Solutions that were tried, and what stopped them.

mrlesmithjr/Ansible

Collection of Ansible playbooks, roles, and examples for infrastructure automation

mrlesmithjr

cuzfrog/lissom-skills

Light weight Claude Skills and Agents for every day tasks.

cuzfrog

projectdiscovery/nuclei-ai-extension

Nuclei AI - Browser Extension for Rapid Nuclei Template Generation

projectdiscovery

BrayAlter/UAT-Global-Server

Uma Musume Auto Trainer (Global Server)

BrayAlter

add2cal/add-to-calendar-button-react

Convenient React wrapper for the add to calendar button snippet, which lets you reliably create beautiful buttons, where people can add events to their calendars.

add2cal

PleasePrompto/notebooklm-skill

Use this skill to enable Claude Code to communicate directly with your Google NotebookLM notebooks. Query your uploaded documents and get source-grounded, citation-backed answers from Gemini. Features browser automation, library management, persistent authentication, and answers exclusively from your own knowledge base.

PleasePrompto

the-omics-os/lobster-local

Claude-Code for Bioinformatics

the-omics-os

drbap/dashboard-navigator-for-obsidian

Dashboard navigator plugin for Obsidian.

drbap

corv89/shannot

Human-in-the-loop execution for LLM agents

corv89

univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple/jctl

`jctl` uses `python-jamf` to select objects to create, delete, print and update. It allows performing Jamf Pro repetitive tasks quickly and provides options not available in the web GUI. It is similar to SQL statements, but far less complex.

univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple

Show HN: Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents

I've been delegating work to Claude Code for the past few months, and it's been genuinely transformative—but managing multiple agents doing different things became chaos. No tool existed for this workflow, so I built one. The Problem When you're working with AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf), you end up in a weird situation: - You have tasks scattered across your head, Slack, email, and the CLI - Agents need clear work items, context, and role-specific instructions - You have no visibility into what agents are actually doing - Failed tasks just... disappear. No retry, no notification - Each agent context-switches constantly because you're hand-feeding them work I was manually shepherding agents, copying task descriptions, restarting failed sessions, and losing track of what needed done next. It felt like hiring expensive contractors but managing them like a di

Why it failed: I've been delegating work to Claude Code for the past few months, and it's been genuinely transformative—but managing multiple agents doing different things became chaos. No tool existed for this workflow, so I built one. The Problem When you're working with AI age

meisnerd

Show HN: Halo 3's Guardian, playable in the browser, as my personal website

I've never had a personal website, and I didn't want to make a resume/portfolio site, so I rebuilt Guardian and hid a treasure hunt through my life inside it. You start in the Halo 3 main menu, go through the lobby, spawn in the map, and explore. There are photos, stories, quests, mini-games, and Easter eggs scattered around. Movement is via WASD and mouse, no signup. Guardian was my third place growing up. Starting in 9th grade, my friends and I would get home after school, get on Halo, and hang out in a Guardian free-for-all with MLG settings until everyone came online, then play customs or ranked for hours. On weekends we'd bring our Xboxes and monitors to each other's houses, stay up all night, and play in local tournaments. Guardian was probably the closest thing I had to a digital home, so I wanted my site to live there. Playing it and hearing the theme mus

Why it failed: I've never had a personal website, and I didn't want to make a resume/portfolio site, so I rebuilt Guardian and hid a treasure hunt through my life inside it. You start in the Halo 3 main menu, go through the lobby, spawn in the map, and explore. There are photos,

runshouse

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte ( https://airbyte.com/ ). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents ( https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/ ), a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems. Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosDytyf1fg As agents move into real workflows, they need access to more tools (e.g. Slack, Salesforce, Linear). That means a ton of API plumbing: authentication, pagination, filters, handling schema, and matching entities across systems. Most MCPs don’t fix this. They’re thin wrappers over APIs, so agents inherit their weak primitives and still get it wrong most of the time, especially when working across tools. An even deeper issue is that APIs assume you already know what to

Why it failed: I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte ( https://airbyte.com/ ). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents ( https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/ ), a unified data layer for agents to di

mtricot

Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (that is registered to me under my name, address, and phone number). During a recent leadership transition, the incoming club lead wanted to make changes to the DNS and didn’t know to contact me. They figured out the domain name was parked at NameCheap, so they initiated a password reset using the domain name. I got a password reset email and immediately filed a NameCheap support ticket saying “I did not initiate this”. They called me to verify I was the one who filed the ticket, and then followed up with a canned email with tips like check your anti-virus. The incoming club leader was persistent though, and called NameCheap support. He convinced them the domain registered in my name and address really belonged to his club, and with no verification or validation whatsoever, Na

Why it failed: I’ve been a NameCheap customer for 13 years. I’ve also helped out an old college club paying for a .com they use (that is registered to me under my name, address, and phone number). During a recent leadership transition, the incoming club lead wanted to make changes to the DNS an

Thrashed

Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?

I’ve worked on a project for one year now, a marketplace web application for one of my clients. It involves a web shop frontend, integration with suppliers, payment platforms, product management, stock syncing, and much more. I built the project from scratch with open source components, guided other developers on the project, and was leading all the technical decisions. Last year I started using LLM’s for cumbersome tasks, and since the beginning of this year I started working with Claude Code to implement features. Still, I always need to think about the implementation, and actively direct and correct the bot. As many of you will know, it can speed up development, but I still need to use my more than ten years of experience as a developer. I thought the project for my client would be safe. This changed when they started developing some of their own, much smaller and simpler projects on

Why it failed: I’ve worked on a project for one year now, a marketplace web application for one of my clients. It involves a web shop frontend, integration with suppliers, payment platforms, product management, stock syncing, and much more. I built the project from scratch with open source comp

piscator

Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email account for obivous reasons. It bounces everyone else. - Temporary. Lasts for a while (24h, 7days, etc) then bounces. Received messages stay or go as per your choice. - Prefix. The most powerful. Declare a prefix like "service" and then invent any suffix, like "service-netflix" or "service$bank" and it creates a new one-sender inbox locked to whoever wrote first. Bring you own domain. Bring your own AI (MCP server ready). Forwarding. Please help me test it.

Why it failed: Infinite inboxes, including prefixes where you don't have to create inboxes before you use them -- they self create when you add a suffix. Three types of inboxes: - One sender. Locks to the first domain to send email (except gmail, outlook, etc where it locks to an email acc

edpin2000

Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?

It has been 120 hours (5 days) since the internet shutdown in Iran began. While international phone calls have started working again, data remains blocked. I am looking for technical solutions to establish resilient, long-term communication channels that can bypass such shutdowns. What are the most viable options for peer-to-peer messaging, mesh networks, or satellite-based solutions that don't rely on local ISP infrastructure?

Why it failed: It has been 120 hours (5 days) since the internet shutdown in Iran began. While international phone calls have started working again, data remains blocked. I am looking for technical solutions to establish resilient, long-term communication channels that can bypass such shutdowns

us321

Show HN: Startup sci-fi novel that took me 5 years to write

It started after reading Stephen King's "On Writing" where he likened the art of writing as the unearthing of an archeological site after you stumbled upon a unique bone of a story. His advice was to choose a domain you are deeply intimate with. For me, I've been a struggling startup founder for 15 years—enough material to inspire a novel. A 1,000-word writing exercise turned into a complete 125k-word manuscript over the course of a year. In year 1, I learned the sheer joy of unencumbered creative flow and authentic expression. A similar flow I used to get from coding (and more recently vibe coding). What made it effortless was a mindset that I was writing for the sake of it, not with the intention of publishing. After a year of keeping it close to my chest, I decided to show it to a few close friends. They liked some of it, destroyed some of it. Some ultimately encou

Why it failed: It started after reading Stephen King's "On Writing" where he likened the art of writing as the unearthing of an archeological site after you stumbled upon a unique bone of a story. His advice was to choose a domain you are deeply intimate with. For me, I've b

mck-

Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents

It’s well known at this point that documentation needs to be optimized for AI agents - we’re all pointing our Claude Code / Codex / Pi agents at documentation, and expecting the models to figure out how to implement a product. This, however, changes the entire optimization problem when writing documentation. Good documentation now becomes more objective - you are solving the very concrete problem: can a dumb harness running the dumbest model implement this reliably? Humans can typically compensate for inconsistent terminology or scattered context across pages, but for agents, this often will waste time (or even just completely confuse the agent). We’ve been building a small project around this called dari-docs: users can upload their documentation via website or CLI and run agents across different providers to see where they falter. You can upload your documentation, feed a lis

Why it failed: It’s well known at this point that documentation needs to be optimized for AI agents - we’re all pointing our Claude Code / Codex / Pi agents at documentation, and expecting the models to figure out how to implement a product. This, however, changes the entire optimizat

byhong03

Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and the equal/opposite force, inertia (the Sun is removed and Earth just drifts straight), then "an orbit is falling and continuously missing," cosmic velocities with a little rocket, Voyager 1 & 2's real gravity assists (the clock runs the actual 1977–1989 dates so the planets orbit into their grand-tour alignment and the slingshots line up), and it ends on Einstein — gravity as curved spacetime, the classic rubber-sheet well. What's real: every body uses its real radius/mass and J2000 orbital elements; positions come from solving Kepler's equation each frame. You can toggle to a

Why it failed: Just for fun and self education, I've built this over a weekend to teach myself why orbits exist, not just show planets going around. Something that was never clearly explain to me in school. It opens with a guided tour that builds the idea up step by step: two bodies and th

qunabu

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

Kitten TTS ( https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS ) is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We had a thread last year here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807868 . Today we're releasing three new models with 80M, 40M and 14M parameters. The largest model (80M) has the highest quality. The 14M variant reaches new SOTA in expressivity among similar sized models, despite being <25MB in size. This release is a major upgrade from the previous one and supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. Here's a short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge3u5qblqZA . Most models are quantized to int8 + fp16, and they use ONNX for runtime. Our models are designed to run anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, b

Why it failed: Kitten TTS ( https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS ) is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We had a thread last year here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807868 . Today we'

rohan_joshi

Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport

Latest archive link: https://archive.is/Qdq4x

Why it failed: Latest archive link: https://archive.is/Qdq4x

edward

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

Libretto ( https://libretto.sh ) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts you can inspect, run, and debug”. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDpIntmHAM . Docs start at https://libretto.sh/docs/get-started/introduction . We spent a year building and maintaining browser automations for EHR and payer portal integrations at our healthcare startup. Building these automations and debugging failed ones was incredibly time-consuming. There’s lots of tools that use runtime AI like Browseruse and Stagehand which we tried, but (1) they’re reliant on custom DOM parsing that's unreliable on older and complicate

Why it failed: Libretto ( https://libretto.sh ) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding age

muchael

Meta problem with URPF our bundle in Boca raton

Meta has a problem in its clusters in Boca Raton, Miami; this is affecting the MNA content delivery network and direct content consumption. This has a regional impact in Latin America, since so far most non-cacheable content is consumed from the clusters in Florida. The impact is traceable via ICMP, but also reproducible via TCP and difficult to measure via UDP. This is why monitoring tools are misleading: there is no “slowness” resulting from interface saturation; instead, there is data corruption where packets are discarded at the interface level. Therefore, if network performance is measured using those same data points, it won’t work and you won’t see any alerts. The issue can also be replicated from the looking glass. In fact, I will attach images below, although you can also see them on the website attached to the post, as well as a more specific report There is packet loss and pro

Why it failed: Meta has a problem in its clusters in Boca Raton, Miami; this is affecting the MNA content delivery network and direct content consumption. This has a regional impact in Latin America, since so far most non-cacheable content is consumed from the clusters in Florida. The impact is

synthesis5x