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Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•52s ago•0 comments

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•59s 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•2m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•4m 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/
1•ulrischa•12m ago•0 comments

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•13m 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•1 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

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•16m ago•1 comments

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
3•surprisetalk•21m ago•0 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
3•TheCraiggers•22m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•23m ago•0 comments

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

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
11•doener•23m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLM of Babel

https://clairefro.github.io/llm-of-babel/
1•marjipan200•24m ago•0 comments

A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, QUIC support

https://github.com/lance0/xfr
3•tanelpoder•26m ago•0 comments

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

https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-is-the-only-big-tech-company-whose-capex-declined-last-quarter/
3•elsewhen•30m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
2•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deterministic NDJSON audit logs – v1.2 update (structural gaps)

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

The Greater Copenhagen Region could be your friend's next career move

https://www.greatercphregion.com/friend-recruiter-program
2•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs

https://github.com/KemingHe/python-dependency-manager-companion-mcp-server
30•keminghe•6mo ago

Comments

WhatsName•6mo ago
The demo is not convincing, I rarely find myself migrating between package managers and if I do I would expect claude code to ace this task without mcp help.
keminghe•6mo ago
Appreciate the feedback. I will make it my todo to try out your suggestion of comparing Claude Code with and without MCP to measure the quantitative difference.
dcreater•6mo ago
This is superceded by Context7 no?
hobofan•6mo ago
I think in terms of providing the widest coverage, I think Dash[0] which has been in the offline documentation space for a long time should have everyone beat.

[0]: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-8

keminghe•6mo ago
Appreciate you opening my eyes to this. Dash is indeed comprehensive, and a much bigger initiative. I wonder how it's handling the documentation staleness issue? New docs are published every minute.
hobofan•6mo ago
For the package manager ecosystem it supports, it relies on the projects auto-generated docs, and the builds the docsets from those. I guess it does that step in a cached on-demand way. That way, it can provide docs to all the packages and package versions.

E.g. for Rust: Crate is published crates.io -> triggers automatic docs build on docs.rs -> Dash clients can now pull docsets through a proxy that builds the docsets built on the static HTML bundles built for docs.rs.

keminghe•6mo ago
I see, yes, with this implementation, the networking component becomes necessary. I made different design decisions for `py-dep-man-companion` such that the tool is fully offline and can be used with local llms.
vanous•6mo ago
Dash doesn't seem to be open source, plus it's a subscription model. Nothing against that, but OPs solution is MIT licensed.
mrbonner•6mo ago
Even though your demo is not that helpful, I appreciate you sharing this. I think it opens my eyes for another ideas of providing better documentation for coding agent. I believe the current RAG-based approach for coding agent is not the most optimal solution.
keminghe•6mo ago
Thank you. Yes, 50% of the core value prop is the self-updating automation and the traditional fuzzy + full text search capabilities that disrupt the embedding-centric RAG paradigm. Plus, Tantivy (Rust-based) is fast.
keminghe•6mo ago
Genuinely curious: what are aspects of the demo you find less helpful? I want to improve it.
rgovostes•6mo ago
> Docker `:latest` tag guarantees you always get current docs without manual updates.

The docs should probably be pinned to the version of the tool you have installed. Aside from that, pinning to a specific container hash (not tag) allows you to audit it and trust that malicious instructions haven’t been introduced into the docs.

keminghe•6mo ago
Thank you so much for pointing that out, I just updated the docker instructions in the README and on DockerHub:

```shell # Pin to commit hash for production security # Get current hash from: https://hub.docker.com/r/keminghe/py-dep-man-companion/tags docker pull keminghe/py-dep-man-companion@sha256:2c896dc617e8cd3b1a1956580322b0f0c80d5b6dfd09743d90859d2ef2b71ec6 # 2025-07-22 release example

# Or use latest for development docker pull keminghe/py-dep-man-companion:latest ```

imcritic•6mo ago
I currently have poor internet connection and I am not able to view the demo, but having read the description of the project I failed to understand what it is/does and which problems/tasks it solves.
keminghe•6mo ago
This is great feedback. I just improved the README and DockerHub overview to be more clear:

"Stop getting out-of-date Python package manager commands from your AI. Cross-reference latest official pip, poetry, uv, and conda docs with auto-updates."

imcritic•6mo ago
It didn't get clearer much: so what am I supposed to do to achieve that? If I query AI and it gives me outdated instructions how is your server supposed to help here? I suppose that I am supposed to somehow direct that AI's pipeline to use MCP protocol to make as a next step and query a locally running instance of the server of yours to improve the final answer..? The solution sounds quite ad-hoc: so instead of fixing the problem where it is (in AI's knowledge base), you suggest to apply corrections to it's results by making it query a server each user supposed to run locally? Sounds as a wrong approach to me, I honestly doubt many people would bother working with AI that way, especially given that AI is a paid service.

What I think would be great is either you hosting a central server permanently available to public and somehow convincing major AI service providers to query your servers for solving that narrow scope of tasks, or rather do something similar for open source models available on Hugging Face or something.

keminghe•6mo ago
You're absolutely right about the root cause being outdated AI knowledge bases/training data. I agree, my solution doesn't address that directly.

Where this actually shines is with local LLMs (Ollama, etc) - smaller models, no API costs, fully offline, and the AI gets fresh docs without waiting months for model retraining cycles. Your point about convincing major providers to integrate something like Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash) would definitely be the ideal solution though.

I definitely hear you on the broader ecosystem approach. Anything you've been working on in the same space?

imcritic•6mo ago
We are just trying to adopt an LLM to answer users' questions based on our internal KB/wiki, that's all.