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Show HN: MCP-Server for Tekton (Kubernetes CI/CD)
by waveywaves | 2025-09-11 01:23:48+00:00
We recently started working on a mcp server for Tekton and would like to know what are some use cases you would like to see with Tekton CI/CD and LLMs/AI that we can help implement? We are just starting off and maybe are a bit late to the party, but we are trying to get our AI story off the ground and would love to know more about what some good use cases would be.

On the other hand, Tekton is completely open source, and you can contribute to Tekton as well if you have any ideas you would like to implement.

If not mcp-server, what cool/"boring but extremely helpful" tricks would you like to see it do?
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-11 01:24:07+00:00
Take a better look at it from Israels perspective. Any other response after Oct 7 would have been unthinkable. No israeli is particularly happy with what's happening in Gaza (a massive understatement) but there is still broad support there for the war, because most israelis feel it's a matter of survival.

The rest of the world haven't been shy lately about expressing their opinion of the war, something that Israel recognises and care about, but they have provided no way out for israel to take any other course of action.

Our ideas and opinions should be as harmonious as possible with reality. If Israel was understood better and her concerns and fears engaged seriously it would go a long way to ending the war.

In the context of this assassination i feel the path forward is not empty platitudes of "deescalation" rather greater empathy and understanding of people you disagree with. This is mainly an internal process, but also one that should have outward expressions too.
by pavon | 2025-09-11 01:24:12+00:00
It is the fact that it is happening early in the morning that worries me. People aren't fully cognizant when they are woken up in general, and also aren't expecting anyone to be ringing the doorbell at that hour. I think fearful and violent people will be more likely to overreact in that situation.

All the cases of shooting food delivery workers for ringing the wrong doorbell that I've read have occurred late at night, and I think early in the morning will be even worse.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-11 01:25:23+00:00
Right now I'm 100% coding focused, that's the big show in terms of agents. Orchestrating current agent tools is clunky, they're low performance, they lack fine grained extensibility to really modify their behavior on a dynamic task based basis (CC's hooks are the "best" option and they're really weak), the security model around them is flawed, there's a laundry list of issues with them.

The agent itself is designed to be very general, every trace action has hooks that can transform the payload using custom javascript, so you can totally change the agent's behavior dynamically, and the system prompts are all composed from handlebars templates that you can mix/match. The security model makes it great for enterprise deployment because instead of installing agent software on systems or giving agents limited shell access to hosts, you install a small secure binary that basically never changes on hosts, and a single orchestrator service can be a control plane for your entire enterprise. Then every action your agent takes is linked into the same reactive distributed system, so you can trigger other actions based on it besides just fulfillment of intent.
by bschwindHN | 2025-09-11 01:26:10+00:00
It means I can install it easily and it's probably going to work well on the first try, and it'll likely start up and run fast.

It also uses clap for argument parsing so I know I can run it with `--help` to discover its options, and that the parsing of flags is likely not buggy, and consistent with other Rust tools I use.

None of this is _guaranteed_ with Rust, but the tooling and libraries make it so much easier for you to succeed at making a fast and robust piece of software. So for me "written in Rust" is usually a quality indicator of sorts. It's not 100% though, there will always be misses because it's still very possible to write bad software in any language.
by PlanksVariable | 2025-09-11 01:27:07+00:00
That’s one way to frame it. A cynical and disingenuous one.

He presented an alternative to the indoctrination students often receive today at college campuses and through the media. He gave students a microphone and a chance to defend their views.

If presenting an alternative political philosophy causes someone to become enraged (or worse), we’re in a really bad state.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-11 01:27:09+00:00
Seems like a very Americentric perspective. There's still plenty of chattel slavery out there right now[1]. In that respect, the idea that the US is uniquely bad is like the "evil twin" version of American exceptionalism[2].

[1] https://corpaccountabilitylab.org/calblog/2025/8/7/widesprea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
by tmsh | 2025-09-11 01:27:53+00:00
Right it’s more that it’s odd that there’s all these assassinations of conservatives (UnitedHealthCare etc). And previously there were many assassinations of progressives. I think it’s just the leaders in a dominant part of a force in society become casualties. Loss of life is always tragic even if we disagree with everything they stand for. But anyway the historical part (if that is what is happening - hard to tease out if there’s just more gun violence in general) helps me make sense of it. The dominant wave has breaks or we see them more somehow.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-11 01:28:10+00:00
> Haitian Revolution comes to mind of "the bourgeoisie" that were actually in country

Yes. The bourgeoisie don’t get away. The aristocracy do.

If you work in tech, you’re part of the American bourgeoisie. If you have a college degree, you’re bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are the middle class.
by dpedu | 2025-09-11 01:28:23+00:00
Kubernetes CSI drivers are surprisingly easy to write. You basically just have to implement a number of gRPC procedures that manipulate your system's storage as the Kubernetes control plane calls them. I wrote one that uses file-level syncing between hosts using Syncthing to "fake" network volumes.

https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/developing.html

There are 4 gRPCs listed in the overview, that literally is all you need.
by shymaple | 2025-09-11 01:28:53+00:00
I have been talking to people online as well as in person and especially strangers. What I felt is, many only talk about work, and how they are doing well and all and it takes huge time to build trust with the person when it's online. While, in offline meet, you talk more about interest, hobbies or common things and build trust faster and usually they even share personal information easily because they trust you.
by shruubi | 2025-09-11 01:29:14+00:00
The fact that we're talking about this using terms like "sides" is the problem. American politics has long since stopped being about policy, but is treated like a sport where you follow your "team" and defend them no matter what. It's as though people are incapable of having thoughts on an issue more complex than "does my side think this is good or bad?" and suddenly those who disagree with you are evil, and with partisan media suddenly you see the "other side" as some faceless evil rather than people with differing and complex experiences and views.

I don't agree with a lot of the things Charlie Kirk said, and as someone who is not an American, there was also a lot of things he said I simply didn't care about because they didn't apply to me. I also found that his way of communicating was more geared towards encouraging discussions that would generate views. But despite all that, I can appreciate that he was a man who was willing to have a (mostly) civil conversation with all sides, something I wish more people would try to do.

American politics isn't politics, it's one step short of being like football hooliganism for supposedly smart people.
by goosejuice | 2025-09-11 01:30:17+00:00
I was right by Halsted and Addison. By oppressive I mean brutal in a sense. The drunks falling into the street. People shitting in my alley. Trying to get on and off the red line during a game. The huge crowds. Fights on the El platform. Cat calling. Harassment. People sleeping in my stairwell.

It was rather eventful let's say. I just didn't really know what I was getting into being new to the city. It's pretty amazing what you grow accustom to.
by oxguy3 | 2025-09-11 01:30:17+00:00
Sometimes I really feel like this is a cultural problem rather than a maintenance problem. Visiting Japan was really eye-opening for me. They have almost no trash cans in public places, but they also have far less litter; it's just a cultural norm that you might have to carry your trash for a while, and people just do it. There are great clean public bathrooms everywhere, because they are so much easier to maintain -- no one destroys them, there's no need to lock them up. They don't have to worry about paper towel dispensers being destroyed, because they don't have them; instead, everyone carries around a handkerchief-sized towel in their pocket.
by avazhi | 2025-09-11 01:30:32+00:00
If you can't tell the difference between the quote you've attributed to him, on the one hand, and actively encouraging assassination and political violence on the other, then I don't know what to tell you other than that they are categorically different statements. The statement "I think a few people dying in car accidents is a valid price to pay for being able to travel quickly in cars between point A and B" very obviously is not the same thing as the statement "I encourage people to kill themselves in their cars while driving" or "I am glad people routinely die in car crashes". It's expressing the balancing of two things, endorsing State A over State B (Guns vs No Guns) without endorsing violence itself; seen another way, it's endorsing A over B without necessarily saying A is the ultimate ideal - it's just that A is in that person's opinion preferable to B. Personally I think the benefits of getting vaccinated outweigh the risks and indeed I'd say the benefits of being vaccinated are worth the harms they may cause, even to myself; surely it's obvious to you that I can extol vaccine benefits over their known harms while simultaneously hoping that nobody is in fact harmed by them, even thought I know some subset of the population will be (by myocarditis, for example). You've conflated the expression of a preference for active malice.

Apathy or acceptance of something is passive; incitement and encouragement of something is active. Surely that's obvious.

As far as I know he never advocated murder through assassination or targeted extrajudicial killing. His views on guns and indeed the fact he was speaking about gun violence when he was shot may qualify as ironic, but his philosophical views on the availability of guns to the public were not tantamount to actively encouraging violence.
by HAL3000 | 2025-09-11 01:31:15+00:00
> I'm saying the left has a bigger problem with violent rhetoric and actions

Here is some data that seems to say something different. It was posted as a response to Musk’s comment, "The Left is the party of murder."

https://x.com/SocDoneLeft/status/1965887912530293069

Btw It’s really crazy to read what a person who has 225M followers on X writes when he replies "Exactly" directly to claim that people who fund the Left, like Bill Gates, are murderers.
by frmersdog | 2025-09-11 01:31:32+00:00
The KKK has been a distributed movement from the beginning, though, starting as isolated remnants of Confederate forces acting as terrorist cells in tandem with local officials and businessmen (e.g., plantation owners), and resurgent in the 20s and 30s (obviously sans the direct Confederate connections, replaced with local law enforcement).

It's not so much that we haven't been able to adapt to it as we've simply refrained from doing so. Their violence was in line with the interests of local elites.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-11 01:31:45+00:00
yes. When big pharma dropped 10+ billion on antibodies to amyloid, the results were not good due to excess deaths. But good sleep may be the best drug of all for clearance.

And how does one get reliably good sleep, sans medication? Exercise. Which might also help the clearance systems. How couldn't it? All that physical jostling can't hurt. It's a win-win
by monkeydreams | 2025-09-11 01:32:10+00:00
> I think people need to recognize that in many aspects what's happening is connected to societal issues that gun control and gun regulations will have very little impact on - remember, even in Japan somebody could make some kind of battery ignited home-made shotgun and kill Shinzo Abe.

... having said that, isn't it funny just how much gun violence there is in the one developed country that allows for open slather gun ownership. It's like, yes, you can never stop a determined person from doing violence, but by reducing the availability and power of fire arms you do stop a lot of fools from doing "mass shooter" levels of damage.
by donmcronald | 2025-09-11 01:32:16+00:00
This is it exactly.

When I talk to people that watch a bunch of right-wing content I shut down political topics immediately. They never change their position and are convinced their point of view is the only point of view. If you concede there's more than one side to a topic they care about, they think they've "won" and it reinforces their belief they're right about everything.

I consider myself to be a centrist. There are definitely things I like and don't like on both sides of the political spectrum. If someone gives me a solid logical argument for or against something, I'll either change my point of view or, more likely, end up with a better understanding of both perspectives.

I'm only one person, but my experience is that people on the political left or center are willing to accept the fact there are often two sides to an issue and that everything needs to be a balance. Most people on the political right won't do that.

It's really hard to argue against someone that never concedes anything especially if you're acting in good faith and acknowledge when they make a convincing argument for their point of view.

> claiming that the left is simply uncapable of civilized debate because they eventually just refuse to go along with the act

1000%
by daveevad | 2025-09-11 01:32:27+00:00
I hope you're talking about the original The Jackal. That's a great movie that has fascinated me essentially because of the theme you've identified. A truly motivated, highly-intelligent person could commit horrendous acts without detection. So far, whoever committed this assassination has succeeded; but I suspect, there is simply too much surveillance in 2025 to get away with it.

edit: regarding the surveillance issue, wonder what the retention on google earth/maps logs is for the location of the shooting?
by technothrasher | 2025-09-11 01:32:28+00:00
> so while i never used WordPerfect, i would not be surprized if such a thing existed.

WordPerfect competed heavily with Microsoft Word back in the DOS days. I made money in high school with side jobs teaching people to use WordPefect for DOS, and making utilities to convert and process WordPerfect files for small businesses.

I wrote all of my high school papers on WordPerfect for the Amiga, which was basically just a straight port of the text-only DOS version.
by erentz | 2025-09-11 01:33:34+00:00
It’s definitely very sprawling from Olympia to Mt Vernon. We only just managed to pedestrianize Pike Place Market. I struggle to think of a pedestrian neighborhood. Just cuz you can walk doesn’t rise to that level. Ballard no. It’s all cars and car parks. Fremont no. U district no. Cap Hill no. Queen Anne no. West Seattle no. They’re all car dominated neighborhoods without much pedestrian space and poor accommodation for cycling too.
by sdovan1 | 2025-09-11 01:33:53+00:00
JIRA web eats all my memory on Firefox, so laggy that pressing a button takes 3 or 5 seconds, not to mention page transitions. It only becomes usable when I add the uBlock Origin rule[1]:

yourcomany.atlassian.net##+js(aeld, /^(?:mousemove|pointermove|pointerout|pointerover|touchmove)$/)

[1] https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Re-Re-...
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-11 01:33:58+00:00
Interesting choice of countries - as someone who was actually born in the UK, grew up in Australia, and now lives in the US, I have no idea what the relevance of those details has to what I said.

I merely remarked that someone else considered preventable gun deaths an acceptable cost to what he considered as sacrosanct. Well, tragic as his death is, I'm not the one who considered it an acceptable cost.
by stevenwoo | 2025-09-11 01:34:30+00:00
In a way yes. It’s a byproduct of fusion IIRC. One way to look at it is to examine the atomic weights of hydrogen and helium and the subatomic particles. They don’t exactly add up. So where is the missing mass? This was a big question until we discovered the even smaller particles that made up electrons and protons. I recommend the book How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch for a good read for laymen on particle physics.
by derektank | 2025-09-11 01:35:11+00:00
This is mentioned in the piece, it's a further play on the idea of 'Doomscrolling'

"I was pretty happy with the game and ready to share it. But then at the last minute I got another nagging idea in the back of my mind: What if it was somehow more like actual doomscrolling?

It would be easy to get an RSS Feed of headlines from a news site. Could I make them appear in the game as you scroll, in a way that felt integrated with the game?"
by hamhock666 | 2025-09-11 01:36:18+00:00
> Slavery was only ended by violence

I don't think this is quite true, it may have ended it faster, but I don't think it would still exist today if the civil war had not happened. Most other countries ended slavery without a violent civil war, especially if you think about the way technology vastly outweighed the usefulness of having slaves.

And then when Charlie Kirk says "Some deaths were worth it...", he is talking about accidents and abuses of guns by shooters. He doesn't mean that violence is the answer to politics, it would be great if nobody died from mass shootings. But he is saying that having the right to bear arms to defend yourself is preferable to the alternative where you have no right to do that.
by skissane | 2025-09-11 01:39:20+00:00
A lot of people in the US seem to view deporting illegal immigrants as some far-right move bordering on fascism

Meanwhile, in Australia, it is a bipartisan policy. Read this article about what the centre-left Albanese government just did: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/04/labor... (that article technically isn’t about “illegal immigrants”, it is about a group of people who are predominantly legal immigrants who have had their visas cancelled due to criminal convictions-but they don’t treat the illegal immigrants any better)
by CGamesPlay | 2025-09-11 01:39:23+00:00
I don't understand how this is dangerous. Can someone explain how this is different than just connecting the MCP normally and prompting it to use the same tools? I understand that this is just a "slightly more technical" means to access the same tools. What am I missing?

Two replies to this comment have failed to address my question. I must be missing something obvious. Does ChatGPT not have any MCP support outside of this, and I've just been living in an Anthropic-filled cave?
by Supermancho | 2025-09-11 01:40:50+00:00
"Bad faith" is choosing the weakest, least useful, or intentional misinterpretation of a position. Typically this is then used as the starting point for a rebuttal.

> Wikipedia:

> A bad faith discussion is characterized by insincerity and a lack of genuine commitment to the exchange of ideas, where the primary goal is not to seek truth or understand opposing viewpoints, but to manipulate, deceive, or win the argument regardless of the facts

Discussion is most useful when parties attempt to make the strongest arguments for and against each other's positions to find an optimally logical position and/or to clarify ideological beliefs that underpin those positions. Good faith discussion enables that. Bad faith exchanges are often used to derail, to generate strawmen, to mischaracterize another party's beliefs or thinking, et al.
by positron26 | 2025-09-11 01:40:58+00:00
This has been hammered on by very prominent voices a lot. Stop making new "distros". Especially if you just want different defaults. You should be able to declare the defaults and apply them to your base distro, and if you can't there's your problem.

Most distros could be NixOS overlays. Don't like satan's javascript? Try Guix. Bottom line, the farther I get away from binaries discovering their dependencies at runtime, the happier I am.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-11 01:41:37+00:00
The killer app of comfy UI and node based editors in general is that they allow "normal people" to do programmer-like things, almost like script like things. In a word: you have better repeatability and appropriate flexibility/control. Control because you can chain several operations in isolation and tweak the operations individually stacking them to achieve the desired result. Repeatability because you can get the "algorithm" (the sequence of steps) right for your needs and then start feeding different input images in to repeat an effect.

I'd say that comfy UI is like Photoshop vs Paint; layers, non-destructive editing, those are all things you could replicate the effects of with Paint and skill, but by adopting the more advanced concepts of Photoshop you can work faster and make changes easier vs Paint.

So it is with node based editing in nearly any tool.
by aoki | 2025-09-11 01:41:50+00:00
Pure math has a far greater vulnerability to this than applied math. Top journals have impact factors of around 5.0. Respectable but tiny specialist journals can have impact factors less than 1.0 (like, 0.4). Meanwhile, MDPI Mathematics is a Q1 journal with an impact factor over 2.0.

The now-standard bibliometrics were not designed by statisticians :-)