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Show HN: Status Observer MCP – Monitor Operational Status of Services in Claude

https://github.com/imprvhub/mcp-status-observer
1•ivanimprv•1y ago

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badmonster•1y ago
How does the Status Observer MCP handle cases where the status APIs of monitored platforms have varying data formats? Does it require custom parsing logic for each platform, or is there a unified way to handle different responses?
ivanimprv•1y ago
Thanks for the question! Yes, Status Observer MCP handles varying API formats through a hybrid approach. While some platforms provide clean JSON responses, others like GCP required custom helpers in a separate backend that parse the specific data formats and normalize them before delivery to the MCP server. This lets us handle platform-specific quirks while maintaining a consistent devolution. If you have any platform suggestions you'd like to see added, please create an issue in the repository. I'd be happy to work on implementing them!

Chrome 154 lets iframes size to their content with one line of CSS

https://alfy.blog/2026/10/09/iframe-that-finally-fit-their-content.html
1•acossta•1m ago•0 comments

FreeMiNT

https://github.com/freemint/freemint
1•reconnecting•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft invest in AI that could rewrite its apps from scratch?

1•amichail•4m ago•0 comments

Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy

https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-diesel-midterms-12baccc7aade559bf329079b0548c9da
1•softwaredoug•5m ago•0 comments

Takeshi's Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle
3•tosh•6m ago•1 comments

California woman accused of spying for China fights detention with $820K bond

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-woman-accused-spying-china-fights-detention-820k-proposed-s...
1•snarky-comments•7m ago•0 comments

Can Artificial Intelligence Learn the Art of Surgery?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/world/canada/surgery-artificial-intelligence-canada.html
3•bookofjoe•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ponzi Potato – an incremental game about a potato pyramid scheme

https://www.ponzipotato.com
1•stophecom•16m ago•0 comments

Cbirds: A flock of birds in your terminal

https://github.com/clainstone/cbirds
6•epestr•16m ago•0 comments

Google DeepMind solves 9 Erdős problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22763
5•alfiopuglisi•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dotheystillmake.com – a memorial archive of discontinued snacks

https://dotheystillmake.com/
1•vvincent22•22m ago•0 comments

Dropbox Witchcraft

https://github.com/dropbox/witchcraft
2•tosh•25m ago•0 comments

How tech execs became the film villains of our age

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/the-new-darth-vader-how-tech-execs-became-the-film-v...
2•saikatsg•26m ago•1 comments

Vatican and Microsoft creates a new font: Michelangelus

https://microsoft.design/articles/designing-michelangelus/
3•pikseladam•27m ago•0 comments

Phonebox – Cloud Android phones for AI agents

https://phonebox.dev/
5•Benoujo•28m ago•2 comments

Toaruos 2.3 is out with many improvements [from April]

https://toaruos.org/toaruos-23-is-out.html
2•kouosi•30m ago•0 comments

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a
12•arkj•30m ago•1 comments

Cloudflare Aquires Deno

https://discuss.google.dev/t/trusted-automation-with-google-antigravity-scaling-secure-finance-in...
4•simontwiggyahuk•32m ago•1 comments

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11111-4
1•matt_d•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Does anyone here still contribute to open source projects? Why?

3•AbstractH24•32m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Eval-skills for automatic agent improvement

https://github.com/confident-ai/eval-skills
1•jeffreyip•32m ago•0 comments

Nvidia in talks to acquire Reflection AI (makers of Beam)

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/nvidia-in-talks-to-acquire-reflection-ai-ft
1•htrp•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flopper is a hardware explorer for AI infrastructure and beyond

https://flopper.io/
2•triwats•36m ago•0 comments

At least three dead after Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in Florida

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cmkge3x2x969t
2•saikatsg•36m ago•0 comments

Proposed U.S. census changes could be catastrophic for public health

https://www.statnews.com/2026/10/09/2030-census-public-health-data-equity-morbidity-mortality/
5•EA-3167•38m ago•1 comments

Using Jev in Domain Abuse Review: A Workflow Design

https://abtdomain.com/blog/2026/10/using-jev-in-domain-abuse-review-a-workflow-design/
3•ABTdomain•41m ago•0 comments

Texas Two-Step Bankruptcy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_two-step_bankruptcy
3•thelastgallon•51m ago•0 comments

What LangGraph Builds: Runnables, Channels, Bubble-Up, Agents and Deep Agents

https://www.tamirdresher.com/blog/2026/10/10/what-langgraph-actually-builds
2•tamirdresher1•51m ago•0 comments

ShareBox – share the web tools your AI agent builds, like a Google Doc

https://github.com/zalaso/sharebox
2•zalaso•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Simple Server for Matching Long/Lat to a Timezone

https://github.com/LittleGreenViper/LGV_TZ_Lookup
3•ChrisMarshallNY•52m ago•0 comments