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Article URL: https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/archive/january-1877-sir-titus-salt-obituary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046561

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Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046560

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Article URL: https://reflag.com/blog/we-replaced-clickhouse-with-postgresql-and-got-faster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046525

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Article URL: https://om.co/2026/02/13/mad-money-the-big-ai-race/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046516

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Article URL: https://om.co/2026/02/16/sam-claws-attention-back-openai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046515

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Article URL: https://curling.io/blog/the-next-version-of-curling-io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046498

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OneRingAI started as the internal engine of an enterprise agentic platform we've been building for 2+ years. After watching customers hit the same walls with auth, vendor lock-in, and context management over and over, we extracted the core into a standalone open-source library. The two main alternatives didn't fit what we needed in production:

- LangChain: Great ecosystem, but the abstraction layers kept growing. By the time you wire up chains, runnables, callbacks, and agents across 50+ packages, you're fighting the framework more than building your product. - CrewAI: Clean API, but Python-only and the role-based metaphor breaks down when you need fine-grained control over auth, context windows, or tool failures.

OneRingAI is a single TypeScript library (~62K LOC, 20 deps) that treats the boring production problems as first-class concerns:

Auth as architecture, not afterthought. A centralized connector registry with built-in OAuth (4 flows, AES-256-GCM storage, 43 vendor templates). This came directly from dealing with enterprise SSO and multi-tenant token isolation — no more scattered env vars or rolling your own token refresh.

Per-tool circuit breakers. One flaky Jira API shouldn't crash your entire agent loop. Each tool and connector gets independent failure isolation with retry/backoff. We learned this the hard way running agents against dozens of customer SaaS integrations simultaneously.

Context that doesn't blow up. Plugin-based context management with token budgeting. InContextMemory puts frequently-accessed state directly in the prompt instead of requiring a retrieval call. Compaction removes tool call/result pairs together so the LLM never sees orphaned context.

Actually multi-vendor. 12 LLM providers native, 36 models in a typed registry with pricing and feature flags. Switch vendors by changing a connector name. Run openai-prod and openai-backup side by side. Enterprise customers kept asking for this — nobody wants to be locked into one provider.

Multi-modal built in. Image gen (DALL-E 3, gpt-image-1, Imagen 4), video gen (Sora 2, Veo 3), TTS, STT — all in the same library. No extra packages.

Native MCP support with a registry pattern for managing multiple servers, health checks, and auto tool format conversion.

What it's not: it's not a no-code agent builder, and it's not trying to be a framework for every possible AI use case. It's an opinionated library for people building production agent systems in TypeScript who want auth, resilience, and multi-vendor support without duct-taping 15 packages together.

2,285 tests, strict TypeScript throughout. The API surface is small on purpose — Connector.create(), Agent.create(), agent.run().

We also built Hosea, an open-source Electron desktop app on top of OneRingAI, if you want to see what a full agent system looks like in practice rather than just reading docs.

GitHub: https://github.com/Integrail/oneringai

npm: npm i @everworker/oneringai

Comparison with alternatives: https://oneringai.io/#comparison

Hosea: https://github.com/Integrail/oneringai/blob/main/apps/hosea/...

Happy to answer questions about the architecture decisions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046494

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Article URL: https://zknill.io/posts/chatbots-worst-enemy-is-page-refresh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046486

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Article URL: https://mmmotivator.com/

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Article URL: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-16-a-human-response.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046455

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I built a small reproducible microbenchmark exploring when system energy becomes dominated by boundary crossings rather than intra-domain compute.

The model decomposes total energy into: C = C_intra + Σ V_b · c_b

Includes:

CLI sweeps

Elasticity metric (ε) as a dominance indicator

CSV outputs

Working draft paper

*DOI

Looking for critique, counter-examples, or prior related work I may have missed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046445

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Nothing promises the Phone 4A will have a "bold new experimentation of color." We think we might know what that means.

Are negotiated software renewal fees binding? Dell is arguing that this provision in Tesco’s VMware 2021 contract amounts to a commitment

UK government says half of all small businesses have been cyber breached in the recent past as it urges them to ‘lock the door’

While Microsoft Azure makes up ‘the bulk’ of Unilever’s underlying infrastructure, Google claims it is providing the ‘backbone’ as hyperscalers work with the all-cloud multinational on its agentic AI deployment

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJvuaRVc8Bg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046215

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Article URL: https://carnewschina.com/2026/02/16/china-to-require-physical-controls-for-vehicle-functions-reducing-reliance-on-central-control-screen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046212

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApG9vjbHDCk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046193

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Article URL: https://www.toolspotting.com/spotlight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046181

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