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Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-arena-colored-pencils-claude-gpt-grok

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998404

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Article URL: https://theconversation.com/where-do-the-worlds-biggest-diamonds-come-from-geology-now-has-answers-285003

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998388

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/bets-against-spacex-grow-to-32percent-of-float-as-elon-musk-warns-short-sellers-wont-survive.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998381

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2026.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998367

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362

Points: 3

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Article URL: https://andreapivetta.com/posts/bring-your-own-harness.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998360

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://github.com/k0sproject/k0s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998332

Points: 1

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Check out RootBadger. A nice alternative to Reddit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998321

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/treasury-flags-concern-over-potentially-abusive-tax-strategies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998318

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/nvidia-vera-rubin-driving-performance-per-watt-lowest-token-cost-for-partners-worldwide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998307

Points: 2

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We’re open-sourcing Browser Tools SDK: a small TypeScript package to give any AI agent a reliable way to control a real browser. With just a few lines of code, you can give any agent a production-ready browser harness

import { createAiSdkBrowserTools } from "libretto-browser-tools/ai-sdk"; import { LocalBrowserProvider } from "libretto-browser-tools"; const { tools } = createAiSdkBrowserTools(new LocalBrowserProvider()); const result = await generateText({ model: anthropic("claude-sonnet-4-5"), tools, prompt: "Go to Hacker News and tell me the top story", }); We built the Browser Tools SDK because access to a browser is one of the most important tools of a productive agent, but we found many of the existing tools lacking. Using the insights we gained building Libretto, we were able to build the SDK so that it’s significantly more context and cost-efficient than other tools:

We compared Browser Tools SDK against agent-browser, playwright-cli, and dev-browser on 26 live-site tasks with GPT 5.6 Sol (best results from 3 runs). Browser Tools tied for the best pass rate at 24/26 and came in about 55% cheaper per successful task than the next alternative ($0.106 vs $0.235) while also using far fewer tokens (1.45M vs 2.29M+). Benchmark methodology is in the repo.

The Browser Tools SDK only exposes 6 tools, of which only 2 are really important: `browser_snapshot` and `browser_exec`. The snapshot tool was designed from the ground up to be extremely context-efficient and provide agents the overview they need to know what to try next. The exec tool takes and executes raw Playwright code, of which the models have been trained on heaps of, and know how to use without much direction.

Works with AI SDK and Pi out of the box, plus a custom path for anything else. More frameworks are coming soon. You can also use any browser infra provider (Libretto Cloud, Kernel, Browserbase, etc.) or use `LocalBrowserProvider` to run Chromium locally (although that will have less anti-bot protections).

MIT licensed. Check out the docs: https://libretto.sh/docs/browser-tools/quickstart and join the Discord: https://discord.gg/NYrG56hVDt.

We’d love any and all feedback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998262

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Article URL: https://zetadeck.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998261

Points: 1

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Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/ios-27-code-suggests-apple-could-restrict-leased-devices-after-missed-payments/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998241

Points: 1

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I've typically worked on longer and bigger software development engagements, but recently have picked up several small (but profitable) automation jobs via referral. My existing onboarding process is too much for these types of projects.

I’m curious what methodologies or tools (super curious about tooling) people use to help obtain the required context (asynchronously) to scope out a project successfully.

I feel like this is something that I’m good at and, probably, the most important input to delivering great outcomes for my clients. My level of engagement in this beginning phase is my biggest bottleneck, there is so much friction and energy required at the start. For reference on my existing pattern:

I tend to start with 1-1 conversations. This gives me a good starting point of context AND helps earn trust with stakeholders.

Then I move into 1 to many conversations which start to expose nuances as people talk to each other while I observe. This is also typically when I start to tease solutions and build up social excitement for the future state.

Both of these steps are very synchronous and time consuming. They also have valuable social benefits that remove friction when we move into implementation. But that doesn't seem as important in these more short term engagements. Curious what other folks are doing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998228

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/KZouAPT/status/2079569508549673409

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998205

Points: 2

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Easy to try even without an account! Would love all feedback.

Hey all, I'm building Meltbox as a better human in the loop system. It's a way to centralize all of the decisions you need to make into context-rich briefs in a system built for fast human review.

[Why]

Something major changed recently. Agents have gotten even better and even faster at building apps / sites / dashboards / etc... and that's changed my development workflow in a major way.

I often have my agents build an entire app/dashboard just to make ONE DECISION.

It's no longer just building the product. It's building throwaway internal apps on the fly to help me build the product.

So I built Meltbox as a home for those things. Some are throwaway briefs while others stick around as custom dashboards.

[How it Works]

- Go to https://meltbox.ai and an immediate workspace is spun up for you - Copy/paste the invite link to your agent (Claude Code / Codex / etc...) - The agent gets instructions on redeeming its access token and accessing your workspace - Ask your agent to push you a brief about any work you're doing - You review the brief in Meltbox while the agent stays connected live to it. - Make decisions, mark it up with comments, and write notes that all flow back to your agent. - Finally, Sign up to claim/save your workspace!

[Challenges]

In a world where it's easy to build anything, I question what it takes to build a SaaS tool worth buying than building yourself. Meltbox has required solving a lot of unique problems, not only in UX taste, but also: - Real time / web socket connections: agents live connected to the platform and your briefs - Secrets management: a secure architecture for managing API keys usable by apps and agents - Security / Permissions: RBAC permissions, content policies, domain safeguards and constant Fable / Sol audits - ...and so many more things.

These are not one-shottable. We're building the loops and burning the tokens to make Meltbox really good.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998187

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Article URL: https://moviesoon.eu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998179

Points: 3

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Article URL: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/07/cisco-antares-a-new-family-of-open-source-inexpensive-compact-security-ai-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998173

Points: 4

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Academic IT and network services network Jisc resigns a collaborative MoU with partners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US.

A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, formerly SD-WAN vBond, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system.

This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted file to the affected system. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to perform command injection attacks on an affected system and elevate their privileges as the root user.

To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must have netadmin privileges on the affected system. This would require valid credentials or exploitation of CVE-2026-20182 or CVE-2026-20127. Cisco is not aware of successful exploitation by other methods. Cisco has observed limited cases where the exploitation of this bug resulted in a configuration change pushed to edge devices.

Cisco recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software that is documented in the Catalyst SD-WAN Security Advisory that was published on May 14, 2026, and verify the configuration of the edge devices.

Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

Important: To preserve possible indicators of compromise, customers should issue the request admin-tech command from each of the control components in the SD-WAN deployment before upgrading. After the admin-tech file has been collected, software should be upgraded at the earliest opportunity.

Before upgrading an SD-WAN deployment to a fixed release, retain relevant logs. After upgrading, verify that the system has not been compromised by checking the logs for the indicators of compromise as documented in this advisory. If the logs show indicators of compromise and the system is confirmed to be compromised, applying the software update alone will not resolve the vulnerability. In such cases, follow the specific remediation steps that will be provided by the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to help secure the system.

Live Protect Shield

Cisco has released a Live Protect shield for CVE-2026-20245 to provide temporary security coverage to allow time for software upgrade planning, including preserving any information that customers may require for governance or compliance purposes.

This shield offers only temporary partial protection. The only way to remediate this vulnerability is to upgrade to the first fixed software release, as noted in the Fixed Releases section of this advisory. Cisco strongly recommends prioritizing system upgrades and scheduling them as soon as possible to ensure remediation.

Before deploying the shield, read the following information:

• Before deploying this shield, set up disaster recovery operations, which have been tested to continue to operate. The new SD-WAN Disaster Recovery operations will not succeed after deployment of this shield. For more information, see