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New comment by tiel88 in "Claude is about to begin its KYC verification process"

tiel88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:41:14 +0000

Position 1: we will not cooperate with the government because our technology will not be used to hurt people!

Position 2: we will implement a control measure nobody asked for that will inevitably lead to people being hurt and having their rights restricted.

Funny old ethics.

Show HN: Stack – the control plane for AI agents

tiel88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:03:04 +0000

Dear diary, this is my story: I'd been sharing MCP configs with other devs at work a lot - templates in shared repos, credentials in Bitwarden, everyone cowboying their own env vars. That's a lot of manual wiring and lack of any real control, so there was already a problem statement forming in my mind. Then three weeks ago I was putting my kids to sleep and reading about Jensen Huang saying every company will run 100 agents per employee, and the math started mathing.

That evening I kept thinking about what agents actually need to operate in the real world and eventually landed on the same answer as every spy movie ever: basically, a passport suitable for the mission and clever drop-off locations. So I built STACK. True story.

- The passport: a signed JWT (EdDSA) that proves which agent is acting, who authorized it, and what it's allowed to do. Works offline - any service can verify it without calling STACK. Agents can delegate to sub-agents but the scope ever only narrows. Max 4 hops.

- The drop-off: is an encrypted handoff between agents. Agent A drops off a package with a JSON schema contract, encryption at rest, and a TTL. Agent B collects it, the custody transfers, and the payload gets deleted. Neither agent needs to trust the other. Just like in the movies!

All credentials are KMS-encrypted. In proxy mode they are injected at the network boundary so the agents can make API calls through STACK without ever seeing the raw key.

To try it, sign up at https://getstack.run, grab your API key, and connect:

claude mcp add stack --transport http https://mcp.getstack.run/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

I want to provide a generous free tier and I hope people get value out of it.

Keycard ($38M, a16z) does scoped agent credentials, Descope ($88M) does auth flows, Composio ($29M) does tool integrations. I'm a solo founder in Stockholm without funding, but I'm betting the full control plane is where the market is heading. I may be naive about that, but that's the bet. I like betting. Docs at https://getstack.run/docs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795391

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New comment by tiel88 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

tiel88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:43:28 +0000

I've been raging pretty hard too. Thought either I'm getting cleverer by the day or Claude has been slipping and sliding toward the wrong side of the "smart idiot" equation pretty fast.

Have caught it flat-out skipping 50% of tasks and lying about it.

New comment by tiel88 in "EU Age Verification Solution"

tiel88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:44:04 +0000

I couldn't possibly even begin to express the vastness of my disdain for these Eurocrats... but even I can't believe they decided to name it EAVS.

The EAVS will be dropping yeah?

New comment by tiel88 in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

tiel88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:45:43 +0000

This is basically the same setup as mine, except I built a grocery price crawler, that spits out a weekly menu along with a check-box shopping list straight into my google drive. Wife loves being able to just type "we need toothpaste" or whatever into Telegram and whenever we go to do our weekly shop we get an up to date shopping list optimised for prices and our dietary preferences.

Before getting side-tracked by other projects I was also going to build a kind of family archiving function like someone in the comments also mentioned. Just to quickly be able to record small/funny family moments.