Daily AI Brief
11 Nov 2026
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What AI engineers are building

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5 deep dives · 3 builder stories · 15 quick hits · 337 items scanned
MCP/toolsagentscoding agentslocal/inferenceevalsRAGfine-tuningprompting
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Deep dives
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Show HN: A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server

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Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives

Browsers natively handle a lot of what used to take 50 lines of JS (or a dependency): `CSS.highlights` for text range highlighting without s everywhere, ` ` and showModal() give you backdrops and ideal focus management, `field-sizing` to auto-grow textareas as the user types.. (Something yesterday's

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shanselman/sandbox-mcp

Fresh, throwaway Windows machines for testing your apps: an MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox

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DevCrabs-Inc/yandex-metrika-mcp

Read-only MCP server for Yandex Metrika (Яндекс Метрика): verifiable reports, period comparisons, time series and exports for Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Codex.

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gogoymh/auto-ontology-mcp

NVIDIA Auto Ontology's semantic layer and a personal knowledge base as an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients. No LLM API key needed.

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What people actually built
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Show HN: Aircad – Professional drafting and 3D modeling in the browser

Aircad is a professional CAD system running in the browser with deep AI integration. It includes professional grade drafting and documentation tools, NURBS-based solid modeling, and a lot more. You can make professional quality design documents with it. It is all integrated behin

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Show HN: Clingon – Markdown cheatsheets that run in your real shell

Clingon is a very opinionated tmux based TUI that contains a cheatsheet menu in one panel, and a live shell in another panel, all in one beautiful window. I built it to help me to run commands I can never remember, it allows you to install command packs, and even chain commands t

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Show HN: Markview – a fast Markdown reader in Rust, Obsidian Vault compatible

Hey HN! I built Markview after coming across RaTeX which is a library renders LaTeX natively without JavaScript or webview. I thought "How hard could it be to render the rest of Markdown natively too?" So the result is a lightweight reader with no browser engine. Reading Markdown

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Quick hits
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Show HN: Black Ops II statically recompiled to native ARM64 macOS ↗
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I grew up with Black Ops 2 and wanted to see if I could make it work on my 2020 MacBook Pro. So I used Claude Opus 5.5 to create a tool that
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Show HN: Tokspur a 3x faster open source inference engine for Macs ↗
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While we were trying to solve a separate problem, we ended up on a bit of a side quest and built an inference engine. We got ourselves some
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Glen-Web-App/best-agent-memory-mcp ↗
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Best Agent Memory MCP servers, ranked and compared: long-term memory for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client. Glen, Mem0, Supermem
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xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-heretic ↗
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Trending model on Hugging Face — text-generation, transformers; 1332 likes, 16,693 downloads.
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speridlabs/idol ↗
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Trending model on Hugging Face — image-to-3d, idol; 1932 likes, 28,250 downloads.
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Show HN: Cosh – An open-source AI agent orchestrator ↗
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Cosh is an open-source AI agent built in Rust that brings together multiple agents like Codex and Goose in a unified environment for orchest
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YT-Proteus-bot/MineAgent ↗
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agent定制自由化,agent流程可视化。在浏览器里用画布搭出工业级 Agent 流程,选框架自动生成架构图, 拖节点、连线、写代码、配模型,点「保存」就把整张画布编译成一个可独立运行的 Python Agent 项目, 点「运行」直接在你的机器上真实执行并流式回传每一步。欢迎
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phonny40rowle/rag-search ↗
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A self-hosted retrieval-augmented search API: web search, content extraction, embeddings, and answer generation.
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moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro ↗
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Trending model on Hugging Face — image-text-to-text, transformers; 1899 likes, 33,617 downloads.
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Image to Video ↗
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Trending Space (gradio, 985 likes). Make videos from text or photos — free, no GPU queue
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Show HN: I have trained 15 blood glucose forecasting models on my own data ↗
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MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3-Image ↗
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Trending model on Hugging Face — text-to-image, minimax-h3; 597 likes, 142,989 downloads.
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The Ultimate MoE Training Handbook ↗
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Trending Space (docker, 549 likes). A hands-on guide to training Mixture-of-Experts models
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Show HN: Umless, open-source on-device dictation that writes what you meant ↗
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Show HN: A Git friendly open API client ↗
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Hello HN! My team and I have been using Postman, then moved on to Bruno but we still had issues with how it handled environments, workspaces
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MCP/tools ×17agents ×14coding agents ×8local/inference ×7evals ×7RAG ×4fine-tuning ×2prompting ×1
Hacker News 59 · GitHub 79 · Hugging Face 29 · Reddit 139 · RSS 31 · x/twitter skipped
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