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Today's lead: Hacker News — Scheduled: Open-Source Calendly, but AI

In this episode:

- Hacker News: Scheduled: Open-Source Calendly, but AI

- Hacker News: AI pilot program in LA County courts will help judges craft rulings

- Hacker News: I Handed Off Maintenance of My Chrome Extension to AI

- Hacker News: Character.ai Hosts Jeffrey Epstein Island Roleplay RPG Scenarios

- Hacker News: Chainguard Is Now Protecting You from AI Agent Skills Gone Rogue

- Hacker News: Why AI Tools Fail – and Where the Real Lever Is

- Hacker News: PCB lead times extend as material shortages and AI demand strain supply chains

- Hacker News: Show HN: Jira-MCP – Full Jira for AI agents in 3 tools, not 72

Question:

What's the one AI story today that you think most people are missing?

Sources (selection):

1. Hacker News — Scheduled: Open-Source Calendly, but AI

https://github.com/Fergana-Labs/scheduled

2. Hacker News — AI pilot program in LA County courts will help judges craft rulings

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-18/ai-pilot-program-la-county-courts

3. Hacker News — I Handed Off Maintenance of My Chrome Extension to AI

https://blog.bymitch.com/posts/reject-cookies-automation/

4. Hacker News — Character.ai Hosts Jeffrey Epstein Island Roleplay RPG Scenarios

https://www.gadgetreview.com/character-ai-hosts-jeffrey-epstein-island-roleplay-rpg-scenarios

5. Hacker News — Chainguard Is Now Protecting You from AI Agent Skills Gone Rogue

https://techstrong.ai/features/chainguard-is-now-protecting-you-from-ai-agent-skills-gone-rogue/

6. Hacker News — Why AI Tools Fail – and Where the Real Lever Is

https://dekodiert.de/en/articles/maschinenlesbarer-kontext

7. Hacker News — PCB lead times extend as material shortages and AI demand strain supply chains

https://evertiq.com/news/2026-03-12-pcb-lead-times-extend-as-material-shortages-and-ai-demand-strain-supply-chains

8. Hacker News — Show HN: Jira-MCP – Full Jira for AI agents in 3 tools, not 72

https://github.com/mmatczuk/jira-mcp

9. Hacker News — Every time your AI runs, someone else makes money. Not you

https://apcher.dev:443/

10. Hacker News — Give your AI a codebase map or it will build one the expensive way

https://codeir.dev/index.html

11. Hacker News — UK to examine labelling AI content among wider copyright reforms

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/uk-examine-labelling-ai-content-among-wider-copyright-reforms-2026-03-18/

12. Hacker News — The Mirage of Career Inertia in the AI Era: Questions to Ask and Answer Today

https://foggyfuture.substack.com/p/the-mirage-of-career-inertia-in-the

13. Hacker News — Pervaziv AI Code Review GitHub Action

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pervaziv-ai-code-review

14. Hacker News — I built an AI baseball manager that runs all 30 MLB teams

https://deepdugout.com/

15. Hacker News — A BEAM-native personal autonomous AI agent built on Elixir/OTP

https://github.com/thatsme/AlexClaw

16. Hacker News — iCloud Photo Sharing Sucks – Can AI Help Me Replace It?

https://medium.com/@DougDonohoe/icloud-photo-sharing-sucks-can-ai-help-me-replace-it-3b48fdd1350c

17. Hacker News — Stop Building AI "Teams." Start Building Software Factories. – Owen Zanzal

https://medium.com/devops-ai/stop-building-ai-teams-start-building-software-factories-627cef5d09eb

18. Hacker News — We Made AI Gamble. What Poker Revealed About Frontier LLMs

https://twitter.com/boson2photon/status/2033953028160819273

19. Hacker News — We Made LLMs Gamble: Heres What Poker Revealed About Frontier AI Models

https://moltecarlo.com/

20. Hacker News — Alibaba Starts Major Revamp to Heighten Focus on AI Profits

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-16/alibaba-plans-major-revamp-to-heighten-focus-on-ai-profits

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