{"slug": "show-hn-kiosk-a-first-class-ai-assistants-intefrace-to-online-services", "title": "Show HN: Kiosk, a first-class AI assistants' intefrace to online services", "summary": "A developer released Kiosk, an open interface layer that lets AI assistants such as the Hermes assistant discover, register with and transact with online services, after failing to order groceries through an assistant at a local store. Kiosk ships as a sidecar to an online service backend with out-of-the-box discovery, registration, memory-hard proof-of-work to repel scrapers, payments, server-sent events and a prototype KYC integration, with demo links and prompts on its landing page. The reference implementation is written in Ruby on Rails, and the developer disclosed the project was initially vibe-coded but says almost every part was manually reviewed.", "body_md": "Hey, hackers!\n\nAfter failing to effectively order groceries at a local store with my Hermes assistant, I got an idea of making an all-inclusive interface to access online services.\n\nIt's a sidecar to an online service backend, a bit more compared to \"just exposing the API\".\n\nOut of the box: discovery, registration, memory-hard proof-of-work to repell scrapers, payments, server-sent events, prototype KYC integration.\n\nI've built a few demos that you can try. Links and prompts to use are on the landing page.\n\nThe reference implementation is in Ruby on Rails, something I know well. But there's nothing preventing from implementing the same for another platform.\n\nHonest disclosure: it is initially vibe-coded, but I've manually reviewed almost every part of it.\n\nEager to know what you think about.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50426314](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50426314)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kiosk-a-first-class-ai-assistants-intefrace-to-online-services", "canonical_source": "https://kiosk.tech/", "published_at": "2026-11-09 14:42:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-09 14:53:10.143552+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "agent-protocols", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Kiosk", "Hermes", "Ruby on Rails", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kiosk-a-first-class-ai-assistants-intefrace-to-online-services", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kiosk-a-first-class-ai-assistants-intefrace-to-online-services.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kiosk-a-first-class-ai-assistants-intefrace-to-online-services.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-kiosk-a-first-class-ai-assistants-intefrace-to-online-services.jsonld"}}