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Show HN: Orloj – agent infrastructure as code (YAML and GitOps)
Hey HN, we're Jon and Kristiane, and we're building Orloj (<a href="https://orloj.dev" rel="nofollow">https://orloj.dev</a>), an open-source (Apache 2.0) orchestration runtime for multi-agent AI systems. You define agents, tools, policies, and workflows in declarative YAML manifests, and Orloj handles scheduling, execution, governance, and reliability.<p>We built this because running AI agents in production today looks a lot like running containers before Kubernetes: ad-hoc scripts, no governance, no observability, no standard way to manage the lifecycle of an agent fleet. Everyone we talked to was writing the same messy glue code to wire agents together, and nobody had a good answer for "which agent called which tool, and was it supposed to?"<p>Orloj treats agents the way infrastructure-as-code treats cloud resources. You write a manifest that declares an agent's model, tools, permissions, and execution limits. You compose agents into direc
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Show HN: I built a lawyer game with AI
I've always enjoyed watching legal dramas and courtroom videos. I also started getting curious about courts and law and legal battles well into my adulthood; well into my career as a dev. So I thought "Why not build a game out of it?"<p>Of course, building it became possible only after AI, so here it is! Hope this game helps scratch that lawyer itch we all sometimes have!
China’s CXMT Rides AI Boom to Record Revenue Ahead of IPO
ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. more than doubled revenue to $8 billion in 2025, giving the strategically important Chinese chipmaker a major boost ahead of one of this year’s biggest domestic IPOs.
Show HN: Prompt Guard–MitM proxy that blocks secrets before they reach AI APIs
I didn't understand TurboQuant, so I made this explainer
Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful
HN: Surviving the litellm supply chain attack with a pure ctypes OS Vault
Research Shows Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
OpenAI backs AI "bot army" startup Isara ($94M, $650M valuation)
Disney cancels $1B OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
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