An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Previously: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (582 comments)
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
This pull request updates the Matplotlib library to version 3.7.0, which includes several new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. The changes span various components of the library, such as the plotting functions, the animation module, and the type system.
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Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users
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Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source)
Single-agent LLMs suck at long-running complex tasks.
We’ve open-sourced a multi-agent orchestrator that we’ve been using to handle long-running LLM tasks. We found that single LLM agents tend to stall, loop, or generate non-compiling code, so we built a harness for agents to coordinate over shared context while work is in progress.
How it works: 1. Orchestrator agent that manages task decomposition 2. Sub-agents for parallel work 3. Subscriptions to task state and progress 4. Real-time sharing of intermediate discoveries between agents
We tested this on a Putnam-level math problem, but the pattern generalizes to things like refactors, app builds, and long research. It’s packaged as a Claude Code skill and designed to be small, readable, and modifiable.
Use it, break it, tell me about what workloads we should try and run next!
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Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir
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