Hacker News: sean_lynch

New comment by sean_lynch in "Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP"

sean_lynch — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:54:10 +0000

Before you get too far into the usual “MCP is dead, Skills forever” debate

The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. This is valuable from a security perspective obviously. It’s also just a much easier user experience for normies and large businesses adopting AI tools. I hear all the context bloat and tool call redundancy complaints. But this structure for handling auth has real value.

Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.

MCP Code Mode and Erlang: Building a True Google Workspace Universal "MCP"

sean_lynch — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:48:39 +0000

Article URL: https://sean.lyn.ch/mcp-code-mode-erlang-google-workspace-universal-server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47778932

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sean_lynch in "Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries"

sean_lynch — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 05:14:34 +0000

I’d love to hear more. What are they seeing?

New comment by sean_lynch in "Show HN: Chatting with AI Sucks. Try Mindmapping"

sean_lynch — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:53:12 +0000

I’m getting “Invalid captcha” when asking the first question. I’m on iPhone and not seeing any captcha. Any advice?

New comment by sean_lynch in "BigQuery Vector Search"

sean_lynch — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:55:16 +0000

I'd love to hear the bull case for standalone vector DBs at this point. After exploring a few, there's not much differentiation from what's offered here (beyond maybe a nicer developer experience than GCP's) and I'd expect many other DBs/data warehouse to follow the same path as BigQuery has.

It looks like there's still plenty of hard problems in the indexing side of RAG and so maybe the vector DB that leans hard in that direction will carve out something defensible? Outside that, can't find a good reason to standup yet another piece of infrastructure purely for vector search.

New comment by sean_lynch in "McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game"

sean_lynch — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:30:50 +0000

Not even the only McDonald's branded game of the era! I played MC Kids growing up on NEWS and it also was a dramatically better game than it had any right to be. Not quite the same storied history but still recommend playing if you're looking for some hidden NES gems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nKywTkMnAs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Kids

Using Server-Sent Events (SSE) in Flask to stream ChatGPT

sean_lynch — Fri, 26 May 2023 15:06:24 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2023/05/streaming-chatgpt-with-server-sent.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36085164

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Poolside – Former GitHub CTO starts foundation model startup

sean_lynch — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newcomer.co/p/former-github-cto-jason-warner-raises

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36074628

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sean_lynch in "Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA"

sean_lynch — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:02:52 +0000

OpenAI actually thinking about this too. It’s buried in their open source repo and not clear the exact mechanism that ChatGPT knows to make use of it. But we’re already here evidently.

https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin#memory-fe...

New comment by sean_lynch in "Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code"

sean_lynch — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:49:05 +0000

Have been thinking about exactly this workflow and of course Simon is way out ahead. I recommend taking a look at Simon's daily notes logs too, really fascinating back and forths.

Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

sean_lynch — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Dec/5/rust-chatgpt-copilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33872369

Points: 83

# Comments: 41

Asana S-1

sean_lynch — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:58:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477720/000119312520228462/d855753ds1.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24265430

Points: 384

# Comments: 242

New comment by sean_lynch in "Show HN: Feedback on our new engineering job page Streak (YC S11)"

sean_lynch — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:20:24 +0000

I’m assuming this is a sell page for eng candidates? I think you should mention the big engineering challenges you have at Streak. You mention you’re the largest Spanner user outside Google. That's a really impressive point, but what problems are you tackling by using that?

FWIW - I don’t like that you stuffed everyone into the same t-shirt :)

New comment by sean_lynch in "San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft"

sean_lynch — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 04:36:17 +0000

This is incredibly interesting, thanks for sharing. The actual applications are also available here:

https://www.sfmta.com/reports/original-2018-scooter-applicat...

New comment by sean_lynch in "The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together"

sean_lynch — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 04:43:52 +0000

I'm interested in GraphQL but definitely haven't been following closely.

This seems to be a marketing video for Apollo's products. Is that what most GraphQL stacks look like in production these days?

New comment by sean_lynch in "MessageBird raises $60M Series A"

sean_lynch — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:44:04 +0000

Curious where you need it stored. EU? Or anywhere outside US?

New comment by sean_lynch in "Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges"

Hacker News: sean_lynch

New comment by sean_lynch in "Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP"

MCP Code Mode and Erlang: Building a True Google Workspace Universal "MCP"

New comment by sean_lynch in "Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries"

New comment by sean_lynch in "Show HN: Chatting with AI Sucks. Try Mindmapping"

New comment by sean_lynch in "BigQuery Vector Search"

New comment by sean_lynch in "McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game"

Using Server-Sent Events (SSE) in Flask to stream ChatGPT

Poolside – Former GitHub CTO starts foundation model startup

New comment by sean_lynch in "Using ChatGPT Plugins with LLaMA"

New comment by sean_lynch in "Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code"

Learning Rust with ChatGPT, Copilot and Advent of Code

Asana S-1

New comment by sean_lynch in "Show HN: Feedback on our new engineering job page Streak (YC S11)"

New comment by sean_lynch in "San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft"

New comment by sean_lynch in "The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together"

New comment by sean_lynch in "MessageBird raises $60M Series A"

New comment by sean_lynch in "Medical Device CEO Catches Stranger After Hours, Prompting Espionage Charges"

Udacity launches self-driving car nanodegree

Migrating from PostgreSQL to DynamoDB

New comment by sean_lynch in "Show HN: Stripe Customer Info inside Gmail"