Hacker News: berofeev

New comment by berofeev in "Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006"

berofeev — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:03:42 +0000

This is the opposite of a Google AI as summary in the best way.

Thank you for slogging through the slop to bring the human angle

New comment by berofeev in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

berofeev — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:01:40 +0000

No,I'm saying I use an LLM client to do what I would usually do with a mouse and keyboard. You're confusing tools with permission and process.

I also use it to mark tickets as closed, and create new tickets from recordings of support calls.

None of this means the LLM does it while I'm off doing something else, or without me initiating it

I work with several small businesses, not a multi department large corporate.

New comment by berofeev in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

berofeev — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:36:01 +0000

I can give you two examples:

In my company I use it to manage multiple Microsoft 365 clients. I control the server and keys for clients and manage azure roles, each of my technicians get permissions based on their azure role in my tenant.

In another company I work with, they use it to manage multiple tenants in a construction software platform.

Practical example: I can now ask Claude to grab the new user request that was emailed to me, and create the user and email the client back with details.

I think something people miss about "just using the API" is that managing keys and git repos is not something regular people do. The learning curve is too steep.

MCP SSO/OAuth and DCR means non-technical users can just paste in a URL and sign in, like they do with everything else.

New comment by berofeev in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

berofeev — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:33:01 +0000

Media outlets were driving panic. Scientists were always saying warming is a problem

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/876

Mistral got a US patent on tool calls in 118 days. Without prior public notice

berofeev — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:02:02 +0000

Article URL: https://agent-wars.com/news/2026-08-11-mistral-code-tool-calls-patent-b1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283341

Points: 18

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New comment by berofeev in "Who Is America's Homer?"

berofeev — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:26:05 +0000

There is some debate as to whether Homer was an individual or actually a title used by multiple authors.

New comment by berofeev in "The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker"

berofeev — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:55:09 +0000

I (a male) use it to have my partner's menstrual cycle on my own phone.

New comment by berofeev in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

berofeev — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:20:54 +0000

I actually built a calculator around this to help someone figure out if they would save money by switching to 3 hour free plan.

https://solarsharercalculator.com.au/

New comment by berofeev in "Show HN: Inbox-beam – notifications in your inbox without sending email"

berofeev — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:21:19 +0000

This is a really cool concept. The mailbox at its base is just a specific type of data store.

I haven't looked at the code. How are you dealing with projects scattered across different environments, are you routing those notifications yourself back to a central imap store, or do you have several different stores?

New comment by berofeev in "Ask HN: Can't a developer publish add-on for Outlook in Microsoft Marketplace?"

berofeev — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:11:28 +0000

Yes, you need to be a company and potentially have done some learning tracks (the latter is something that has changed back and forth over the years).

New comment by berofeev in "Ask HN: How do you solve cold start on a three-sided 3d printing marketplace?"

berofeev — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:28:52 +0000

An idea that came to mind. Focus on makers with customers first, offering them a marketplace that intends to help them grow, by bringing designers who need them.

It's like bringing two working sides in and finding the third side to bootstrap.