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Duckity swaps CAPTCHAs for invisible rate limits and proof-of-work challenges to make API abuse costly

Shown on HN, await duckity.solve(POLICY_ID) has the client do a VDF-backed computational challenge that scales with activity, alongside rate limits and IP signals, so bots and scripted agents pay more to hammer your endpoints while users never see a puzzle; data is processed in Frankfurt. Plans list a 10,000-challenge monthly tier with a "Protected by Duckity" label and $49/mo for 100,000 with white labeling.

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tmux-restore brings back tmux sessions after a reboot and reopens Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI conversations

Shown on HN Nov 3 under MIT, the one line installer wires tmux resurrect and tmux continuum to save sessions, layouts and scrollback every minute and once more at shutdown, while small adapters find each agent's conversation id so Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, opencode and pi panes resume mid conversation. Editors restart on their own, but deploys and dev servers come back typed on the prompt, waiting for Enter…

GitHub (andrewboldi/tmux-restore)

Toolang v0.4 writes agent loops as functions and flows in plain-text .too files you can run from the CLI

Shown on HN, uv tool install toolang adds a runtime where an agic is a reusable agent loop with typed inputs and outputs, flow composes them in sequence, parallel lanes or loops, and skills, psyches and MCP services plug in with with lines; any .too file's agics become CLI commands with model , allow tools=none and token limits. It works with models.dev cloud providers plus Ollama and llama.cpp, needs Python 3.11+, and is untested on Windows…

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Hardcount is an MIT, self-hosted usage billing server that prices AI tokens per model and shows margin per customer

Shown on HN Nov 3, the Go server takes usage events (or LiteLLM's) priced by model and token type, sells prepaid credit, makes monthly invoices that Stripe charges with no Stripe Billing fee, and keeps data in your own Postgres, with test clocks to preview a month's invoice. It's pre 1.0 with one maintainer, Stripe and cards only, and no production users yet (Show HN)…

GitHub (gethardcount/hardcount)

Hookdeck Inspect is a free, no-account webhook tester your coding agent can drive with plain HTTP

Shown on HN Nov 3, curl X POST https://inspect.hookdeck.com/ returns an ingest url for webhooks and a requests url that long polls up to 25 seconds and hands back the next request as JSON, so an agent can test an integration end to end without a browser. It also ships mock payloads from 150+ providers like Stripe and GitHub, an OpenAPI spec, and an agent skill via npx skills add hookdeck/agent skills skill inspect (Show HN)…

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