Ask HN: How has the image/reputation of YC changed in the last 1 year?
Overall do people have more or less respect for YC now vs last year?What is causing the trend (if there is one)?Is it censorship? Exclusivity at YC?
bschmidt44
Re:Ask HN: How has the image/reputation of YC changed in the last 1 year?
on Monday March 17, 2025 @12:02PM (#43389928)
Damn downvoted just for asking hahahah
Don't bother answering, there's no point in trying to have rational discourse here.
Re:Underwhelming MCP vs Hype
on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:38AM (#43389670)
You're talking about using a Chat AI as an end user.
I wonder why there is a protocol at all for end users since you are using natural language as the ACTUAL protocol.
Is MCP not for developers?
I thought of it as like a GraphQL in that it takes over the network comms layer but for LLM queries instead of payloads.
Idk
Re:Ask HN: How has the image/reputation of YC changed in the last 1 year?
on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:23AM (#43389529)
Should be straightforward. I get mixed opinions on YC from both extremes.
I've heard YC's "exclusivity" used as the reason it's the best, and the reason it's the worst.
Just curious what the community thinks.
Re:Underwhelming MCP vs Hype
on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:20AM (#43389511)
Does fetching data straight to LLM context cause new problems for you?
I imagine a simple Bad Request could derail the convo since it's added to the context?
Fundamental things are keeping me away
Re:Underwhelming MCP vs Hype
on Monday March 17, 2025 @11:00AM (#43389276)
Ask HN: Why MCP instead of just HTTP?
Why create a new protocol for fetching data instead of using existing protocols like HTTP?There's far more training data already for just using fetch. I bet LLMs are better at fetch than MCP.Why not extend LLMs with basic browser technology instead?I also wonder about storing the fetches data in context (polluting it) vs elsewhere.Is there a better way?
Re:That Time I Recreated Photoshop in C++
on Sunday March 16, 2025 @10:48AM (#43379472)