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Framework Data Breach

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1vhjbok/framework_data_breach/
1•rkagerer•54s ago•0 comments

Why did the greatest juggler of all time stop and open a construction business?

https://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/
1•mhb•1m ago•0 comments

Muscle protein can now be grown in chloroplasts of lettuce and tobacco plants

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-powerhouses-fake-meat-muscle-protein.html
1•vinni2•2m ago•0 comments

Guillotine Brought to Oppose New Data Center Left Company Reps Feeling "Unsafe"

https://www.gadgetreview.com/salem-brought-a-guillotine-to-oppose-new-data-center-company-reps-le...
1•healsdata•6m ago•0 comments

"It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public."

https://unsung.aresluna.org/its-unclear-how-sopwith-escaped-to-the-general-public/
3•colinprince•14m ago•0 comments

Gloriously Underqualified

https://jeffarnoldlabs.com/blogs/gloriously-underqualified
1•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Baby-Sitting the Economy (1998)

https://slate.com/business/1998/08/baby-sitting-the-economy.html
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

About Rx Kids

https://rxkids.org/about/
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Wyden proposes new taxes on data centers

https://www.eenews.net/articles/wyden-proposes-new-taxes-on-data-centers/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•18m ago•0 comments

Hikerapi Is the Best

https://hikerapi.com/
1•unknownunknownn•20m ago•0 comments

Gemini is Cooked but GCP is Cooking

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/gemini-is-cooked-but-gcp-is-cooking
2•gmays•21m ago•0 comments

ColorSpace: A framework for building text-based crypto-stegosystems

https://github.com/ChronicRhyno/ColorSpace
2•thunderbong•25m ago•0 comments

What are Looped Transformers? Explained clearly

https://twitter.com/neural_avb/status/2081741935883223196
2•gmays•27m ago•0 comments

Research finds women having 2 to 2.4 children age slower and live longer

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67798-y
1•maxloh•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A skill file that turns your saved-articles pile into go/skip verdicts

https://atomic24.com/blog/bookmarks-graveyard-idea-harvester/
1•atom_builder•32m ago•1 comments

New York's Novel Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Law Takes Effect (2025)

https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2025/11/new-yorks-novel-algorithmic-pricing-disclosure-law-t...
1•gregsadetsky•34m ago•0 comments

The Biggest Thing We've Lost Since the Early Internet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srtqr7VHvE4
1•pierres7•38m ago•1 comments

Tasteslop

https://nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/tasteslop
2•spats1990•41m ago•0 comments

MatrAIx: Simulating the world with 8.3B persona agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04205
2•anigbrowl•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets

https://simplepixelart.com/editor
2•lam_hg94•44m ago•0 comments

Improving Fable 5 Safeguards

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4•surprisetalk•44m ago•2 comments

America's Cyber Forces Grapple with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with...
5•toomuchtodo•47m ago•2 comments

piclaw – Pi coding agent in a Technicolor web trenchcoat

https://rcarmo.github.io/projects/piclaw/
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Built an exclusion engine and it might be what comes after AI slop

https://uncoverroads.com/
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Show HN: Markdown Buddy – Native macOS Markdown Editor with Quick Look and Xcode

https://markdownbuddy.inawa.app/
2•JanParis•48m ago•0 comments

Bridge and Torch Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_and_torch_problem
1•marysminefnuf•54m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

2•thoughtpeddler•1h ago•2 comments

OpenCode was able to reproduce the current price of DeepSeek

https://twitter.com/thdxr/status/2085377844515922210
2•ammo1662•1h ago•1 comments

SciCode-Verified: How Benchmark Defects Underestimated LLM Scientific-Coding

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04975
1•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

EU AI Act Content Labelling: Fake Around and Find Out

https://reprodev.com/eu-ai-act-content-labelling-fake-around-and-find-out/
2•reprodev•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!