Hacker News: firasd

Are you there Grok?: AI as a centralizing technology

firasd — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:16:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/are-you-there-grok-its-me-margaret

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425355

Points: 4

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Anthropic tops AI Arena rankings as it files for IPO

firasd — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://liveclip.substack.com/p/anthropic-files-for-ipo-state-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408555

Points: 2

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Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview Tops Image-to-Video Arena

firasd — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:35:58 +0000

Article URL: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/image-to-video

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342288

Points: 3

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New comment by firasd in "MCP is dead?"

firasd — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:08:22 +0000

Do CLI enjoyers realize that MCP can be called via curl?

For example I have a no-auth clock for AI deployed from https://github.com/firasd/mcpclock to https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp (anyone is welcome to go ahead and add it to your AI apps as an MCP endpoint)

You can still call it via CLI if you're a MCP hater

curl -s -X POST "https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id": 1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"clock_get","arguments":{}}}' event: message data: {"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"[\n {\n \"timezone\": \"UTC\",\n \"iso\": \"2026-05-30T04:05:07.175Z\",\n \"unixtime\": 1780113907\n },\n {\n \"timezone\": \"Alphadec\",\n \"alphadec\": \"2026_K6G7_066464\"\n }\n]"}]},"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1}

curl -s -X POST "https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id": 1,"method":"tools/list","params":{"name":"","arguments": {}}}' 2>&1 | grep '^data:' | sed 's/^data: //'| jq -r '.result. tools[].name' clock_get clock_day_info clock_convert clock_convert_alphadec clock_convert_unixtime clock_shift_utc clock_delta_utc clock_delta_alphadec

The "just use a CLI" crowd is implicitly assuming:

1) You're a developer 2) On a laptop 3) With a shell open Inside an agentic coding harness (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor) 4) Working on a software project 5) That's like... maybe 2% of AI usage.

The other 98% is: Someone on the ChatGPT iOS app asking a question on the subway; Someone in Claude.ai web chatting about their calendar; Someone using ChatGPT Desktop to summarize their Notion; A non-developer using AI in a browser at work; Voice mode on a phone; An embedded chat widget on some company's website...

John Cornyn loses GOP primary

firasd — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:23:50 +0000

Article URL: https://liveclip.substack.com/p/john-cornyn-loses-gop-primary-brief

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331800

Points: 5

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Wordpress.com RSS Reader Adds Support for Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse

firasd — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/05/28/reader-social-bluesky-mastodon-fediverse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318299

Points: 3

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K-Pop Group BTS Wins Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards

firasd — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:45:05 +0000

Article URL: https://liveclip.substack.com/p/bts-wins-artist-of-the-year-bruno-mars-billboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277364

Points: 3

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MCP Apps: interactive UIs for MCP tools

firasd — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.extensions.modelcontextprotocol.io/api/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263851

Points: 2

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Shiny Forever: How Tamatoa Won

firasd — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:19:35 +0000

Article URL: https://firasd.substack.com/p/shiny-forever-how-tamatoa-won-moana-maui-disney-crab-villain-song-jemaine-clement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229529

Points: 2

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New dinosaur species Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis

firasd — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:15:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-man-spotted-strange-looking-rocks-near-a-pond-in-thailand-they-turned-out-to-be-the-bones-of-a-massive-new-dinosaur-species-180988744/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216573

Points: 3

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Michael Jackson returns to Billboard Hot 100

firasd — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:00:41 +0000

Article URL: https://liveclip.substack.com/p/michael-jackson-returns-to-top-20-billboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175745

Points: 2

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"You look like a good Joe": retelling the giant pink Joi scene Blade Runner 2049

firasd — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:51:19 +0000

Article URL: https://firasd.substack.com/p/you-look-like-a-good-joe-k-and-joi-blade-runner-2049-ryan-gosling-ana-de-armas-literally-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138768

Points: 1

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'Devil Wears Prada 2' deal: Streep, Hathaway and Blunt make equal $12.5M

firasd — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:13:08 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/devil-wears-prada-2-salaries-meryl-streep-hathaway-pay-1236741185/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077849

Points: 1

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How to Scale Your Model: A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs

firasd — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:19:42 +0000

Article URL: https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029502

Points: 3

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Tokyo considering more trash cans following litter increase in touristed area

firasd — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/tokyo-considering-law-requiring-more-trash-cans-following-litter-increase-in-heavily-touristed-area

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010590

Points: 4

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Bieber Coachella performance leads to catalog boost

firasd — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:18:45 +0000

Article URL: https://liveclip.substack.com/p/top-songs-billboard-20260502

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988919

Points: 1

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Probability Sampling

firasd — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:13:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/edu/power-pouvoir/ch13/prob/5214899-eng.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981989

Points: 1

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New comment by firasd in "A playable DOOM MCP app"

firasd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:55:26 +0000

Interesting experiment!

I think tool calling (such as MCP) is really underrated. People think of it as a way to connect to Google Drive etc but the potential for MCP to power actual in-chat apps is very under-explored.

I've been working on something called Liveclip which is like tables in chat: just a few hours ago I implemented a way for ChatGPT (etc) to surface sentences within the US Constitution: https://x.com/firasd/status/2049187034066198658

I've also thought that games are an obvious way to explore chat-native MCP apps. Hangman for example. Also small utilities like a clock. In fact I have a no-auth remote MCP clock that can be added to any client right now deployed straight from https://github.com/firasd/mcpclock to https://mcpclock.firasd.workers.dev/mcp <-- works in Claude .ai, Claude iOS, Claude Code, Codex, etc right now

Fastembed – Lightweight Python Embedding Library

firasd — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:50:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/qdrant/fastembed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939662

Points: 2

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Sqlite3 WebAssembly and JavaScript

firasd — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:53:12 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924105

Points: 2

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