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Re:Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea on Sunday September 20, 2026 @04:10PM (#49779583)
i feel like MCP was bad, but people are saying recent improvements have made it worthwhile now? i.e. stateless http
Re:How to effectively write quality code with AI on Saturday February 07, 2026 @01:16PM (#46926112)
attention is all AI needs
Re:A Social Filesystem on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:35PM (#46673720)
nostr protocol and the client/relay model is one simple way to separate apps (clients) from the data (relays)
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:41PM (#46624000)
sammyjaved.com
Re:My favourite small hash table on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @01:35PM (#46208661)
Used Gemini to explain this. Very interesting and I think Gemini did a good job explaining the Robin hood fairness mechanism

https://gemini.google.com/share/5add15a1c12f

I developed https://pyaar.ai, it uses MT3 under the hood. I realized that continuous string instruments (guitar) that have things like slides, bends are quite difficult to capture in MIDI. Piano works much better because it's more discrete (the keys abstract away the strings) and so the MIDI file has better representation