Hacker News: MayCXC

New comment by MayCXC in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

MayCXC — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:06:43 +0000

I built a similar system for an identity protection service that automated removing PII from directory websites like whitepages. Which was less ethical, stealth browser automation or monetized privacy invasion?

New comment by MayCXC in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

MayCXC — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:41:16 +0000

other people in the thread say that posix_spawn is more or less implemented as a fork+exec wrapper though? it sounds like the idea is more like if there were a separate deferred_fork that made an intermediate "process factory" that let you set up a process without actually creating a new one until the exec. obviously the if() construct would have to be replaced with an in-process handle that mimics calls to the posix api.

New comment by MayCXC in "Anthropic just split the bill. Lanes did not have to change."

MayCXC — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:00:51 +0000

We use claude -p and a max subscription for our devtools, this seems like a sufficient workaround to avoid usage based pricing. I had already tried letting max users sign into a web frontend with oauth, but that was obviously not an anthropic sanctioned use case.

Anthropic just split the bill. Lanes did not have to change.

MayCXC — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:00:51 +0000

Article URL: https://lanes.sh/blog/claude-billing-split

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446272

Points: 2

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New comment by MayCXC in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

MayCXC — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:55:59 +0000

"i design with claude" yes, they do

New comment by MayCXC in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

MayCXC — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:49:47 +0000

With a vibecoded multiplayer web IDE for our flutter app, I have two nontechnical team members prototype app features from a browser all day. The outcome is a git branch with functional dart code, and a strictly more powerful design prompt than figma make. Claude built its own claude -p harness that communicates with the browser via websocket flawlessly. To use our max subscription after [1] takes effect, we are considering adapting that setup to an approach like [2] instead.

[1] https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388

[2] https://lanes.sh/blog/claude-billing-split

New comment by MayCXC in "Mastering Dyalog APL"

MayCXC — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:56:07 +0000

APL workspaces substantially predate Jupyter notebooks!

New comment by MayCXC in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

MayCXC — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:46:21 +0000

outcomes

New comment by MayCXC in "Show HN: MCP server that generates macOS tools via Open Scripting Architecture"

MayCXC — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:03:17 +0000

yep, it generates 700 tools on my mac. I consider discovery context a separate problem, there is no more reasonable way to ask an MCP to limit the number of tools it exposes IMO, than there is to ask a linux distribution to paginate /bin. for the context problem, you would want the harness to use vector search on the list of tools to find the ones relevant to the given prompt instead. not sure if any do this currently.

Show HN: MCP server that generates macOS tools via Open Scripting Architecture

MayCXC — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:25:29 +0000

Cf. The Claude computer use beta. Their own docs state that MCP servers are preferable to computer use [1]:

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Claude has several ways to interact with an app or service. Computer use is the broadest and slowest, so Claude tries the most precise tool first:

- If you have an MCP server for the service, Claude uses that.

- If the task is a shell command, Claude uses Bash.

- If the task is browser work and you have Claude in Chrome set up, Claude uses that.

- If none of those apply, Claude uses computer use.

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So osa-mcp adds an MCP server with tools for every AppleScript/JXA app it can find on the host, in order to maximize the first/best case. I've verified that it works with claude code and cowork, but it should work with any other MCP client as well. It also supports Remote Login via SSH [2].

This enables some pretty cool workflows and custom skills, e.g. "Read today's inbox in Mail and give me a summary. Check to see if I should schedule any additional meetings in Calendar, and if they conflict with the plans I made with anyone in Messages let them know. Then organize my notes for each meeting, and update their descriptions." Thus the capabilities of AppleScript are made available with natural language.

Inspiration is credited to [3] and [4] but neither exposes the entirety of OSA with MCP like this in a dynamic manner. Feedback is appreciated, I think it is pretty much an unofficial preview of the inevitable agentic Siri that will be released in a future OSX update.

[1] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/computer-use

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/allow-a-remote-comp...

[3] https://github.com/joshrutkowski/applescript-mcp

[4] https://github.com/supermemoryai/apple-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594807

Points: 2

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