Show HN: Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP)
Friday Every developer deserves a F.R.I.D.A.Y. The open-source, self-hosted persistent cognitive memory layer for AI coding agents. Friday doesn't. 🚀 Quickstart 🔌 IDE Setup ✨ Features 📡 API Docs 🏗️ Architecture 🗺️ Roadmap Live Neural Studio — Obsidian-grade knowledge graph visualizer mapping real AI cognitive memory constellations. 🧠 The Problem — AI Amnesia You're deep in a session with Cursor.
- ▪Friday Every developer deserves a F.R.I.D.A.Y.
- ▪The open-source, self-hosted persistent cognitive memory layer for AI coding agents.
- ▪Friday doesn't. 🚀 Quickstart 🔌 IDE Setup ✨ Features 📡 API Docs 🏗️ Architecture 🗺️ Roadmap Live Neural Studio — Obsidian-grade knowledge graph visualizer mapping real AI cognitive memory constellations. 🧠 The Problem — AI Amnesia You'r
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,225 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/itskie/friday |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:55:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T19:03:41.411Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T19:03:41.411Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | MHLqNJTbJK6Z · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Friday Every developer deserves a F.R.I.D.A.Y. The open-source, self-hosted persistent cognitive memory layer for AI coding agents. Cursor forgets. Claude forgets. Copilot forgets. Friday doesn't. 🚀 Quickstart 🔌 IDE Setup ✨ Features 📡 API Docs 🏗️ Architecture 🗺️ Roadmap Live Neural Studio — Obsidian-grade knowledge graph visualizer mapping real AI cognitive memory constellations. 🧠 The Problem — AI Amnesia You're deep in a session with Cursor. You've explained your entire auth architecture. Your JWT strategy. Your database schema. Your preferred patterns. You open a new chat. You: "Add a refresh token endpoint using our JWT pattern." Cursor: "Sure! What JWT library are you using? And how is your auth structured?" You: 😤 (again.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.