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insin
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About insin
Comments Owl for Hacker News highlights new comments, lets you mute & note users, adds dark mode, theming via CSS variables, and more:
https://soitis.dev/comments-owl-for-hacker-news
Control Panel for Twitter improves Twitter somewhat:
https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-twitter
Control Panel for YouTube improves YouTube somewhat:
https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube
Recent public activity
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Comment #48888763
I have default "AI" keyword and domain filters as a separate toggleable option (so you can keep your personal filters separate) in my HN extension (which I really need to add recen…
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Comment #48814602
I thought this was funny because they've rewritten it seemingly with the primary goal of trying to get you to not use it. TL;DR: open app, use the app, install the app, have you op…
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Comment #48641494
I'm using this API in the internal [1] model-independent LLM chat app I work on at an F100, and it ruined using the Claude and ChatGPT web interfaces for me outside of work [2] bec…
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Comment #48343133
> Let's say you have a jq MCP. How do you pass data in and out to/from it without the data also being processed as tokens? Provide a meta-tool which handles piping data in and out …
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Comment #48273040
Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)
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Comment #48243089
Watching it like a hawk and stopping/redirecting, or immediately reviewing and doing the same is the only way, really.
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Comment #48156304
HN needs to start sticking an ?mx=1 on the end
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Comment #48146637
Congratulations to the Anthropic marketing team on their acqui-hire.
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Comment #48133153
I don't think it needs to specifically be a coding agent for the average user, creating apps for whatever they want to do, just something that can use code and has appropriate acce…
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Comment #47863097
Upvoting because of how I misread those 2 letters
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Show HN: Themeable HN
Hi HN, I needed a distraction from the new and scary thing I was working on this weekend, so I grabbed HN's stylesheet, extracted CSS variables for every colour it defined, then re…
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Comment #47794610
Create a new UI library without spending a decent chunk of the landing page telling the reader what it isn't challenge.
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Comment #47787550
Upvoting because Shorts are terrible. Flagging because the submission title - which is 100% faithful to the friendly article - is a complete lie! Plug: I added a bunch of features …
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Comment #47786831
Bravo New Yorker, defeating my regular expression because I've never once seen it referred to as A.I. (I'm sure it happens)
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Comment #47727375
This was added in January: https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter/commit/caa213d... Someone on Twitter noticed it pretty quickly, considering: https://twitter.com/devinsays/…
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Comment #47717290
At the level of the agent, it knows nothing about MCP, all it has is a list of tools. It can do anything the tools you give it let it do.
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Comment #47717271
Not all agents are running in your CLI or even in any CLI, which is why people are arguing past each other all over the topic of MCP. I implemented this in an agent which runs in t…
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Comment #47715913
The more things change in tech, the more they stay the same. The shoe is the sign. Let us follow His example! Cast off the shoes! Follow the Gourd!
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Comment #47715884
You can make it compose by also giving the agent the necessary tools to do so. I encountered a similar scenario using Atlassian MCP recently, where someone needed to analyse hundre…
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Comment #47714760
The chatbot app initiates an OAuth flow, user SSOs, chatbot app receives tokens to its callback URL, then tool calls can access whatever the user can access. If you use the officia…
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Comment #47701657
Gemini seems to be an expert in mistaking its own terrible suggestions as written by you, if you keep going instead of pruning the context
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Comment #47699953
Ooh, I'm having that feature for the next version of Comments Owl for Hacker News (which already moves the [-] to the left and increases the size of it on mobile), but does that no…
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Comment #47699295
/r/chrome_extensions feels like it's getting close to being 100% LLM generated, extension code, submission descriptions which read like you accidentally went to LinkedIn, and gener…
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Comment #47656658
I only stay on this particular variant of one of the 5 site designs every LLM spits out for long enough to check that - yes - it has the annoying thing where content fades in as yo…