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Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?

Quick architecture question.When using MCP servers directly in Cursor, the agent seems to see all tools at the same level.But when using a plugin/extension that internally connects to MCP servers, does the main agent:see only the plugin as a single tool and delegate to a sub-agent inside it, orstill see every underlying MCP tool individually?In other words: do plugins act as a tool abstraction...

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How to Overcome GitHub’s Single-Topic Limitation ?

The GitHub Actions Marketplace allows users to filter by one topic, but what if you need actions that fit multiple categories, like Monitoring and Continuous Integration? GitHub’s search doesn’t support multi-topic filtering, slowing down your workflow.

By using Google Dorks, you can bypass this limitation and search for GitHub Actions that meet multiple topics simultaneously. Here’s a sample query:

    site:github.com/marketplace/actions “<category1>” “<category2”
Re:Claude 3 model family on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @07:00PM (#39610645)
https://github.com/nat/openplayground but seems it has not be updated from 6 months.
Re:Support of Lambda web adapter on AWS Copilot on Friday September 01, 2023 @05:11AM (#37348446)
This could be a really good feature for dev environment as Lambda support scale to 0
Re:Degraded performance on ChatGPT on Thursday August 31, 2023 @09:55AM (#37337209)
I experienced the issue in France. Seems that the playground is 100% uptime on past 90 days. Will use that while waiting.

Show HN: Integrations hero, Say goodbye to paid tier of app automation tools

https://integrations-hero.live/external-apps/73e39b93-22f2-48b2-ba2b-50e25f60e646/

Hi HN,I built integrations-hero.live that centralize in one place all the apps supported by data integrations software. Currently, contains all apps from Zapier, make (formerly Intergromat), pipedream.The idea comes from my frustration of losing time bouncing between different integration tools to see if an app is supported or not. This is because there is no integration tool that supports all...

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Thanks. I will check it out
No. I did not know about this possibility. Can you give me a link to this solution ?

Ask HN: Recovering AWS root account without phone number – advice needed

Hello everyone,I'm posting here today because I've been unable to access my AWS account for the past 1 year due to a phone number issue. When I set up my account, I entered a bad phone number and now I can't recover my account because AWS requires both an email and phone number for account recovery.I've already reached out to AWS support, and they've firstly asked me to provide a completed,...

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Oh.Thanks for answer. So the heroku app was created when it was not possible to sign up without being invited.

Ask HN: Why some slack communities use url *.slack.herokuapp.com?

I noticed some slack of communities have entrypoint with *.slack.herokuapp.com .https://botkube-slack.herokuapp.com/ https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=inurl%3Aslack.herokuapp.com and so on ...What's the purpose of this heroku app ? Why not just use slack official : https://postgresteam.slack.com

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Another way to do sqlite over S3 is:

- https://github.com/uktrade/sqlite-s3vfs (Read/Write) - https://github.com/michalc/sqlite-s3-query ( Read Only)

Ask HN: Mature tools for availability when app shutdown outside of buisness hour

Hello,I just joined a new company in the observability team. We used Datadog for observability. Datadog support computing app availability based on unsuccessful monitoring checks that can happen. However as i learned when joining the company, this won't work in our case.Why? : The vast majority ( 500+) of the company app don't run 24*7, they have different business hours ( like 9-5) but outside...

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- Use cs.github.com for code search when you need to find usage ( other than sample) for a library

- If you need to choose a tool to do something. After you find one, don't just use it: search for alternatives using: * crowded based developer alternatives sites like like alternativeto.net, stackshare.io * crowded based buisness alternatives sites like like g2.com, producthunt * Github topics based alternatives sites like libhunt.com, openbase.com, quine.sh