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Nearly every day AI surprises me. Getting something important done for me which I didn't imagine it could. Reply if you discovered something new yourself.

Claude Code/Cowork by Anthropic recently surprised me the most.

1. Chatting with customer support to negotiate refunds and discounts

Ikea and DoorDash messed up a few orders for me recently. So I started online support chats with each company, but got distracted while waiting for responses, so mid-conversation the support agents closed the chat and I had to start over... This prompted me to give Claude access to my browser and just handle the conversations for me. I told it to keep running until the goal was achieved. At DoorDash, Claude even complained to the support agent about my inconveniences, which resulted in receiving a $10 refund.

2. Building a CRM browser extension

I recently started using Attio as a CRM, which brings me the main benefit of not needing to manually create each contact, Attio does it automatically based on email history. (Tip: Attio's free version is enough for this.) However, Attio isn't optimized for LinkedIn. It seems designed mainly for managing company relationships, not personal connections. Attio's browser extension only allows adding new companies. So I asked Claude to build me a custom browser extension to add LinkedIn profiles to Attio with one click. A few minutes later I had it set up. Claude navigated via my browser to Attio and created an API key itself! with the required read/write permission levels. The only thing I had to do was add the folder with the extension code to my Chrome extensions. The extension even checks my CRM to see if the person already exists in Attio, and allows me to add them to different pipelines.

3. Renaming files

Often I start with a solid structure for managing files. When life happens, it gets messy. Now in Claude Cowork I just select a folder with 18 subfolders and 200+ files and day: clean up folder and rename each file using industry-standard naming conventions & open each file to analyze content. Within a few minutes the mess was gone and every file was properly named.

4. Finding cleaning support

I told Claude to go to Craigslist in my browser and write a post following my requirements. A few hours later I received over 50 applications. Then Claude analyzed all the emails and ranked the applicants. I just had to call the best 2 options and decide. -

This is only the tip of the iceberg from the past few days. Claude also helped me research 290 profiles of event attendees by spinning up six different agents running Google searches in parallel, ranking them on set criteria, and creating a beautiful summary as output. It also helped me fill out multiple long annoying Google Forms with context from my Google Drive...

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Article URL: https://deepexplain.dev/dirac-notation/

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Hey HN,

I’ve been building Atom (https://github.com/rush86999/atom), an open-source, self-hosted AI automation platform.

I built this because while tools like OpenClaw are excellent for one-off scripts and personal tasks, I found them difficult to use for complex business workflows (e.g., managing invoices or SaaS ops). The main issue was State Blindness: the agent would fire a command and assume it worked, without "seeing" if the UI or state actually updated.

I just shipped a new architecture to solve this called Canvas AI Accessibility.

The Technical Concept: Instead of relying on token-heavy screenshots or raw HTML, I built a hidden semantic layer—essentially a "Screen Reader" for the LLM.

Hidden Visual Description: When the agent works, the system generates a structured, hidden description of the visual state.

Episodic Memory: The agent "reads" this layer to verify its actions. Crucially, it snapshots this state into a vector database (LanceDB).

Maturity/Governance: Before an agent is promoted from "Student" to "Autonomous," it must demonstrate it can recall these past visual states to avoid repeating errors.

Atom vs. OpenClaw: I view them as complementary. OpenClaw is the "Hands" (great for raw execution/terminal), while Atom is the "Brain" (handling state, memory, and audit trails). Atom uses Python/FastAPI vs OpenClaw's Node.js, and focuses heavily on this governance/memory layer.

The repo is self-hosted and includes the new Canvas architecture. I’d love feedback on the implementation of the hidden accessibility layer—is anyone else using "synthetic accessibility trees" for agent grounding?

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11068

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Article URL: https://github.com/DecispherHQ/decision-guardian

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Pare is a dating site where users matchmake for each other. Instead of swiping on your own feed, you get presented with 3 profiles and you decide based on the information presented which candidate profile is the best fit for the focus profile.

Demo on the landing page.

Currently NYC only, but hope to expand as this takes off. All users on other cities get put on a waitlist for now.

Some things I need feedback on:

GTM - I posted this on the r/nyc subreddit and promptly got shadowbanned from the entire website, but not before a couple people told me to fuck off (lol). - X/Twitter is a black hole for me since I created an account for the first time ever in January, so I'd appreciate some GTM advice.

Pricing - Currently free, but I plan to price at $10 a season (~1 week), is that too high or too low? Why? I was aiming to price competitively to standard premium options on other dating apps. Also this is not a subscription (hate those). - Also Stripe told me that dating apps are restricted enterprises and my account is being closed so I need a new payment processor.

General - If you’ve seen similar approaches (dating, hiring, recsys, rank aggregation), I’d appreciate pointers.

If you have constructive feedback I'm all ears.

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Spent the last few years watching marketing directors fail their first 90 days not because they lacked skill, but because every framework they'd read assumed a functional organization. Wrote this to cover what those guides skip: reading political dynamics before you speak, inheriting a burned team, managing up when goals shift weekly. And a honest Day 91 check, stay or go. $49, 18 pages, one download.

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If you've tried to test a dApp with Playwright you already know the problem. MetaMask wasn't built for headless browsers. You end up with brittle hacks, flaky tests, and a CI pipeline that breaks randomly.

I built Mock Wallet to fix this — and then realized it solves something bigger.

Three things it does:

1. Playwright-native wallet testing Drop it into your test suite like any other mock. Simulate connects, signatures, and transactions without touching a browser extension. Works headless, works in CI, works reliably.

// example const wallet = await MockWallet.connect(page); await wallet.approve({ amount: '1.5', token: 'ETH' }); await expect(page.locator('.balance')).toHaveText('1.5 ETH'); 2. AI agent wallet Agents get a programmable wallet via API. No UI, no popups, no human required. Your agent signs and transacts by calling an endpoint.

3. Human + agent hybrid flows The part nobody else handles — testing workflows where a human and an agent interact with the same contract. Approve flows, co-signing, agent-initiated + human-confirmed transactions.

Start in sandbox with mock funds. Flip a flag to go live.

mockwallet.dev — free sandbox, no signup to try.

Brutal feedback welcome especially from anyone doing E2E testing on Web3 apps.

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Article URL: https://clevcode.org/the-mystery-of-skype/

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Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/28/apple-video-podcast-power/

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Article URL: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/28/file-extensions-bash/

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Hi everyone,

I built GitPop, an open-source, lightweight Windows File Explorer extension that brings a fast Git interface right to your context menu.

The problem: I got tired of opening heavy IDEs (like VS Code) or bulky GUI clients just to make a quick commit, but I also wanted the nice visual diffs and staging checkboxes that terminal workflows lack.

The solution: When you right-click any folder with a .git repository and select "GitPop Here", it instantly launches a sleek, dark-mode UI overlay. You can view your changes, stage files, and commit directly from your desktop.

To speed things up even more, I added an AI "Sparkle" button that reads your git diff and auto-generates a conventional commit message.

Technical details:

Stack: I built this using Tauri v2, React, and Rust. I specifically chose Tauri over Electron because a context-menu popup needs to open instantly and use minimal RAM.

Privacy First (Local AI): By default, the AI feature hooks into a local Ollama instance (like llama3.2), meaning your proprietary source code diffs never leave your machine. I also added support for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini for those who prefer cloud models.

Git Backend: Instead of wrestling with libgit2, the Rust backend spawns hidden child processes to execute native Git CLI binaries. This means it automatically respects your existing global Git config, SSH keys, and GPG signing.

A fun engineering challenge: Building a transparent, glassmorphism UI on Windows 11 using Webview2 was surprisingly tricky. Combining "transparent": true with a hidden startup state ("visible": false) caused the rendering engine to completely panic and crash. I also had to write custom OS-level Rust code to suppress the background CMD terminals from flashing every time a Git command ran.

What's next (macOS): Right now, the release is heavily optimized for Windows File Explorer, but I am actively working on the macOS version to integrate this exact same experience directly into Finder.

I’d love for you to try out the Windows version while I wrap up the Mac build. The installers (.exe/.msi) and source code are available on GitHub.

Repo: https://github.com/vinzify/gitpop

I'll be hanging around the comments to answer any questions about the tech stack, Tauri v2, or the implementation!

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