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Show HN: TinyFn – 500 deterministic utility APIs for AI agents (via MCP)

https://tinyfn.io
1•tacoooooooo•1h ago
Hey HN,

I built TinyFn because LLMs are bad at the boring stuff — counting letters, validating emails, converting units. But they're even worse at things that are literally impossible for them: hashing, regex execution, UUID generation. An LLM will never produce a correct SHA256 hash.

TinyFn is a set of 500+ simple, deterministic utility endpoints that agents can call via MCP or plain REST.

The "strawberry" problem is the cliché example, but in practice the more painful version is agents confidently returning wrong regex matches, botched conversions, or "valid" email addresses that aren't. These are all things that should just be function calls, not LLM guesses.

Technically it's straightforward — each endpoint is a small deterministic function behind a REST API. The MCP layer lets Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients discover and call them as tools automatically.

Free tier is 100 requests/month, no credit card needed. Would love feedback on which tool categories are most useful and what's missing.

Vibes Are All You Need

https://tiangewu.com/#/vibes-are-all-you-need
1•tiangewu•9s ago•0 comments

We're Launching Our Second App!

https://www.nullboard.xyz/
1•thximpulse•40s ago•0 comments

The 'elite' couples breeding to save mankind

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/pronatalists-save-mankind-by-having-babies-silicon-valley/
1•Anon84•2m ago•0 comments

The GitButler CLI

https://blog.gitbutler.com/but-cli
1•dahjelle•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DeepBrainz-R1 – Reasoning-First Small Models for Agentic Systems

https://huggingface.co/DeepBrainz
1•DeepBrainz•3m ago•0 comments

Gambit

http://gambitscheme.org/
2•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Small LLMs vs. Fine-Tuned Bert for Classification: 32 Experiments

https://alex-jacobs.com/posts/beatingbert/
1•tacoooooooo•4m ago•0 comments

Munich makes digital sovereignty measurable with its own score

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Munich-makes-digital-sovereignty-measurable-with-its-own-score-11164...
1•smurda•7m ago•0 comments

Set up a Bazel build that targets an MCU

https://pigweed.dev/build/bazel/mcu-setup.html
1•kaycebasques•7m ago•0 comments

Font Playground

https://www.abishekvenkat.com/fontplay
1•archb•7m ago•0 comments

Competence as Tragedy

https://crowprose.com/blog/competence-as-tragedy/
1•birdculture•8m ago•0 comments

The most misunderstood graph in AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/05/1132254/this-is-the-most-misunderstood-graph-in-ai/
2•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Google set to double AI spending to $185B after strong earnings

https://www.ft.com/content/22d97d8e-1101-4b1b-8a28-66054dfa363a
2•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Why our ancestors had straight teeth without braces

https://www.popsci.com/science/why-need-braces/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A package manager for agent skills with built-in evals

https://tessl.io/
1•guypod•9m ago•0 comments

Jujutsu v0.38.0 Released

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/tag/v0.38.0
1•todsacerdoti•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenWatch – Open-source alternative to YouTube

https://github.com/openwatch-app/openwatch
1•ge0rg3e•9m ago•0 comments

CoreWeave walks a debt tightrope, counting on key customers to be its safety net

https://deepquarry.substack.com/p/coreweave-walks-a-debt-tightrope
2•zerosizedweasle•12m ago•0 comments

Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/low-code-and-the-democratization-of-programming/
2•Anon84•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lightweight browser based state machine simulator

https://svylabs.github.io/smac-viz/
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces version 8.0

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/documentdb-8-o/
2•mariuz•13m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coding and the resurgence of the terminal

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2•joeblubaugh•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: KvatchCLI – Query Multiple Data Sources with SQL(Postgres,CSV,APIs)

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Measuring SVG Rendering Time

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The New Integrated Approach to Enabling Interactivity with Live Streaming

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2•mondainx•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A spell-checker 380x faster than Hunspell, 5x faster than SymSpell

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https://github.com/vkhafizov/acture-mcp
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FTC Settles with Express Scripts over Insulin Pricing

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/02/ftc-secures-landmark-settlement-expre...
2•zelias•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PipelineRL – Async RL with in-flight weight updates (train ~2× faster)

https://github.com/ServiceNow/PipelineRL
2•muchomuchach0•17m ago•2 comments

Show HN: VillageSQL = MySQL and Extensions

https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-server
6•metzby•19m ago•0 comments