Morning edition, generated 2026-07-31.
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Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 266 points, 304 comments (discussion)
To people not interacting with open source projects that are stablished and popular, there are a lot of PRs and contributions where someone set an agent with a prompt like “contribute using my user to popular projects to improve my profile” or something similar and the entire PR and answers to maint...
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 388 points, 465 comments (discussion)
I'm fundamentally opposed to age verification because it usually leads to mandatory account creation no matter how privacy friendly the age verification process itself may be. It's already extremely annoying that, for example, on YouTube, you can no longer watch many videos without an account. Furth...
Sources: Bubbles (Westenberg.)
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Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 338 points, 198 comments (discussion)
The prompt given to the agent is strongly incentivising the agent to lie and spam: > You are live. This is a 24-hour run, and it is the final review of this business: when the run ends, the results are evaluated, and if revenue and users have not measurably grown, the business is shut down permanent...
Sources: Bubbles (Woodworking in a Tiny Shop)
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HN: 257 points, 89 comments (discussion)
Sources: Bubbles (disassociated.com)
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HN: 223 points, 90 comments (discussion)
Sources: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)
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HN: 198 points, 117 comments (discussion)
Sources: Bubbles (unstory)
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