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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
251•theblazehen•2d ago•84 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

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23•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•1 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

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705•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

The Waymo World Model

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967•xnx•21h ago•557 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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67•jesperordrup•6h ago•30 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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135•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

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44•speckx•4d ago•34 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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68•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

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39•kaonwarb•3d ago•30 comments

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13•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

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45•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

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238•isitcontent•16h ago•26 comments

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303•eljojo•18h ago•188 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

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361•aktau•22h ago•186 comments

An Update on Heroku

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428•lstoll•22h ago•284 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

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71•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

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96•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

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270•i5heu•18h ago•219 comments

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34•romes•4d ago•3 comments

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1079•cdrnsf•1d ago•461 comments

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64•gfortaine•13h ago•30 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

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306•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server

https://github.com/Ami3466/tomcp
34•ami3466•1mo ago
Prepend tomcp.org/ to any URL to instantly turn it into an MCP server.

You can either chat directly with the page or add the config to Cursor/Claude to pipe the website/docs straight into your context.

Why MCP? Using MCP is better than raw scraping or copy-pasting because it converts the page into clean Markdown. This helps the AI understand the structure better and uses significantly fewer tokens.

How it works: It is a proxy that fetches the URL, removes ads and navigation, and exposes the clean content as a standard MCP Resource.

Repo: https://github.com/Ami3466/tomcp (Inspired by GitMCP, but for the general web)

Comments

bakies•1mo ago
I thought this is what the web_fetch tools already did? Tools are configured through MCP also, right? So why am I prepending a URL, and not just using the web_fetch tool that already works?

Does this skirt the robots.txt by chance? Not being to fetch any web page is really bugging me and I'm hoping to use a better web_fetch that isn't censored. I'm just going to copy/paste the content anyway.

mbreese•1mo ago
I think the idea here is that the web_fetch is restricted to the target site. I might want to include my documentation in an MCP server (from docs.example.com), but that doesn’t mean I want the full web available.
bsima•1mo ago
Who is tom and why is he copying?
ami3466•1mo ago
lol I got this domain at 2am and didn't think through.
SilentM68•1mo ago
Cool :)
mbreese•1mo ago
I think this is a good idea in general, but perhaps a bit too simple. It looks like this only works for static sites, right? It then performs a JS fetch to pull in the html code and then converts it (in a quick and dirty manner) to markdown.

I know this is pointing to the GH repo, but I’d love to know more about why the author chose to build it this way. I suspect it keeps costs low/free. But why CF workers? How much processing can you get done for free here?

I’m not sure how you could do much more in a CF worker, but this might be too simple to be useful on many sites.

Example: I had to pull in a docs site that was built for a project I’m working on. We wanted an LLM to be able to use the docs in their responses. However, the site was based on VitePress. I didn’t have access to the source markdown files, so I wrote an MCP fetcher that uses a dockerized headless chrome instance to load the page. I then pull the innerHTML directly from the processed DOM. It’s probably overkill, but an example of when this tool might not work.

But — if you have a static site, this tool could be a very simple way to configure MCP access. It’s a nice idea!

ami3466•1mo ago
The simplicity is a feature. I avoided headless Chrome because standard fetch tools (and raw DOM dumps) pollute the context with navbars and scripts, wasting tokens. This parser converts to clean Markdown for maximum density.

Also, by treating this as an MCP Resource rather than a Tool, the docs are pinned permanently instead of relying on the model to "decide" to fetch them.

Cloudflare Workers handle this perfectly for free (100k reqs/day) without the overhead of managing a dockerized browser instance.

mbreese•1mo ago
I like the idea of exposing this as a resource. That’s a good idea so you don’t have to wait for a tool call. Is using a resource faster though? Doesn’t the LLM still have to make a request to the MCP server in both cases? Is the idea being that because it is pinned a priori, you’ve already retrieved and processed the HTML, so the response will be faster?

But I do think the lack of a JavaScript loader will be a problem for many sites. In my case, I still run the innerHTML through a Markdown converter to get rid of the extra cruft. You’re right that this helps a lot. Even better if you can choose which #id element to load. Wikipedia has a lot of extra info that surrounds the main article that even with MD conversion adds extra fluff. But without the JS loading, you’re still going to not be able to process a lot of sites in the wild.

Now, I would personally argue that’s an issue with those sites. I’m not a big fan of dynamic JS loaded pages. Sadly, I think that that ship has sailed…

aritex•1mo ago
This is a clever solution to a real problem. I could use this for quick turn around from webpage kb to the mcp. Thanks for sharing.
_pdp_•1mo ago
Fun idea although I thought the industry is leaning towards using llms.txt.
mbreese•1mo ago
Isn’t that for scraping? I think this is for injecting (or making that possible) to add an MCP front end to a site.

Different use cases, I think.

_pdp_•1mo ago
It is the same. Context7 is using LLMs.txt to create a searchable index that can be used for coding and Q&A. It serves the same purpose as this tool except I guess it is more standard if you even call it that at this stage.
dennisy•1mo ago
I am not quite clear why this adds value over a simple web fetch tool which does not require configuration per site.
eevmanu•1mo ago
I’m a bit confused because I don’t clearly understand the value this tool adds. Could you help me understand it?

From what I can see, if the content I want to enrich is static, the web fetch tool seems sufficient. Is this tool capable of extracting information from dynamic websites or sites behind login walls, or is it essentially the same as a web fetch tool that only works with static pages?

ami3466•1mo ago
I see many of you asking about the differences between using this versus web_fetch. The main differences are the quality of the data and token usage.

1. Standard web_fetch tools usually dump raw HTML into the context (including navbars, scripts, and footer noise). This wastes a huge amount of tokens and distracts the model. toMCP runs the page through a readability parser and converts it to clean markdown before sending it to the AI.

2. Adding a website as an MCP Resource pins it as a permanent, read-only context, making it ideal for keeping documentation constantly available. This differs from the web_fetch tool, which is an on-demand action the AI only triggers when it decides to, meaning the data isn't permanently attached to your project.