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Extension to show how much of your email was typed

https://dobryn.in/typed/
1•ddbrx•7m ago•1 comments

Do high school students have to work harder nowadays?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/21/do-high-school-students-have-to-work-harder-now...
1•luu•11m ago•0 comments

Taming Coding Agents Using Chemical Engineering Principles

https://blog-konecny.xyz/blog/2026/taming-coding-agents-using-chemical-engineering-principles/
1•3679225c-b36e-4•11m ago•0 comments

Gufo-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q6dense – 3095tok/s prefill; 190 tok/s decode on Strix Halo

https://github.com/NinjaPear/gufo-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q6dense
1•nubela•18m ago•0 comments

The Server Side Cloud Swift SDK

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/introducing-the-server-side-cloud-s...
1•ianrahman•23m ago•0 comments

Codex Originals

https://openai.com/codex-originals/
1•MehrdadKhnzd•24m ago•0 comments

Why HAL 9000 Feared Death (and Real AIs Don't)

https://maartenboudry.substack.com/p/why-hal-9000-feared-death-and-real
1•mpweiher•29m ago•0 comments

The characters of plastics (2024)

https://yarchive.net/blog/plastics/
3•thelastgallon•31m ago•0 comments

Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-02/hackers-breached-propulsion-system-of-us-bound...
3•sbulaev•38m ago•0 comments

Reversal of It’s Meaning: Sappho Fragments (2021)

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/what-crocodile-mummies-can-tell-us-about-everyday-life-ancie...
1•hwlan•46m ago•0 comments

New Global Vision is a digital video archive project from 2002

https://archive.org/details/ngvision?tab=about
1•riffraff•47m ago•0 comments

Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11036-y
1•jonbaer•48m ago•0 comments

Could this be Microsoft's moment?

https://sjg.io/writing/could-this-finally-be-microsofts-moment/
1•simonjgreen•58m ago•0 comments

Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

https://halide.cx/blog/wpd/
3•computerbuster•1h ago•1 comments

Working the Roofline for DeepSeek-V3 on Hopper

https://deepseek-v3.ezyang.com/studies/03-roofline.html
1•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

Faster Local LLMs with iPhone Offloading

https://github.com/StayLameBro/backburner
1•oezi•1h ago•1 comments

Used Processor Leads to Game Ban

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/10/02/1750242/used-processor-leads-to-game-ban
3•gbil•1h ago•1 comments

IINA (the media player) 1.5.0 is Released

https://iina.io/blog/150-release/
1•uonr•1h ago•0 comments

Haunted by the Ghosts of Materialism

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/haunted-by-the-ghosts-of-materialism
3•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rowan, an open-source SAST scanner for AI apps (code, models, MCP)"

https://github.com/hedgerow-dev/rowan
3•hedgerow-dev•1h ago•0 comments

DataInventor – an open-source replication of Adaption Lab's Invent a Dataset

https://huggingface.co/spaces/LocalLLaMA/data-inventor
1•codelion•1h ago•0 comments

LiberNT – fork of ReactOS focused on ARM64 and Windows 11

https://libernt.com
3•masijo•1h ago•0 comments

How good are we at spotting AI images?

https://slop-sense.labtoagi.com/
2•hckr78•1h ago•1 comments

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will-america-spend-9-of-its-gdp-on-ai-the-industry-is-counting-on-it-...
3•geox•1h ago•1 comments

Geocities 1996/97 – the good old days

https://claude.ai/artifact/ASgJADXmxzvXCQa47KaKzH
1•hrbrt•1h ago•1 comments

What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones

2•Steaglsz•1h ago•0 comments

Agentic broker for archived data and coding logs

https://data-sales-broker.app/
1•measurablefunc•1h ago•0 comments

ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research

https://ohmyksh.github.io/project/ScholarCatalyst/
1•matt_d•1h ago•0 comments

Legal sector outpaced US jobs growth in September

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/legal-sector-outpaced-us-jobs-growth-september-2026-10-02/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Katalyst Concludes Link Mission, Advances Future Robotic Space Operations

https://www.katalystspace.com/news/katalyst-concludes-link-mission-advances-future-robotic-space-...
1•taubek•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!