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Code per developer is up 40% since 2022; review capacity isn't

https://www.reviewsaur.com/research
1•rafalgraniczny•35s ago•0 comments

Don't Stick Your SidePulse Pro in a Mac Studio

https://blog.jgc.org/2026/09/dont-stick-your-sidepulse-pro-in-mac.html
1•jgrahamc•1m ago•0 comments

As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/us/jim-pillen-ice-nebraska-undocumented-workers.html
1•sbulaev•2m ago•0 comments

A photon that should never have reached Earth

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-photon-einstein-current-physics-earth.html
1•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•3m ago•0 comments

DialKit

https://joshpuckett.me/dialkit
1•handfuloflight•3m ago•0 comments

AI Has Solved One of Math's $1M Millennium Prize Problems

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solved-one-of-maths-1-million-millennium-prize-problems-202...
1•pseudolus•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remoot, run Cursor Agent and Copilot CLI from your phone

https://www.remoot.dev
1•furkanalniak•6m ago•0 comments

AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1142088/danijar-hafner-developing-plan-ahead-agents/
1•joozio•8m ago•0 comments

Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ontario-great-lakes-sturgeon-lifespan-study-9.7329250
1•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

Vdr – an attempt at a coredump handler secure by design (requesting review)

https://github.com/definitemaybe0/vdr
1•definitemaybe0•11m ago•1 comments

Low-code framework for building custom AI

https://github.com/ludwig-ai/ludwig
1•amar-laksh•13m ago•0 comments

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

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2•pseudolus•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I created a platform that lets you own a word. a piece of the Internet

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Ask HN: How do you protect customer PII across multiple services?

1•Securelytixdev•16m ago•0 comments

Suno rolls out v6 song making model, will pay royalties

https://musically.com/2026/09/09/suno-launches-its-v6-ai-music-models-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
1•utiiiD•16m ago•0 comments

PISA test reveals alarming drop in reading and math skills

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2•pseudolus•17m ago•0 comments

How to Use Three.js's New Native Gaussian Splats

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How to Increase Your Website's Visibility in Google's AI-Powered Search Results

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Tool routing for a local LLM agent: grep to embeddings to GBNF grammar

https://eris-system.dev/blog/tool-routing
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Booking.com Fails Tourists [video]

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Google to invest $15B in AI datacenters and buy nuclear power in Finland

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1•consumer451•21m ago•0 comments

Quantum Computing on a Commodore 64 in 200 Lines of Basic

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Rethinking ERP Transformation in the AI Era

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1•AbsoluteERP•29m ago•1 comments

Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgwy1k42w4o
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Free Context/Harness Engineering Course that is getting traction

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The deployment decalogue (10 commandments for shipping without fear)

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1•henryjin76•42m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Toolbase – Build reliable AI teammates by example, not instruction

2•David1238•1y ago
Hey HN, we’re David and Ethan, co-founders of Toolbase.

Toolbase is an AI agent and workflow builder that helps you quickly create production-grade AI automations — batteries included.

Try it without registering here: https://gettoolbase.com/

------- The dev cycle in Toolbase -------

1. Define a rough goal.

2. Connect any API or MCP server (we have thousands, or bring your own).

3. Teach the AI what valid input and output examples look like (these later become your unit tests!).

4. Let Toolbase generate the perfect prompt, code, workflow, or agent.

5. Deploy your project as an API, MCP server, or chat interface!

Coding optional. Sharing encouraged.

Note: If you’re familiar with Cursor/Windsurf and the core concepts behind frameworks like Mastra (which Toolbase runs on), you already know how to use Toolbase. You retain the flexibility of coding but avoid boilerplate and plumbing tasks (integration, validation, context mapping, testing, etc.) unless you explicitly choose to do them.

------- Demo -------

https://www.loom.com/share/540c61b2c5634996b088ebbb16989cf0?...

This simple agent validates company billing addresses in our CRM (Pipedrive) by researching them through Tavily search. If there’s an address mismatch, it asks a human to pick the right one via email (watch on 2x speed):

Output email for the example shown in the demo: https://gettoolbase.com/assets/demo-screenshot.png

Producing code and more deterministic workflows follows a similar process.

------- Why another agent/workflow builder? -------

We started building Toolbase out of frustration with existing frameworks, especially for production use, and the lack of IDE support for MLOps artifacts, such as prompts, golden data, workflows, and evaluations. Since much of the code for agentic systems can be dynamically generated and validated using these artifacts, they often become even more important than the code itself.

After speaking with other builders, we also realized that manually coding workflows, experimenting with prompts through trial-and-error, and setting up infrastructure/integrations all took far more time than they should. Tools like Cursor and Windsurf help, but extracting meaning from AI-generated code is slow. Chatbots whipping up arcane code potions in tinted chat windows, which is the other end of the spectrum, demos really well but isn’t maintainable at all (sorry, vibe-coding). So we went with something in the middle: an AI-assiststed visual builder with full code fallback.

------- What do you think? -------

We’re excited for any feedback, thoughts, or questions from the HN community.

Let us know what you think in the comments!

- David & Ethan

Comments

David1238•1y ago
If you want to jump straight to trying it, you can preview it here:

https://gettoolbase.com

Try clicking the play button at the bottom right of workflow pane that appears next to the big blue text.

Clicking each node after you submit your query shows you its results for the run.

Full-screening the experience (icon on the top right) and expanding a node (same icon within a step of the workflow) lets you train that prompt in the same way we did in the demo.

The first node (“User Intent Extractor”) is purposefully vague so you can train it yourself!