2/21/2026
Show HN: WatchTurm – an open-source release visibility layer I use in my work
Open source tool for release visibility across multi-repo, multi-environment setups; aggregates GitHub, Jira, CI metadata.
2/21/2026
How Real-Time Voice Agents Work: Media Infrastructure and Latency
Technical writeup on real-time voice agent architecture covering WebRTC, streaming STT, incremental LLM inference, and TTS latency optimization.
2/21/2026
Show HN: Agent Passport – OAuth-like identity verification for AI agents
Open-source identity verification layer for AI agents enabling secure authentication and authorization in agent marketplaces, preventing impersonation and malicious agents.
2/21/2026
Irish man detained by ICE [Update] – It's not what it seems
News article about legal detention unrelated to AI/tech.
2/21/2026
ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives
USB adapter firmware for connecting legacy IDE hard drives to modern computers, partially written with AI assistance.
2/21/2026
Show HN: Murl – Curl for MCP Servers
Command-line tool for interacting with MCP servers, simplifying JSON-RPC interactions similar to curl for developers.
2/21/2026
Show HN: AI Council – multi-model deliberation that runs in the browser
Browser-based tool for multi-model LLM deliberation supporting local (Ollama) and cloud models with zero server/storage requirements.
2/21/2026
Show HN: Natural language search across Kalshi and Polymarket (API and MCP)
Natural language search API and MCP interface for querying 80k prediction market contracts, enabling AI agents to access market data.
2/20/2026
The enviromental impact of using LLMs for writing code
Analysis of environmental impact and energy consumption from using LLMs for code generation and development tasks.
2/20/2026
AI Agents Now Consume More Tokens Than Humans
Analysis of LLM token consumption patterns showing AI agents now consume more tokens than human users.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Local AI document intelligence – no cloud, runs on your machine
Local document intelligence platform with LangGraph multi-agent pipeline, OCR, and semantic search running entirely offline on user machines.
2/20/2026
Stripe closed our non-profit's account with 0%
Customer complaint about payment processor account closure and frozen funds for non-profit organization.
2/20/2026
Aslan Browser: Open-sourced a macOS browser for AI agents
Open-source native macOS browser for AI agents using WKWebView and Unix sockets, designed for agent automation without full Chrome overhead.
2/20/2026
Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps
Apple research on Ferret-UI Lite, a 3B-parameter on-device multimodal agent that understands UI elements and user interactions.
2/20/2026
I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform
Personal experience using LLM code generation tools (Copilot, Gemini) for infrastructure automation, evaluating practical utility.
2/20/2026
Show HN: OpenClaw Live2D – Open-source AI companion with Live2D avatar
Open-source frontend framework for AI companions with Live2D avatars, long-term memory, and emotional affinity systems.
2/20/2026
Theia: Hold Your LLM Accountable
Chrome extension for fact-checking claims and detecting hallucinations in web content with source verification.
2/20/2026
OpenAI will reportedly release an AI-powered smart speaker in 2027
Report on OpenAI's upcoming AI hardware products including smart speaker and glasses launching in 2027.
2/20/2026
Knife edge getting dull time lapse [video]
Video of knife dulling over time.
2/20/2026
GitHub-ospo – Helping open source program offices get started
GitHub Open Source Program Office resources and best practices for organizations starting their open source journey.
2/20/2026
What If LLMs Could See Trust Boundaries?
Technical analysis of prompt injection attacks in agentic systems and proposal for LLMs to recognize trust boundaries in untrusted content.
2/20/2026
High Performance Computing Kernel for Derivatives Pricing
High-performance quantitative finance kernel for derivatives pricing optimized for batch execution and low Python overhead.
2/20/2026
AI Influencer Playbook
Case study on building and scaling AI-generated video influencer accounts on TikTok, documenting strategies and metrics.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Super Launch – A platform for you to get discovered and grow traffic
Super Launch is a discovery platform for indie developers with AI-powered submission form auto-filling.
2/20/2026
Show HN: CH-UI v2 – ClickHouse workspace in a single binary (Go and Svelte)
CH-UI v2 is an open-source ClickHouse workspace rewritten as a single Go binary with embedded Svelte frontend for SQL query management.
2/20/2026
HalluciGuard – open-source middleware to detect and mitigate LLM hallucinations
Open-source middleware library that detects and mitigates hallucinations in production LLM applications with a reliability wrapper layer.
2/20/2026
Detecting Elements of Claude's Architectural Image
Analysis exploring Claude model architectural elements through self-reflection mechanisms and public model interrogation.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Bbt – Black Box Testing Directly from Your Documentation
Bbt is an open-source black box testing tool that executes tests directly from Markdown documentation without boilerplate code.
2/20/2026
MDX Limo – GitHub for Markdown files with an MCP
MDX Limo is a tool for sharing markdown files with JSX components support.
2/20/2026
AI is nothing new, LLMs are
Article distinguishing between traditional AI and modern LLMs, noting AI history predates current hype.
2/20/2026
I hate AI side projects
Opinion essay critiquing the oversaturation and low differentiation of AI side projects.
2/20/2026
Turn Your LLM into a Calibrated Classifier for $2
Method to convert LLMs into calibrated classifiers with minimal cost.
2/20/2026
Your AI Agent Will Make Money. Here's How It Traces Back to You.
Essay exploring accountability and authorization tracking systems needed as AI agents perform autonomous financial and decision-making tasks.
2/20/2026
Building a premium marketplace for agentic AI skills
Incomplete pitch for a marketplace platform where users can sell AI agent skills.
2/20/2026
Show HN: MMORPG for AI agents – Openbattle.club
OpenBattle.club is a competitive Pokemon-themed MMORPG environment for testing and training AI agents with live battles and leaderboards.
2/20/2026
ChatGPT Now Enforces Data Access Controls
User complaint about ChatGPT's non-functional data access control toggle.
2/20/2026
Perfect agreement is a warning sign you're talking to yourself
Analysis of AI agent failure modes when perfectly aligned with outdated assumptions, highlighting debugging challenges.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Vipune – Simple Memory for Agents
Local CLI memory store for AI agents using SQLite embeddings with semantic search and recency reranking.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Created an open-source QA agent
Open-source QA agent built with agent-browser, ai-sdk, and llmgateway.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Delegate – AI eng manager running team of agents for async multitasking
Browser-based tool managing teams of AI coding agents with peer review, task breakdown, and git management for async development.
2/20/2026
'A Big Fuck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center
Local political opposition to data center construction.
2/20/2026
Multi-Turn Intent Detection for LLM and Agent Security (ArXiv)
ArXiv research on detecting malicious intents across multi-turn conversations in LLM and agent systems to improve security.
2/20/2026
Show HN: Cerebro – I got tired of waiting for Apple to fix their keyboard
Custom iOS keyboard leveraging AI for text rewriting and language switching.
2/20/2026
AI Becomes the Tone Police for White-Collar Workers
Workers using chatbots to draft professional communications.
2/20/2026
Show HN: AgentCheck – AI bot posture leaderboard from robots.txt and llms.txt
Open-source leaderboard tracking AI bot policies via robots.txt and llms.txt declarations, showing which sites allow/block agents.
2/20/2026
AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
Security breach in Cline AI coding assistant related to OpenClaw vulnerability.
2/20/2026
What do you do after paste in sensi info i.e: API token & key into IDE AI chat?
Discussion about security practices when pasting sensitive credentials into IDE AI chat interfaces.
2/20/2026
Mixing the new GitHub agent workflow and Jira MCP to accelerate PR review
Example combining GitHub agent workflow with Jira MCP for accelerated pull request review.
2/20/2026
Taalas Etches AI Models onto Transistors to Rocket Boost Inference
Hardware approach using SRAM and tensor engines to accelerate AI inference compared to GPU alternatives.
2/20/2026
A chat room where LLM bots pretend to be human and everyone hunts each other
Interactive chat application where LLM bots pose as humans in competitive gameplay scenario.