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New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Single Reference to 3100 APIs"

frabjoused — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:40:59 +0000

Most come with the SaaS. Not really a distinction.

Show HN: Single Reference to 3100 APIs

frabjoused — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:57:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mindcloud-inc/universal-api-reference

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173248

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Open sourced index of 3000 APIs

frabjoused — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:31:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mindcloud-inc/universal-api-reference

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100483

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

One Reference for 3000 APIs

frabjoused — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mindcloud-inc/universal-api-reference

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040425

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Central Reference for 3100 APIs

frabjoused — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mindcloud-inc/universal-api-reference/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994106

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Universal API Reference

frabjoused — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mindcloud-inc/universal-api-reference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984207

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by frabjoused in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

frabjoused — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:46:51 +0000

This is very cool, probably should have gotten more inspiration from Porsche on the design UX. It's pretty rough.

New comment by frabjoused in "We all dodged a bullet"

frabjoused — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:20:11 +0000

Good to hear from you man, you too :)

New comment by frabjoused in "We all dodged a bullet"

frabjoused — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:31:15 +0000

I wrote the first commit for slice-ansi in 2015 to solve a baby problem for a cli framework I was building, and worked with Qix a little on the chalk org after it. It's wild looking back and seeing how these things creep in influence over time.

New comment by frabjoused in "Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories?"

frabjoused — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:11:16 +0000

You're definitely a backend engineer aren't you?

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:30:01 +0000

Congrats on the bug bounties!

I’m not hyping or defending MCP at all: I’m just saying AI can’t figure out APIs well enough to be something you can promise as a product.

I founded an integration platform so definitely a developer and I’ve been living these problems every day.

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 03:19:49 +0000

Not all http based APIs have an SDK. It’s wildly inconsistent. And when you ask the llm to do something new, does it download the SDK on the fly?

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:59:39 +0000

This is very naive. How many different APIs have you authenticated with and connected to? Just the big ones? What happens when the docs are wrong or incomplete?

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:54:17 +0000

The success rate of this is impractically low. APIs are dirty, inconsistent things. Real-world connection to obscure APIs is a matter of hard sleuthing. Docs are wrong, endpoints are broken, auth is a nightmare. These APIs need to be massaged in advance and given a sanity-wrapper if you want any semblance of reliable success when a model calls them.

New comment by frabjoused in "MCP vs. API Explained"

frabjoused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 02:51:04 +0000

Ironic this post is written in repetitive SEO spam format.

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code"

frabjoused — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:28:28 +0000

I'm building an integration platform, would love to have a call with you and share ideas.

New comment by frabjoused in "My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%"

frabjoused — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:13:10 +0000

This reminds me of a time I lost an argument with John-David Dalton about cleaning up/minifying lodash as an npm dependency, because when including the readme and license for every sub-library, a lodash import came to ~2.5MB at the time. This also took a lot of seeking time for disks because there were so many individual files.

The conversation started and ended at the word cache.

New comment by frabjoused in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

frabjoused — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:02:21 +0000

You don't have to correct throwaway's opinion, you have to correct your online appearance. People reviewing your submission don't know these details you're giving and they won't ask. Unjust or not, that's the shallow first impression he got.

It's like if a user does something wrong in your app, you don't blame or explain to the user what they did wrong. You figure out how to improve your UX.

I came to similar conclusions from your public profile. The defensiveness of your response would be a 7th red flag.

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites"

frabjoused — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 13:50:27 +0000

This needs to be built in at browser level.

New comment by frabjoused in "Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize"

frabjoused — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:52:40 +0000

Very cool, seems like it updates on a delay though, which will probably kill usability.

This post is not even on it.