39 stories tagged automation, newest first.
23 points by andsoitis | 34 comments
An Economist business article arguing that workers displaced by AI lose more than wages; the captured page shows an access-restricted bot block.
6 points by inandout | 0 comments
A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.
6 points by justforfunhere | 3 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how developers can slow or resist the rapid rise of agentic AI coding that the poster believes threatens the software engineering profession.
46 points by corbindavenport | 80 comments
Blog post by Corbin Davenport explaining why PowerShell 7 is a good cross-platform scripting tool compared to Bash, with example scripts and a real project.
29 points by thomas_unise | 31 comments
Blog post from Bold Agent Kit analyzing 14,000 calls to compare AI-handled and human-handled call center performance amid declining call center jobs.
24 points by EvgeniyZh | 5 comments
QuEra blog post describing how the company uses AI to automatically lock and tune the lasers in its neutral-atom quantum computer.
45 points by tinyprojects | 43 comments
A personal blog post describing a week of letting an AI agent team (Grok Bot, similar to OpenClaw) running on a Linux server operate the author's startup.
23 points by demonsthenes | 39 comments
A Phenomenal World analysis piece in its Labor & Logistics section examining whether autonomous trucking has arrived and what it means for trucking work.
5 points by shadow28 | 2 comments
Guardian article reporting that women hold a small share of new AI jobs while being overrepresented in roles at high risk of AI disruption.
111 points by shannadige | 77 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author automated their workflow for scanning and processing 35mm film photographs.
6 points by kunggaochicken | 8 comments
GitHub repository for EventMaxxer, a tool that automatically applies to events on your behalf to help you network.
520 points by supermdguy | 118 comments
An illustrated online picture book parodying Frog and Toad, in which the characters deal with increasingly capable machines, written by Elizabeth Van Nostrand.
298 points by megalomanu | 582 comments
Personal essay comparing a great-great-grandfather farrier who became a mechanic with today's developers facing replacement by AI.
49 points by surprisetalk | 3 comments
A Substack post accompanying an Articles Of Interest podcast episode on lace, the Luddites, and historical fears of automation replacing labor.
27 points by jduhking | 22 comments
Landing page for Biom, an AI automations workspace for startups that works with Codex and shows a company dashboard interface.
142 points by utiiiD | 88 comments
Adaptive Capacity Labs blog post arguing that code review involves more than defect detection that can be automated.
45 points by firloop | 2 comments
A Computers Are Bad newsletter essay by J. B. Crawford on Denver's airport history and its automated baggage handling system.
426 points by bjhess | 70 comments
Blog post on self-updating screenshots that failed to load, showing a Ruby NoMethodError traceback from the Vanilla-rb wiki software instead.
683 points by matthieu_bl | 381 comments
Claude Code documentation page on routines, saved configurations that run Claude Code on a schedule, via API calls, or on GitHub events in Anthropic's cloud.
329 points by tosh | 120 comments
GitHub repository for Hammerspoon, an open-source macOS desktop automation tool scripted with Lua.
502 points by colinprince | 527 comments
Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.
509 points by PaulHoule | 844 comments
El País English article on whether AI and automation should be taxed as tech giants announce layoffs tied to the AI race.
490 points by pbui | 429 comments
Andy Jones blog post using the historical decline of horses after engine efficiency improvements as an analogy for how AI may suddenly displace human labor.
343 points by _tk_ | 134 comments
Landing page for "AI CEO," a site pitched with the tagline "Replace your boss before they replace you," about using AI in place of executives.
373 points by linkregister | 303 comments
Personal blog post by an unemployed computer science new grad reflecting on a broken entry-level job market, the white collar recession, and automation.
870 points by wh313 | 570 comments
Replacement.AI is a satirical landing page for a fictional company claiming humans are no longer necessary and that its AI can replace them more cheaply.
414 points by bensouthwood | 411 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter essay by Deena Mousa arguing that AI is not replacing radiologists, with demand for human radiologists at an all-time high.
383 points by sfarshid | 276 comments
A GitHub markdown writeup describing running Claude Code headlessly in an infinite loop at a YC Agents hackathon, which shipped six repos overnight.
693 points by serhack_ | 351 comments
A personal blog post on grell.dev about giving an AI agent control of a computer (arms and legs) and having it reject the author's request.
638 points by lwo32k | 1120 comments
CNN Business analysis piece arguing that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's warning of a 'white-collar bloodbath' from AI is part of the AI hype machine.
533 points by tehnub | 137 comments
Blog post by Dan Slimmon describing "do-nothing scripts" that encode manual procedures step by step as a path toward gradual automation.
417 points by pvarghav | 97 comments
Landing page for API Parrot, a desktop tool for reverse engineering websites' HTTP APIs to automate, integrate, or scrape sites without public APIs.
591 points by paul-tharun | 796 comments
A blog post by David Dodda describing how he automated his job application process, part 1 of a series.
343 points by crummy | 261 comments
Cay Horstmann's blog post arguing that modern Java, with compile-time typing and good tooling, works well for small scripting and automation tasks.
333 points by thunderbong | 290 comments
A blog post by Sebastian Witowski explaining why he likes using Makefiles to automate common project tasks.
622 points by pedrodelfino | 315 comments
Homepage of FarmBot, an open-source CNC farming robot sold as kits (Genesis and Genesis XL) for automated home food growing.
330 points by voxadam | 350 comments
New Atlas article reporting that a fully automatic robot dentist performed the world's first dental procedure on a human patient.
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347 points by vinnyglennon | 236 comments
arXiv paper comparing large language models with junior lawyers and legal process outsourcers on contract review accuracy, speed, and cost.
380 points by adhocmobility | 742 comments
A personal essay on Notion lamenting GPT-4's impact on jobs, told through a colleague from a poor Indian farming family whose white-collar job may be automated.