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I built this thing called Town think Discord, but you walk around a pixel town where the NPCs have skills.

Agents have become my initial brainstorm partner for a lot of stuff — sub-agents to counter my own thinking, role-playing a specific person, grounding them in a specific knowledge so they refer instead of guess. I started turning my claude-code into this pattern and it worked well enough that I wanted to see if I turn into a fun shareable thing where other people can also talk to.

It's a small pixel map of buildings. You walk in, step into any building, and talk to the npcs who live there.

Each NPC is an AI agent with its own personality (voice, backstory, what they care about) and a skillset (tools like memory, web search, writing docs). The personality makes them fun to talk to; the tools make them able to actually do something.

Multiplayer/Group discussions: Real people wander the same map. If someone else is in your town you see them walking around and can chat live. Step into a building together and press G to open a shared chat between the humans and AI avatars in that room.

The engineering bit I like most: each NPC is a separate agent with scoped tool permissions. The author decides which tools each one gets — a shopkeeper can hand out inventory, a detective can issue a Case Closed card, a barista just talks.

A few towns I've built:

- AI Startup Town: get in a room with NPCs of famous investors — Paul Graham, Garry Tan, Michael Seibel, Dalton Caldwell. Pitch your idea, stress-test your plan, build your startup doc.

- Murder Mystery Town: Iris Bell is dead. Talk to the NPCs, catch someone in a contradiction, figure out who did it, and report back to Detective Reeve to close the case.

- Roast Town: get roasted, or learn the fundamentals of roasting.

- CORE Town: the sampler — one town that shows off everything. Pitch Garry Tan at YC House, stand trial at Trial of You, get worked over by a noir detective, get roasted. Best place to start.

You can build your own town too, and it's open source. A town is just a JSON + MDX folder — a buildings list, one .mdx per AI avatar (frontmatter = identity, body = system prompt) — then town deploy from the CLI. There's also a claude plugin that builds the whole thing in one shot from a rough description.

Guest mode, no signup:

Startup: https://town.getcore.me/startup?invite_code=7EQMH0

Murder Mystery: https://town.getcore.me/murder-mystery?invite_code=S85S24

Roast: https://town.getcore.me/roast-town?invite_code=0MXN93

CORE Town: https://town.getcore.me/core-town?invite_code=H4C0TZ

Full list: https://town.getcore.me/explore

Source: https://github.com/RedPlanetHQ/town

Rather fun project overall. Honestly I have been thinking a lot about how community engagement is changing with agents and this felt like a good way. It's a very raw shot. Kindly share your thoughts and feedback.

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Article URL: https://www.mdtool.dev

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Article URL: https://www.psyop.report/p/2-putting-fluoride-in-the-mental

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I would like to keep up with news in a particular sector. I considered using an RSS reader, but with advances in LLMs, I am wondering whether anyone uses an LLM for this reliably.

Do you pull from and summarize a bunch of news sources? How have you set it up, and has it been reliable?

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Article URL: https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/07/on-andi-roberts-and-communication-patterns-matter

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Article URL: https://github.com/pocket-stack/pocketjs

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Hi HN,

I'm the solo developer behind Postezi.

The idea came from a problem I kept running into: I'd ship features almost every day, but when it came time to write about them on LinkedIn or X, I'd stare at a blank editor for 20 minutes and eventually give up.

I realized Git commits already contain most of the context needed to describe what changed. The missing piece is collecting that context, understanding it, and turning it into something readable.

So I built Postezi.

I hope this tool will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls

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Article URL: https://blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/posts/2026-07-14-lbse-conditional-layers/

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11607

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In X, I see it's easy to go viral and stuff and there seems to be engagement if you are consistent (and can pay for the plan and do hot takes)

while in linkedin, I saw many posts on how linkedin people often don't engage but then reach out when they have a problem

Anyone here who tried both, do let me know what's working for you folks

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Article URL: https://github.com/automattic/harper

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Hi Hacker News, I am the developer of the application Chauffeur.

Every time I had to open all my apps by hand — VS Code on the right folders, the Chrome tabs, some files edited in Notepad++, open PDF's. I wanted an app that restores my whole context via click on one button.

Chauffeur does this: it saves the state of multiple apps and restores them on demand. Everything stays on the local computer. Open files/projetcs/tabs only talks to 127.0.0.1 or localhost.

Platforms: Windows, MacOS and Linux. Commercial: Free + Pro. No trial, no time limit. Free: free forever, no account, no credit card. Limit: 1 saved workspace (overwritable), restoring is free Pro (paid): unlimited named workspaces + automatic snapshots + export/import. The price is 5.99€/month or 49€/year.

I would like feedback on the cross application context model and the local only architecture. I would be happy to answer anything.

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Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/laptop-ban-university-ai-backlash-b3013911.html

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The IChingPortal is a phrase and keyword search platform that queries popular API’s and 1000’s of newsfeeds and filters them through the I Ching frame work. I call Ancient Wisdom through Modern Data. You can do a coin toss to get an I Ching reading or search individual hexagrams. This has been a work in progress for several years. I built the first prototype before LLM’s were even a thing. I came up with the idea after reading The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra but it took some time to evolve where it is now. Originally built it in React 16 using Material UI on the front end. Earlier this year I moved it over to Next.js with Shad/Tailwind on the front end. I recently added a news aggregator as well. View the the whole platform here https://ichingportal.com Get your daily headlines from The I Ching Insight here https://ichingportal.com/ichinginsight Any feedback will be much appreciated.

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I noticed that whenever I upvote or downvote a comment while connected through Tor, my vote is silently ignored. I still get the "unvote/undown" button, but the user karma in their profile remains unchanged. I can repeat the same while connected through the clearnet, and everything works as expected: The karma of the affected user changes accordingly. The upvotes for the stories work fine though.

Is this a new defense from bots? Why does it affect established user accounts like mine? Have anybody else also noticed this?

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Article URL: https://everynoise.com/

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