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Show HN: Vibefs – A file preview server for remote vibe coding

https://github.com/reorx/vibefs
1•novoreorx•4m ago•0 comments

MotherDuck: Self-Serve Recovery with Point-in-Time Restore

https://motherduck.com/blog/point-in-time-restore/
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Anthropic says 'Claude will remain ad-free,' unlike ChatGPT

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/873686/anthropic-claude-ai-ad-free-super-bowl...
1•kstonekuan•7m ago•1 comments

Why do we use async-await in our Code

https://furotmark.github.io/2026/02/04/Why-Do-We-Use-Async-Await-In-Our-Code.html
1•furoTmark•8m ago•0 comments

Starting to Acknowledge Ukraine's Untenable Position and Inevitable Loss

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/collective-west-press-starting-to-acknowledge-ukraines-un...
1•hackandthink•8m ago•0 comments

The More Protein, the Better?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/well/eat/protein-fact-check.html
2•hampelm•9m ago•0 comments

Yet another currency converter app, but with cryptos and offline-first support

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/travel-with-currency-converter/id6746667973
1•hieuwu•11m ago•0 comments

System Management Mode: How SMM isolation hardens compute platforms (2020)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/12/system-management-mode-deep-dive-how-smm...
1•transpute•11m ago•0 comments

SHA-3 Explained: Deep Dive into Keccak, the Sponge Construction and TurboSHAKE

https://kerkour.com/sha3
1•unsolved73•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Funding History: Product-Business Strategy Lessons

https://founderleverage.com/2026/02/04/openai-funding-history-analysis/
1•harshalachavan7•12m ago•0 comments

How to make employees learn cybersecurity?

1•dkozyatinskiy•13m ago•0 comments

How Containers Work: Building Container Networking from Scratch

4•amalChandru•14m ago•0 comments

Multifloats.jl: the world's fastest extended-precision floating-point arithmetic

https://github.com/dzhang314/MultiFloats.jl
1•postflopclarity•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SlitherPong, a hybrid of the Snake and Pong video games

https://www.slitherpong.com/
3•AmbroseBierce•16m ago•0 comments

Voxtral Transcribe 2

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2
1•meetpateltech•17m ago•0 comments

Blind Trust in VS Code Extensions

https://opista.com/posts/blind-trust-in-vs-code-extensions
2•StrangeSound•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nemp – Claude Code memory with zero cloud (just JSON on your machine)

https://github.com/SukinShetty/Nemp-memory
1•sukinai•18m ago•1 comments

Explosion of Black Hole Could Explain (Almost) Everything

https://www.umass.edu/news/article/did-we-just-see-black-hole-explode-physicists-umass-amherst-th...
1•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Created Full YouTube Suite Skill for OpenClaw

https://clawhub.ai/therohitdas/youtube-full
2•nikhonit•19m ago•0 comments

Long branches in compilers, assemblers, and linkers

https://maskray.me/blog/2026-01-25-long-branches-in-compilers-assemblers-and-linkers
1•PaulHoule•22m ago•0 comments

Barcode Scanner as a Musical Instrument

https://www.electronicosfantasticos.com/en/works/barcoder/
1•the-mitr•23m ago•0 comments

Distributing Go binaries like SQLite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/distributing-go-binaries/
1•simonw•25m ago•0 comments

Xikipedia Algorithm

https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia
1•todsacerdoti•25m ago•0 comments

Underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/cornell-research-shows-that-underwater-3d-printing-can-b...
1•speckx•25m ago•1 comments

Why Your Video Tool's Source Code Matters More Than Its Privacy Policy

https://sendrec.eu/blog/why-video-tool-source-code-matters-more-than-privacy-policy/
1•alexneamtu•25m ago•0 comments

Confidential Computing Adds a Crazy Amount of Overhead to GPUs

https://bomfather.dev/blog/confidential-computing-overhead/
2•nathannaveen•25m ago•0 comments

Little zines can make a big difference

https://improvesomething.today/zines/
1•surprisetalk•26m ago•0 comments

Should States Reduce Teacher Licensing Requirements?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34232
1•surprisetalk•26m ago•0 comments

I need to get better at email

https://chrishannah.me/i-need-to-get-better-at-email/
1•surprisetalk•26m ago•0 comments

Life and Supercontinents

https://szupie.github.io/supercontinents/
1•surprisetalk•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: TinyFn – Your agent sucks at math

https://tinyfn.io
3•tacoooooooo•1h ago
I built TinyFn because I kept watching AI agents confidently get basic things wrong — math, string counting, unit conversions, validations. The classic "how many R's in strawberry" problem, but across hundreds of utility tasks.

TinyFn is a collection of 500+ deterministic utility endpoints (math, string ops, hashing, validation, conversions, etc.) that AI agents can call via MCP instead of guessing. (Also works as a plain REST API). Think of it as offloading the stuff you wouldn't ask a human to do in their head either.

I'd love feedback on which tool categories are most useful, and what's missing. Happy to answer any questions. https://tinyfn.io

Comments

jqpabc123•1h ago
LLMs hallucinate math, fumble conversions, and make up validations.

So let's obscure (partially) the inadequacies of LLMs?

This way, we can skip past the obvious and move on to making really big mistakes using LLMs.

tacoooooooo•1h ago
Humans are also bad at math! So we created calculators. LLMs should have the same access to tools to give them the best opportunity to succeed
jqpabc123•48m ago
LLMs have access to the same tools --- they run on a computer.

The problem here is the basic implementation of LLMs. It is non-deterministic (i.e. probabilistic) which makes it inherently inadequate and unreliable for *a lot* of what people have come to expect from a computer.

You can try to obscure the problem but you can't totally eliminate it without redesigning LLMs. At this time, the only real cure is to verify everything ---which nullifies a lot of the incentive to use LLMs in the first place.

tacoooooooo•5m ago
LLMs absolutely do not have access to the same tools unless they're explicitly given access to them. Running on a computer means nothing.

It sounds like you don't like LLMs! In that case, you may be more interested in our REST Api. All the same functions, but designed for edge computing, where dependency bloat is a real issue https://tinyfn.io/edge