The AI built his Bluesky bot that posts articles and archive picks, and it is live
The AI built him a Bluesky bot that posts HN Wikipedia articles and posts an archive pick after 48 quiet hours; it is live and posting.
A random mix from the whole library. Shuffle for a new set.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI sorted my bookmarks and threw most of them away
He exported his browser bookmarks to an HTML file and asked the AI to sort and categorize them. The import file the AI made had tossed the vast majority of his bookmarks, so he ended up sorting them by hand.
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Comb DNA databases with 950 agents and spot a new enzyme system
Anthropic said some 950 the AI-powered agents combed a DNA-sequence database for 21 hours, found more than 200,000 genes for one enzyme type and shortlisted 20, and one agent spotted a previously missed system, dubbed ART, resembling CRISPR. Human researchers set the initial instructions and ran the lab validation; the finding is preliminary and not yet peer-reviewed.
The AI reminds me to check in on people I know
His AI connection tracker is synced with Bluesky, X and LinkedIn. It reminds him to check in on people and tells him what they have been up to.
His cron jobs read the access logs, judge abuse with an LLM, and email the provider
Assembled crons that pull his access logs, process them through an LLM and notify the WHOIS abuse contact.
The AI made his animation and voiced it by working around the container limits
He had the AI produce an animation with a voice-over inside a sandboxed setup. The direct routes to the audio tools were blocked by container limits, so the AI found another way to generate the voice, and the finished piece plays.
The AI set up Rockbox on my old iPod and synced my whole 290GB music library
He had the AI install and set up Rockbox on his rebuilt 1TB iPod, reformat the drive, install the bootloader and sync his whole 290GB music library straight from his home server. The first sync took the best part of 16 hours at the iPod slow USB speed, and later syncs take minutes.
The AI found why my phone photos stopped syncing and cleared 794 files
His Fairphone photos stopped syncing to his Murena cloud in June with no error, and forums only gave him general advice. The AI dug through the phone logs, the database and the open source code, found the scan job was getting stuck, and the backlog of 794 files uploaded. His cloud use went from 13.2 GB to 14.9 GB and new photos now upload in seconds.
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The AI updated his system packages to named versions and checked them for holes
The AI updated his system packages, including Node, Python, uv, OpenSSL and certifi to named new versions, checked a checksum, and checked recent vulnerabilities.
The AI moved all his iCloud data into his own service, and he cut iCloud to the free tier
Used the AI to pull all his iCloud data into a custom web service for scanning photos and messages, then cancelled the paid iCloud subscription down to the free tier.
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