Hacker News: blef

DeepSeek Harness [video]

blef — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:50:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmUC5ukfqU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377651

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by blef in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

blef — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:24:12 +0000

The ironic part of it is, that to my own experience and benchmarks Mistral is by far the worst model from frontier labs at tool calling followed closely by Gemini.

New comment by blef in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

blef — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:00:39 +0000

Looks awesome! If I may, could you add meters support?

New comment by blef in "Ask HN: How do you do PR reviews now?"

blef — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:54:19 +0000

but the thing is most of the time it's not about what the feature contains or is the feature working? (we have a live preview env where we can try the feature)

it's more how can we make sure in the thousands of rows/changes that we are reviewing every day we don't have invisible issues while keeping the code standards we expect

Ask HN: How do you do PR reviews now?

blef — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:02:25 +0000

Hey HN, I need to take step back regarding the PR review process. As everyone is saying AI let's us write way more line of code than before, we have code reviewers that are somewhat relevant, we all know the current state of software engineering.

But... to me PR reviews is still the bottleneck, I still think it's important to have ownership over the code that is merge to main branch, everyone should still have a ownership towards his own code but in order to all progress at the same time towards a codebase that grows faster than ever before how do we do it?

Also how do you not end up mentally dried after reviewing 5 PRs in a day (I'm working on a open-source project which add a bit of complexity as well).

We are trying multiple things: PR author adds comments regarding what should be looked at, labels easy/hard review, PR reviews in pair (author + reviewer).

What are you doing? Do you have a better UI than GitHub or IDEs ones?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195510

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

Build agent-powered apps without reinventing the shell

blef — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:38:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hachej/boring-ui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311457

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Codex MSN Interface

blef — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://codexmessenger.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908179

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by blef in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

blef — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:42:50 +0000

I am building nao, an open-source analytics agent. With nao you can connect all your sources of context (from warehouse to your knowledge base) using a CLI, and then you have an agent that sits on top of it.

You can use the agent from any client (web, Slack, Teams but also other harnesses).

We think most of data analytics work will be transformed (and is already being transformed) from SQL monkeys to chat to analyses, but all the UI/UX are not designed for this and this is what nao is, being open-source because knowing how the context is managed is key.

With nao you can have a conversation and then shared the output on the form of a story, that can be either static or live replacing what old dashboards were.

We are close to 1k stars on Github: https://github.com/getnao/nao

New comment by blef in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

blef — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:54:46 +0000

I really like the YouTube app to be honest and I really dislike the web version, so to me it does not work.

New comment by blef in "Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics"

blef — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:40:51 +0000

Reminds me https://www.agentsview.io/.

New comment by blef in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

blef — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:54:18 +0000

Ironic to see how popular this post is when you see the amount of generated AI companies are at YC (here I also take the blame).

Nonetheless I like this policy as well.

New comment by blef in "React library to add mentions in textarea"

blef — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:18:05 +0000

Thank you! I have to put the Storyboard online and a few screen of what you can do with it

React library to add mentions in textarea

blef — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/getnao/prompt-mentions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323304

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by blef in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

blef — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:06:12 +0000

I'm working most of my time on nao [1] (an open-source analytics agent).

With nao we are exploring the fact that agents are good to work with filesystems, so we help people getting the context into the filesystem and then you can plug our agent loop on top (on anything else).

The most exciting part is working with sandboxes and emulating filesystems. So at the moment the filesystem is local, but it could be a bucket or a database that we emulate as real filesystem for the agentic loop, all of this can also be mounted to sandboxes, and in the end you can do data transformations all in isolation with control on the context.

[1] https://github.com/getnao/nao

ISON Format

blef — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:10:56 +0000

Article URL: https://ison.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47259406

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Nimble gets $75M to build web datasets for AI agents

blef — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nimble_data/status/2026288589735403716

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139577

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Data teams should become context teams

blef — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewaiorder.substack.com/p/data-teams-should-become-context

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946246

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by blef in "The foundation powering modern AI agents"

blef — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:48:37 +0000

I feel it's a bit weird to redirect "Get started" to a Stripe page. When clicking on Get started i'd love to see more what's behind like it's used to be.

Nonetheless i like the idea.

New comment by blef in "Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0"

blef — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:17:49 +0000

Not sure about the naming, wouldn't something with Mistral naming better to understand what it is? Like Mistral Code or Mistral CLI or Clistral (lol)

New comment by blef in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

blef — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:14:40 +0000

The title would have been event better if: "I had ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then it called my doctor"