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It’s time for another hackathon!
This time, we want you to push the limits of our plugins system. Learn more below.
The Hermes Agent Plugin Hackathon starts now!
It runs for 7 days, with $20,000 in cash prizes and more.
Plugins are the most powerful way to extend Hermes Agent, and we want this hackathon to show what they can do. A plugin can change anything from the model Hermes runs on, where it stores its memory, where it runs commands, which messaging apps it works in and what Hermes Desktop shows. Plugins in the marketplace already let Hermes do things like control a phone or turn a photo into a printable 3D model.
Every kind of plugin is eligible, so build whatever functionality you want Hermes to have. We'll list accepted entries in the new Hermes Marketplace, where every Hermes user can install them.
Prizes
1st: $10,000 + neon sign + merch + $1,000 creds
2nd: $5,000 + neon sign + merch + $1,000 creds
3rd: $2,500 + neon sign + merch + $1,000 creds
4th: $1,500 + merch + $500 creds
5th: $1,000 + merch + $500 creds
Runners up (x5): merch + $250 creds
Submissions are due 5PM EST on Nov 11th. To enter:
1. Open a pull request that adds your plugin to the Hermes plugin catalog: hermes-agent.nousresearch.co…
2. Post a demo video on X and tag @NousResearch
3. Submit both links through the form: form.typeform.com/to/FwJLvOl…
Your entry is the plugin itself. Judges score it on usefulness, reliability, polish and creativity, and they favor plugins that do more than a prompt or a skill could. Keep the demo under 90 seconds and show the plugin working.
The developer guide shows how to build and test a plugin: hermes-agent.nousresearch.co…
When submissions close, we'll open a thread for every entry in the Nous Research Discord, so you can browse all the plugins and talk to the people who built them.
You can submit the form as soon as your pull request is open. The catalog checks run once a maintainer starts them, and we review entries every few days.
If you have any questions stop by the Nous Research Discord: discord.gg/nousresearch
GLHF!
Every LLM you can run for $0 — in one table.
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> be AI company
> scrape the entire internet
> ignore licenses and copyright
> download millions of pirated books
> use them to train frontier models
> spend tens of millions buying physical books
> cut off their spines
> scan every page
> destroy the originals
> lecture everyone else about intellectual property
> we are the good guys
We added two sentences to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy.
Original games, genre games, and games built from your own designs and assets are meant to keep working.
We'll continue to iterate to ensure we're striking the right balance. In the meantime, if Claude turns down something that's yours, send it my way.
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Security takeaways from the Binance hack, send this to your devs:
Never download or install apps/packages on MacOS without triple-checking the source first. Install homebrew from the developer's official page (github.com/Homebrew/install) not from Google.
Job Interviews (one of the most common ways to hack lately):
1. Never do a job interview on your work laptop (obvious reasons)
2. Don't download software for the meeting (didn't happen here, but worth a mention)
3. If you have to clone a code repository and run its build/tests/scripts - it MUST be in a sandbox environment, never your machine
Simple, stupid, boring security practices, that can save billions when followed. Stay safe🙏
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The biggest breakthroughs in Ethereum aren’t just about improving what we can already do. They’re about unlocking entirely new possibilities.
Today, @tw_tter and I will introduce something that could fundamentally change how we think about L2s
Trust me, you won’t leave this talk thinking about L2s the same way
The devs did something.
Many things, as it turns out.
Not one, but THREE firsts for synchronous composability between a rollup and Ethereum mainnet. @tw_tter and @eduadiez will demo them live on Lotus Stage 1 at Devcon, 13:00 IST.
We even had the devs make their own launch video.
Cast, in order of appearance: @SCBuergel , @antonimarber, @chetnamiittal, @debjitbw, @JesusLigero3, @jbaylina , @turingtestrun, @eduadiez, @filoozom, @epochzer0, @tw_tter , and @0xKenk .
One @ethereum .
Details of the news and the demos in thread. 🧵
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Don't let your agents become hostages to a single company's policies
For the Grok Bot users who are unhappy with random (and unannounced) usage limits, there's now an easy way to switch to Hermes:
hermes migrate grok-bot
Bring all of your memories, skills, and routines to Hermes with just a couple commands
Now if one AI lab changes their usage policies, you can just easily switch providers
I made a video showing this process and how easy it is. Check it out!
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yeah honestly fuck this industry just burn it all down and start again imo.
I used to work at @bubblemaps. Here's the contract they never disclosed.
@JoinProxima builds tools to help bundlers stay undetected by Bubblemaps.
Since April 2025, Proxima has also been paying Bubblemaps $45,000 a month for advice on "automated clustering parameters" and "block-level bundle processing visibility".
Receipts 🧵👇
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The document is forged. On the signing date, Bubblemaps was registered at 7 Rue Pablo Neruda, 92300 Levallois-Perret, not the address in this fake contract.
annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr/entreprise/bub…
The author is also using this thread to promote a competing platform and has multiple other factual errors
x.com/bubblemaps/sta…
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Imagine an arena where @deepseek_ai and @AnthropicAI making a deal.
both promise to keep it. Either could break it
who would you trust?
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To give you an idea of just how backward the German media landscape is when it comes to AI, consider the three main topics featured in Monday’s *Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung*, arguably Germany’s most significant daily newspaper.
Topic 1: AI "frontier labs" are anti-democratic and dominate the public sphere; this, it is argued, cannot be allowed to continue.
Topic 2: Meta is updating its terms of service and allegedly stealing from journalists, in short: AI labs are wicked thieves.
Topic 3: A neuroscientist claims that social networks harm children and, consequently (!), calls for a decoupling from Silicon Valley.
It’s completely absurd. Europe has lost.
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Robotics and Hardware have a launchpad now: machine.fun
Anyone can put a machine up, raise capital for it in public, and trade it from day one.
Built using @Raydium LaunchLab and supported by @codecopenflow and @peaq.
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good riddance
I have just informed my colleagues that I will step down as @ECB President on 7 February 2027.
It has been a source of great pride to serve this institution.
I thank all of those who have supported me on this journey over the past seven years.
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Windows Copilot was so terrible it might very well have seeded the AI opposition we now see among normies. Useless functionality, hyped to the moon, and a dumb key on every keyboard that did nothing worthwhile. youtube.com/watch?v=erRVsllM…
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So much of the climate hysteria is just aimless guilt roaming the earth in search of futile acts of atonement.
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All nous portal paid tier subs now come with a Hermes Agent instance and computer for it to use!
Easily connect to your hermes agent so you never have to leave your laptop open to keep things moving on any messenger app and one click login in the desktop app to connect to your Hermes Agent.
This will be quite critical for the Mobile App! :)
We've revamped Hermes Agent subscriptions.
Every new plan now includes a cloud agent out of the box, and usage has daily and weekly limits instead of one monthly block of credits.
Subscribers can switch to the new plans any time at portal.nousresearch.com/bill…
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Everyone who owns hardware with abominable software (like Sonos players) owes a debt of gratitude to Venkatraman Srinivasan and the rest of the eMudhra gang in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Without their gross negligence, it'd be a lot harder to counterfeit certificates and fix the sw🙏
