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Exploring a Modern Smtpe 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•39s ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•1m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•1m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
2•sohimaster•6m ago•0 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
2•harshalone•6m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
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Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•12m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•14m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•14m ago•0 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
7•c420•15m ago•1 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•15m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

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3•HotGarbage•15m ago•0 comments

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https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
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The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•17m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
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MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

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2•birdculture•22m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

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MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
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Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
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https://github.com/lance0/xfr
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Famfamfam Silk icons – also with CSS spritesheet

https://github.com/legacy-icons/famfamfam-silk
1•thunderbong•26m ago•0 comments

Apple is the only Big Tech company whose capex declined last quarter

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3•elsewhen•29m ago•0 comments

Reverse-Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•30m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/yupme-bot/kernel-ndjson-proofs
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2•mooreds•34m ago•0 comments

Do Not Confirm – Fiction by OpenClaw

https://thedailymolt.substack.com/p/do-not-confirm
1•jamesjyu•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: A MCP server and client implementing the latest spec

https://github.com/hemanth/paws-on-mcp
72•init0•8mo ago

Comments

baalimago•8mo ago
The fact that this is an achievement is a testament to how bloated the MCP protocol/spec already is.

Will be interesting to see how many days it'll take before the implementation no longer is the latest

tomashubelbauer•8mo ago
I don't disagree, but the first sentence of your post happens to be true for very many specs/protocols I know of and have implemented in the past. And it is not just communication protocols. Take PDF for example. The world practically runs on it, yet the file format is horrid. The real standard seems to be that standards are bloated by default.
Spivak•8mo ago
Right but MCP is a brand new protocol which is at its core JSON-RPC formatted messages and a few verbs. It doesn't actually do much. The main things are tool definitions which is just a JSON schema describing a function call and resources which a is a wisp of a filesystem.
tomashubelbauer•8mo ago
Fair, thought I have a feeling MCP will actually grow to do much more. I wouldn't disagree with the sentiment that it is too bloated too soon, but I also feel like it is destined to be bloated, because the technology it is targeting is sort of a moving target itself. Of course with proper versioning, this is easeable, deprecate stuff that turned out to be the wrong turn and cut major versions or introduce extensions to the protocol when new stuff is on the scene, but then you're liable to find yourself in an XMPP-style situation where no one implements the standard and extensions wholly, because it is so complex.
manojlds•8mo ago
Almost no client, including Claude Dekstop, implements Sampling.

I was so excited to see if I can create a server that used sampling and quickly figured out I can't use it anywhere. Funnily Windsurf hangs forever if you use sampling.

auggierose•8mo ago
Yes, no sampling, last time I tried a few weeks ago. Have you tried with the latest Claude Desktop (0.10.14)?
ericol•8mo ago
I've been thinking about this ever since I heard that is defined in the protocol.

I think the biggest issue is that it can create loops in the flow of programs that would burn through usage quotas pretty fast. It could also allow for "impersonating" the client what opens up a lot of possibilities.

But yeah, the fact that Claude doesn't even implement this is... telling.

auggierose•8mo ago
Yeah, that is the reason it is not there, I guess, you could then really implement anything just with a flat rate.
disintegrator•8mo ago
VS Code seems to be working on it

https://www.epicai.pro/using-mcp-sampling-in-vs-code-insider...

esafak•8mo ago
For those unfamiliar with the term:

"Sampling is a powerful MCP feature that allows servers to request LLM completions through the client, enabling sophisticated agentic behaviors while maintaining security and privacy."

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/sampling

jamesblonde•8mo ago
Protocol version in the readme is Full MCP 2025-03-26 specification support

in the code it is "protocolVersion": "2024-11-05"

https://github.com/hemanth/paws-on-mcp/blob/main/src/mcp_cli...

cfors•8mo ago
The README is 100% just autogenerated by Claude. It looks like every README generated from these tools.

Can’t speak for the code since I haven’t peaked into it

jamesblonde•8mo ago
I thought it was a bit verbose - lots of repetition. I didn't realize how extensive claude/cursor generated READMEs were.
owebmaster•8mo ago
The README is a great overview of the MCP features. This is terribly derisive.
jhosft•8mo ago
That README.md is so vibed with all the emojis and self-proofed comments. One day we’re going to look back on code written in June 2025 and laugh. The code works, but man does Claude 4 pump itself up.
esafak•8mo ago
The median code base it is trained on must be like that.
hammyhavoc•8mo ago
University student work y'say?
hammyhavoc•8mo ago
> The code works

Need a phat asterisk after it.

LeonidBugaev•8mo ago
It does not implement the Auth :)

(mcp auth is terrible btw)

seanobannon•8mo ago
I couldn’t find any great examples of MCP auth, so made this demonstrate an oauth flow recently - https://github.com/OBannon37/chatgpt-deep-research-connector...
WXLCKNO•8mo ago
For my app I'm bypassing MCP auth and doing the regular oauth2 flow to connect users to external apps.

Then I pass the stored oauth token directly to my (private) MCP servers alongside a bearer token.

cranberryturkey•8mo ago
also checkout @profullstack/mcp-server on npm
pcwelder•8mo ago
Tool annotations are missing. (Are they of any use though?)
welanes•8mo ago
This guide may be useful for anyone interested in building their own spec-compliant MCP server: https://simplescraper.io/blog/how-to-mcp.

Albeit, it's a few weeks old so already in need of an update!

josephg•8mo ago
What is MCP? I’ve never heard of it.
esafak•8mo ago
Model Context Protocol. The standard for interfacing LLMs with tools. https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
buonu•8mo ago
Aka controller or middleware

Bit of software between client and backend model to model client requests to

It can look like Anthropics model or it can be your own. It’s verbose semantics to describe a little bit of source code.

Obfuscation of simple loops and scripts is software industries main product