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New comment by jakobgm in "MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless"

jakobgm — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:37:20 +0000

Congrats at shipping the new specification!

Any new to share on file upload support? We have shipped a MCP server and it has been really frustrating to observe MCP clients fumbling around with base64-encodings, polluting their context window with binary data. SEP-1306 (Binary Mode Elicitation) was superseded by SEP-2356 (File input support for tools and elicitation), and that was in turn superseded by SEP-2631 (File Objects and Transfer) which is currently left in a draft state with little activity.

Allowing LLM-based agents to shuffle binary data around efficiently and reliably seems like a pretty big gap in the current specification, if you ask me!

New comment by jakobgm in "Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip"

jakobgm — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:37:24 +0000

Totally agree! As with any behavior which is difficult to detect and often goes by unnoticed; the punishment should be large enough for the expected value of fraud being clearly net negative for those that might feel tempted at "tweaking some numbers".

In case anybody else also isn't familiar with "PI" as an abbreviation in this context:

> In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator

New comment by jakobgm in "Modern JavaScript for Django developers"

jakobgm — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:21:54 +0000

I can also highly recommend JinjaX [0] as a way to introduce a much more ergonomic component syntax in Jinja2 templates. We have been using it for almost 2 years and have only recently started to write new templates in htpy as a way to attain greater type safety.

[0] https://jinjax.scaletti.dev/

New comment by jakobgm in "GitHub releases an ImageNet for code and a CodeSearchNet challenge"

jakobgm — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 07:53:44 +0000

Since the CodeSearchNet Corpus contains metadata such as owner/repository, it would be nice to create a search tool for the data set itself. That way you could check if, by chance, some of your open source code is part of the corpus.

The data set is apparently ~20GB [0], so a cheap VPS instance might do the job of hosting the data in a searchable format.

[0] https://github.com/github/CodeSearchNet#downloading-data-fro...

Tightly Integrating Git into Vim

jakobgm — Mon, 20 May 2019 10:57:32 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobgm.com/posts/vim/git-integration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959110

Points: 3

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New comment by jakobgm in "Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released"

jakobgm — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:03:29 +0000

Great!

Especially happy to see Tesseract OCR v4.0 [0] now being in the mainline repository. Tesseract was the main motivation for changing my web stack to docker a couple of weeks ago, and I had to use a separate builder image [1] in Alpine 3.8. Now it is just:

> apk add tesseract-ocr

[0] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.9/community/armhf/te...

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/inetsoftware/alpine-tesseract/

New comment by jakobgm in "IPv6 Adoption"

jakobgm — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:21:57 +0000

[0] http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Media/Interne...