Hacker News with Generative AI: API

Prepare()-ing for execution: a new API for process creation (github.com)
UNIX famously uses fork+exec to create processes, a simple API that is nevertheless quite tricky to use correctly and that comes with a bunch of problems.

Operating Systems, Programming, Security, API

17 points by birdculture 3 days ago | 0 comments

SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal (signalbot.one)
Receive messages on Signal via a simple API.Perfect for notifications and alerts.

Signal, Webhooks, Notifications, API

60 points by danslo 4 days ago | 49 comments

Show HN: Open Responses – Drop-In OpenAI Responses API Alternative for Any LLM (ycombinator.com)
Hello HN! I just open-sourced Open Responses, a self-hosted implementation of OpenAI’s new Responses API that works with any LLM backend.

Open Source, Generative AI, API

13 points by ishita159 6 days ago | 5 comments

Why PostgreSQL needs a better API for alternative table engines? (orioledb.com)
For a long time now, PostgreSQL has had an extensible Index Access Method API (called AM), which has stood the test of time and enabled numerous robust extensions to provide their own index types. For example: rum, pgvector, bloom, zombodb and others. PostgreSQL 12 introduced the Table AM API, promising equivalent flexibility for table access methods.

Databases, PostgreSQL, API, Performance, Extensions

15 points by atombender 8 days ago | 3 comments

Zapier MCP (zapier.com)
Connect your AI to any app with Zapier MCP

API, Integration, Automation, Software

11 points by rob 9 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: FastOpenAPI – automated docs for many Python frameworks (github.com/mr-fatalyst)
FastOpenAPI is a library for generating and integrating OpenAPI schemas using Pydantic v2 and various frameworks (Falcon, Flask, Sanic, Starlette, Tornado).

Python, API, Documentation, Frameworks, Open Source

153 points by mr_Fatalyst 10 days ago | 77 comments

HTTPS-only for Cloudflare APIs: shutting the door on cleartext traffic (cloudflare.com)
Today we’re announcing that we’re closing all of the HTTP ports on api.cloudflare.com.

Security, Cloudflare, API, Web Development, HTTPS

16 points by tech234a 11 days ago | 6 comments

OmniAI: A unified Ruby API for integrating with AI providers (github.com/ksylvest)
OmniAI provides a unified Ruby API for integrating with multiple AI providers, including Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Mistral, and OpenAI. It streamlines AI development by offering a consistent interface for features such as chat, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and embeddings—ensuring seamless interoperability across platforms. Switching between providers is effortless, making any integration more flexible and reliable.

Ruby, AI, API, Open Source, Programming

10 points by jvergeldedios 18 days ago | 1 comments

YouTube-transcript-API 1.0.0 released (github.com/jdepoix)
Overhaul of the public API to move away from the static methods get_transcript, get_transcripts and list_transcripts

New Releases, Software, API, YouTube

5 points by rob 20 days ago | 1 comments

Bundling MCP Servers in Every OpenAPI –> TypeScript SDK (speakeasy.com)
It’s no longer enough for businesses to make their services available to developers. A great development experience also hinges on the ability for AI to access and integrate with available APIs. That’s why starting today, every TypeScript SDK generated by Speakeasy now bundles a runnable Model Context Protocol (MCP) (opens in a new tab) server enabling you to expose your API to the growing landscape of AI agents.

API, TypeScript, AI, Software, Open Source

16 points by disintegrator 22 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: A Comprehensive, Compatible Open Source Alternative to Python Requests (readthedocs.io)
Niquests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Requests that is no longer under feature freeze.

Open Source, Python, HTTP Libraries, API, Requests Library

6 points by zedledplin 23 days ago | 2 comments

MCP vs. API Explained (norahsakal.com)
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new open protocol designed to standardize how applications provide context to Large Language Models (LLMs).

API, Open Source, Protocols

186 points by typhon04 24 days ago | 116 comments

Great software design looks underwhelming (seangoedecke.com)
Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward - building a CLI tool that hit an API and allowed the user to page through and inspect the data. We allowed any language, so I saw all kinds of approaches1. At one point I came across a challenge I thought was literally perfect.

Software Design, User Interface, Programming, Coding Challenges, API

102 points by pierremenard 25 days ago | 15 comments

Mistral OCR (mistral.ai)
Introducing the world’s best document understanding API.

OCR, API, Document Understanding

1756 points by littlemerman 26 days ago | 417 comments

Mistral OCR (mistral.ai)
Introducing the world’s best document understanding API.

OCR, API, Document Understanding

48 points by meetpateltech 26 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs (github.com/wild-card-ai)
The agents.json Specification is an open specification that formally describes contracts for API and agent interactions, built on top of the OpenAPI standard.

Open Source, Generative AI, API

212 points by yompal 29 days ago | 69 comments

Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code (github.com/superglue-ai)
superglue allows you to connect to any API/data source and get the data you want in the format you need. It’s an open source proxy server which sits between you and your target APIs. Thus, you can easily deploy it into your own infra.

Open Source, API, Software, Automation

198 points by adinagoerres 33 days ago | 48 comments

Show HN: A lightweight LLM proxy to get structured results from most LLMs (l1m.io)
l1m is the easiest way to get structured data from unstructured text or images using LLMs. No prompt engineering, no chat history, just a simple API to extract structured json from text or images.

Open Source, API, Data Extraction

13 points by lunarcave 34 days ago | 2 comments

Awesome DeepSeek Integrations (github.com/deepseek-ai)
Integrate the DeepSeek API into popular softwares. Access DeepSeek Open Platform to get an API key.

API, Software, Deep Learning, Open Source

116 points by selvan 36 days ago | 24 comments

Rethinking the C Time API (oliverkwebb.github.io)
Out of all the components of C, its time API is probably the one most plagued with legacy cruft.

Programming, Time Management, API

68 points by oliverkwebb 44 days ago | 79 comments

How (not) to sign a JSON object (2019) (latacora.com)
Last year we did a blog post on interservice auth. This post is mostly about authenticating consumers to an API. That’s a related but subtly different problem: you can probably impose more requirements on your internal users than your customers. The idea is the same though: you’re trying to differentiate between a legitimate user and an attacker, usually by getting the legitimate user to prove that they know a credential that the attacker doesn’t.

Security, Authentication, API, JSON

54 points by maple3142 51 days ago | 43 comments

Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots (github.com/US-Artificial-Intelligence)
This project was made to support Abbey, an AI platform. Its author is Gordon Kamer.

API, Web Development, Screenshots, Artificial Intelligence

208 points by gkamer8 54 days ago | 100 comments

Microsoft Proposes Web Notifications API Support for Incoming Calls (neowin.net)
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new proposal to allow web applications to send incoming call notifications via the Notifications API.

Web Development, Notifications, Microsoft, API, Web Applications

6 points by bundie 56 days ago | 0 comments

Citations on the Anthropic API (anthropic.com)
Today, we're launching Citations, a new API feature that lets Claude ground its answers in source documents.

Generative AI, API, AI

177 points by Olshansky 68 days ago | 61 comments

AI Agent Builder from Postman (postman.com)

AI, Software, Tools, API

11 points by a85 69 days ago | 5 comments

Announcement: S3 Default Integrity Change (github.com/aws)
In AWS SDK for JavaScript v3.729.0, we released changes to the S3 client that adopts new default integrity protections. For more information on default integrity behavior, please refer to the official SDK documentation. In SDK releases from this version on, clients default to enabling an additional checksum on all Put calls and enabling validation on Get calls.

AWS, Security, Software, Cloud Computing, API

5 points by snide 71 days ago | 5 comments

Libvirt 11.0 Released for Open-Source Virtualization API (phoronix.com)
Libvirt 11.0 was christened today as the newest version of this open-source Virtualization API for managing VMs on Linux and other platforms while supporting KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and other hypervisors.

Virtualization, Open Source, Linux, API, Hypervisors

7 points by LinuxBender 76 days ago | 0 comments

Scaling LLMs with Golang: How we serve millions of LLM requests (assembled.com)
While the LLM ecosystem is overwhelmingly Python-first, we've found Go to be exceptionally well-suited for production deployments. Our Go-based infrastructure handles millions of monthly LLM requests with minimal performance tuning. Beyond Go's well-documented advantages (see Rob Pike’s excellent distillation of Go's benefits), three capabilities have proven particularly valuable for LLM workloads: static type checking for handling model outputs, goroutines for managing concurrent API calls, and interfaces for building composable response pipelines.

Go Programming, Performance, Infrastructure, API

17 points by johnjwang 77 days ago | 0 comments

Making Beautiful API Keys (agentstation.ai)
Since developers are our customers, we wanted them to have beautiful API keys.

API, Design, User Experience

63 points by savannahkc 81 days ago | 103 comments

Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever (getfullyear.com)
Service degradation: Our API is occasionally returning 2024 instead of 2025. Our intern is investigating and working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Software, Web Development, Programming, Bugs, API

6 points by threepointone 88 days ago | 5 comments