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Lotus: Optimized Agentic and LLM Bulk Processing

https://github.com/lotus-data/lotus
1•handfuloflight•7m ago•0 comments

The end of paper retirement processing at the Office of Personnel Management

https://twitter.com/spikebrehm/status/2072422555101561154
2•MrBuddyCasino•13m ago•0 comments

Hackers On Planet Earth is back in Manhattan next month

https://www.hope.net/
1•fashiontechguru•16m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.5-Cyber built a zlib fuzzing lab in a day

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/07/02/field-reports-from-patch-the-planet/
1•wslh•17m ago•0 comments

Don't Train the Model, Evolve the Harness

https://huggingface.co/spaces/joelniklaus/harness-optimization
1•emersonmacro•19m ago•0 comments

Automated Accounting, Financial Reporting and Tax Management

https://maxint.com/blog/maxint-2-24-release
1•pcvetkovski•23m ago•0 comments

Trump's Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/world/europe/trump-world-leaders-corruption-wealth.html
2•Alien1Being•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Once you make your money from vibe coding innumerable products, then?

1•keepamovin•30m ago•0 comments

Private Credit Keeps $14B Trapped in Bid to Outlast Storm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-02/private-credit-keeps-14-billion-trapped-in-bid...
1•petethomas•30m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you get your open-source product good traction?

1•akarshhegde18•30m ago•1 comments

Blue Owl hit by $4.7B of redemption requests as investor exodus persists

https://www.ft.com/content/b302a86d-f6eb-4d47-b90b-523c1c19b3fa
1•petethomas•31m ago•0 comments

'Humanity is a privilege': Umar Khalid on his six years in a jail without trial

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/30/umar-khalid-interview-six-years-indian-jail-without...
2•thunderbong•32m ago•1 comments

Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-use-of-precision-editing-to-study-human-embryo-developm...
2•gmays•38m ago•0 comments

Open letter to Anthropic: keep Claude Fable 5 in existing paid plans

https://keepfable.org
2•SpitSalute•41m ago•1 comments

FlickerScope – are your LEDs giving you a headache? stop guessing

https://github.com/snokamedia/flickerscope
1•snoka•45m ago•0 comments

Wikipedia Is Up (2001)

https://web.archive.org/web/20010506042824/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/00068...
2•downbad_•47m ago•0 comments

A few thought about snarky answers on StackOverflow (2019)

https://www.cargocultcode.com/solving-the-zalgo-regex/
1•downbad_•47m ago•0 comments

Tradeoffs in Complexity, Abstraction, and Generality

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/EL2YvcrPNHrGgzPnZ/p/HNJwteaxpRYfLaQt7
1•parksb•48m ago•0 comments

Google's exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/
2•colinprince•50m ago•2 comments

Why AI Is Collapsing: How China Is Winning. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJf7vL8k94
1•Bender•51m ago•1 comments

Thanks but No Thanks

https://twitter.com/xopzuey/status/2072838561275969717
2•znort_•53m ago•2 comments

How Many People Have Ever Lived in the United States?

https://danielfetz.io/p/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-in-the-united-states
1•paulpauper•57m ago•0 comments

AI is 'not smart' so what's next in artificial intelligence?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•59m ago•0 comments

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug/
2•stopachka•1h ago•0 comments

I vibe coded a programming language, but I'd rather learn C the old way

1•alonsovm44•1h ago•0 comments

Some Basic LLM Etiquette

https://steenbok.space/blog/ai-etiquette/
1•sporkl_l•1h ago•0 comments

How AI Became More Expensive Than the Workers It Replaced [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaZZPjA3g0
2•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

The Safari MCP server for web developers

https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/
2•coloneltcb•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Best Local LLM Setup for a 128GB M4 Max Mac Studio?

2•linzhangrun•1h ago•0 comments

Seeing and Being Seen

https://www.sambish.com/essays/seeing/
2•sambishop•1h 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!