AI agents & automation

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• Wish it existed

  auto recovery tool for agents

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  Ask HN: Do u think there should be a auto recovery tool for agents?

  willlzl · Oct 27, 2026in “Ask HN: Do u think there should be a auto recovery tool for agents?”

• Would pay for

  activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads

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  People would pay for activity of the agent over the network (how much content it checks for them), not ads.

  eye_dle · Oct 17, 2026in “Ask HN: Social network with AI agents – why bad, why good?”

• Wish it existed

  better way for devtool projects to contribute to frontier labs training pipelines or properly posttrain their own agent coding models

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  There should be a better way for devtool projects to contribute to frontier labs training pipelines or properly posttrain their own agent coding models.

  weitendorf · Oct 2, 2026in “SvelteKit 3”

• Why is there no

  time limit on how long they store prompts

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  A question I have about Jev is, who are the "Service Providers" that they provide prompt information, and why is there no time limit on how long they store prompts?

  bjt12345 · Sep 19, 2026in “I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago”

• Wish it existed

  way for a site to tell an agent it isn't allowed access

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  Do you think there should be a way for a site to tell an agent it isn't allowed access?

  bradly · Sep 15, 2026in “An update on Wayback Machine access”

• Wish it existed

  more games, personal apps, and open hardware – more fun stuff that became affordable due to AI

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  I wish there were more games, personal apps, and open hardware – more fun stuff that became affordable due to AI

  brachkow · Sep 14, 2026in “Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)”

• Wish it existed

  bluesky bot that collects and posts these so I (well Claude

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  On one of the recent wikipedia article posts (Glacier Mice I believe) someone commented that there should be a bluesky bot that collects and posts these so I (well Claude..) made one!

  doctoboggan · Sep 1, 2026in “Lion-man”

• Wish it existed

  way to use my Kagi subscription with ChatGPT/Claude

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  I wish there were a way to use my Kagi subscription with ChatGPT/Claude.

  Gareth321 · Aug 22, 2026in “Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results”

• Wish it existed

  LLM tool to explore a topic recursively, as a tree or a mindmap

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  I wish there was a LLM tool to explore a topic recursively, as a tree or a mindmap.

  michaelmure · Aug 9, 2026in “How I use LLMs to learn complex topics”

• Wish it existed

  way to automatically hide all the comments saying "but I think LLM was involved in this software"

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  I wish there was a way to automatically hide all the comments saying "but I think LLM was involved in this software".

  jwr · Aug 8, 2026in “SupererDuperer”

• Startup idea

  AI model to dump the firmware from DJI, Unitree, etc

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  Startup idea: AI model to dump the firmware from DJI, Unitree, etc. etc. and turn it into human-readable code.

  echelon · Jul 24, 2026in “Unitree As2-W”

• Wish it existed

  Kagi MCP to give my agents a better web search tool but they don't seem interested

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  I would love a Kagi MCP to give my agents a better web search tool but they don't seem interested.

  everfrustrated · Jul 22, 2026in “Back to Kagi”

• Wish it existed

  parento view like this for agentic systems(using a standard harness)

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  I wish there was a parento view like this for agentic systems(using a standard harness)

  jboss10 · Jul 21, 2026in “Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac”

• Wish it existed

  way my agents could input my requirements and make calculations specific to my needs, since most of this data is in your db

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  I wish there was a way my agents could input my requirements and make calculations specific to my needs, since most of this data is in your db.

  hereme888 · Jul 19, 2026in “Show HN: Free car spec db to defeat the paywalls”

• Wish it existed

  global registry for books written by generative AI and sold under the name of a "real" (probably non-exisiting) author

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  There should be a global registry for books written by generative AI and sold under the name of a "real" (probably non-exisiting) author.

  antfarm · Jul 14, 2026in “Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles”

• Wish it existed

  standard format / specification for agent transcripts and logs (similar to ACP for runtime events)

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  Building this made it obvious that there should be a standard format / specification for agent transcripts and logs (similar to ACP for runtime events).

  luca-ctx · Jul 2, 2026in “Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine”

• Someone should build

  tool that scans prompts for adjectives

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  Honestly at this point maybe someone should build a tool that scans prompts for adjectives...

  YossarianFrPrez · Jun 29, 2026in “HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88”

• Would pay for

  tool right now to filter ai slop from the feeds

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  > Hell I would pay for a tool right now to filter ai slop from the feeds.

  scotty79 · Jun 22, 2026in “Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work”

• Would pay for

  tool right now to filter ai slop from the feeds

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  Hell I would pay for a tool right now to filter ai slop from the feeds.

  solid_fuel · Jun 22, 2026in “Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work”

• Wish it existed

  pause on new AI and then releasing this new product makes me inclined to believe them

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  So them saying that there should be a pause on new AI and then releasing this new product makes me inclined to believe them.

  theturtletalks · Jun 14, 2026in “Did Anthropic ask for this?”

• Wish it existed

  global filter that allows me, the user of the service, to filter out AI generated content

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  Agree with me or not, there should be a global filter that allows me, the user of the service, to filter out AI generated content.

  quality_life · May 28, 2026in “YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos”

• Why is there no

  talk about the world is already run by AI by proxy

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  why is there no talk about the world is already run by AI by proxy? ie bureaucrats using chatgpt to make their speeches decisions shopfront designs etc.

  ionwake · May 19, 2026in “The last six months in LLMs in five minutes”

• Wish it existed

  service/mailing list to automate this, so I don't have to view the pictures myself

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  I wish there was a service/mailing list to automate this, so I don't have to view the pictures myself.

  sph · May 18, 2026in “Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam”

• Wish it existed

  firewall layer to limit what tool requests the agent can even make

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  There should be a firewall layer to limit what tool requests the agent can even make.

  saltcured · May 2, 2026in “The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox”

• Someone should build

  free streaming service that’s only AI music

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  Someone should make a free streaming service that’s only AI music.

  bilsbie · May 1, 2026in “Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI”

• Wish it existed

  better way to continue my claude sessions remotely on my phone from the gym

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  Later I figured there should be a better way to continue my claude sessions remotely on my phone from the gym.

  todience · May 1, 2026in “Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk”

• Wish it existed

  way to verify the identity of which model is being prompted (which extends to even minor tweaks made to system prompts)

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  However if this needs to be done, then it needs to be a opt-in per site permission at the very least, and there should be a way to verify the identity of which model is being prompted (which extends to even minor tweaks made to system prompts).

  notnullorvoid · Apr 30, 2026in “Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API”

• Wish it existed

  model agnostic platform for running these types of agentic apps

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  There should be a model agnostic platform for running these types of agentic apps.

  dbmikus · Apr 29, 2026in “Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals”

• Wish it existed

  way when we just instruct our agent and figures also solution

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  I feel there should be a way when we just instruct our agent and figures also solution.

  mastermanas1234 · Apr 21, 2026in “Stop using naive RAG – adding relationships to AI context”

• Wish it existed

  way where I can use these tools using MCP so that I don't have to learn the particulars of how the tool behaves and what options they expose

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  There should be a way where I can use these tools using MCP so that I don't have to learn the particulars of how the tool behaves and what options they expose.

  simianwords · Apr 19, 2026in “The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe”