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Re:Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:15AM (#49728337)
Have you considered submitting an upstream patch to the widely used actions/setup-go as well?
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Sunday September 13, 2026 @07:28PM (#49689844)
You can blame the media and journalists with sensationalist headlines
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:23AM (#49641842)
Life is not intelligence.
Re:GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:16PM (#49637031)
Why would weights need to be « loaded again » for the 2nd pass? Weights never change at inference time no?
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:27PM (#49378336)
One can hope that the Go maintainers won't keep caving as they did for generics.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:25PM (#49378310)
Pretty childish. People have no trouble looking past it when they care about actually shipping reliable software that properly handles all code paths. Including error paths that are ignored in so many codebases.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:20PM (#49378253)
No. You're down a very bad path if you 're seeking that.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:17PM (#49378207)
That comment is a good reminder that a good chunk of people commenting on HN are completely out of touch with the real world, the actual popular ecosystems out there, and what companies actually do and use nowadays to ship.
Re:Go 1.27 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:12PM (#49378145)
No thanks. Reduced feature-set is the appeal.
Re:Go 1.27 Interactive Tour on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:56AM (#49208091)
You are unfortunately right. I am a bit relieved because it seem generics don't seem that over-used in the community. But still, the language lost a lot with this change that felt super-forced and unnecessary. Biggest downside of the language by far.
Re:Go 1.27 Interactive Tour on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:53AM (#49208059)
That's funny because that's factually untrue. Go's early popularity and professional adoption were largely driven by its perceived productivity boost linked in part to the small surface area of its spec, long before this subpar generic implementation was forced into it.
That's actually very popular with pretty much anyone who's dealt with errors happening in programs... which I would assume is most devs after some time.
Re:Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:04AM (#49207743)
Right. On a related note: "MCP is invisible to the LLM, or should be, under normal use". I am not convinced there are any downsides for the harness to explicitly feed MCP keywords into the LLM. It seem explicitly doing it has many advantages. For example, it allows the user to ask to interact with a resource through "the configured MCP" rather than directly through some local cli or HTTP endpoints; which can steer the LLM towards the proper actions. Otherwise, the model could in-theory be "clueless" with such a request.
Re:Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:20AM (#49183345)
Not sure I understand what you mean. MCP servers and methods available do have to be visible to the model in some way so that it can spit out tool calls instructions to be executed by the orchestration layer around it. But you probably meant something else?
Re:Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:03AM (#48646133)
While that is true, the overarching point is that it fundamentally still is, just a story. You're just describing real world consequences, precisely because humans/societies believe in that story and enforce it.
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @07:03AM (#47946640)
What credentials related to software engineering? Please expand and do not post nebulous comments like these.
Re:CS Professor: To My Students on Monday April 27, 2026 @08:44PM (#47929143)
Courage is not the appropriate word
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports on Thursday April 23, 2026 @05:00PM (#47881895)
This specifically is super annoying.
Re:Claude Code Routines on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @01:36AM (#47775074)
Restrictions don’t have to be confusing, they can be clear. You are missing the whole point.
> modern MCP clients do smart tool search that obviates the entire "I am sending the full list of tools back and forth" mode of operation

This has always surprised me as this always comes up in MCP discussions. To me, it just seem like a matter of updating the protocol to not have that context hungry behaviour. Doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem technically.

Glad you say it has already been addressed. Was the protocol itself updated to reflect that? Or are you just referring to off-spec implementations?

Re:Google Public CA is down on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @09:46PM (#47056536)
I don’t know if you’re being serious but that’s laughable
Re:I don't care how well your "AI" works on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:33AM (#46056366)
I’m genuinely not sure if that post is supposed to be some funny parody. Either way I did have a good laugh reading it.
Re:Google Antigravity exfiltrates data on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @03:57PM (#46050686)
How is that specific to antigravity? Seem like it could happen with a bunch of tools
Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:39PM (#46041453)
That’s exactly what it is in essence. The MCP protocol simply doesn’t have any mechanism specifications (yet) for not loading tools completely in the context. There’s nothing really strange about it. It’s just a protocol update issue.
Re:Claude Advanced Tool Use on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:34PM (#46041421)
The MCP standard will and has to evolve to address this context issue. It’s a no brainer and this is a perfect example of the direction mcp is going / will go. There’s fundamentally nothing wrong, it’s just protocols updates that have to occur.
In also interested in n8n. From what I gathered it’s a everything baked in app, not a lib. Meaning that unless you re doing upstream contributions you don’t actually code anything. Just manage big configs. How are you planning to use this toolkit with it?
Concurrency. Unless you’re happy stopping the world on llm io… Go excels at handling network calls and the like. It’s basically what agents are.
Re:Claude Skills on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:10PM (#45610695)
I think you are right.
Re:Claude Skills on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:20PM (#45609573)
Claude Skills just seem to be the same as MCP prompts: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/ser...

I don't really see why they had to create a different concept. Maybe makes sense "marketing-wise" for their chat UI, but in Claude Code? Especially when CLAUDE.md is a thing?

Re:Claude Skills on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:12PM (#45609467)
I'm super confused as well. This seems like exactly that, just some default prompt injections to chose from. I guess I kinda understand them in the context of their claude chat UI product.

By I don't understand why it's a thing in Claude Code tho when we already have Claude.md? Could also just point to any .md file in the prompt as preamble but not even needed. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...

That concept is also already perfectly specd in the MCP standard right? (Although not super used I think?) https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/ser...

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