Friday, May 8, 2026

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB

Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB
10 by nezaj | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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://ift.tt/ryzGvMh 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://ift.tt/RtCs5F6

New top story on Hacker News: pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron

pg_flight_recorder: Continuously sample PostgreSQL system state via pg_cron
6 by tanelpoder | 0 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures

AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
37 by speckx | 7 comments on Hacker News.