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Show HN: Claireon – MCP Server for Unreal Editor

karl_gluck — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/believer-oss/claireon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557270

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by karl_gluck in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

karl_gluck — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:44:49 +0000

I’d love to give NixOS a try on an old ThinkPad. I’m pretty comfortable with Claude; is it as simple as ask and go, or do you have any suggestions for getting started?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

karl_gluck — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:14:11 +0000

Strongly agreed. He played BlizzCon a few years back and it was my favorite part of the weekend.

New comment by karl_gluck in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

karl_gluck — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:59:51 +0000

Is this HN user runako’s comment[1] from 2 days ago turned into an article?

I guess it’s very possible multiple people are coming up with the same idea at the same time but given this was submitted by the author it seems kinda rude not to mention it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=runako#48426082

New comment by karl_gluck in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

karl_gluck — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:50:57 +0000

At least some, but let me give an example.

Request: “manual step X should not be part of the automated build script”

Fulfilled as: build script is now split in two. X is still done as a manual step in between. Rather than prompting and waiting for it to be done, the documentation and scripts no longer mention X.

Part poorly written requirements, part implementing under pressure, and part lack of engineering discipline.

The main issue is catching stuff like this early enough to course-correct. Differences in time zone, language and cultural norms can make that a challenge, all of which LLMs have the advantage in.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

karl_gluck — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:18:39 +0000

You have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed.

I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

karl_gluck — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:14:56 +0000

Not the op, but it’s fairly easy to hit if you automate a kanban and have some stuff you want to get done. All those little “wouldn’t it be great if” tasks that show up after doing a big task become very doable, it just soaks your tokens.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Claude Code Routines"

karl_gluck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:38:07 +0000

This is exactly why my preferred method at the moment is simple markdown files with instructions. At worst, a human could do it.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

karl_gluck — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:49:37 +0000

Yes, but at this point I'd almost rather have my CC info exposed than my personal info. There is law and consequence for fraudulent charges that protects me from loss (if not inconvenience) but there is basically no protection for playing fast and loose with my PII--in fact, it's the opposite! They sell it!

New comment by karl_gluck in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

karl_gluck — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:02:35 +0000

karlgluck.com

New comment by karl_gluck in "Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging"

karl_gluck — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:11:20 +0000

There was a time when I built games entirely using Visual Studio 6 Edit and Continue. These were the days when debuggers were reliable. Nowadays, I treat the debugger’s output like a best guess: it’s probably right about local variable values and the call stack, but it sometimes has nothing useful to say, and very occasionally is actively misleading.

New comment by karl_gluck in "An "oh fuck" moment in time"

karl_gluck — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:43:31 +0000

Thanks for this -- have been using Cody a lot and just tried Windsurf on my hobby project. So far it seems immediately like a step up. Has anyone paid for it? The free version is doing good work.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Facebook and Instagram's 'pay or consent' ad model violates the DMA, says the EU"

karl_gluck — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:22:27 +0000

If a company provides a service for free to enable selling something else, and that something else becomes illegal to sell, then it’s up to the company whether they want to keep offering the free service. They can’t continue doing things that are now illegal just because that’s how they made money in the past. No decision-making power has been taken away.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG"

karl_gluck — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:26:33 +0000

Congratulations! Happy to hear you describe making an indie mmo as fun and not that hard these days :)

Is there a way to interact or chat on mobile?

New comment by karl_gluck in "When do we stop finding new music?"

karl_gluck — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:25:46 +0000

Any recommendations?

New comment by karl_gluck in "A quick post on Chen's algorithm"

karl_gluck — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:47:11 +0000

Check out the Winternitz One-Time Signature

Sphere10.com/articles/cryptography/pqc/wots

Signing many things with one identity is possible by precomputing a Merkle tree, but this takes time and the signatures get big.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

karl_gluck — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 21:14:06 +0000

Google Apps Script can do all of this. Take the email body and put it into a Google doc, then export the doc as a pdf to drive and attach it from there to send.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)"

karl_gluck — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:39:05 +0000

Wow, the exact opposite of what I might have guessed from the title.

Does this mean percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI] is over-applied, or something else?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Shamir Secret Sharing"

karl_gluck — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:46:28 +0000

Another implementation:

https://github.com/karlgluck/ThresholdJS

This is a very straightforward encoding of a single 256-bit number.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Why Tcl?"

karl_gluck — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:49 +0000

This is a more interesting take to me than others since it seems you’ve actually learned it?

I see the response later that you’d rather use whatever the team already uses, but could you explain this very strong opinion?

I maintained a 200,000 loc TCL codebase running the front end for millions of lines of industrial C spread over hundreds of machines. It was glorious. After moving on, I’m still struggling to figure out why TCL is so unpopular outside that domain. Other comments seem to boil down to not understanding the language or how to apply it. So what’s your take?