Hacker News with Generative AI: APIs

Ask HN: Cheapest way to host a back end (ycombinator.com)
I'm about to help transitioning a mobile app to a charity and need the API to be hosted as cheaply as possible.
Hosting, Back End, APIs, Nonprofits, Cost Optimization
14 points by Jean-Philipe 2 days ago | 33 comments
Show HN: Any API to MCP Server tools converter (api200.co)
Connect your AI models to any tool or data source in 3 simple steps
AI, Tools, APIs
6 points by rngk 8 days ago | 0 comments
A New ASN.1 API for Python (trailofbits.com)
We’re changing that: with the help of funding from Alpha-Omega, we’re building an ASN.1 API for PyCA Cryptography that addresses three key shortcomings in the Python ecosystem today:
Python, ASN.1, Cryptography, Security, APIs
171 points by woodruffw 8 days ago | 124 comments
JSX over the Wire (overreacted.io)
Suppose you have an API route that returns some data as JSON:
JavaScript, Web Development, React, APIs
266 points by danabramov 11 days ago | 178 comments
Grafana Foundation SDK – build dashboard in programming language (grafana.github.io)
A set of libraries for manipulating and generating Grafana resources – dashboards, alerts, … – as-code, in various languages.
Grafana, Dashboards, Programming, APIs
22 points by zardinality 11 days ago | 3 comments
Stripe's payment API: The first 10 years (2020) (stripe.com)
A few years ago, Bloomberg Businessweek published a feature story on Stripe. Four words spanned the center of the cover: “seven lines of code,” suggesting that’s all it took for a business to power payments on Stripe.
Payments, Business, APIs, Stripe, Fintech
24 points by lispybanana 14 days ago | 2 comments
WebTransport: Low-Latency Bidirectional Messaging API (chrome.com)
Web Development, APIs, Networking, Web Browsers, Communication
8 points by zaindantes 14 days ago | 0 comments
A Guide to Bearer Tokens: JWT vs. Opaque Tokens (permit.io)
Bearer tokens play an important role in securing APIs and managing user sessions. Whether you're building a single-page app, a backend-for-frontend API, or a network of microservices, bearer tokens act as the key that grants access to protected resources—without needing to re-authenticate the user on every request.
Security, APIs, Authentication, JWT
19 points by bubblehack3r 15 days ago | 9 comments
Oak – Open Agentic Knowledge (github.com/jentic)
Agents depend on APIs as much as AI. Chatbots chat, but agents act, and they act through APIs: checking calendars, booking flights, analyzing data, reconciling accounts, and controlling smart buildings. To realize this potential, we must build a common knowledge foundation that empowers AI to interact with the world's APIs reliably and without artificial barriers or unnecessary intermediaries.
APIs, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Agents
19 points by devrelate 19 days ago | 5 comments
Doge reportedly planning a hackathon to build 'mega API' for IRS data (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide access to taxpayer data, according to Wired.
Cryptocurrency, Government, Data, APIs, Hackathons
29 points by rmason 19 days ago | 8 comments
Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (opennutrition.app)
Nutrition search, reimagined.
Nutrition, Health, Open Source, Databases, APIs
311 points by joshdickson 23 days ago | 150 comments
Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure (ieee.org)
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
Data Preservation, Public Data, Libraries, APIs, Government Data
207 points by rbanffy 24 days ago | 46 comments
Building an idempotent email API with River unique jobs (riverqueue.com)
We use an email service to send out various River-related notifications. Despite our best efforts setting up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, we were still getting reports of mail going to spam, so we started looking into alternate mailing providers to see how they'd fare by comparison. Something we noticed while researching is that a shocking low number of them have API facilities to guarantee idempotency — a surprise because email is such a sensitive topic.
Email, APIs, Software, Idempotency
33 points by izend 33 days ago | 11 comments
Show HN: OpenAPISearch – Make APIs Accessible for AI Codegen (openapisearch.com)
Open Source, AI, APIs, Code Generation
10 points by janwilmake 35 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: I indexed 25,000 Shopify stores to build an embedded shopping 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)."
E-commerce, APIs, Search Engines, Shopping, Entrepreneurship
9 points by pencildiver 38 days ago | 0 comments
Azure's Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets (binarysecurity.no)
Binary Security found the undocumented APIs for Azure API Connections. In this post we examine the inner workings of the Connections allowing us to escalate privileges and read secrets in backend resources for services ranging from Key Vaults, Storage Blobs, Defender ATP, to Enterprise Jira and SalesForce servers.
Cloud Security, Azure, APIs, Security Vulnerabilities
137 points by hland 45 days ago | 64 comments
Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers (sonauto.ai)
Generative AI, Music, APIs, Software
127 points by zaptrem 54 days ago | 157 comments
Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database (github.com/directus)
Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content.
Databases, APIs, Open Source, Software, Web Development
72 points by modinfo 62 days ago | 61 comments
Financialdata.net – Stock Market and Financial Data API (financialdata.net)
Here you can find a list of all API endpoints, along with their descriptions, required or optional query parameters, and sample responses.
Finance, APIs, Data, Programming, Software
49 points by financialdata 64 days ago | 1 comments
Stock Market and Financial Data API (financialdata.net)
Our API provides access to a variety of financial information.
Finance, APIs, Data
70 points by financialdata 69 days ago | 12 comments
Towards an API for the Real Numbers Hans (dl.acm.org)
Mathematics, Programming, APIs
26 points by weinzierl 72 days ago | 7 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Hypermedia, APIs, Web Development
3 points by j4mie 75 days ago | 1 comments
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:
Security, APIs, Software, Data Breaches
377 points by n0rdy 79 days ago | 166 comments
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)."
E-commerce, Search Engines, APIs
13 points by pencildiver 81 days ago | 5 comments
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?
Operating Systems, Programming, Time Management, APIs
49 points by broken_broken_ 82 days ago | 33 comments
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.
Software Engineering, APIs, Kubernetes, Job Satisfaction
15 points by Gooblebrai 82 days ago | 17 comments
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.
Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, OpenAI, APIs
19 points by pitwin 89 days ago | 1 comments
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.
Generative AI, APIs, Search, Startups
5 points by gemanor 92 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: I built a credit-based system API (creduse.com)
Show HN, APIs, Credit, Finance
21 points by fraromeo 99 days ago | 11 comments
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.
Software Development, APIs, Developer Tools
11 points by gertjandewilde 100 days ago | 1 comments