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flyingsky··on MCP Explained
I've been thinking alot about developer education and while I think this format is fun to fiddle with, I feel this(and a lot of technical learning resources) are no longer as valuable as they would have been in a world without LLMS. Now if I wanna learn something I ask claude and I can essentially build my knowledge incrementally, have it build animations iteratively, ask questions and essentially derive an understanding.
flyingsky··on Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
Except with most non-AI delivery apps, there’s no straightforward way to just say “repeat my last order” and have it delivered to me. And that’s kind of my point. I don’t want to have to open the app, place the order, track the delivery, or deal with the delivery person. I just want my lunch to show up at the usual time without having to think about any of that.
flyingsky··on YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Might make sense for him to invest in hosting his own models locally. Prices are only gonna keep going up.
flyingsky··on YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Whats in it for the labs if they give Gary Tan free tokens for uhm, Gstack?
flyingsky··on Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
Well, it could chat with the driver. Where I live the norm is when a driver is assigned your order they get to text you to confirm your location is correct(annoying, I know), they text you again if they are somehow finding it hard to get to your location, they text when they get to your gate for an access code, they text when they get to the front of your house. Thats a lot of texting I'lld gladly let an agent do for me.
flyingsky··on Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
I think eventually demand for this is gonna pick up. I order the same thing every single time(though on a local alternative & not doordash) and I totally wish I could have an agent drive that. At my lunch time ask me if it can order the usual, I say yes it places the order, monitors it - essentially make sure I get my lunch brought to me without - the cognitive overload from interacting with these food delivery apps or in some cases speaking with the delivery people. Yeah - chat might not be the right interface for that there's the MCP and I think more people if they knoew how powerful that was would be excited about the possibilities of building custom workflows
flyingsky··on Show HN: Zyg – Stop Writing Status Updates
Yep, Linear + Slack are top of the list for integrations. For now it’s free this month, and you can keep using it free if you bring your own key.
flyingsky··on Show HN: Zyg – Stop Writing Status Updates
Fair question. Most of the open-source tools I’ve seen focus on generating a single commit message from a diff. Zyg does that too, but the main idea is different: it treats your commits as raw material for project updates.

Instead of just producing “better commit messages,” it can take a series of commits on a branch and turn them into a narrative of progress - the kind of thing you’d actually paste in Slack, send to a PM, or have emailed to stakeholders automatically.

flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Thanks! compared to the other players in this space $50 is actually on the lower end. But you're right that $50 isn't pocket change. In the spirit of full transparency - We're still figuring out our pricing - if you're interested in trying out LimeJourney and pricing is a blocker, shoot me an email at tobi@limejourney.com and we can work something out.
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Thank you. All these should be fixed now - here's the actual loom video just in case - https://www.loom.com/share/61c783efe93a4464bfd3594fa0339d49?...
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Hi, that should be fixed now! Here's the actual loom video - https://www.loom.com/share/61c783efe93a4464bfd3594fa0339d49?...
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Great catch! Thanks. I have reverted the landing page to an older more mature version. Here's the pricing page - https://www.limejourney.com/pricing.
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Don't know much about this but it seems they say they are a Customer Data Platform (managing customers, leads and visitors data) - LimeJourney is a customer engagement platform allowing business engage with their customers, we essentially combine data from various touchpoints including CDPs to create more effective marketing strategies.
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Hey, great question. I'm familiar with Laudspeaker, Not so much with Mautic & in all honesty I don't think there are any fundamental diffs between LJ(limeJourney) & the options on the market. Yeah, we have some AI stuff in the mix but ultimately I did not set out to build out something different instead I wanted to provide an alternative, less commercial solution for smaller use cases or customer engagement.
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
Thanks for the kind words. If you need any help while trying it out our you need to chat feel free to shoot me a mail - tobi@limejourney.com
flyingsky··on Show HN: LimeJourney – open-source Customer Engagement Platform
atp - all the features are available and can be self hosted & I think it is going to be that way for a long time - This is a side project and so I'm not really pressed to make money from it instead I am excited about seeing the community get some sort of value from it. If for some reason we need to further commercialise the project all features that wouldn't be self hosted will live in the enterprise directory and will be developed by an in-house team not the open source community.
flyingsky··on Writing a Mini-CDN to Learn Nginx/Prometheus/Grafana/Lua
You did not answer OPs question tho'. prometheus vs influxDB.
flyingsky··on Ask HN: Is AI-Assisted Coding the Start of the Death of Software Development?
I imagine over time, It will get better at even the domain specific stuff, No?
flyingsky··on Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically
> More importantly, it is the world’s fastest Lua interpreter to date, outperforming LuaJIT’s interpreter by 28% and the official Lua interpreter by 171% on average on a variety of benchmarks

Really huge, if true!

flyingsky··on Oh, the Places Your Apple ID Will Go
Reason x why I'm rooting for Zack and his metaverse bet! I love the iPhone & Mac but I dislike apples approach to "privacy" feels hypocritical
flyingsky··on Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
This is very interesting! Might be sorta hard to find sth that everyone pays for that is "subsidisable"
flyingsky··on Ask HN: What is the best Knowledge Management system for a startup company?
An obsidian vault feels like an overkill tbh(especially for a team). Confluence should fit your needs. They have a free tier for up to ten team mates!
flyingsky··on What to blog about
This blogpost by a self-taught engineer at Uber gives a framework for deciding what to blog about that I really resonate with. "As a rule of thumb, any topic that passes any of the following litmus tests is a good candidate for a blog post or conference talk: 1. The most senior engineer you know would find the information and subject matter compelling. 2. People who read the post think: “Wow, I can’t believe they managed to <something really hard or difficult to figure out>. I really wish we had someone like that who could help us with <thorny problem>”. 3. The subject matter is deep in a way that readers are unlikely to be able to obtain the same information anywhere else." https://medium.com/swlh/from-coding-bootcamp-graduate-to-bui...
flyingsky··on Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)
Winds by stream(https://getstream.io/winds/) is now shut down but I did enjoy using it to manage all my RSS feeds. Good thing it's open source been considering self hosting.
flyingsky··on Stop publishing conference videos
Of course they should be published! They have a lot of value for people who aren't able to psychically attend the conferences. A better take will be "stop publishing unedited conference videos" & that is still even quite silly as the organisers are trying to make information available for free
flyingsky··on ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
> [...] but the moment people start to make money off of pirated works it starts to feel much more wrong.

"Piracy" is expensive! Most people do not donate to support these things it's understandable if they decide to charge a few cents or bucks to keep the light on.

flyingsky··on Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
Looks interesting but also seems kinda creepy
flyingsky··on Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?
I believe we've come to the end of the social-media road. There is now new social media platform that will replace or outdo existing ones