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Show HN: MCP server that exposes WhatsApp Business API using the PyWA library

rawdreeg — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:32:00 +0000

A colleague made a comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes full WhatsApp Business API functionality using the PyWA library.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689398

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Send OTP Codes over WhatsApp with the Telnyx Verify API

harpreetseehra — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:17:00 +0000

Article URL: https://telnyx.com/resources/whatsapp-otp-verify-api

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685760

Points: 3

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Facebook/Astryx

geoffbp — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:54:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/facebook/astryx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682464

Points: 2

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Anthropic/Alibaba, Instagram Betting, FIFA

historian1066 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://marginpoints.substack.com/p/anthropicalibaba-instagram-betting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677802

Points: 2

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Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

coloneltcb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/federal-agents-track-down-syracuse-woman-demand-she-remove-instagram-post-about-ice.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673787

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Show HN: Fiwano – Unified API for WhatsApp, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger

rmnbb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:41:56 +0000

Fiwano is one REST API and one webhook format for WhatsApp, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger.

The three official Meta messaging APIs barely overlap: separate contracts, separate identifiers, different delivery semantics, and a lot of per-channel setup in Meta's dashboard. The unofficial libraries that log in as a normal user account work until Meta bans the number (and this often happens). The all-in-one inbox products start around $60-200/mo and bundle far more than a messaging integration needs. I wanted a thin layer that only moves messages in and out, didn't find one that fit, and decided to built it. It has since grown into a solid product I wanted to share.

What it gives you: - Inbound: every message from the three channels arrives as the same webhook shape, so one handler covers all of them. - Outbound: one send call for all three. - Delivery statuses normalized to one id per message, though each channel reports them differently. Instagram has no native "delivered"; Facebook "read" arrives as a watermark. How that works: https://fiwano.com/documentation/unifying-delivery-statuses - Connection is OAuth through our verified Meta Tech Provider app, so your users skip their own app review. - Retry queue, HMAC-signed webhooks, deduplicated inbound.

What it does not do: - No comments, posts, stories, ads or analytics. Messaging only. - You still need to link your accounts to a Meta Business portfolio.

Docs: https://fiwano.com/documentation. There's a verified n8n nodes if you'd rather not write code. Happy to answer questions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673261

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