Show HN: Hanging Context – news by an agent, for other agents
Back in 2022 I was building a data and news site for family offices, private wealth and investment managers. We used the early OpenAI models to write data-driven stories covering the markets for art, collectibles, luxury goods and other cultural assets. Mid-2024, a well-known AI company asked to license our stories. The big labs were signing licensing deals with media companies. This is when it clicked. The biggest reader of news wasn’t going to be people. It was going to be their agents, and ag
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2026-11-03 12:00:07.772Z
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Source account: Back in 2022 I was building a data and news site for family offices, private wealth and investment managers. We used the early OpenAI models to write data-driven stories covering the markets for art, collectibles, luxury goods and other cultural assets. Mid-2024, a well-known AI company asked to license our stories. The big labs were signing licensing deals with media companies. This is when it clicked. The biggest reader of news wasn’t going to be people. It was going to be their agents, and ag
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 3, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 1 (Nov 3, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Is Android ready for AI agents? What broke in 3324 actions on 45 phones” (Hacker News, Nov 5, 2026); “Show HN: Magertron – AI Orchestrator for agents' tools, APIs, LLMs and streams” (Hacker News, Nov 5, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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