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We built another object storage

https://fractalbits.com/blog/why-we-built-another-object-storage/
60•fractalbits•2h ago•9 comments

Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring

https://www.mvp.express/
25•mands•5d ago•6 comments

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs

https://quant.engineering/exchange-order-book-distributed-logs.html
49•rundef•5d ago•17 comments

macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-26_2-release-notes#RDMA-over-...
467•guiand•18h ago•237 comments

AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/12/09/nuclear-power-ai
33•geox•1h ago•25 comments

Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/the-ars-technica-guide-to-dumb-tvs/
433•fleahunter•1d ago•362 comments

Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder, and so can you

https://petapixel.com/2025/12/06/this-photographer-built-an-awesome-medium-format-rangefinder-and...
78•shinryuu•6d ago•9 comments

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
865•parisidau•10h ago•445 comments

GNU Unifont

https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html
287•remywang•18h ago•68 comments

A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251205-how-the-handheld-digital-camera-was-born
42•selvan•5d ago•18 comments

Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles

https://eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html
83•eavan0•3d ago•16 comments

Rats Play DOOM

https://ratsplaydoom.com/
332•ano-ther•18h ago•123 comments

Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig

https://github.com/ringtailsoftware/uvm32
167•trj•17h ago•11 comments

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/12/openai-skills/
481•simonw•15h ago•271 comments

Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

109•ggm•6h ago•23 comments

Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/will-west-coast-jazz-finally-get
10•paulpauper•6d ago•2 comments

Formula One Handovers and Handovers From Surgery to Intensive Care (2008) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2008-sower.pdf
82•bookofjoe•6d ago•33 comments

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards

https://victorpoughon.github.io/bidicalc/
179•fouronnes3•1d ago•85 comments

Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud

https://0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi-humidifier/
126•stv0g•1d ago•51 comments

Obscuring P2P Nodes with Dandelion

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/12/08/dandelion/
57•ColinWright•4d ago•1 comments

Go is portable, until it isn't

https://simpleobservability.com/blog/go-portable-until-isnt
119•khazit•6d ago•101 comments

Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-nati...
169•andsoitis•1d ago•217 comments

Poor Johnny still won't encrypt

https://bfswa.substack.com/p/poor-johnny-still-wont-encrypt
52•zdw•10h ago•64 comments

YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/13/youtubes-ceo-is-latest-tech-boss-limiting-his-kids-social-media-u...
84•pseudolus•3h ago•67 comments

Slax: Live Pocket Linux

https://www.slax.org/
41•Ulf950•5d ago•5 comments

50 years of proof assistants

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html
107•baruchel•15h ago•17 comments

Gild Just One Lily

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/gild-just-one-lily/
29•serialx•5d ago•5 comments

Capsudo: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities

https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html
75•fanf2•17h ago•44 comments

Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-cour...
193•t-3•11h ago•34 comments

String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-inspires-a-brilliant-baffling-new-math-proof-20251212/
167•ArmageddonIt•22h ago•154 comments
Open in hackernews

Terraform MCP Server

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server
105•kesor•6mo ago

Comments

leetrout•6mo ago
I will say I've had a lot of success with AI and boiler plate HCL.

I try to avoid modules out of the gate until I know the shape of a system and the lifecycles of things and I've been pleasantly surprised with how well the AI agents get AWS things correct out of the gate with HCL.

This should super charge this workflow since it should be able to pull out the provider docs / code for the specific version in use from the lockfile.

te_chris•6mo ago
Me too. Having not done it for a couple of years, I got a full private gke vpc system and the live config etc incl argocd deployed and managed by tf all setup in like 3 or 4 days. I know it’s meant to be hours… but real life.

What I enjoyed using cursor was when shit went wrong it could generate the gcloud cli commands etc to interrogate, add the results of that to the agent feed then continue.

Lucasoato•6mo ago
Finding the right command every time is the real time saver.

Ok, it’s probably something that a developer should know how to do, but who remembers every single command for cloud providers cli?

Querying the resources actual state makes these AI infra tools so powerful, I found them so useful even when I had to manage Hetzner based terraform projects.

te_chris•6mo ago
100%. The real unlock/augmentation is not having to remember everything to type.
tecleandor•6mo ago
Oh, just what I needed to raise my RUMs and send my Hashicorp bill through the roof!
mdaniel•6mo ago
I didn't downvote you, but this thing is actually back to their MPL-2 roots (for now!) and I don't see any references to github.com/hashicorp/terraform in https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/blob/v0.1.... and I would guess patching https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/blob/v0.1.... to accept an env-var or config flag or whatever would decouple it from their centralization

The back side of that coin is that it similarly just(?) seems to be a fancy way of feeding the terraform provider docs to the LLM, which was already available via `tofu provider schema -json` without all this http business. IMHO the fields in the provider binary that don't have populated "description" fields are a bug

benterix•6mo ago
> Oh, just what I needed to raise my RUMs and send my Hashicorp bill through the roof!

out of curiosity, what are you paying them for? most orgs that use tf dont

tecleandor•6mo ago
Nothing for, really, we were forced to. The company I work for got acquired by a way bigger company that was using tf cloud already, and they forced us in. It took two years of raging price increases from Hashicorp until we convinced them to move to Spacelift.

Hashicorp, even after huge discounts, wanted around 200-300K a year (I think the original offer was like 400 or 500k).

Spacelift is around 60-80K, I think, and we have more features, more runners, they fail less, and everyone is happier.

throwup238•6mo ago
Does anyone know of an MCP server like this that can work with Terragrunt?
d_watt•6mo ago
I'd think this would work, as the 4 tools listed are about retrieving information to give agents more context of correct providers and modules. Given terragrunt works with terraform directly, I'd think that it would help with it as well, just add rules/prompts that are explicit about the code being generated being in terra grunt file structure / with terragrunt commands.
notpushkin•6mo ago
And it’s MPL, so you’re free to use it with OpenTofu as well (even if competing with Hashicorp).

But as mdaniel notes in a sibling thread, this doesn’t seem to do much at this point.

ivolimmen•6mo ago
Initially thought the MCP acronym would stand for "Master control program". Was disappointed.
fakedang•6mo ago
Funny anecdote, I asked Claude 3.7 to explain MCP to me and it went on blabbering on something about Master Control Programs.
mdaniel•6mo ago
Then you may enjoy Introduction to MCP Security - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015162 - May, 2025 (2 comments)
RainyDayTmrw•6mo ago
I dunno about this. Infra-as-code has always been a major source of danger. Now we want to put AI on it?
teej•6mo ago
There's zero danger writing Terraform. The danger is running `apply`.
benterix•6mo ago
whats the point of writing tf if you never mean to apply?
teej•6mo ago
You apply with a human in the loop.
Flamentono2•6mo ago
We run 100% IaC and are very happy with it.

No clue why you would say its a major source of danger. We have plenty of mechanism in place to prevent issues and due to the nature of IaC and how we handle state, we could literlay tear down everything and are back up running in around 2h with a complex system with 10 componentes based on k8s.

bythreads•6mo ago
Maybe i dont understand this to well but isnt this basically a wrapper for github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go/server
OJFord•6mo ago
This has to be the most complicated method of reading docs ever created?

(I write as someone who really likes Terraform, fwiw.)