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142 titles from 127 authors in the last 30 days, with 128 distinct links and 7 Show HN.

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• Show HN: Plannotator Inbox – Decision Making Surface for Agents · score 7.3

  Plannotator is a local, browser-based review and annotation surface for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and others), letting users mark up plans, specs, diffs, and HTML artifacts and send feedback directly back to the agent. Its Inbox feature decouples agent sessions from human review so agents can keep working while questions and decisions are queued for the user. It fills a real gap in the human-in-the-loop agent workflow by combining annotation, code review, and multi-agent decision queuing in one local tool.

• Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments · score 7.3

  SmartKnob is an open-source hardware project that creates a programmable haptic input knob using a brushless motor and magnetic encoder for customizable detents and endstops. It combines electrical, mechanical, and firmware design to enable dynamic tactile feedback for user interfaces.

• Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart · score 6.3

  R2D2 turns a rooted webOS TV into a thin display for a Linux compute host, which streams a sandboxed Chromium session and runs local speech recognition for a private voice assistant. The project combines firmware patching, WebRTC streaming, and on-device model inference in an ambitious but highly experimental and device-specific setup.

• Show HN: Making an MIT hacker replicant for a PDP-1 · score 5.5

  Agent-PDP1 is an AI companion for the PiDP-1 replica computer that installs a Hermes agent with PDP-1 skills, allowing users to learn assembly, debugging, and operation through natural conversation. It integrates LLM-based tutoring with direct front-panel and display access, offering interactive tours and code reviews for a niche retrocomputing audience.

Recent titles

1. Small internet forums are making a comeback in Google Search
   2026-11-01 · stanventures.com · HN discussion
2. Making Coding Fun Again
   2026-11-01 · shantaram.xyz · HN discussion
3. Terence Tao: Algebra helps us navigate hard realities by making them abstract
   2026-10-31 · sciencefriday.com · HN discussion
4. Benchma(R)king: Making Chairs with LLMs
   2026-10-31 · emergencemagazine.org · HN discussion
5. Cheaper AI inference is making it harder to profit from renting out compute
   2026-10-31 · tomshardware.com · HN discussion
6. Making agents fast – what I've learnt over the last 12 months
   2026-10-31 · martinalderson.com · HN discussion
7. Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences
   2026-10-31 · openai.com · HN discussion
8. Making Coinbase Multi-User
   2026-10-30 · coinbase.com · HN discussion
9. Project ProtoStar: Making Publicly Funded Science AI-Ready
   2026-10-30 · huggingface.co · HN discussion
10. Writers Are Making Millions Selling Short Stories to Hollywood
    2026-10-30 · nytimes.com · HN discussion
11. Making GROUP BY faster by doing more (CPU) work
    2026-10-30 · pivotlake.io · HN discussion
12. Making Failure Diagnosis Reliable with Pensive AI
    2026-10-30 · netflixtechblog.com · HN discussion
13. Making SIMD Code Scale to Any Vector Width
    2026-10-30 · streamhpc.com · HN discussion
14. Making DNS_Erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the Beam
    2026-10-30 · blog.dnsimple.com · HN discussion
15. Sam Altman's case for making compute cheap [video]
    2026-10-29 · youtube.com · HN discussion
16. Americans Are Open to AI in Healthcare, but Want Humans Making Final Calls
    2026-10-29 · pewresearch.org · HN discussion
17. AI is making niche software viable
    2026-10-29 · muddy.jprs.me · HN discussion
18. Why AI design tools keep making the same flyer
    2026-10-29 · grafista.io · HN discussion
19. Career Success: Focus primarily on making everyone around you succeed
    2026-10-28 · algeri-wong.com · HN discussion
20. Free and open source app for making real and fake calls with sync
    2026-10-28 · github.com · HN discussion
21. Discord is making messages from public servers discoverable on search engines
    2026-10-28 · twitter.com · HN discussion
22. America Needs Explosives for Its Drones. Odin Energetics Is Making Them
    2026-10-28 · wsj.com · HN discussion
23. GM CEO: We're making leaps and bounds toward 'eyes-off, hands-off' driving
    2026-10-27 · cnbc.com · HN discussion
24. Making documentation pages agent friendly
    2026-10-27 · idratherbewriting.com · HN discussion
25. Brutal reality of making 500K on Steam as a game dev
    2026-10-26 · twitter.com · HN discussion
26. An attempt at making a Visual Place Recognition system work on Lunar surfaces
    2026-10-26 · lunarsim.org · HN discussion
27. Making My Blog Readable by AI Agents
    2026-10-24 · deallocatedobjects.com · HN discussion
28. Scientists Are Making Concrete with Human Poop – and It Gets 42% Stronger
    2026-10-24 · sciencealert.com · HN discussion
29. Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse
    2026-10-24 · thewalrus.ca · HN discussion
30. AgentProbe – test AI agents by making the systems around them fail
    2026-10-23 · sampact.com · HN discussion

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