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Re:Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product? on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:02PM (#49761416)
Interesting, thank you. I'll check whether a setting on CF might be interfering. The site checks headers for routing and response types, but it shouldn't affect access.
Re:Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product? on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:53PM (#49760769)
Integrating live bots to demonstrate live visitor experiences is a nice touch. I got an unexpected blocker (`Default Python urllib User-Agent gets 403'd by anc.dev`) I am not able to reproduce yet. Can you expose the scripts that the agents generate?

I took a different route with https://anc.dev (scored 100 on ax-check) and rely on a wider variety of compliance tests. Beyond websites, it also audits binaries (think CLI tooling) to help inclined developers ensure their tools are discoverable by and useful to agentic systems.

Re:Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product? on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:29PM (#49760501)
The mcp audit at https://anc.dev/ covers all flavors of mcp, including the recently launched webmcp. Remediation prompts, accessible equally by agents and humans, can help close any gaps. Usually one-shot, unless your site is crazy complicated.
Re:Shutting down our public encrypted DNS on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:03PM (#49569548)
What about Cloudflare’s public DNS? https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setup/#1111-for-fa...

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Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:27PM (#49560183)
Yes, that makes sense. Some of my models currently run in ollama while others require their own inference servers. I’m curious about custom inference servers in bifrost and the ability to orchestrate keeping some models warm in memory while evicting and cycling other models. All of which span different providers in bifrost (I think). Obviously I can get the mechanics from an agent, more wondering about any experience with something similar.
Re:Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:10PM (#49560090)
I’ve deployed mcp to prod on numerous internal apps where ai-integration has been first party requirement. Obviously, agents can use an existing api, however maximum capability requires it to be well designed and documented. As many of you may have experienced, that is not something that can be assumed and improvements may be “impossible” or at least out of current scope.

That’s where mcp (and recently webmcp) have their benefits. By design, the protocols provide predictable structure that allows agents to discover and use the tools you provide.

I’ve had success using mcp variously as an agent friendly wrapper to an existing api and as a greenfield product designed for agentic workflows. Agentic workflows can string together multiple api endpoints together into a single tool call and or use their own dedicated backends.

To share my learnings, I’ve released a free tool at https://anc.dev . While It’s still very much a work in progress, I’d love dialog and constructive feedback.

Re:My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:02PM (#49531224)
Can you share a bit more about your bifrost and llama swap setup? I’m facing memory constraints and am looking for a managed model solution that will help with hot swapping loaded models and stay-warm concurrency. Ideally with prioritization.

Hacker sends email blast to Internet Archive Zendesk support ticket submitters

I received the following email as a response to a long closed support email. I don’t see anything to indicate it isn’t from Internet Archive’s actual Zendesk instance.========The Internet Archive Team (Internet Archive) Oct 20, 2024, 05:22 CDTIt's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach 2 weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API...

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