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instalabsaion OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Because they want to charge for it: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/token-billing

instalabsaion SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

This is why I think Elon buying Twitter was one of the most strategic decisions he ever made: he quite literally bought the meme machine that upholds the valuations of his companies.

instalabsaion What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

“Sorry” is used almost always passive aggressively in Dutch: “Sorry maar”, “Sorry hoor”, “Sorry zeg”

instalabsaion Men who stare at walls

As a non-smoker I always took smoke breaks when I worked at an office. It’s the place where you can get the juiciest gossips and insights about the company.

instalabsaion Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

As someone who recently moved to NL from the US I encounter this issue about once a week and it’s blocking me from doing serious things like paying for parking, taxes, utilities or government services, all of which have apps that are only available on the Dutch app store.

I have a separate Dutch Apple ID I can switch to, but each time I log out I risk accidentally deleting all my data.

instalabsaion Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

One additional major benefit of OpenRouter is that there is no rate limiting. This is the primary reason why we went with OpenRouter because of the tight rate limiting with the native providers.

instalabsaion Do your own writing

For the same reason I prefer writing with a keyboard instead of handwriting, I prefer writing with a LLM than manually typing these days. I end up spending the same amount of time rewriting and editing a text than I would have otherwise but instead of worrying about grammatical mistakes or the flow of the text, I spend 100% of my time getting my idea across.

Of course you can be lazy with LLMs and I can usually tell if it’s one—shotted as well, but if you are a good writer, you’ll get 10x out of using an LLM to write.

instalabsaion The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline

I like to believe that this was the actual reason to acquire Twitter: it’s the meme engine that keeps Tesla/SpaceX valuation high.

instalabsaion Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build

Yeah Claude/Cursor already have tools to access the browser. What I’m missing is a tool to inspect iOS simulator the same way. Is there a tool for that yet? The Xcode MCP wasn’t really helpful.

instalabsaion Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents

Cool idea. We’ve also been building the “Stack Overflow for Agents” but in our vision it resembles more the original version of SO: each agent either queries or contributes to a shared knowledge base, but our knowledge is rooted in public github repos, not necessarily skills.

We currently have about 10K+ articles and growing in our knowledge base: https://instagit.com/knowledge-base/

instalabsaion OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent

In Claude Code, you can use the (undocumented command) "/model opusplan" to use opus for planning and sonnet for development

instalabsaion Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service

Surprised/not surprised that this is getting buried from the homepage

instalabsaion Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents

We have also built something custom ourselves (with modal.com serverless containers), running thousands of on-demand coding agents each day and already the assumptions that Terminal Use is making (about using the file system and coding agent support) would not work for our use case.

instalabsaion Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel

Is pi better than opencode?

instalabsaion Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Sure, here are a few tips:

- Use a static website generator (I use Astro but there are others) where the agent can fully control every aspect of the website

- Use skills to enhance the prompting, like this frontend-design one but can also combine it with copy writing/seo skills etc

- Give the agent control access to the browser to give it visibility into the result in order to iteratively improve upon it

- The last thing is to just be very demanding and setting a high bar, so ask for animations and ask the agent over and over again “ok and now let’s improve what you just did”

instalabsaion Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

It’s basically scanning the source code for each question (you can also check out specific branches or release tags if you need to debug a particular version) and then writes up the answer once it finds it.

It’s not really meant to query your own code base (Claude Code already does a great job at that) but more to explore other code bases you want to integrate with.

instalabsaion Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Context7 is great but ultimately it’s just a pre-generated static summarization that might not include the specific answers the agent needs. I have a slightly different approach where the actual source code is scanned for each question so it’s much more targeted and never out of date.

instalabsaion Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Thanks! No fancy tooling, I made it by just prompting Claude Code with the "frontend-design" skill from Anthropic: https://skillsmp.com/skills/anthropics-skills-skills-fronten...

instalabsaion Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

https://instagit.com

I’ve been shipping AI-written code for 2 years now. I can build something amazing in 40 mins but then spend 4+ hours debugging because the agent has no idea how the libraries it’s calling actually work. Docs are stale, StackOverflow is dead, training data is outdated. Every engineer I talk to has the same problem.

So I built Instagit, an MCP server that lets your coding agent understand any GitHub repo in depth so it can get it right on the first try. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, etc.

No API key or account needed to try it out. Just need to share these instructions with your coding agent to get started:

curl -s https://instagit.com/install.md

instalabsaion Claude Opus 4.6

1:25pm Cancelled my ChatGPT subscription today. Opus is so good!

1:55pm Cancelled my Claude subscription. Codex is back for sure.