Hacker News: btables

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

btables — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:30:17 +0000

Building an agent runtime at cadenya.com and MCP servers have been the hardest part to create adapters for. For a two year old spec, there's far too many permutations.

New comment by btables in "The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat"

btables — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:38:47 +0000

Totally. Earth's rotation is a loop too. We should count that.

New comment by btables in "The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat"

btables — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:23:43 +0000

I think of them from the outside in, so that's why I illustrated it that way.

The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat

btables — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:39:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/the-agentic-loop-three-loops-in-a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907672

Points: 88

# Comments: 32

LLMs don't want pixels, they want tools

btables — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:05:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/the-future-is-apis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739816

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Sidekiq to Temporal: a zero-downtime migration strategy

btables — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:01:51 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/sidekiq-to-temporal-a-zero-downtime-migration-strategy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620139

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Natural Opinions

btables — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:25:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/natural-opinions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805799

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Microsoft and My Tinfoil Journey

btables — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:48:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/microsoft-and-my-tinfoil-journey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160129

Points: 21

# Comments: 12

Hot Take: Don't provide incident resolution estimates

btables — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:26:29 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/hot-take-dont-provide-incident-resolution-estimates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639506

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FireHydrant Has Acquired Blameless

btables — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:49:44 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/two-incident-management-startups-join-forces-as-firehydrant-nabs-blameless/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311415

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

PagerDuty Migration Tool for FireHydrant

btables — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:20:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/firehydrant/signals-migrator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40288674

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: FireHydrant on-call and alerting alternative to PagerDuty

btables — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/alerting-and-on-call-scheduling-for-how-you-actually-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39553345

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

FireHydrant's on-call and alerting tool is now GA

btables — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:34:38 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/alerting-and-on-call-scheduling-for-how-you-actually-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39553148

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

SVB and the internal play-by-play of FireHydrant's response

btables — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:50:06 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/how-firehydrant-handled-the-svb-banking-crisis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295265

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Your codebase Is a Jenga Tower

btables — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:06:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/your-codebase-is-a-jenga-tower

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043486

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Incident Travel Time

btables — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bobbytables.io/p/incident-travel-time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34813187

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by btables in "Integrations on Rails: How we build and deploy integrations at FireHydrant"

btables — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:16:21 +0000

It’s been a minute since I wrote a technical blog post about FireHydrant, but I think I’m making up for it with this doozie. Check out how we structure our integration architecture in a way that’s allowed us to release a new integration every month for the past three years.

Integrations on Rails: How we build and deploy integrations at FireHydrant

btables — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/integrations-on-rails-how-we-build-and-deploy-integrations-at-firehydrant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778168

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

FireHydrant releases service dependency graphs

btables — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:31:08 +0000

Article URL: https://firehydrant.com/blog/see-the-big-picture-with-the-service-dependency-graph/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512548

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by btables in "Launch HN: Rootly (YC S21) – Manage Incidents in Slack"

btables — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:03:55 +0000

Thanks, emailed you as well. Sorry you ran into this!