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New comment by atollk in "Where the goblins came from"

atollk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:38:34 +0000

It can be funny but it should not be surprising. That's what happened about ten years ago too, when Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and so on were the hype. Big tech companies publicly tried to outclass each other has having the best AI, so it was not about doing proper research and development, it was about building hacks, like giant regex databases for request matching.

New comment by atollk in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

atollk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:35:24 +0000

Thanks. The early 2000s wants their joke back. And just like it was back then, it's still not funny, just rude.

My criticism still stands. If I know what I am searching for, it's easy to find. But often enough have I seen authors use terms which can have multiple meanings and I would need to look at their definitions in parallel of the context of the article, just to understand what it's even about. No thanks, I'll just pick the next HN post instead.

New comment by atollk in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

atollk — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:48:06 +0000

I never understand why posts like this do not start with explaining what they are talking about. I am not familiar with the abbreviation RF and I'm not going on a research quest to guess which one the author could mean.

New comment by atollk in "Claude Mythos is the first model Anthropic didn't really release"

atollk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:48:22 +0000

We've seen these news how many times now? Some new model is announced which is supposed to be a game changer but all we do is rely on a few picked data points that are shown to us by the people who are interested in the model performing well. It was the exact same thing with Sora, for example.

New comment by atollk in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

atollk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:05:51 +0000

I agree, regarding MCP. But also, it's the best thing we currently have, as far as I know. If you're aware of a better alternative, let me know.

New comment by atollk in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

atollk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:02:47 +0000

That's a good idea and actually was my first thought too. I sent a chat message so the product owner in charge is aware of the interest in something like it.

I think a big issue here is the lack of standard - there is no established way of where an MCP server should be hosted so that agents are easily able to find it. Right now, the best solution I could think of would be to serve it at something like rewe.de/shop/mcp and you'd manually have to register it with your agent.

New comment by atollk in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

atollk — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:31:21 +0000

As a SWE at Rewe (at a completely different department), I can say that I find this pretty cool. I wonder if this is going to be a wakeup to management to relax the API restrictions.