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Show HN: AI Boost – an MCP for accessing your everyday patterns

npiano — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:30:37 +0000

Hi HN,

My number one frustration with LLM agents is that every session starts blank and I have to re-explain my patterns and conventions every time.

I often find myself doing things like "look at X repo and copy the patterns used for Y", which requires the repo to be on the local machine.

A couple big ones for me personally: - Auth flows - Terraform patterns for AWS

Rules and skills help to some extent, but they are difficult to synchronize across multiple agents, projects, and machines. Memory is interesting, but too noisy since it is unstructured.

So, I built AI Boost to act as a personal library with an MCP server. You tell your agent what to save (text file or public github repo at the moment. I'm working on other options including private github repos.). It packages it as a "booster", indexes it with keywords and embeddings, and next time you start a task that matches, the agent surfaces it.

At the moment: - Boosters are private by default. They are only accessible to your account. - You can publish to a community marketplace if you want, and earn credits per injection (this isn't completely ready yet, but it's coming soon). - It's an MCP server, so it should work in Cursor, Claude Code, and any client with MCP support.

Link: https://ai-boost.io (and the MCP URL is just https://mcp.ai-boost.io/mcp)

I'd love to know what you think. Especially whether the "auto-suggest before starting a task" behaviour feels useful or intrusive in practice.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442307

Points: 2

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npiano — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:43:58 +0000

EMPs only occur in very high altitude tests

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npiano — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:21:38 +0000

A genuine question, presuming no correct answer: what is to be done about it? China is reportedly on track to run more than 50% of global manufacturing by 2030, if the World Bank is correct. What would you do to act against this? Is doing nothing acceptable?

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npiano — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:56:20 +0000

Location: Valencia, Spain

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Full-stack web dev, React, NextJS, Django, NodeJS

Résumé: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11nLEh4UPupbztWl9J7PziMjDzOP...

Email: nicholas.piano@protonmail.com

Looking for contracts or full-time employment. A specialty of mine is getting a new site up and running in less than a month.

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npiano — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:29:46 +0000

This assumes that logic is derived from predicting the next step from previous information, which is not accurate.

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npiano — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:09:01 +0000

Yeah so many people (clients, and I guess contractors) don't realise this. There's a lot of work to keep a site going.

Ask HN: How do you deliver software and guarantee payment?

npiano — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:50:13 +0000

I only recently started doing contract work, and the first few times have been pretty smooth, but it occurs to me that handing someone a repo with working code in it with instructions is a bit naïve. What solutions do you use to prevent full use without full payment?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677806

Points: 4

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npiano — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:47:31 +0000

It's true it's not unique. I would be interested to know what you believe are the main reasons why it fails. Thanks!

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npiano — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:55:31 +0000

Thanks! Honestly, I think this approach is inevitable given the rising tide of unstoppable AI spam.

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npiano — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:39:58 +0000

I would be interested in people's thoughts here on my solution: https://www.tela.app.

The answer to bot spam: payments, per message.

I will soon be releasing a public forum system based on this model. You have to pay to submit posts.

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npiano — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:10:40 +0000

Location: Valencia, Spain

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: React, Django, FastAPI, Ethereum, Bitcoin, AWS

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-piano/

Email: nicholas [dot] piano [at] protonmail [dot] com

Currently wrapping up construction phase of Tela Network. Long experience in web design and implementation along with deployment and system design. Have experience with payment integration. Open to contract opportunities in related areas.

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npiano — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 09:39:07 +0000

I always think of the holographic orbit mapping UI from The Expanse when I see something like this. It's the paper of the future that will be hooked into everything we think about. Such a powerful tool for exploring the world.