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Show HN: Ipek – a visual IDE for workflow automations

https://ipek.run/
2•limandoc•58m ago
Hi HN, I'm Nuru. Ipek is a desktop app that runs file and API automation workflows locally. It actually resulted from my laziness: automating API calls, Excel/CSV parsing, OCR and LLM calls by hand takes too much time to maintain, especially when various teams request additional tools on top of those scripts.

So I built a visual workflow builder where my non-technical teams can create & run those deterministic workers themselves, see the logs, and produce the outputs on their own machines. They can also connect an agent over localhost MCP and vibe code new workers; what comes out is real Kotlin that compiles and plugs into the workflow. An agent can drive the whole app, which is great for iterating on workflow building.

There is no server side, it's a JVM app (not Electron! :D) that lets you create, compile & attach your own workers; it's basically an IDE for automations. You can create workers either from your own agent over localhost MCP (Claude Code, Codex) or using the builtin Claude chat with your own API key — so Ipek is completely free to run, with no per-task fees; your only cost is your own API usage, and you own the data & software. Check the video on the website for more.

Current state, honestly: it's quite a stable alpha, available for macOS and Windows; Linux is on its way. I also want to implement triggers, schedules, cron jobs, and deploying a workflow to the CI/CD of your choice, in case the workflows/data gets heavy.

Tech stack: Kotlin Compose Multiplatform on the JVM, SQLDelight, workers are Gradle-built plugins that hot-load — so each worker is actually a self-sustainable(?) JAR executable that attaches like a JetBrains IDE plugin, then Ipek orchestrates and executes them.

I think Ipek will be useful for many of you, too; I'd like to hear which repetitive tasks you would actually throw at it. Cheers!

Show HN: Browser based scratchpad/text editor

https://kladdi.app
1•atlithorn•39s ago•0 comments

Data Centers of Track to Suck Up a Fifth of US Power Use by 2035

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-21/data-centers-on-track-to-suck-up-a-fifth-of-us...
1•ajay-d•43s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

1•chistev•44s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Makes local LLMs faster and more reliable by optimizing for your device

https://www.autotunellm.com/
1•tanavc•1m ago•0 comments

Harness Sandboxing with Containers

https://rewiring.bearblog.dev/sandboxing-a-bot/
1•Mossy9•2m ago•0 comments

CJEU Ruling on Platform Liability Could Damage Freedom of Expression

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/new-eu-court-justice-ruling-platform-liability-could-cause-...
1•hn_acker•3m ago•1 comments

JavaScript Date Is Lying to You – the traps that keep shipping to production

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-07-21-Your-JS-Date-Is-Lying-to-You/
1•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

Where are Europe's households most indebted?

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/07/21/where-are-europes-households-most-indebted-not-where...
1•rawgabbit•3m ago•0 comments

A Fine balance between curiosity and digital hoarding

https://libraryofpotential.com/a-fine-balance-between-learning-and-digital-hoarding/
2•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

We audited 1,751 "relationship milestones" our RAG extractor wrote 62% were junk

https://myastra.pl/casestudy
1•architekt•4m ago•0 comments

Hand the agent a map: ontology and graph traversal for AI agents

https://altertable.ai/blog/2026-07-22-hand-the-agent-a-map
1•fvaleye•5m ago•0 comments

Vibecoded Dynamic DNS Service

https://dogdns.org/
1•levidurfee•6m ago•1 comments

Some more things about Django I've been enjoying

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/21/more-nice-django-things/
2•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-confirms-its-ai-broke-out-of-a-sandbox-and-breached-hugging-face
1•hsuduebc2•7m ago•1 comments

My comment box is your email client

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ad250446/my-comment-box-is-your-email-client/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

AndyH/Hewco Retro Game Developer Interview

https://retrogamecoders.com/andyh-hewco-interview/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

OpenAI and the Global Defense Coalition partner to address security incident

https://blog.tedivm.com/satire/2026/07/openai-and-the-global-defense-coalition-partner-to-address...
1•tedivm•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TLS Radar – Independent SSL/TLS Monitoring, Web and CLI and Claude

https://tlsradar.com/scan
1•tlsradar•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HN Listen – a podcast about the HN comments more than the articles

https://hnlisten.app
1•nadzzz•8m ago•0 comments

A Mechanistic Explanation of Prompt Injection (and why you should study roles)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/d8xDGzCEYE639qqEv/a-mechanistic-explanation-of-prompt-injection-a...
1•surprisetalk•9m ago•0 comments

Jacobian Conjecture Prompt [pdf]

https://aaronlou.com/jacobian_counterexample_prompt.pdf
2•yeko•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We stopped feature-gating our open source BI platform

https://github.com/helicalinsight/helicalinsight
1•nikhelical•11m ago•0 comments

The MIPS RS2030 (2018)

https://www.geekdot.com/the-mips-rs2030/
1•naves•11m ago•0 comments

How to setup Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2023/01/10/how-to-setup-calibre-to-remove-drm-from-ebooks-on-linux/
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

I Own My Books

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/07/16/i-own-my-books/
1•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Dlt-ops – dlt for actual production

https://github.com/earlybirdvc/dlt-ops
1•soobrosa•15m ago•0 comments

The new Kimi K3 leverages LatentMoE, a technique developed by Nvidia in January

https://paperswithcode.co/paper/2601.18089
1•binyu•15m ago•0 comments

Recreation Clubs Market

https://www.maximizemarketresearch.com/market-report/recreation-clubs-market/165153/
1•Sanjummr•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Looperators – work with agent loops visually

https://github.com/ObservedObserver/looperators
1•loa_observer•16m ago•0 comments

Why haven't volumetric displays taken off?

2•light_tech•17m ago•2 comments