Hacker News: DevKoala

New comment by DevKoala in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

DevKoala — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:33:23 +0000

That sounds so gross. Why do British people tolerate that? It’s as if British people belong to their government.

New comment by DevKoala in "WebMCP Proposal"

DevKoala — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:12:34 +0000

But think about it. Will you do it for your web property? Is someone else going to do it for my web property when I have clearly blocked robots? Will I do it for another web property for my agent to work and hope they don’t update their design or protect themselves against it?

New comment by DevKoala in "WebMCP Proposal"

DevKoala — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:25:57 +0000

Most teams that want their data to be operated programmatically expose an API. For who does this solve a problem?

New comment by DevKoala in "Bugs Apple loves"

DevKoala — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:14:17 +0000

That email bug is the worst.

New comment by DevKoala in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

DevKoala — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:17:51 +0000

I have been using Rectangle and Spectacle before it. Wanting to resize windows like in this article isn't natural to me anymore.

New comment by DevKoala in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

DevKoala — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:35:28 +0000

> IBM to acquire OpenAI (Rumor) (bloomberg.com)

AYYYYLMAO

New comment by DevKoala in "Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components"

DevKoala — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:58:49 +0000

Good callout. However, nothing says Nvidia would adopt this margin tactic either.

New comment by DevKoala in "Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components"

DevKoala — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:00 +0000

We already pay a 100% premium on AWS.

New comment by DevKoala in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

DevKoala — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:55:01 +0000

Because someone else will sell it to you if they dont.

New comment by DevKoala in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

DevKoala — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:59:52 +0000

> I was hoping to see a comment like this. These sorts of “global collaborations” seem to always end with the US carry all the water, and the goal from the other countries perspective is to throttle the US. Like the Paris Accords.

I agree 100%.

I don't see the benefits here.

New comment by DevKoala in "BYD builds fastest car"

DevKoala — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:50:28 +0000

The profitability in the auto market space isn’t there for Apple.

New comment by DevKoala in "BYD builds fastest car"

DevKoala — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:34:04 +0000

Not at all why Apple gave up on the EV, it was profitability. They even gave up on building AI cloud infra because it was cheaper to rent. Finance can veto Tim Cook there.

New comment by DevKoala in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"

DevKoala — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:24:03 +0000

Ugh. Just build man, stop with the excuses.

I’ve been there, looking for pennies in the couch to be able to afford a burger while I waited for my next contract gig deposit. Even if your project doesn’t become the next big thing, you’ll end up with something to show in your resume. That will open tons of doors.

New comment by DevKoala in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"

DevKoala — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:34:05 +0000

I keep hearing this complaint so much. I feel we are living in different realities. Fix your algorithm.

Omarchy Bitchat Ghostty Crush

None of those are chasing metrics. And that’s just off the top of my head.

Ask HN: Is standardizing on MCPs over APIs within an org an anti-pattern?

DevKoala — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:29:50 +0000

I work at a public company with strong datasets and a successful product built on top of this data. There’s currently a push to standardize all of our APIs behind MCPs before wiring them into our Agent platform.

To me, this feels like unnecessary overhead. We already have a robust API gateway with well-defined conventions. Agents or tools can integrate directly with our APIs without needing the MCP proxy layer. Instead, I see developers spending time maintaining this proxy, dealing with data-marshaling bugs and constantly tuning tool descriptions) only to have the Agent layer consume the MCP as plain REST and override most of those hints in the prompt anyway.

The only rationale I can see for us to do this is to “dogfood” the MCPs we might sell externally. But even then, I question the value. I don’t see many customers asking for MCPs. My view is we’d be better off focusing on Agents (A2A), where the differentiation and monetization potential is much higher. Customers who want flexibility can already consume our APIs directly.

Am I missing the point of MCP standardization within an org? Has anyone here adopted MCPs internally and actually seen clear benefits?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162771

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New comment by DevKoala in "AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore"

DevKoala — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:37:50 +0000

I’d probably drop GenAI before I dropped the music that allows me to focus. Also, at this stage of my career, I mainly code for fun, and blasting music across the house is part of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrA8Pi6nol8

New comment by DevKoala in "AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem"

DevKoala — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:15:26 +0000

Please don’t say this. Give us more time.

New comment by DevKoala in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

DevKoala — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:50:39 +0000

I am doing my part.

I wanted a gaming PC forever but I just couldn’t stomach Windows. I had a great experience with the Steam Deck in the past 2 years so I built a Bazzite desktop. I am having a lot of fun.

New comment by DevKoala in "Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices"

DevKoala — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:56:53 +0000

Gotcha, I missed that. Thank you.

New comment by DevKoala in "Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices"

DevKoala — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:19:15 +0000

Any true benefit benefit of using this over Bazzite or SteamOS coupled with EmuDeck? I am not an expert in the space, but I am about to build a machine and install Bazzite.