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smolagents

🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents that think in code.

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What it is

🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents that think in code.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-01-07 13:15:09 UTC to 2026-08-27 17:15:50 UTC.

0122025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsAug 2026

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Jan 20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Feb 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I’m curious how this compares to the open-source version made by HuggingFace [1]. As I can tell, the HF version uses reasoning LLMs to search/traverse and parse the web and gather results, then evaluates the results before eventually synthesizing a result. This version appears to show off a vector store for documents generated from a web crawl (the writer is a vector-store-aaS company) [1] https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/tree/main/examples...
In DeepSearcher: A local open-source Deep Research
From the text_to_sql example: [0] My question: "Which waiter got second most total money from tips? create a jpeg with a bar chart of the total tips for each waiter." Step 0 included a correct sql query. Step 1 included python code with matplotlib, which failed because matplotlib was not in the allowed imports. The system then pivoted to another python script which printed a bar plot with ## characters. Final answer: The waiter with the second most total tips is Corey Johnson Bar Chart of Total Tips for Each Waiter: Michael Watts ################################################## (5.67) Corey Johnson ########## (1.2) Margaret James ######## (1.0) [0] - https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/blob/main/docs/sou...
In smolagents: A simple library to build AI agents

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