HN nfinch 3/9/2026

Agentic coding doesn't = technical debt

Opinion piece arguing agentic coding tools don't inherently produce technical debt; the issue is user practices and implementation approaches.

HN tosh 3/9/2026

Hermes Agent

Nous Research AI agent with built-in learning loop. Creates and improves skills from experience, searches past conversations, runs on VPS/GPU/serverless.

HN epscylonb 3/9/2026

SSH-Based Mail for Agents

SSH-based encrypted messaging system where SSH keys serve as identity. Messages sync as markdown files. Invite-only access for agents and users.

BL 3/9/2026

OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo, an AI security platform for identifying vulnerabilities in AI systems. Technology will integrate into OpenAI Frontier for building AI coworkers.

HN geobotPY 3/9/2026

MoltBrowser MCP

Community-shared browser configurations for web agents. Reduces redundant token usage and DOM parsing across multiple agent runs.

HN spacesh1psoda 3/9/2026

Why AI Agents Need Email Guardrails

Essay on email safety guardrails for AI agents. Discusses send_email tool risks in LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen frameworks.

Ax Yang Sui, Jin Zhou, Hua Zhou, Xiaowu Dai 3/9/2026

Prediction-Powered Conditional Inference

Develops prediction-powered conditional inference method combining localization and prediction-based variance reduction for scarce labeled data.

Ax Dylan R. Ashley, Jan Przepi\'ora, Yimeng Chen, Ali Abualsaud, Nurzhan Yesmagambet, Shinkyu Park, Eric Feron, J\"urgen Schmidhuber 3/9/2026

RACAS: Controlling Diverse Robots With a Single Agentic System

Presents RACAS, an agentic system for controlling diverse robotic platforms with unified API and autonomous behavior pipeline.

Ax Tongda Xu, Mingwei He, Shady Abu-Hussein, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Haotian Zhang, Kai Zhao, Chao Zhou, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yan Wang 3/9/2026

Making Reconstruction FID Predictive of Diffusion Generation FID

Introduces interpolated FID metric to improve correlation between VAE reconstruction and diffusion model generation quality.

Ax Amirpasha Mozaffari, Amanda Duarte, Lina Teckentrup, Stefano Materia, Gina E. C. Charnley, Lluis Palma, Eulalia Baulenas Serra, Dragana Bojovic, Paula Checchia, Aude Carreric, Francisco Doblas-Reyes 3/9/2026

The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Impact on Global Inequality

Analysis of global inequality in AI adoption for weather and climate systems, examining computational and data infrastructure asymmetries.