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Hey HN! We made GETadb.com, so it's easier to get agents to build you full stack apps. You don't need to give them any credentials. Just by loading a GET request, they get access to a database, a sync engine, and abstractions for auth, presence, and streams.

To see what the agent sees, you can load https://getadb.com/new

There's two fun things about how it's implemented:

1. If you curl the home page, it the agent content rather than human content. We do this by detecting the 'Sec-Fetch-Mode' header. It's not perfect, but gets the job done for Claude Code et al.

2. For an agent to spin up an app, they make _two_ fethes. (1) getadb.com/guide tells them to generate a uuid, and fetch (2) getadb.com/provision/. We did this, because just about half of the popular web-based app builders cache URLs globally, even if you return no-store headers. To get around this we just instruct the agent to generate unique URLs

You may wonder: Why GET requests, rather than POST requests? It's because then you can build in surprising places. For example, we get meta.ai to build an app inside the artifact preview: https://artifacts.meta.ai/share/a/b80c7412-c3af-4088-b430-78efdfe8ea2d

Under the hood, this is possible because the whole infra is mult-tenant from ground up. We already announced how that works on HN, but if you're curious here's the essay for it: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/architecture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065203

Points: 35

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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

ColinWright — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:46:57 +0000

Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064796

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

Human typing habits and token counts

ppipada — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:12:41 +0000

Article URL: https://pankajpipada.com/posts/2026-05-08-human-habits-tokens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062606

Points: 23

# Comments: 4

AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours

christhecaribou — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:31:58 +0000

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of...

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-clou...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058197

Points: 221

# Comments: 142

Cooking the Hashish Cookbook

benbreen — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:03:20 +0000

Article URL: https://cookingthehashishcookbook.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054154

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

A construction of the Hat tilings by a Markov partition

robinhouston — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/hat-partition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052656

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Principles for agent-native CLIs

blumpy22 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:40:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/trevin/status/2051316002730991795

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052333

Points: 109

# Comments: 49

Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server

pstomi — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:36:26 +0000

I have been working on Dear ImGui Bundle since 2022, but it is the first time I talk about it here. It is a framework around Dear ImGui for building interactive applications in Python and C++. It comes with batteries included: Plotting, image inspection, Markdown, node editors, 3D gizmos, knobs, toggles, etc.

https://imgui-bundle.pages.dev

It now also runs smoothly in the browser via pyodide: The playground below is a python app running in your browser (no server, no JavaScript). You can edit the code on the left and click Run. It even works on mobile.

https://imgui-bundle.pages.dev/playground

I have a strong interest in providing tools that help others express their creativity. This project aims to be a step in this direction as it helps develop GUIs where the code is extremely readable & hackable.

Some of the goals it addresses:

- Bring true Immediate Mode GUI to Python and C++

- A versatile range of high quality libraries: Widgets, Plots, Image Analysis, Node edition, markdown rendering

- Multiplatform apps in C++: works on all platform in C++ (desktop, mobile, emscripten)

- Deploy python apps to the web

- High quality python bindings that are always up-to-date (because they are auto-generated)

- Smooth transition between C++ and Python (same APIs for both)

I'd be happy to answer questions!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052290

Points: 28

# Comments: 16

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

atgctg — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951

Points: 307

# Comments: 78

Show HN: Stage CLI – An easier way of reading your AI generated changes locally

cpan22 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:38:36 +0000

Hey HN! We're Charles and Dean. A few weeks ago we posted about Stage, a code review tool that guides you through reading a PR step by step - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796818.

We got a lot of great feedback but also heard from many people that they wanted to have the chapters experience even before opening a PR… so we built the Stage CLI as the local, open-source version that anyone can try.

Here’s a quick demo video: https://www.tella.tv/video/stage-cli-demo-f55q

It works with any coding agent of your choice. The skill instructs the agent to read your current branch’s changes, break them down into separate logical chapters, and open them in a local browser.

We’ve found that reading changes this way is a lot easier for us than reading them in an IDE or other similar CLI tools, which present diffs to you in repository tree order. You can see a few examples of what it feels like here: https://stagereview.app/explore.

Try it out and let us know what you think! Would love to hear any feedback :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050732

Points: 44

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