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Re:I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteori... on Saturday October 10, 2026 @07:48AM (#50031966)
Thank you for the kind words! It might be the end for this particular search, but I created a framework where others can do similar historical investigations. It codified the processes that worked well and alerts the agent to some of the gotchas I came across. It basically turns a coding agent into a kind of historical research agent.

https://github.com/jessewaites/antiquity

Re:I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteori... on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:28PM (#50025526)
You know you don't have to comment on everything you see on the internet, right? You're allowed to just keep scrolling when something isn't for you. I wonder how much joy you have in your life, I suspect very little, if anything.
Re:I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteori... on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:24PM (#50025472)
Okay, for those of you that do not enjoy fun, I just added a button at the top of the page to turn off the special effects.
Re:I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to... on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:39AM (#50020400)
I just did something similar with historical archives: https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/i-pointed-ai-at-400-years-...
Re:I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteori... on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:36AM (#50019057)
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:07PM (#49916069)
When Antigravity first came out, when I installed it, it made itself the default application to open all programming file types.... .txt. json, csv, you name it. It was absolutely infuriating and took me a month to put everything back to normal. So they've lost a lot of trust with me.
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:11PM (#49900632)
FYI, America.gov accepts the Konomi Code.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:55PM (#49690489)
An Openclaw, Hermes Agent type system that is meant to be ran on a home server, built in Rails with a Tauri 2 front-end.
Re:Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive... on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:03PM (#49619881)
Interesting. Can you tell me more about this? I have an upcoming project that will use these disks. Thanks!
Re:Introducing MicroLighter on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:07PM (#49366532)
I'm not trying to be rude or unappreciative, but it's kinda crazy to me that the website itself doesn't contain the demo of the thing? I see sample code to implement it on my own site, but the site itself doesn't seem to have any highlighting or I highlighted some text and didn't see anything unusual? Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm missing something here? I'd like to see an example of what a thing does before straight up installing the code on my website.
Re:Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:40AM (#49212159)
I have a bit of a contrarian thought here, but I tried Herdr and I didn't like it. To me, it kind of proved the opposite point it intended, in that agent orchestration actually belongs at the terminal level. I'd like to see for example a fork of Ghostty become the agent orchestration control room.
Re:Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k) on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:42PM (#48910434)
To circumvent distillation.
Re:Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude D... on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:59AM (#48831357)
Rowboat markets itself as "local-first," but if you look in the actual codebase, transcription is Deepgram cloud, voice is ElevenLabs, analytics is PostHog, and the LLM is a cloud API.
Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:26PM (#48665201)
Why build it in such a way that there you're locked into one provider when you can just use this tool and have the ability to choose any provider in the future? I mean, even for fallbacks, like what if anthropic API is down that particular day when you need the service?
Re:Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @08:46AM (#48658899)
RubyLLM is where its at.
Re:The challenges of soft delete on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:27PM (#46711803)
thoughtbot wrote about this a while back https://thoughtbot.com/blog/the-hard-truth-about-soft-deleti...

Show HN: Write one primary AI config file; Export it to all AI Coding Assistants

Posted by piratebroadcast on Thursday October 30, 2025 @09:14PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/agent-smith-v1/id6754718082?mt=12

I made this free macOS app and want to see what y'all think:Simplify your AI assisted coding setup. Write one primary instruction file with 'Agent Smith' then easily export it to your Gemini, Claude, and Codex AI coding assistants.Simplify your AI-assisted coding setup. Write one master instruction file with Agent Smith, then export it directly to your project root for your Gemini, Claude, and...

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Re:Ask HN: Being told to support IE6, any advice? on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:33PM (#18796419)
Anybody know if StimulusJS works on older browsers?
Re:Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:25AM (#18664102)
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was my flat-out favorite series this year. I'm positive that a lot of HN users would love it. The Punch Escrow by Tal Klein was also a favorite of this year.
Re:Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:01AM (#16384503)
I have a coinbase account, but it looks like like a Coinbase Commerce account. Commerce wont accept my regular Coinbase login. I guess I have to create a new account?
Re:Bayesian analysis of ego-depletion studies favours null hypothesis on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:52PM (#16117721)
ELI5?
Re:No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every... on Monday November 20, 2017 @06:55PM (#15744456)
Whats a js library that would do this? Would love to put a demo up on my website to show the user.

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