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Handy M0100
Article URL: https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/handy-m0100
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871641
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests (2015)
Article URL: https://medium.com/rants-on-machine-learning/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-random-forests-f33c3ce28883
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871625
Points: 1
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The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide
Article URL: https://caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871617
Points: 1
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China refuels live thorium reactor using abandoned US research
Incinerating thousand of Satellites in the atmosphere releases toxic pollutants
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellites-pollution/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871609
Points: 2
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RK3588 – Implementing a Vectorscope for processing video in real time
Article URL: http://jas-hacks.blogspot.com/2025/05/rk3588-implementing-vectorscope-for.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871601
Points: 1
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Blood of man who's had 200 snake bites helps make a potent antivenom
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01325-3
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871587
Points: 3
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US firm to accelerate plasma-free fusion at low temperatures with new funding
Takeaways from 10k vibe-coded projects
Article URL: https://www.dvg.blog/p/takeaways-from-10000-vibe-coded-projects
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871535
Points: 3
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Making Steel for Offshore Wind Turbines, Now with Union Labor
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2025/04/march-2025-elections-jsw-steel/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871503
Points: 1
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Show HN: Toolbase – Build reliable AI teammates by example, not instruction
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 URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871499
Points: 2
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Snake collector's immunity quest opens path towards universal antivenom
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/02/snake-bite-immunity-universal-antivenom
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43871457
Points: 3
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UK preparing to ban consumers from buying crypto with borrowed funds
Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive
Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-waistlines-middle-age-aging-stem.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870926
Points: 2
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Billing is edge case hell
Article URL: https://getlago.substack.com/p/billing-is-edge-case-hell
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870915
Points: 1
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Mentorship: Secret Weapon for Growth and Confidence
Article URL: https://mentorcruise.com/blog/mentorship-your-secret-weapon-for-growth-and-confidence/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870879
Points: 1
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Show HN: Interactive Cellular Automata Demo
Going back to a very old school notion of "AI" : just updated a demo I did a few years back on efficiently computing cellular automata forward steps using convolution operations. Added a huggingface demo too! but its a little clunky. https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life
for fun, I let users swap rules dynamically in the app, try letting it run Conway for a short bit, pause the simulation, switch to Maze and start from there.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870877
Points: 1
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Generative AI makes fraud fluent – from phishing lures to fake lovers
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/02/gen_ai_spam/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870867
Points: 1
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Kafka-Manager
Article URL: https://github.com/anshumanpattnaik/kafka-manager/tree/main
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870860
Points: 1
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Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026
Article URL: https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/258aa538o412ok/grand-theft-auto-vi-is-now-coming-may-26-2026
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870844
Points: 2
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