Hacker News with Generative AI: APIs

Stock Market and Financial Data API (financialdata.net)
Our API provides access to a variety of financial information.
Towards an API for the Real Numbers Hans (dl.acm.org)
Could AI bring about a hypermedia renaissance? (dabapps.com)
Over the past decade or so, as APIs have moved toward JSON as the de facto standard format, some developers and architects attempted to bring hypermedia concepts along for the ride – embedding links and controls directly in JSON responses rather than just returning raw data and IDs.
Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs (n0rdy.foo)
Hello there! If you follow tech news, you might have heard about the Okta security incident that was reported on 1st of November. The TLDR of the incident was this:
Show HN: I indexed 10M Shopify products to build an API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."
The missing cross-platform OS API for timers (gaultier.github.io)
Most serious programs will need to trigger some action at a delayed point in time, often repeatedly: set timeouts, clean up temporary files or entries in the database, send keep-alives, garbage-collect unused entities, etc. All while doing some work in the meantime. A blocking sleep won't cut it! For example, JavaScript has setTimeout. But how does it work under the hood? How does each OS handle that?
Ask HN: Is software engineering just patching APIs and wrangling Kubernetes? (ycombinator.com)
Does anyone else feel disillusioned with the modern software engineering job? It often feels like it's just stitching together APIs, wrestling with React state, and managing Kubernetes clusters rather than building something truly exciting.
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents.
Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search (techcrunch.com)
Perplexity on Tuesday launched an API service called Sonar, allowing enterprises and developers to build the startup’s generative AI search tools into their own applications.
Show HN: I built a credit-based system API (creduse.com)
Redefining Our SDKs Developer Experience (apideck.com)
At Apideck, we are passionate about delivering the best tools to help developers build integrations effortlessly. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our new generation of Apideck Unify SDKs, now powered by Speakeasy. These SDKs mark a significant leap forward in developer experience, reliability, and ease of use.
Show HN: Missio – AI Agent and Copilot for Your APIs (missio.ai)
Connect to all your existing tools, save hundreds of hours on repetitive tasks and workflows and keep your team focused on building better product.
Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes (martinfowler.com)
Refactoring is something developers do all the time—making code easier to understand, maintain, and extend. While IDEs can handle simple refactorings with just a few keystrokes, things get tricky when you need to apply changes across large or distributed codebases, especially those you don’t fully control. That’s where codemods come in. By using Abstract Syntax Trees (AST), codemods allow you to automate large-scale code changes with precision and minimal effort, making them especially useful when dealing with breaking API changes.
ReddAPI: The Simplest Way to Access Reddit's Data (ycombinator.com)
I’m excited to share something we’ve been working on: ReddAPI.online, a lightweight, developer-friendly API for Reddit.
Is there such a thing as "private, interactive databases" for SaaS's (ycombinator.com)
So i've been building a product and my clients really hate the idea that their code is stored on my database (unencrypted). The problem is that I need to process the data in the background often and thus I cannot store it end-to-end encrypted. Is there any service that allows you to deploy some sort of database that only the client accesses and at the same time allows me to process it somehow maybe via apis?
Show HN: The all-in-one fake API (fooapi.com)
Dummy data for your projects, fast and simple. Users, products, posts, comments and more!
Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access (goodfire.ai)
We have trained sparse autoencoders (SAEs) on Llama 3.3 70B and released the interpreted model for general access via an API.
UIs Should Be Versioned, Just Like We Version APIs (okayfail.com)
Every organization that offers an application programming interface almost immediately starts to version it.
Writing and testing a paginated API iterator in Go (thibaut-rousseau.com)
Go 1.23, amongst other features, brought Iterators to the standard library.
Show HN: Gribstream.com – Historical Weather Forecast API (gribstream.com)
Leverage The National Blend of Models (NBM) & The Global Forecast System (GFS)
Exploiting McDonald's APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny (eaton-works.com)
API flaws in the McDonald’s McDelivery system in India, one of the world’s most popular food delivery apps, enabled a variety of fun exploits:
Show HN: Brazilian service to automatically issue NFSe (notasync.com.br)
Emita Notas de Serviço automaticamente das suas vendas Stripe e mantenha suas obrigações fiscais em dia.
Postman is largest public source of leaked secrets? (trufflesecurity.com)
tl;dr Postman, the popular API testing platform, hosts the largest collection of public APIs. Unfortunately, it’s become one of the largest public sources of leaked secrets. We estimate over 4,000 live credentials are currently leaking publicly on Postman for a variety of popular SaaS and cloud providers.
JEP 485: Stream Gatherers (openjdk.org)
Enhance the Stream API to support custom intermediate operations. This will allow stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are not easily achievable with the existing built-in intermediate operations.
Show HN: Data Connector – Chat with Your Database and APIs (github.com/inferablehq)
What Are the Latest Scraping APIs or Services/Websites? (ycombinator.com)
I'm working on a large web scraping project and looking to avoid building custom scrapers for every site using something like BeautifulSoup.
Kagi Search API (kagi.com)
The Search API gives programmable access to Kagi's premium search results.
Introducing integrated inference: Embed, rerank, and retrieve data with one API (pinecone.io)
We’re excited to announce expanded inference capabilities alongside our core vector database to make it even easier and faster to build high-quality, knowledgeable AI applications with Pinecone.
Unstructured Serverless API (unstructured.io)
This page describes how to get started with the Unstructured Serverless API. Learn how to obtain an API key to use with the Unstructured Serverless API, and get started in no time.
Show HN: I Made a Ultra-Low Latency IP Geolocation API in Go (ipflare.io)
Integrate our developer-friendly IP lookup API for precise location data and 99.9% uptime reliability.