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New EU-wide product repair rules come into force

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0824/1588931-repair-rules/
1•austinallegro•39s ago•0 comments

tmp.0ut Volume 5 – 2026-08

https://tmpout.sh/5/
1•matt_d•46s ago•0 comments

Can AI Help Someone Get Closer to God? The Answer Is Dividing Opinions

https://moztako.me/can-ai-help-someone-get-closer-to-god/
1•vadinho•1m ago•0 comments

Can AI Do Philosophy? An Experiment (Part Two)

https://www.ryansimonelli.com/absolute-irony-blog/can-ai-do-philosophy-an-experiment-part-two
1•bananaflag•2m ago•0 comments

Cliamp – Terminal Music Player

https://www.cliamp.stream/#install
1•behnamoh•3m ago•0 comments

AliExpress Has Used WebAudio Fingerprinting to Track Users

https://www.techjuice.pk/aliexpress-webaudio-fingerprinting-tracking-bluetooth/
2•xhevahir•4m ago•0 comments

When Claude is down, do they have a backup Claude to investigate the root cause?

2•pykul•16m ago•0 comments

The Safeguards Have to Run

https://christophermeiklejohn.com/series/the-machine-in-the-lab/two-notebooks-lost-series/
1•azhenley•17m ago•0 comments

Figma Is Not Reality

https://yoshitha.net/blog/figma-is-not-reality/
1•prxtl•18m ago•1 comments

Fast-fashion giant Shein aims for $27B valuation in Hong Kong market debut

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/24/fashion-giant-shein-27bn-valuation-hong-kong-mar...
2•Markoff•28m ago•0 comments

Attention is all we have: A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/attention-is-all-we-have
3•rzk•34m ago•0 comments

Compare robot recordings across runs

https://foxglove.dev/blog/compare-robot-recordings-across-runs
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Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/vgz5psbjmt1h
9•rob•35m ago•2 comments

Claude.ai web interface to Claude down, again

6•b112•37m ago•7 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/
2•zackb•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scalattice Modelmeter. OSS price and latency bench for open models

https://scalattice.com/blog/modelmeter/
1•RomulusHill•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Searchable Stripe test cards with one-click copy

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1•fishsander•43m ago•0 comments

I Rented a 96 GB GPU and Took Uncensored Qwen3.8 From 44 to 125 tok/s

https://aseemshrey.com/blog/running-qwen3-8-27b-uncensored/
4•LuD1161•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source calculator for "will my GPU run this LLM?"

https://jaeseok614.github.io/llm-gpu-checker-ko/
3•jaeseok614•43m ago•0 comments

Claude Is Down?

8•tuleiff•47m ago•10 comments

Show HN: Turn everything you read into things you write

https://sidelong.app
2•whatcha•49m ago•1 comments

Texas Gov. says data centers deserve the backlash: 'They dug their own grave'

https://www.businessinsider.com/greg-abbott-texas-data-centers-backlash-2026-8
3•dgellow•53m ago•0 comments

5% of venture capitalists have generated roughly 90% of the industry's profits

https://www.thevccorner.com/p/100-best-performing-vc-firms-ranking-2026
1•koolhead17•57m ago•0 comments

Executable Is a SQLite Database

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database
2•setheron•59m ago•0 comments

The Absolute State of Management

https://infrequently.org/2026/07/state-management/
2•luu•1h ago•1 comments

Mourning Steve French

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090098/
3•mfrw•1h ago•0 comments

The agent that writes the code cannot read the tests that grade it

https://medium.com/@giladha/the-agent-that-writes-the-code-cannot-read-the-tests-that-grade-it-b4...
1•giladha•1h ago•0 comments

AI Is Quietly Draining the Public Internet of Thought

https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/2091127620431933780
12•nreece•1h ago•5 comments

Observare – one monitoring service instead of five

https://observare.co.uk/
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Tesla's Biggest Design Mistake May Be Hiding in Plain Sight

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2026/08/22/teslas-biggest-recall-yet-exposes-a-dangerous-p...
3•FireBeyond•1h ago•1 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!