Hacker News with Generative AI: Automation

Using Apple Shortcuts and AI to Transcribe My Handwriting (liquidbrain.net)
Apple shortcuts is a funny tool. On the one hand, it is the closest thing to free programmatic access to the famously closed platform of iOS. It contains some genuinely useful functions, making some cool things easy to set up.1 And it has an active community on reddit, making your questions easy to answer.

Apple Shortcuts, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Programming, iOS

8 points by chiwilliams 4 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: HackerVoice – An Experimental AI Podcast Covering Hacker News (vercel.app)
Every day (0 16 * * * on UTC), an LLM-powered host covers the top five trending topics from HackerNews in a fully automated podcast.

Hacker News, Artificial Intelligence, Podcasts, Automation

7 points by gorillatatsu 7 days ago | 0 comments

Will AI Agents Revolutionize How We Query and Use Data? (ycombinator.com)
Snowflake just announced AI Data Agents in Cortex, a new way to automate and streamline data workflows with AI.

Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Automation, Cloud Computing, Snowflake

8 points by charliessnow 7 days ago | 7 comments

I Automated My Computer Life with macOS Folder Actions (interfacecraft.online)
I’ve always believed that computers should handle repetitive tasks better than humans. It frustrates me when something can’t be automated the way I want or when simple actions require more effort than they should.

Automation, macOS, Productivity, Software

8 points by fvdfd 8 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Type and Automate Any Work (workor.live)
Workor is now public!

Automation, Productivity, Software, Web Applications

14 points by p_bansal 12 days ago | 2 comments

Automating the cleaning of macOS-specific ( ._ and .DS_Store) files on Eject (gingerbeardman.com)
Dot underscore ._ and .DS_Store files are macOS-specific metadata cruft generated for foreign filesystems (like FAT32 or exFAT) that are not usually needed for disks that are mainly used on other platforms.

macOS, File Management, Automation, Software, Operating Systems

41 points by zdw 12 days ago | 21 comments

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) (danslimmon.com)
Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated.

Automation, DevOps, Operations, Scripting

582 points by tehnub 13 days ago | 157 comments

GNU Make Standard Library (gmsl.jgc.org)
The GNU Make Standard Library (GMSL) is a collection of functions implemented using native GNU Make functionality that provide list and string manipulation, integer arithmetic, associative arrays, stacks, and debugging facilities.

GNU Make, Programming Tools, Software Libraries, Automation, Build Systems

164 points by ingve 15 days ago | 78 comments

SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI's Agents Will Automate Work (gizmodo.com)
In what could be SoftBank’s newest trick to make ungodly amounts of money disappear, the Japanese investment firm will pay $3 billion a year to force companies in its portfolio to experiment with AI agents.

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Automation

15 points by rntn 17 days ago | 10 comments

Show HN: CodeCapy – A PR bot that tests your code (github.com/Scrapybara)
CodeCapy automatically detects new PRs, generates natural language end-to-end UI tests based on code changes, executes tests in isolated Scrapybara instances, posts test results to PR comments, and more.

Software, Testing, Automation, GitHub

11 points by lordspline 17 days ago | 5 comments

Run-All (ycombinator.com)
github.com/clovis818/run-all is a command-line tool that allows you to execute commands across multiple directories based on a customizable directory pattern.

Command-line Tools, Automation, Software, Development Tools, Scripting

34 points by clovis818 17 days ago | 6 comments

Have Gemini stage and write commit messages for you (github.com/suwi-lanji)
The Auto-Commit Bot is a Python-based tool that automatically monitors a directory for changes, generates meaningful commit messages using the Google Gemini API, and commits the changes to a Git repository.

Python, Git, Automation, Open Source

31 points by hadat 19 days ago | 53 comments

I run the most automated org on Earth, AI agents I built myself or third parties (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Business, Technology, Social Media

4 points by rmason 20 days ago | 2 comments

What automated firms will look like (dwarkeshpatel.com)
Everyone is sleeping on the collective advantages AIs will have, which have nothing to do with raw IQ but rather with the fact that they are digital—they can be copied, distilled, merged, scaled, and evolved in ways human simply can’t.

Artificial Intelligence, Automation

8 points by jger15 20 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer (workflow86.com)
Automate any business process in minutes

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Business, Software, Show HN

48 points by taaron 21 days ago | 45 comments

Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions (block.github.io)
Your on-machine AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly.

Open Source, AI, Automation, Engineering

247 points by sansui12 21 days ago | 68 comments

Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions (github.com/marketplace)
Blueskyfeedbot is a bot that posts RSS feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions.

Social Media, GitHub Actions, RSS Feeds, Automation

154 points by hrpnk 22 days ago | 70 comments

Keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper (github.com/houmain)
A cross-platform context-aware key remapper. It allows to:

Software, Cross-Platform, Keyboard Shortcuts, Automation

96 points by todsacerdoti 22 days ago | 33 comments

Codename Goose (block.github.io)
Your on-machine AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly.

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Automation, Tools

11 points by pmastela 23 days ago | 0 comments

Codename Goose (block.github.io)
We are thrilled to announce codename goose, your on-machine, open source AI agent built to automate your tasks.

Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Automation

19 points by ramimac 23 days ago | 0 comments

Using uv as your shebang line (akrabat.com)
I create a fair few scripts in my ~/bin/ directory to automate tasks. Since discovering uv and inline script metadata, I’ve started using Python far more for these.

Python, Scripting, Automation, Command Line

479 points by Einenlum 23 days ago | 139 comments

Ask HN: What are core engineering skills that will likely never be automated? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What are core engineering skills that will likely never be automated?

Engineering, Automation, Artificial Intelligence

5 points by bicx 24 days ago | 9 comments

Automating Git Bisect with Ephemeral Environments (qckfx.com)

Git, Automation, DevOps, Software Development, Testing

45 points by chw9e 25 days ago | 21 comments

Ask HN: How to automate collecting HAR file while user is browsing (ycombinator.com)
We are facing an intermittent issue in our web application where for some users for some reasons http requests are ending in error ( 400s ) esp. during token refresh with authentication server.

Web Development, Debugging, Automation, HTTP, Authentication

25 points by royalghost 27 days ago | 19 comments

OpenVox: The Community-Driven Fork of Puppet Has Arrived (thenewstack.io)

Open Source, Automation, DevOps, Puppet

3 points by CrankyBear 27 days ago | 0 comments

Lightpanda: Headless browser designed for AI and automation (github.com/lightpanda-io)

Headless Browsers, AI, Automation, Software

154 points by tosh 27 days ago | 1 comments

100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take over (2013) (hyponymo.us)
I'll begin with a healthy dose of pessimism.

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Unemployment

53 points by yamrzou 27 days ago | 81 comments

Yutori: AI agents for everyday digital tasks on the web (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Automation

12 points by abhshkdz 28 days ago | 1 comments

GitHub-Kudos (github.com/manuelarte)
Template to use github-kudos

GitHub, Open Source, Software Development, Automation, Community

7 points by manuelarte 28 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: 3D printing giant things with a Python jigsaw generator (calbryant.uk)
I really like the idea of a fully automated pipeline1 when I build anything – it’s highly satisfying to see a machine do all the work for you. Combine this with parametric design, and it makes iteration and customisation a breeze. My flagship example is my recent speaker project.

3D Printing, Python, Automation, Design

179 points by naggie 28 days ago | 47 comments