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Re:Ask HN: How are you building a company-wide MCP strategy? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @09:22AM (#46313012)
I would love to hear about the friction points and what your "MCP Roadmap" looks like.

Ask HN: How are you building a company-wide MCP strategy?

We are moving beyond running local MCPs and are trying to map out a broader strategy - for internal as well as external consumption. I am curious how others are balancing business vision with technical reality.Specifically:* Commercialization & ROI: Executives view MCP servers as a new revenue stream (upselling like premium APIs). Is this realistic, or do MCPs eventually replace high-level...

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Yes, some companies avoid hiring programmers who prefer indie work. They worry these programmers might not fully commit to their job or could develop competing products. Others fear they might prioritize their indie projects over company work.
AI explains why Agni missiles are important to India?

https://xplained.vercel.app/ask?q=Why%20Agni%20missiles%20ar...

Re:Andrej Karpathy Departs OpenAI on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:58AM (#39369293)
Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:27PM (#39283340)
Created an AI explainer app that helps you understand a topic, kind of like Perplexity.

It's currently free to use. Its built using nextjs+tailwind and is powered by Vercel + Brave + Gemini Pro. https://xplained.vercel.app

There are other projects that I worked on as part of my job, mostly around bots, search, classification, and analytics.

Hey HN community,

A few weeks ago, I created Xplained, an AI-based answering engine that uses web data and LLM to provide responses (like perplexity). I am planning to sell my hobby project on Acquire.com and could use your advice.

What are your experiences with selling projects? How did you determine the valuation, pitch to buyers, and ensure a smooth sale process?

I'm looking for practical tips and insights to navigate this transition effectively.

Appreciate your guidance!

Re:Show HN: Write Documentation Easily on Sunday February 04, 2024 @03:03AM (#39248494)
Looks like a Novel.sh wrapper. It would be useful if it could have templates by use cases like product document or customer support or FAQ or product listing. Also, maybe some AI assistant to help with content writing.
Hey, any sample that I can see? As a user I feel apprehensive to sign-in before knowing what I would get.

Also, UI can be improved for mobile.

As you mentioned, if LLMs are not required, I don't see the novelty - it basically is search on embeddings.

GPT Assistants readily offer this, with options to customize.

Re:Show HN: An interactive visualization of a semantic cache on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:50AM (#39248451)
Hey. Its a good practical application, especially to reduce cost. But at about 0.6 similarity, I get some cache hit. Maybe with more examples and for a high use app, the cache hit would increase based on a higher similarity scores.

Still early days on this I guess, but any observations that can help improve the hit rates?

Re:Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:13PM (#39242385)
I liked the idea. A good start to a promising app. It does need some features to make it useful and some other improvement ts on UX. People have listed others, but I would like a filter or search at least for starters. Also, progressive disclosure on the news details.

On the cost side, you could try Gemini Pro, currently free with usage limitations. But since the content is saved, it should be fine.

How are you sourcing news and deciding what news to keep? Search engine or some kind of feedback? Would like more details here.

Updated and significantly improved the app.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback.

Its just a quick POC made in a day. I am still working on integrating a backend and optimizing the queries. Also, it currently uses free APIs with small usage limits. Plan to upgrade soon.

Show HN: Xplained – AI-Driven Instant Explainer (Perplexity inspired)

https://xplained.vercel.app/ask

Hello HN community,I would like to introduce Xplained, an AI tool designed for quickly understanding topics using simpler explanations.It harnesses web search results to provide quick insights, aiming to enhance understanding in a short content format with images (like Perplexity). It's ideal for quickly grasping the basics of a concept or getting a quick intro on new topics.I believe it can be...

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OpenAI came up with its guidelines on prompting. I created a GPT assistant to help me improve the prompt based on that. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-haH111AXX-prompt-optimizer

The results are good, and improve the output quality significantly. Small manual QC and tweaks further improve the responses.

Re:Ask HN: How do you find ChatGPT for more complex coding on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:23AM (#38720092)
Iterations and assigning roles to the GPT help. Give a small block of code, ask GPT to review this with a panel of developers (frontend, backend, ...), users and UI/UX experts for 5 iterations, and then provide the final code. GPT 4 works better. However, a lot of times the code is outdated and creates new issues. Manual review and fixes are needed for most custom code blocks. It works well for standard code modules.
Re:Making Music from Images in Python on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:22AM (#38717584)
Hey. I had the same idea as you a while back. Did some samples as well. Used a pretty similar approach till the "Generating Other Scales" section. But was not happy with the output. However, I found them as a good seed to generate music using AI systems from that time. The current systems should provide better results.

Here are some examples: https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a...

https://opensea.io/assets/matic/0x2953399124f0cbb46d2cbacd8a...

https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac...

Re:Build a search engine, not a vector DB on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:11AM (#38717531)
I have been using elastic index for a while now. The best way I have found is to use a hybrid search - match all with embedding + exact+fuzzy match combination as a way to boost results.

Reranking also provide a significant improvement to the response quality.

Another way to improve results for domain specific RAG systems is to use some heuristics to boost results. E.g., penalize results that contain certain negative keywords or boost results with certain patterns.

For RAG, given the limited context size and potential hallucinations, best prompt + best data will provide you with best response.

Prompts can be improved greatly to get the LLM to throw a good response with reduced hallucinations. A lot of techniques are seen on Twitter and can be explored to find a good fit.

I improve my prompts using a GPT assistant that significantly improve the response quality. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-haH111AXX-prompt-optimizer

Re:Ask HN: Is Twitter/X working for you? on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:55AM (#38717429)
Just showed follow suggestions, everything else is down