Torn

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Engineering leader living in Australia

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Comment · 2 months ago

Hmm no there's no little evidence to support the body getting used to external melatonin and not making its own in response

Comment · 3 months ago

On the plus side, LLM slop like this in readmes are a great indicator that you can just close the tab and carry on with life - nothing of value lost

Comment · 3 months ago

+1. I think there's an interesting idea here but an AI slop writeup on an AI slop website is very tiring

Comment · 3 months ago

I think it's a bit different in this case. There are plenty of modern synthesisers, from Korg and others

This is intended to be a faithful recreation of a classic synth, for collectors / rich enthusiasts

Comment · 4 months ago

This is awful, but why is this on hacker news

Comment · 4 months ago

> Now an international team, led by Flinders University, have found that in a small number of people, the immune system can accidentally confuse a normal adenovirus protein with a human blood protein termed platelet factor 4 (or PF4).

Seems to have been a legitimate, very rare, side effect

https://www.flinders.edu.au/research/articles/covid-vaccine-...

Comment · 5 months ago

This is a really great watch from Benn Jordan on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

Some wild things happening with those, and infrasound. Colossus is shown 4 mins in

Comment · 5 months ago

Canvas is not Canva. Is this a bot reply

Comment · 6 months ago

Interesting - Claude immediately refuses

     API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears
     to violate our Usage Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). Please
     double press esc to edit your last message or start a new session for
     Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this refusal
     epeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.

Comment · 6 months ago

Hopefully not a security incident

Comment · 7 months ago

Tbh I find self-documenting CLIs (e.g. with a `--help` flag, and printing correct usage examples when LLMs make things up) plus a skill that's auto invoked to be pretty reliable. CLIs can do OAuth dances too just fine.

MCP's remaining moats I think are:

- No-install product integrations (just paste in mcp config into app)

- Non-developer end users / no shell needed (no terminal)

- Multi-tenant auth (many users, dynamic OAuth)

- Security sandboxing (restrict what agents can do), credential sandboxing (agents never see secrets)

- Compliance/audit (structured logs, schema enforcement)?

If you're a developer building for developers though, CLI seems to be a clear winner right

Comment · 7 months ago

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli and https://agent-browser.dev/

Comment · 7 months ago

Mostly, yes: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

Comment · 7 months ago

I personally found playwright-cli, and agent-browser which wraps playwright, both more token-efficient than using the raw mcp.

Odd that this article from Dec 2025 has been posted to the top of HN though

Comment · 11 months ago

Disney 100% has access to colorists and best in class colour grading software. It must have been a business (cost cutting) decision?