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New comment by serverlessmania in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

serverlessmania — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:13:02 +0000

And Alibaba is releasing the full model weights open source under Apache 2.0, Anthropic… fuck that company.

New comment by serverlessmania in "Figma will IPO on July 31"

serverlessmania — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:02:49 +0000

Why what's happening with Figma?

Show HN: SynthGenie – Natural Language to Sound Design for Hardware Synths

serverlessmania — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:46:17 +0000

Hi HN,

I’ve built SynthGenie, an AI-powered agent that connects to your hardware synthesizer via USB MIDI and lets you design sounds using natural language.

You can type prompts like: - “Give me a warm analog bass like in Stranger Things” - “Make a shimmering pad for ambient music” - “I want a plucky arp with filter movement.”

SynthGenie understands the request and sends the appropriate MIDI CC or SysEx messages to control your synth in real-time. It supports the FM synth Digitone 2 and Moog Subsequent 37 for now, and I’m adding more based on user demand.

Project is open source -> https://github.com/zerubeus/synthgenie

MCP version of this -> https://github.com/zerubeus/elektron-mcp

Discord -> https://discord.gg/ZFuSuegBMS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582910

Points: 2

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New comment by serverlessmania in "Cursor 1.0"

serverlessmania — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:45:22 +0000

100% without forgetting the very "GOOD" idea of forking VScode, and thinking all devs will drop their tools and use the Fork :D

New comment by serverlessmania in "Cursor 1.0"

serverlessmania — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:42:56 +0000

This product is going to be obsolete with the rise of terminal-based agents like Claude Code and Codex. Why would I abandon my entire workflow and toolset to use a fork of VSCode? Especially one that Microsoft will likely make increasingly difficult to maintain.

Developers use Vim, JetBrains, Emacs, VSCode, and many other tools—what makes you think they’ll switch to your fork?

New comment by serverlessmania in "Codex CLI is going native"

serverlessmania — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:14:01 +0000

Had an awful experience with Claude Code—it couldn’t even handle a basic API test for existing code, while Codex with o3 nailed it in one shot.

Claude Code tends to write meaningless tests just to get them to pass—like checking if 1 + 1 = 2—and somehow considers that a job well done.

New comment by serverlessmania in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

serverlessmania — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:40:03 +0000

GitHub acquired for 7b, Windsurf a VScode fork + Agentic LLM… 3b$. I should be missing something.

New comment by serverlessmania in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

serverlessmania — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:15:45 +0000

www.synthgenie.com – an AI-powered sound design assistant that connects to your hardware synth via USB MIDI and lets you control it using text, essentially turning the knobs for you.

New comment by serverlessmania in "The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain"

serverlessmania — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:48:48 +0000

You can’t honestly say you don’t fear death until you face it directly. Tell someone they’ll be executed tomorrow, then ask if they fear death, some people lose their minds when told they’re terminally ill. It’s not as simple as just saying, “I don’t fear death.”

Backpropagation Explainer

serverlessmania — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:42:51 +0000

Article URL: https://xnought.github.io/backprop-explainer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796495

Points: 2

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New comment by serverlessmania in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

serverlessmania — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 04:32:50 +0000

“AI is misleading, there’s no actual intelligence.”

Oh wow, you figured out “Artificial Intelligence” isn’t literal. You should tell the rest of the planet. Maybe we should rename it “Statistical Pattern Prediction Machines That Are Better at Your Job Than You Are.” It’s a mouthful, but more honest.

New comment by serverlessmania in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

serverlessmania — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 04:31:28 +0000

“Modern tech hype mirrors medieval charlatans.”

Ah, yes, the classic “this thing I don’t like is medieval alchemy” comparison. Because if you can’t refute the tools, just compare it to snake oil. It’s cute how this guy thinks he’s the only one who’s noticed not every AI startup is curing cancer. The tech world has always had grifters. That doesn’t mean the tools themselves are fake—it means some people are dumb and others are greedy, which is kind of how humanity works.

New comment by serverlessmania in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

serverlessmania — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 04:29:16 +0000

“Hype is harmful and deceptive.”

Congratulations on identifying marketing exists. What’s next? You gonna blow the whistle on toothpaste commercials? Of course hype is driven by profit. That’s literally the point of business. But you know what else was hyped once? The internet. And electricity. And antibiotics. Being annoyed that people are excited about tech is not a worldview—it's a vibe. A really boring one.

New comment by serverlessmania in "I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype"

serverlessmania — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 04:12:47 +0000

"Less competent employees are often the ones promoting AI."

I don't understand how this post is HN front page…

New comment by serverlessmania in "12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications"

serverlessmania — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:08:56 +0000

"Another thing often missed by other frameworks are dedicated devtools"

From my experience, PydanticAI really nailed it with Logfire—debugging[0] agents was significantly easier and more effective compared to the other frameworks and libraries I tested.

[0] https://ai.pydantic.dev/logfire/#pydantic-logfire

New comment by serverlessmania in "Everything wrong with MCP"

serverlessmania — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:57:06 +0000

Not all clients support that—currently limited to ChatGPT custom GPT actions. It’s not a standard. Fortunately, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI have agreed to adopt MCP as a shared protocol to enable models to use tools. This protocol mainly exists to simplify things for those building LLM-powered clients like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc. If you want an LLM (through API calls) to interact with an your API, you can’t just hand it an API key and expect it to work—you need to build an Agent for that.

New comment by serverlessmania in "Everything wrong with MCP"

serverlessmania — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:56:02 +0000

MCP allows LLM clients you don’t control—like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or VSCode—to interact with your API. Without it, you’d need to build your own custom client using the LLM API, which is far more expensive than just using existing clients like ChatGPT or Claude with a $20 subscription and teaching them how to use your tools.

I built an MCP server that connects to my FM hardware synthesizer via USB and handles sound design for me: https://github.com/zerubeus/elektron-mcp.

New comment by serverlessmania in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

serverlessmania — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:59:35 +0000

Did something similar but controls a hardware synth, allowing me to do sound design without touching the physical knobs: https://github.com/zerubeus/elektron-mcp

New comment by serverlessmania in "Interview Coder is an invisible AI for technical interviews"

serverlessmania — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 16:53:23 +0000

Getting Amazon and k8s certifications will mean nothing with tools like this

Show HN: Built an MCP for direct sound design on the Synthesizer

serverlessmania — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:06:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zerubeus/elektron-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43491621

Points: 2

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