Hacker News: Avery29

New comment by Avery29 in "Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client"

Avery29 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:25:01 +0000

Making MCP context cost visible before the agent sees it feels like a useful debugging tool, not just an optimization.

New comment by Avery29 in "Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust"

Avery29 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:15:36 +0000

Trust in tools often comes from predictability and shared context

New comment by Avery29 in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

Avery29 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:05:08 +0000

I like this. Agent-facing docs feel more like an interface than prose

New comment by Avery29 in "Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money"

Avery29 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:15:53 +0000

I’ve found that automatic switching only becomes trustworthy when the system also makes the reason for each switch visible, especially when cost, latency, and output quality are being traded off.

New comment by Avery29 in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

Avery29 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:13:00 +0000

Google itself is a huge database.Who makes these rules depends on who's leading the market.

New comment by Avery29 in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

Avery29 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:47:47 +0000

The hardest part of these projects is usually not making documents searchable

New comment by Avery29 in "Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked"

Avery29 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:34:13 +0000

For agent/browser automation, getting blocked is only one part of the problem. The other hard part is knowing whether the page you got back is the real page, a degraded version, or some silent challenge page.

New comment by Avery29 in "Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs"

Avery29 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:49:31 +0000

Bad or only loosely related context can make the final answer worse than having less context.

New comment by Avery29 in "Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains"

Avery29 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:53:37 +0000

Nice tool. I’d like to understand what kinds of businesses the customers using this website are in.

New comment by Avery29 in "The Last Museum: a search site for museum art"

Avery29 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:49:23 +0000

This is a lovely use case for search.

New comment by Avery29 in "Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine"

Avery29 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:04:18 +0000

Nice project. The little weather info in the footer is a neat touch. Is that pulling live data, or is it just based on a fixed location/demo value?

New comment by Avery29 in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

Avery29 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:41:00 +0000

The speed sounds great，faster models make that gap much more visible..

New comment by Avery29 in "Show HN: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored"

Avery29 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:55:55 +0000

This is especially interesting for API products. The tricky part is not just where user data lives, but where logs, traces, backups, and billing metadata live too.

New comment by Avery29 in "Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all"

Avery29 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:51:27 +0000

OAuth is great when you actually need user delegation. For simple server-to-server API access, scoped keys with rotation, audit logs, and fast revocation are often a much better developer experience.

New comment by Avery29 in "Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks?"

Avery29 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:38:23 +0000

Real-time web data access capability.

New comment by Avery29 in "AI coding at home without going broke"

Avery29 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:52:49 +0000

We can't determine whether future AI Agents will charge high fees. At present, they are updating at a rapid pace.

New comment by Avery29 in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

Avery29 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:46:23 +0000

Working in data collection, what stands out isn't the "military" part — it's how routine this kind of repurposing is.