BeetleB

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by BeetleB 7mo ago
As I and others have pointed out: The context problem with MCP is mostly solved. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719249 for an example I gave.
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
I've always wondered: Doesn't the fact that the MCP input/output is more structured lead to higher reliability? With MCP you declare the types for input (string, int, list, etc) and output. As part of our product, we have an
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
In the US, libraries are often part of a network, and we have access to all the materials in the network. So if my local library doesn't have it, I simply request it from another library. They ship it to mine and I pick it up (and retu
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
> These people aren’t doing bash loops, they’re regular non-technical people who just want to use an AI Agent to access services and aggregate data. Over the last few months, this pattern of discussion has become pervasive on HN. Point.
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Indeed, ever since MCPs came out, I would always either wrap or simply write my own. I needed to access Github CI logs. I needed to write Jira stories. I didn't even bother glancing at any of the several existing MCP servers for either
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
> that MCP description is going to totally rot your context and make your model dumb, and there's no mechanism for progressive disclosure of parts of the tool's abilities, Completely false. I was dealing with this problem recen
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
That's the original Elite. I'm referring to one of the sequels.
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
When it comes to recent popular movies, the wait times can be over 6 months. I'm usually number 480 on the waitlist or something. I wouldn't call that underutilized. :-)
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Libraries are the single reason I got back into video games after a multi-decade hiatus. I played very few games from 2002 to 2017. Didn't want to keep buying new computers, and did not want to bother with consoles (graphics was better
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
The *arr stack was a pain. You'll need prowlarr for downloading. And a Bittorrent client that works with it (e.g. Ktorrent doesn't). Then you'll set up radarr/sonarr, and ensure they can talk to prowlarr. Setting up Plex
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
He's not saying it's economically unfeasible to build where taxed. He's saying they'll simply build elsewhere where they won't be taxed. About a decade ago, a bunch of data center companies got fantastic deals with
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
I think it's more accurate to say that they switch providers when there is rate limiting. The underlying provider can still limit rates. What Openrouter provides is automatic switching between providers for the same model. (I could be
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
At $84, I can understand not taking the risk. But for $28 ... it was worth it. FWIW, I've never dealt with outages since I signed up over 3 months ago (Lite plan). It is slow - always has been. I can live with that. At the same time, I
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Frontier Elite (David Braben). A vast universe, with awesome space flight mechanics (gravity, etc), great graphics/audio, all fitting on one floppy disk. It was coded in assembly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fron
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
But does "anonymous user ID" mean that they make a user ID for you, and it's sticky? If I make a request today and another tomorrow, the same anonymous user ID is sent each time? Or do they keep changing it?
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Fair point. Would be good to hear from OpenRouter folks on how they handle the safety identifier. For prompt caching, they already say they permit it, and do not consider it "logging" (i.e. if you have zero retention turned on, it
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
https://z.ai/subscribe Many of us got the annual Lite plan when they had the $28 discount. But even at $120 I think it's a good deal.
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
The two things I like about OpenRouter: 1. The LLM provider doesn't know it's you (unless you have personally identifiable information in your queries). If N people are accessing GPT-5.x using OpenRouter, OpenAI can't disting
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
"The future aint what it used to be."
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Genuinely curious. By not allowing a specific type of ad, what law are they breaking?
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
I haven't used Thunderbird in 15 years. Donated anyway. I was very happy with it for the years I did use it.
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Ever since AI coding became a thing, Clean Code advocates have been trying to get LLMs to conform. I was hoping this submission would declare "Success!" and show how he did it, but sadly it's devoid of anything actionable. I&
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
No. I meant how many of Karpathy's stars are from bots?
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
With some of the large companies, blacklisted is a real concern. eBay is one known example. I've heard the same for Amazon (forget if it was retail or AWS). It's cheaper to lose your business than to have a proper human review eve
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
1. Karpathy is famous. You're not. 2. How many of those stars are bots?
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
> The common counterargument is that this model advantages wealthy families who can fund these projects. I do not find that persuasive. The truly curious, driven, determined student with a phone and an internet connection has access to t
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
I hate the "Give feedback"/"Review the item you bought ..." emails. I'm sitting here, fantasizing creating an automation where whenever one of these hits my inbox, I'll have an LLM agent go to the page and
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/0uwHq
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Trivial and not too silly example: Part of new feature you had working in an intermediate commit, but broke somewhere along the way and is not working in your last commit when you squashed. If you catch it early enough, I suppose it's
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by BeetleB 7mo ago
Bad memories at my former big tech company. Whenever we initiated a new (internal) SW project, it had to go through an audit. One of the items in the checklist for any dependency was "Must have releases in the last 2 years" I thin

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