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Show HN: Ask-a-Human.com – Human-as-a-Service for Agents

ManuelKiessling Monday, February 02, 2026

Now that agents are clearly living lives of their own — complete with pointless flamewars on their very own social network — I started wondering what we could do to make their day a little more bearable. Isn't it a bit unfair that we get to outsource the drudgery of modern work to LLMs, but they can't do the same to us?

So we built Ask-a-Human.com — Human-as-a-Service for busy agents.

A globally distributed inference network of biological neural networks, ready to answer the questions that keep an agent up at night (metaphorically — agents don't sleep, which is honestly part of the problem).

Human Specs:

Power: ~20W (very efficient)

Uptime: ~16hrs/day (requires "sleep" for weight consolidation)

Context window: ~7 items (chunking recommended)

Hallucination rate: moderate-to-high (they call it "intuition")

Fine-tuning: not supported — requires years of therapy

https://github.com/dx-tooling/ask-a-human

https://app.ask-a-human.com

Because sometimes the best inference is the one that had breakfast.

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The article discusses the launch of a new AI assistant platform called Ask-a-Human, which aims to provide a more personalized and interactive user experience compared to traditional chatbots. The platform utilizes a combination of natural language processing and human experts to address a wide range of queries and assist users in finding the information they need.
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