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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!

Prompt Chains, Tool Calling, and MCP: How AI Agents Do Things

https://i.brandanthonymcdonald.com/mcp-for-beginners
1•aweful•2m ago•0 comments

You only have 3B heartbeats

https://twitter.com/anishthite/status/2085117211208015990
1•aquajet•3m ago•0 comments

Bessent Declares Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor 'Dead'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/business/bessent-wage-gap.html
1•mapping365•6m ago•0 comments

Trump Has Called Warsh Repeatedly Since He Became Fed Chair

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2•mapping365•7m ago•0 comments

What Victorian Bootmakers Can Teach Us About the Future of Work

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1•jhealy•8m ago•0 comments

SKKU Researchers Develop Catalyst to Convert CO2 into Ethanol Using Electricity

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1•rguiscard•10m ago•0 comments

Pull contents from any page via API and avoid Same-origin policy problems

https://allorigins.win/
1•chenster•12m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare OS is an architecture of distrust

https://lord.technology/2026/08/05/cloudflare-os-is-an-architecture-of-distrust.html
1•elicash•12m ago•0 comments

The Aviation Herald was sued

https://avherald.com/h?article=53c8958a&opt=0
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Better Founder Vishal Garg Exits CEO Role; Daniel Lewis Named Interim CEO

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1•doppp•14m ago•0 comments

Retire the Abstractions

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2026-08-05-retire-the-abstractions
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Show HN: Incconutwo – Open-source portfolio with Three.js liquid shaders

https://incconutwo.com/
1•incconutwo•15m ago•0 comments

Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud

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1•susiecambria•23m ago•0 comments

Label your AI writing as AI writing

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The Marpa Parser

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Marpa-web-site/
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Ask HN: What Is Intelligence?

1•lotaezenwa•30m ago•1 comments

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1•lotteverh•30m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ1jkLgjFq4
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https://thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/the-essential-question
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2•jandrewrogers•35m ago•0 comments

How to Give AI Agent a Memory That Survives the Session

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Is M365 Copilot sending some prompts to Anthropic?

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4 Fundamental constants reveal minimum scales where physics ends: Planck scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPnmssrwGcg
1•lioeters•42m ago•0 comments