frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylm3m67n2o
1•jonnybgood•43s ago•0 comments

Agentic Research Is Oxymoronic

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31161
1•privong•3m ago•0 comments

The traditional research paper is dead

https://generativehistory.substack.com/p/no-more-muddling-through
2•tolerance•3m ago•0 comments

Defining AI Psychosis. Part 1: True AI Psychosis

https://jeffs.blog/p/defining-ai-psychosis-part-1-true
1•euthymiclabs•3m ago•0 comments

Cleaning Up Poop: The Human Labor Behind Waymo

https://bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot-of-cleaning-up-poop-a-depot-worker-on-the-human-labor-beh...
1•counteroptimize•3m ago•0 comments

GCP us-central1 having major issues

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/J5ia5t9p3g9Q5Wi7r8Ev
4•sadfsdfsadfsdf•3m ago•0 comments

From 3:00 Am Panic to Confidence: How I Use AI During On-Call Incidents

https://qainsights.com/from-300-am-panic-to-confidence-how-i-use-ai-during-on-call-incidents/
1•qainsights•4m ago•0 comments

Skforecast-AI – Agentic time series forecasting in Python

https://github.com/skforecast/skforecast-ai
1•JoaquinAmat•5m ago•0 comments

HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/huggingface-attack-postmortem-civilizations
1•swolpers•6m ago•0 comments

Fal scales media search to 300M+ assets on turbopuffer

https://twitter.com/turbopuffer/status/2094808269021970671
1•joshauk•7m ago•0 comments

CMS Proposes Changes to Incentivize FHIR-Enabled Electronic Prior Authorization

https://www.wsgr.com/en/insights/cms-proposes-changes-to-incentivize-fhir-enabled-electronic-prio...
1•stmw•7m ago•0 comments

Debugging API Responses Locally: A JSON Formatter That Never Sends Your Payload

https://capytoolkit.com/blog/developer-tools/debugging-api-responses-locally-browser-json-formatt...
1•ChillyCapy•8m ago•0 comments

USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/politics/usps-whistleblower-mail-ballot-rules-trump
1•GrinningFool•8m ago•0 comments

Ajeya Cotra – The OpenAI/Hugging Face story, told by one of the investigators [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50zezLFWWI
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Maniquest Launch

https://maniquest.com
1•maniquest•9m ago•1 comments

'Humongous' marmot crowned winner in inaugural Fat Marmot Week contest

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/marmot-winner-fat-marmot-week-contest
1•ohjeez•10m ago•0 comments

A Million Kakapos

https://blog.mempko.com/a-million-kakapos/
1•mempko•10m ago•0 comments

DEF CON 34 – ESP32 as counter-surveillance platform [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcK-TDmzshc
1•skibz•10m ago•0 comments

AirPoint – Turn your phone into a wireless PC trackpad and presenter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airpoint.remote&hl=en_US
1•prabinkhokhali•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Fastest Local H3 Video Generation on Mac

https://github.com/tgo-app-dev/vpipe
1•t-go•12m ago•0 comments

Alma, a Voice LLM That's 63% Faster and 84% Cheaper Than OpenAI

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/phonely-launches-alma-voice-llm-130200496.html
1•ysabri•12m ago•0 comments

EMVCo Requests Feedback on Agentic Payments Framework

https://www.emvco.com/news/emvco-requests-feedback-on-framework-for-secure-interoperable-and-scal...
1•nilen•12m ago•0 comments

How engineered microbes could help feed the world's crops

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143195/microbe-fertilizer-switch-bioworks/
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

pstack

https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/docs/guide/README.md
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Thinking about Software Freedom

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2026/software-freedom/
1•edward•13m ago•0 comments

Trump has asked Apple to change Lake Ontario name to 'Lake America' on its maps

https://apnews.com/article/apple-lake-ontario-america-trump-93232341c99a10d35338d3f1afd54171
1•ripe•14m ago•0 comments

Wacksy: a Rust library for writing WACZ collections

https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2025/12/17/introducing-wacksy-a-library-fo...
1•toomuchtodo•17m ago•1 comments

A High Performance Neural Network for Energy-Efficient Copyright Violation [pdf]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/em-tg/laundercat/refs/heads/master/laundercat.pdf
1•em-tg•17m ago•1 comments

Dyson CameraJet Toothbrush

https://www.dyson.com/oral-care/electric-toothbrush/camerajet/ceramic-pink-set
1•mudil•18m ago•0 comments

How CMIP7 will shape the next wave of climate science

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-cmip7-will-shape-the-next-wave-of-climate-science
1•barbazoo•18m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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!