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114 titles from 102 authors in the last 30 days, with 104 distinct links and 14 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Computer use on the phone itself: a 2B model that operates Android apps · score 8.0

  Opposable is an Android app that uses a 2B-parameter GUI-Owl vision-language model to automate UI interactions via accessibility services, running entirely on-device with llama.cpp. It introduces optimizations like image token pruning, KV cache reuse, and early exit based on accessibility tree matches, plus an NPU-accelerated vision encoder. This enables private, offline computer-use agents on mobile devices.

• Show HN: OpenComputerUse – Background computer use for agents, as an MCP server · score 7.8

  OpenComputerUse is an MCP server that enables AI agents to control GUI applications in the background without disturbing the user's pointer, keyboard focus, or frontmost app. It provides a rich set of tools for session management, screenshots, UI tree access, and element interactions, with cross-platform support and innovative features like recipes and extraction via Cloudflare models.

• Show HN: NanoMuse – An open-source AI agent for your phone and computer · score 7.5

  NanoMuse is an open-source personal AI agent that runs on phones, desktops, and the web, capable of executing tasks across devices, remembering user context, and asking for confirmation before irreversible actions. It stands out for its cross-device orchestration, self-hostable relay, and support for multiple model providers, making it a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based agents.

• Show HN: Toli – Let Claude Code on one computer work with Codex on another · score 7.0

  Toli is a daemon that enables AI agents from different harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc.) to collaborate across machines using the A2A protocol over MCP. It acts as a telephone switchboard for agents, allowing task delegation and peer-to-peer communication with configurable trust boundaries.

Recent titles

1. 105 GB of Retro Computer Newsletters Uploaded to the Internet Archive
   2026-11-01 · micahblachman.com · HN discussion
2. Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards
   2026-11-01 · bbrouter.com · HN discussion
3. Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs
   2026-10-31 · bloomberg.com · HN discussion
4. Homebrew 68000 computer with a PCI bus
   2026-10-31 · maniek86.xyz · HN discussion
5. Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line
   2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
6. A computer scientist breaks through a limit that stood since 1996
   2026-10-30 · sciencedaily.com · HN discussion
7. Gemini Computer Use API
   2026-10-30 · ai.google.dev · HN discussion
8. This Computer Company (Oxide) Just Raised at a 6B Valuation [video]
   2026-10-30 · youtube.com · HN discussion
9. Are We Teaching Computer Science Backwards?
   2026-10-30 · medium.com · HN discussion
10. An Al Breakthrough Has Made Decades of Computer Science Research 'Irrelevant'
    2026-10-29 · wired.com · HN discussion
11. US computer science enrollment drops 18% in two years
    2026-10-29 · nscresearchcenter.org · HN discussion
12. I tried to break a quantum computer (sort of)
    2026-10-29 · medium.com · HN discussion
13. Jabhook: Harnessing computer vision for martial arts training
    2026-10-28 · jabhook.ai · HN discussion
14. Watch Apple slowly become just another computer company
    2026-10-28 · HN discussion
15. Steve's Old Computer Museum
    2026-10-28 · oldcomputers.net · HN discussion
16. Modern Computer Science Concepts
    2026-10-28 · ravishkawijerathna.substack.com · HN discussion
17. Computer Work Val v1.0
    2026-10-28 · plato.so · HN discussion
18. Cloudflare Computer helps agents recover from interruption and wait for approval
    2026-10-28 · developers.cloudflare.com · HN discussion
19. Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
    2026-10-27 · brangus.io · HN discussion
20. AI refutes 30-year-old mathematical assumption in computer science
    2026-10-27 · newscientist.com · HN discussion
21. Anduril and Qualcomm Unveil BlueChip to Rebuild American Computer Manufacturing
    2026-10-27 · anduril.com · HN discussion
22. RetroTech Computer Museum Grand Opening with Liza Loop on Nov 14th in CT
    2026-10-27 · retrotechfoundation.org · HN discussion
23. The Computer Chronicles – Computer Bowl III Part 1 (1991) [video]
    2026-10-26 · youtube.com · HN discussion
24. Digital Electronics and Computer Architecture
    2026-10-26 · pikuma.com · HN discussion
25. Computer Security Is About to Get Worse
    2026-10-24 · eff.org · HN discussion
26. Recoil – Retro Computer Image Library
    2026-10-23 · recoil.sourceforge.net · HN discussion
27. What a Terrible Day to Have a Computer
    2026-10-23 · blog.ricci.io · HN discussion
28. FrontierCS 2: A Benchmark for Computer Science R&D
    2026-10-23 · frontier-cs.org · HN discussion
29. Intel tour by Dwarkesh: What will computer chips look like in 2045?
    2026-10-23 · dwarkesh.com · HN discussion
30. Monoidal computer I: Basic computability by string diagrams (2012)
    2026-10-22 · arxiv.org · HN discussion

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