Hacker News with Generative AI: API

Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, we're Alexi and Jonas the co-founders of Autotab (https://autotab.com). Autotab is a chrome-based browser you can teach to do complex tasks, with a simple API for running them from your app or backend.

Web Development, Chrome Extensions, Artificial Intelligence, API

87 points by jonasnelle 11 hours ago | 39 comments

Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021) (mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Using a full-featured RPC framework for IPC seems like overkill when the processes run on the same machine. However, if your project anyway exposes RPCs for public APIs or would benefit from a schema-based serialisation layer it makes sense to use only one tool that combines these—also for IPC.

Software, Inter-Process Communication, gRPC, API, Serialization

79 points by zardinality 17 hours ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Vratix – Open source API Modules that simplify backend development (github.com/vratix-dev)
We created this library of reusable API modules to simplify API development because we were wasting too much time setting up basic functionality and researching the latest backend best practices.

Open Source, API, Backend Development, Software

3 points by ivan-ivanov 2 days ago | 2 comments

Hyrumtoken: A Go package to encrypt pagination tokens (github.com/ssoready)
hyrumtoken is a Go package to encrypt pagination tokens, so that your API clients can't depend on their contents, ordering, or any other characteristics.

Go, Encryption, Security, API, Pagination

65 points by noleary 2 days ago | 53 comments

Blue Sky OAuth Client Implementation Docs (bsky.app)
This is a guide to implementing atproto OAuth clients "The Hard Way." Optimistically, most developers will have an SDK available for their programming language which supports OAuth, and they can simply refer to SDK documentation. This guide is intended for early adopters, SDK maintainers, or developers with more sophisticated OAuth needs. It is agnostic to whether developers are building clients to work the the app.bsky microblogging Lexicons, or implementing novel application Lexicons.

OAuth, Software Development, API

5 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 0 comments

Discord API Errors (discordstatus.com)
We are currently investigating an issue affecting latency and errors on various API endpoints.

Discord, API, Errors, Downtime

37 points by mot2ba 4 days ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Get any domain's brand data via API (brand.dev)
Get logos, primary colors, descriptions, classifications, and more from any domain with a single api call.

API, Brand Data, Domain Information, Web Development, Data Extraction

32 points by ICodeSometimes 5 days ago | 33 comments

Requesting Spotify access_token's to use their API in seconds (spoken.host)

API, Spotify, Development, Authentication

12 points by 4788424801146 8 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Tile.run – Extract structured data from any document via API (tile.run)
tile.run is the simplest way to extract data from any document with best in class accuracy.

API, Data Extraction, Software, Web Development

11 points by ntkris 14 days ago | 6 comments

New OpenAI Feature: Predicted Outputs (simonwillison.net)
New OpenAI feature: Predicted Outputs (via) Interesting new ability of the OpenAI API - the first time I've seen this from any vendor.

Generative AI, OpenAI, API, Language Models

58 points by limoce 16 days ago | 7 comments

PSA: KDecoration API break in Plasma 6.3 (zamundaaa.github.io)
Fractional scaling is hard. Anyone that had the misfortune of working on it knows that… so it won’t surprise a lot of people that it’s not all figured out yet! Today I’ll talk about the fractional scaling problems with KWin’s server side decorations, and why we need to do an API break to fix it.

Plasma, KDE, API, Software Development, Fractional Scaling

4 points by thepbone 21 days ago | 0 comments

OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging (github.com/open-feature)
OpenFeature is an open specification that provides a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging that works with your favorite feature flag management tool or in-house solution.

Open Source, Feature Flags, API, Software Development

194 points by gjvc 27 days ago | 64 comments

Computer Use API Documentation (anthropic.com)
The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is capable of interacting with tools that can manipulate a computer desktop environment.

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Programming, API

13 points by marsh_mellow 30 days ago | 2 comments

JSON Patch (zuplo.com)
JSON Patch is a standardized format defined in RFC 6902 for describing how to modify a JSON document.

JSON, API, Web Development, Data Formats

300 points by DataOverload 35 days ago | 160 comments

Show HN: Arch – an intelligent prompt gateway built on Envoy (github.com/katanemo)
Arch is an intelligent prompt gateway. Engineered with (fast) LLMs for the secure handling, robust observability, and seamless integration of prompts with APIs - all outside business logic. Built by the core contributors of Envoy proxy, on Envoy.

Software, Open Source, API, Generative AI, Envoy

21 points by adilhafeez 35 days ago | 19 comments

Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera (sievedata.com)
Sieve's Eye Contact Correction API is a fast and high-quality eye contact correction API built for developers.

Computer Vision, Image Editing, API

164 points by thunderbong 36 days ago | 187 comments

VoiceRAG: A pattern for RAG and voice with the GPT-4o Realtime API for audio (microsoft.com)
The new Azure OpenAI gpt-4o-realtime-preview model opens the door for even more natural application user interfaces with its speech-to-speech capability.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, Speech Recognition, API

11 points by pmc00 50 days ago | 0 comments

Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem (modern-json-schema.com)
As part of the efforts to design OAS 3.2 and 4.0 “Moonwalk”, I wanted to figure out how different sorts of tools work with the OAS.

API, OpenAPI, Tools

143 points by handrews 60 days ago | 57 comments

Show HN: API Platform for Laravel (api-platform.com)

PHP, Laravel, API, Web Development, Open Source

10 points by kdunglas 63 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Harp Proxy – open-source API Proxy for reliability and observability (harp-proxy.net)
HARP Proxy is an open-source HTTP proxy for your remote APIs, running alongside your applications.

Open Source, API, Reliability, Observability

10 points by rdorgueil 65 days ago | 3 comments

OpenAPI 3.1 Cheat Sheet (bump.sh)
Now that you’ve roamed through the Complete Guide, let’s make long stories short. We have listed the key elements you should always keep in mind when writing a new OpenAPI contract, or maintaining existing ones.

API, OpenAPI, Documentation

19 points by jayku 66 days ago | 3 comments

Always support compressed response in an API service (ashishb.net)
If you run any web service always enable support for serving compressed responses.

API, Web Development, Optimization

5 points by LinuxBender 69 days ago | 6 comments

Who uses Accept-Language header? (serpapi.com)
In the past week, our Yelp API was experiencing slow response times. A search request that typically takes 3.x seconds (1.x seconds with Ludicrous Speed) was taking 40-50 seconds on average. We didn't push any update at that time, so we thought Yelp might have upgraded their detection mechanism. After checking our logs, we noticed an increasing of number of 403 - Forbidden errors. We still saw some successful requests, but only a very small percentage.

API, Debugging, Performance, Web Development

78 points by terrytys 72 days ago | 65 comments

Show HN: Open Message Format – a compact, vendor-agnostic spec for messages (github.com/open-llm-initiative)
OMF is a compact, user-friendly specification that defines a lightweight API contract between client and server for building conversational agents, and defines a standard schema for the "messages" object, which contains user and assistant interactions.

Open Source, Conversational AI, API, Messaging Formats

32 points by aayushwhiz 73 days ago | 16 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone making use of the HTTP QUERY verb? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Is anyone making use of the HTTP QUERY verb?

HTTP, Web Development, API, Networking

10 points by johnhenry 74 days ago | 3 comments

Open-source streaming API from ingest to player (matvp91.github.io)

Open Source, API, Streaming, Software

14 points by todsacerdoti 74 days ago | 1 comments

SDL3 new GPU API merged (github.com/libsdl-org)

SDL, Gaming, Software, API, Open Source

306 points by caspar 83 days ago | 122 comments

A first look at the WordPress Interactivity API (wordpress.org)

WordPress, Web Development, API

4 points by rob 87 days ago | 0 comments

Claude's API now supports CORS requests, enabling client-side applications (simonwillison.net)