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A guy posted a before-and-after of his parents' TV, cleaned up over Wi-Fi with a coding agent, and the clip pulled 7.4 million views. Four days later the replies had turned into a list covering 170 TV models from 200 contributors. That's the real story this week: the same debug bridge developers have used on Android phones for a decade works on your TV, and now the prompt and the package list are sitting in a public repo instead of in one guy's head. The gatekeeping on "fixing your own hardware" just lost another wall.
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Repocleanyourtv
19.4k stars · Gathin23/cleanyourtv
Debloats any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and gives it an Apple TV style home screen.
Here is the real problem it solves. Every TV ships packed with manufacturer telemetry, ad rows, and preloaded junk you never asked for, and most people assume fixing it means rooting the device or voiding the warranty.
Quick start: switch on USB debugging in the TV's developer options, connect over Wi-Fi from a computer running a coding agent, and let it back up your installed packages before touching anything.
Catch: nothing is uninstalled, it's disabled with pm disable-user, so you get a one-line restore if you talk yourself into keeping the clutter.
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If cleaning up your own hardware over Wi-Fi scratches the itch to simplify something, the same instinct applies to the three tools silently duct-taped together behind your sales pipeline. HubSpot Marketing Automation, visual workflows that send the email, set the task or move the deal when a contact does something. Email and forms are free, simple follow up automation starts on Starter, full workflows on Professional. If you are wiring the same if this then that across three tools, this is where it collapses into one.
Use it for: collapsing the if this then that you run across three tools into one workflow.
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RepoXERJ
12.8k stars · xerj-org/xerj
A local-first search engine and MCP server that indexes code, docs, logs, and PDFs for your coding agent.
Use it for: pointing an agent at a task so it pulls the exact code it needs instead of burning tokens reading files one by one. A controlled study cut output tokens 2.7x at the same solve rate.
Catch: the token savings assume you've actually indexed the right folder first, skip that step and you're back to the agent guessing.
Repoai-job-search
63k stars · ai-job-search-dev/ai-job-search
A job application framework built on Claude Code that evaluates postings, tailors CVs, and preps interviews.
Use it for: running your own search the way the builder did, sixty-nine tailored applications and twenty first interviews before he landed an AI engineering role.
Catch: it's a framework you fork and fill in, not a service, so the output is only as sharp as the profile you feed it.
Skill/awwwards
854 stars · juliobsz/skills
An agent skill that builds award-caliber websites from a one-line brief.
Use it for: skipping the back-and-forth of briefing a designer when you need a portfolio or landing page fast, the agent works as creative director and developer in one pass and checks its own work in a real browser.
Catch: it's tuned for showcase sites like portfolios, launches and landing pages, not app UIs or dashboards.
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Ask your agent to run a pre-mortem before you waste months building the wrong thing.
One prompt today instead of a how-to. It is one of ours, tested on ChatGPT and Claude. Copy it, paste it into the free app you already use, and fill in the three bits in capitals: a future date you're imagining, the name of your project, and a plain description of what that project actually is.
Write the account of that failure from that future vantage point. What went wrong? Work backward from the failure to the decisions being made right now that caused it. Be specific about what the warning signs were and when they appeared.
Project context: [PROJECT DESCRIPTION]
Write it in the past tense, as something that already happened, not as a list of risks that might happen. Name at least four warning signs, and for each one say roughly when it would have shown up and who would have been in a position to see it first.
End with: the one decision made in the first 30 days that, if made differently, would have changed the outcome.
If I left the project context blank, ask me what the project is before you write the account. Do not invent a business, a team, a budget or a test to fill the gap. The failure of a project you made up tells me nothing about mine.
The line that makes it work: "Write it in the past tense, as something that already happened, not as a list of risks that might happen." Most people ask an AI for risks and get a generic checklist nobody reads twice. Forcing it to narrate the failure as history drags out specific warning signs, in order, with a point where you could have still caught it.
TRY THIS: open the chat app on your phone right now and describe the project you're most unsure about in two sentences. Pick a date six months out and run the prompt before you talk yourself into believing the current plan is fine.
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Google open-sourced Harness2, a system that lets an agent rewrite its own setup. It proposes changes to its own system prompt, tools, and memory, runs candidate versions, and keeps the better one without touching model weights. That's the harness layer becoming self-tuning instead of something you configure once and forget. (r/LocalLLaMA)
Symantec caught an AI agent built to run a full cyberattack with zero human approval. It was designed to chain up to 100,000 malicious actions, scanning, exploiting, stealing credentials, on its own, and researchers only saw the instruction set because they ran a honeypot. The ceiling on autonomous harm just moved. (Infosecurity Magazine)
Amazon is blocking AI agents from shopping on its site while Walmart just opened the door. Walmart shipped an Agent Gateway, its own MCP server, so approved agents can search and buy across Walmart and Sam's Club on a customer's behalf. Pick your commerce integrations accordingly, one of these platforms wants your agent traffic and one doesn't. (TechCrunch)
A critical PHP flaw leaked before the patch, and a video of an exploit tool is already out. Two remote code execution holes, rated 9.2 out of 10, reportedly reach every PHP version back to 2004, and the fixes landed Wednesday morning. If anything in your stack touches PHP, that update isn't optional this week. (Ars Technica)
Claude Mods now let you reshape Claude Code's behavior instead of just using it as shipped. The argument underneath it: as models absorb more of the harness into their weights, the part still facing you becomes the interface that decides when the agent interrupts, what it shows, and what it leaves to you. Worth watching which company turns that layer into a platform first. (Latent Space)
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