Hacker News: ahamilton454

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

ahamilton454 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 04:14:23 +0000

Reading this on my eink Bigme Hibreak pro :).

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader"

ahamilton454 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:25:42 +0000

I use the bigme hibreak pro as my primary device. Its an eink device but also just a full phone. Almost bought the boox palma, but held back because I only really want to carry a single device.

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Building better AI tools"

ahamilton454 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:55:59 +0000

It doesn't always ask great questions, but even just the fact that it does makes me re-think what i am asking.

I definetly sometimes ask really specialized questions and in that case i just say "do the search" and ignore the questions, but a lot of times it helps me determine what i am really asking.

I suspect people with execellent communication abilities might find less utility from the questions

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Building better AI tools"

ahamilton454 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:26:01 +0000

This is one of the reasons I really like deep research. It always asks questions first and forces me to refine and better define what I want to learn about.

A simple UX change makes the difference between education and dumbing users of your service.

New comment by ahamilton454 in "I'm Rebelling Against the Algorithm"

ahamilton454 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 03:49:10 +0000

I am somewhat in the same boat as this. At least i try to be super intentional about it. I replaced my iphone with the Hibreak bigme pro which is an e-ink phone.

Its not perfect. Ironically I still can doomscroll on it, but it is much bettter.

For youtube if you disable reccomendations, shorts eventually the feed disappears. I also use an extension called youtube block feed, which only allows me to see my subscriptions.

Its an imperfect firewall, but I am happy with it so far.

New comment by ahamilton454 in "What's happening to reading?"

ahamilton454 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:12:45 +0000

This was a pretty thoughtful piece and a pleasure to read. My gut reaction at first was that it was going to be some critque on children not reading due to generative ai (a cynial piece), but it was quite an interesting reflection on simply how reading is changing from the prepective of this author whose spent a his life deeply reading books

The ending had a nice flair of grandness to it as well.

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Void: Open-source Cursor alternative"

ahamilton454 — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:12:51 +0000

The irony of an open source alternative to a fork of an open source project is hopefully not lost here

New comment by ahamilton454 in "MCPVault"

ahamilton454 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:15:16 +0000

A stupidly simple CLI to store MCP configs. I need to change them all the time and move them from client to client which is annoying. Hopefully this solves my problems and maybe one of yours.

MCPVault

ahamilton454 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:15:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/andrewlayer/MCPVault

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43797542

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahamilton454 in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

ahamilton454 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:20:19 +0000

I’ve been struggling with a very similar feeling. I too am a manager now. Back in the day there was something very fulfilling about fully understanding and comprehending your solution. I find now with AI tools I don’t need to understand a lot. I find the job much less fulfilling.

The funny thing is I agree with other comments, it is just kind of like a really good stack overflow. It can’t automate the whole job, not even close, and yet I find the tasks that it cannot automate are so much more boring (the ones I end up doing).

I envy the people who say that AI tools free them up to focus on what they care about. I haven’t been able to achieve this building with ai, if anything it feels like my competence has decreased due to the tools. I’m fairly certain I know how to use the tools well, I just think that I don’t enjoy how the job has evolved.

New comment by ahamilton454 in "AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu"

ahamilton454 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:02:34 +0000

I don’t think that is the core of this paper. If anything the paper shows that LLMs have no internal reasoning for math at all. The example they demonstrate is that it triggers the same tokens in randomly unrelated numbers. They kind of just “vibe” there way to a solution

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Everything wrong with MCP"

ahamilton454 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:17:48 +0000

A tool change can send a notification to the client, but the client chooses when to actually update the tools. This could take time and the LLM may not be aware of the new tool. I don’t think there is a concept of a “well-behaved” client since MCP is about giving flexibility of implementation.

I wouldn’t call this ergonomic. Alternatively, you could just notify the server when a user message is sent, and allow the server to adjust the tools and resources prior to execution of the agent (this is clearly different from the MCP spec).

On a separate note, what client are you using that supports notification, I haven’t seen one yet?

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Everything wrong with MCP"

ahamilton454 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 05:14:39 +0000

Server notifications are a bad way of implementing semantic retrieval on tools. There when would one update the tools? You can’t “trigger” an event which causes a tool change without some hacky workarounds

Ask HN: Aren't Agents the Bitter Lesson?

ahamilton454 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:23:40 +0000

It’s been a while since I read the bitter lesson by Rich Sutton, with that said, the general “vibe” I picked up from the essay was “building human features and heuristics into a program will eventually be surpassed by general brutish methods”

So this poses the question. Orchestrating workflows using an agent frameworks seems like it goes against the gospel that hacker news users (like myself) preach all so often.

So what do you think about approaching problems with specialize agent flows? Is this something that will shine in many use cases, or become obsolete in the next few years of innovation?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542830

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale"

ahamilton454 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:20:14 +0000

It’s actually just a Forbes marketing ploy. Me and my company made it on the list and they gave us an interview and the guy that interviewed us asked “what is ChatGPT?” And he was supposed to be head of like AI at Forbes. I actually think they somehow make money from it by hosting conferences and stuff. Either way I always was sus of it

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Show HN: Cloud-Ready Postgres MCP Server"

ahamilton454 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:36:26 +0000

I don’t understand the advantage of having the transport protocol be HTTP/SSE rather than studio especially in this case when it’s literally running locally.

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed"

ahamilton454 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:53:07 +0000

Not much to say other than this is fun and awesome! Haven’t taken a detailed look at all, but in surface level, very enjoyable!

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Making GitHub Copilot Order Me Cheeseburgers"

ahamilton454 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:59:59 +0000

I got pretty hungry one day and decided that copilot should solve this problem. LMK if you have any questions about tech behind it!

Here is the vscode link to the extension if you want to try it yourself:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=buildwit...

Making GitHub Copilot Order Me Cheeseburgers

ahamilton454 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:59:59 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.buildwithlayer.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283101

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahamilton454 in "Show HN: Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs"

ahamilton454 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:46:05 +0000

I can agree this is a huge problem with large APIs, we are doing it with twilios api and it’s rough