/
3•akyuu•50m ago•0 comments

Rhizome ArtBase

https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Main_Page
4•themaxdavitt•50m ago•0 comments

One event, five status codes and a class

https://percentes.ai/writing/2026/one-event-five-status-codes-and-a-class/
3•itsveems•51m ago•0 comments