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Show HN: UndatasIO's document parser MCP server is online
by jojogh | 2025-10-29 01:39:20+00:00
Hey HN, Alex here, founder of undatas.io.

Since we launched our core document parsing API, we've had fantastic feedback from developers who love the precision and the "pay-on-accept" model. But as we watched people build more complex systems, we noticed a common pattern: everyone was writing the same boilerplate code to manage their workflows.

Developers were building their own logic to handle workspaces, manage batches of files within tasks, poll for results, and handle state. Our raw API is powerful for single transactions, but it left the orchestration part up to you.

To solve this, we've built and are now launching our MCP (Multi-Channel Platform) server.

Think of it as a stateful, command-based orchestration layer that sits on top of our core parsing API. Instead of you having to write code to manage IDs and track the status of multi-file jobs, the MCP server handles it for you through a simple, logical interface.

The workflow is structured around a clear hierarchy: Workspace -> Task -> File.

You can use straightforward commands like: - UnDatasIO_get_workspaces to get your work_id. - UnDatasIO_upload to add files to a specific task_id. - UnDatasIO_parse to kick off parsing for a list of file_ids. - UnDatasIO_get_parse_result to poll for the job status without building your own loop.

This is perfect for anyone building complex, multi-file data processing pipelines, integrating with low-code platforms, or who simply wants to manage large batch jobs without the hassle of writing and maintaining state-management code. Our goal is to let you focus on what to do with the data, not the plumbing required to get it.

We believe this will make building robust document workflows much faster and more reliable. We're just getting started and are eager for your feedback. We've put together a comprehensive guide and a video tutorial to walk you through it.

MCP User Guide (Full API Reference): https://docs.undatas.io/mcp/undatas-mcp/

Video Tutorial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xobbKiPyf4

Our Official Website: https://undatas.io/

I'll be here all day to answer any questions. Let us know what you think
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-29 01:39:36+00:00
There must have been something that drove him to coffee expert level.

For me, I get dissatisfied and then reach for something nicer and nicer until I hit a limit. I'm just very skeptical he'd still love cheap instant coffee. He was climbing a sort of dopamine ladder. Then he ran out of rungs to climb. Now he has to move to a new thing. Life is almost nothing but impermanence and dissatisfaction. Its a little odd to think you could somehow beat the system. The person who finishes the dopamine ladder would never have been happy staying at the most bottom rung, which was disintegrating for them hence pushing them along to the highest rung. Short of becoming a very serious practitioner in things like meditation and other monastic-type things to fight these urges, this is just a really tough thing to get away from.

Now job, new book, new video game, new movie, new friend, etc. We're almost always doing this in some way.

Maybe those examples are things you don't have good discernment with. For me, I can instantly tell when I have quality headphone speakers. I can hear a fuller range of music than cheap ones. Its almost always obvious and cheap ones are almost always annoying. I have yet to go deeper into audiophone territory and I might never, but I have affordable headphones with really nice speakers inside and I wont go any less quality than this. So maybe for you, you can't tell or don't value it, but there are probably other things you do focus on.
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 01:39:41+00:00
You're picking apart a few comments made in a moment; that's indicative of nothing (except the person picking them apart).

> we know their requirements. Signal's design is fully open and the requirements of such platforms are well known.

You're kidding yourself. 'Open' doesn't mean you understand them on a level to draw real engineering conclusions. Smart people would wonder at the questions you raise, and ask people who do know. Maybe someone from Signal is around here - but who would respond to someone that calls them stupid?
by catlifeonmars | 2025-10-29 01:39:47+00:00
Yeah I’m not sure there’s an obvious/ideal answer.

I do think there’s value in disincentivizing churn though. What we’ve been seeing lately is rapid hiring followed by rapid firing. I bet there’s some inflection point where the job market would actually benefit from less churn even if it comes at the cost of higher unemployment in the short term.
by tavavex | 2025-10-29 01:40:21+00:00
Why the assumption that there will be a new web?

If you're talking about developing some brand new means of worldwide communications, this seems extremely improbable if done by the 1% of the rest of us (basically, hobbyists and techy people). The internet required tens of billions of dollars worth of development and infrastructure to get to this point, how will it ever happen without the sponsorship of large centralized entities?

If you're talking about leeching off the existing internet infrastructure to communicate with some brand new protocols over them, who's going to let you do that? Both companies and governments would have incentive to put a stop to this in any way possible, because it drives away customers from the manufacturers and signers of all "secure" devices and lessens the amount/value of surveilled data. It may be allowed at a small scale, but I'm not seeing how anything long-term could be established that could threaten the existing powers in any way.
by degamad | 2025-10-29 01:41:12+00:00
F-Droid provides curated applications vetted by parties that *the user* chooses to trust.

By default, F-Droid provides only the applications that they themselves have verified and built from source. They also allow the user to add other sources from other parties who the user trusts (e.g. GuardianProject, IzzyOnDroid, and others[0]).

Google provides any application uploaded by any anonymous third-party who signs up as a developer (and in future, provides the required ID).

[0] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/known-repositories/721
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-29 01:41:38+00:00
It’s actually very sad to see the state final cut is in. It’s a perfectly competent NLE for speed editing and has some solid features, but they had a real piece of software on their hands for years and just kind of sat around doing nothing from 2018 or so onward. I guess it just isn’t generating enough revenue to warrant the attention it deserves. It was my workhorse for a solid decade, I passionately defended FCPX because it was truly excellent after they got it to a good place 12-18mo in. Their native multicam and audio sync blew premiere/plural eyes out of the water for years. But now it’s just so…meh

I can’t imagine leaving Resolve to go back even though I still wayyyy prefer the FCPX UI.
by sowbug | 2025-10-29 01:42:05+00:00
Here in California, Senate Bill 478 bans many junk fees, such as the mandatory "service fee" to buy a concert ticket. It's a stretch, but I could see an argument that if hospitals use a billing system that's incomprehensible without licensing an expensive codex, then the hospital is on the hook to provide the codex to you.

Fight fire with fire.
by ranger207 | 2025-10-29 01:42:12+00:00
Speaking of, I was recently looking into what exactly makes lights NVG compatible, and found this informative PDF: https://www.consolite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Basic...

tl;dr NVGs are sensitive to near IR so you want lights that are dim in those wavelengths (but not completely out since you still want to see them with NVGs) while still being bright in visible light. There's a neat picture of the flying controll tower on one of the UK's Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers that shows two rooms with similar illumination levels in visible light, but under NVGs one room which isn't NVG compatible is massively brighter than the other. In the NVG-compatible room there were still a handful of panel indicator lights that were not compatible and lit up the whole space
by PeaceTed | 2025-10-29 01:42:16+00:00
I think the last time I had Windows installed was right around the release of Proton in 2018. Those initial releases were not great but the trend was very obvious.

There comes a point were you just don't miss it. The only moments that it is apparent is that disassociation you have when someone else just assumes you run Windows. I don't blame them, I am statistically the odd one there, but that is when you have to figure out things your way.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-29 01:42:47+00:00
You have to REALLY be into AI to do this for generation/API cost reasons (or willing to have this as a hacking project of the month expense). Even ignoring electricity, a 16 GB 5060 Ti is more expensive than 16,000 image generations. Assuming you do one every 15 seconds, that's 240,000 seconds -> more than 2 months of usage at an hour a day of generations.

If you've already got a decent GPU (or were going to get one anyways) then cost isn't really a consideration, it's just that you can already do it. For everyone else, you can probably get by just using things like Google's AI Studio for free.
by cyberax | 2025-10-29 01:44:24+00:00
Yeah, I'm using bonded links between my Synology NAS with 4 gigabit ports and a CCR router. It works acceptably well.

But I've just checked the Mikrotik hardware list, and I don't see indoor APs that are PoE-powered and have more than one Ethernet port. Maybe I'm overlooking something?
by msla | 2025-10-29 01:44:43+00:00
And so we got The Usual Conversation:

"I want my communications to be as secure as practical."

"Ah, but they're not totally secure! Which means they're totally insecure! Which means you might as well write your bank statements on postcards and mail them to the town gossip!"

It amazes me how anti-HTTPS some people can be.
by FreakLegion | 2025-10-29 01:44:44+00:00
Correct, individual sites could make that choice. They won't, but they could. (Love the mention in the linked comment of Netflix and Disney, two services that don't even support proper MFA.)

We're completely on the same side, to be clear. I just have zero fear of KeePassXC (which I sometimes use with Okta!) being blocked by anything consumer-facing.
by nine_k | 2025-10-29 01:44:53+00:00
UPDATE: the production facilities seem to be closed; only office buildings remain somewhere.

Per Wikipedia [1], Lucent's factories and offices are^W were situated in places like Murray Hill and Mount Olive, NJ, North Andover, MA, Reading, PA, and a bunch of other places in the US.

I think it makes^W made Nokia, which owns Lucent properties, "more US" than, say Ericsson and Samsung, until these facilities were closed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent_Technologies#Divisions
by boston_clone | 2025-10-29 01:44:53+00:00
i’m genuinely fascinated by your thought process here.

how did we go from “update your software; don’t use chrome” to “you are pushing software monoculture and weakening internet security”?

as for “they were not informing him of an insecurity”, this seems to be deliberately obtuse. virtually every major browser includes (and references in their release notes!) fixes for vulnerabilities in stable version updates.
by panick21_ | 2025-10-29 01:45:38+00:00
How much oversight is there and how strong is? And if you cover Califronia, New york, Texas and Florida. Would those other places really stop you, specifically if its online? And even if you get fined, how much is that fine going to be?

Because they are plenty of companies just ignoring regulation and simply paying the fines, as the enforcement often a joke.
by knollimar | 2025-10-29 01:46:36+00:00
I thought I had this line, but I imagined if my credit card had writable program memory, I'd be fine with a third party preventing me from using it for its intended purpose if it wasn't trusted there. There must be some purpose for my own good for preventing me from writing to my own program memory, and I should be able to void this purpose if I deem it worth it.

Likewise, I'd be fine with banking apps on phones requiring some level of trust, but it shouldn't affect how the rest of my phone works so drastically.
by degamad | 2025-10-29 01:46:42+00:00
I agree that our choices should not be limited to protect us.

However, we need a better solution than pop-up warnings. I guarantee that you have clicked through a pop-up warning that was standing between you and the thing that you wanted to do (as have I, and everyone else who has used a computer for more than a day). We very quickly learn that most warnings aren't going to affect us, and that they're just saying "are you sure" to things that we're already sure of.

We've all selected a file, hit the delete key, got the pop-up saying "are you sure you want to delete wrong_file.txt", hit "yes" (because we always have to hit yes after hitting delete), then looked at the outcome and thought "oh, that was the wrong file" too late...
by quantified | 2025-10-29 01:47:23+00:00
Ask the AI for all the falsehoods and contradictions. Ask it how you can tell a false prophet from a real one. This Christianity stuff has poetry in it but the religion and the texts are far apart. Exactly which laws of the Old Testament were voided? Or must Christians abide by them all? Was the Tower of Babel's destruction just a fleeting tantrum? Who did Cain marry if there were no other women? How did Noah get all the scorpions and biting insects? Thanks for the bedbugs and typhoid, dude. Generally an incoherent scheme.
by colingauvin | 2025-10-29 01:48:08+00:00
I work in drug discovery (like for real, I have a DC under my belt, not hypothetical AI protein generation blah blah) and had the opposite experience reading it. We understand so little about most drugs. Dialing out selectivity for a closely related protein was one of the most fun and eye opening experiences of my career.

Of course we've thought of all these things. But it's typically fragmented, and oftentimes out of scope. One of the hardest parts of any R&D project is honestly just doing a literature search to the point of exhaustion.
by the_sleaze_ | 2025-10-29 01:48:24+00:00
That's the tag-line but it isn't true.

I personally know of several early 20s guys who were between light and heavy cycles all under the supervision of doctors (or at least getting blood tested periodically).

All of them have renal issues, kidney issues, adrenal system issues, thyroid issues. Some have heart problems. Not one of them is unscathed.
I think LLMs can do multiplication?
by kovek | 2025-10-29 01:48:37+00:00
I previously was able to get Gemini to tell me the algorithm for long multiplication, and then give it two large numbers to multiply, and it was able to follow the algorithm successfully.

I see users here often say that LLMs cannot do multiplication.

I decided I'll look into if LLMs can simulate CPUs. I discussed with Claude and it seems like they probably can:

https://claude.ai/share/24b65253-133b-4cab-b185-7c43c195e380

What do you think?
by hansvm | 2025-10-29 01:49:06+00:00
That particular issue is just a conceptual mismatch. Exactly 0% of the time do I want to segregate my activities as "chrome" things vs "terminal" things vs whatever. When I want a feature like that, multiple desktops (mission control or whatever) is the tool of choice.

The backtick thing is just a constant annoyance. My workflow is to open windows doing the things I want some, and I want to quickly switch to the window with my next work item. Instead, I need to keep track of extra mental state and figure out if backtick is the right keystroke or if tab and then backtick is the right thing to do.

It's...fine. I'm thankful I have better options at home, but it's tolerable at work with a few third-party apps.
by Booktrope | 2025-10-29 01:49:28+00:00
Hmm. According to Indiana University, 5.4 million cats are killed by cars every year. https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2022/11/12/the-perils-of-outdoor-c... Normally none of these make national news.

Each story is probably a sad one, but hmm, an Instagram post about one of these being published on Hacker News because it involved a Waymo? Wow!
by Theodores | 2025-10-29 01:49:54+00:00
In year 2000, Nokia had a market cap of around $100 billion and Nvidia had a market cap of around $2 to 4 billion.

Nvidia just made graphics cards, at a time when games were still being written for MS-DOS. Nobody was to imagine the real money to be made from repurposing these graphics cards for crypto and now this AI 'application'.
by technothrasher | 2025-10-29 01:50:09+00:00
Most of the mainstream cheese that you're going to encounter here in the US is boring and tasteless. Even most of the cheddar we get imported from the UK is terribly mediocre, I've found. It's just what many American's like, apparently. But that doesn't mean you can't get good cheese, both domestic and imported, if you frequent a specialist local cheese shop. There are quite a few farms in Vermont and New Hampshire, and also a couple in Massachusetts, that I've found make really good cheddars, rivaling some of my favorite Somerset cheddars. I'm sure there are good producers outside of New England too, I just know those ones as that's where I am.
by roenxi | 2025-10-29 01:50:35+00:00
> In brief: this reduces to whataboutism (a form of the fallacy tu quoque); the fallacy that additional evil remedies the original evil; and presumes the validity of the conclusion as a premise en route to justifying it.

That is a common and subtle error - tu quoque is a fallacy but whataboutism is typically logically valid.

The core of tu-quoque is asserting a claim's truth because of unrelated actions of some unrelated party. Doesn't make sense. For example, I might argue that drinking is bad for you while holding a glass of something - the claim may or may not be correct and observing that I am drinking doesn't influence the truth of it because my behaviour doesn't control what is healthy in the abstract.

Politics is about picking one of a several available options, where "I compared the options and picked the best one based on their relative behaviour" is fundamentally reasonable. You can't choose who/what to vote for without making comparisons and engaging in whataboutisms. It is a comparative exercise. Most voters can't just vote for what they think is best in the abstract because the politicians are often homogeneous in their policy positions leaving little room to make real choices (it is a bit sad watching how consistently the US public tries to vote for the anti-war candidate and how dedicated the political class is to not getting the message).

Claiming that Trumps actions are, in abstract, correct because of poor behaviour by others is a fallacy. Claiming they are routine and therefore tolerable because there isn't an alternative is a different claim and logically coherent.

It's actually a pretty good argument too, it is a good showcase of how unprincipled most people are that they only seem to get worked up about, eg, politicians lying when it is Trump doing it. It has always been a baffling line of attack that people accuse Trump of being a liar like they expect it to be a problem. You'd almost think they had a room full of honest and principled politicians somewhere that were about to stand for election but then it turns out they're about to vote for the usual suspects in mainstream politics. Maybe they don't watch political debates for fun, I dunno. There is a great case for voting 3rd party in the US.
by ardit33 | 2025-10-29 01:50:36+00:00
That's cute. It is clear thats an outdated political organization and not geographical. Read at the groupings. Greece is more eastern than Albania (and it is one hour off timezone), and it says 'western' which is not the case by any geographic means.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382295560/figure/fi...

https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w960-q80/upload/03/90/9b/countr...

Albania is clearly south east europe.

And, I don't care about your random Romanian friend's anecdote.
by amarant | 2025-10-29 01:50:51+00:00
>People keep comparing _public_ schools in Europe to _private_ schools in America

Not necessarily the case. In Sweden private schools are paid for by the government, assuming they have been approved by the CSN (central agency for study-support(rough translation))

I don't know how that works in the rest of Europe, because I've never studied outside of Sweden. But in Sweden it doesn't really matter if the school is private or public. The only instance you have to pay yourself is if the school isn't sufficiently good to pass muster.

Also, again in Sweden at least, but possibly other parts of Europe as well, the tuition isn't effectively $0. The government will pay any student enrolled in higher education a monthly support. Back in my day it was 10k SEK per month (roughly 1000usd), no strings attached. Not sure how it currently stands but I imagine it hasn't changed much.

This money is meant to ease the burden on students, so that they can put more focus on studies.

"Working your way through collage" over here means you'll have a 20% job to pay for your cost of living minus the 10k SEK mentioned above.

The difference in cost of study is quite real, even taking your comment into account
by rstuart4133 | 2025-10-29 01:51:14+00:00
For me, passkey's have made it when I can pay several different, independent providers to store them for me, and authorise the devices I can put them on.

To expand on that a bit, I don't have a problem with banks or whoever insisting they be stored securely. That means I don't have a problem win the inference that they don't trust me to store or even see my own keys.

What I do have a problem with is not being able to back them up. Which means I have a problem with Apple, Google or even Bitwarden handing me out a free they can take away at any time.

Fix that, so I can have store my identity(ies) at multiple providers, and I happy.
by billllll | 2025-10-29 01:52:01+00:00
Some of the worse engineers I've ever interacted with had too strong of a "taste" for what they felt were right and were completely unable or unwilling to work outside of that. Developing a superiority complex because you think you have "taste" is a great way to torpedo your team.

Coding for others is not art, it does not have much meaning in of itself. Your users won't marvel at your choice of language or your usage of design patterns - they care about how the end product looks and works.

In a world like that where you have to work in a team, why you ever wear your inflexibility as a badge of pride? The ones who are the most useful are the ones who can code any way, any how, and can plugin anywhere - "taste" be damned. If you want to be a net positive on the teams you work on, stop thinking it's about you, because it's not.
by varenc | 2025-10-29 01:52:37+00:00
They need a "Snow Leopard-style" release. This was the macOS version that came after Leopard and it was explicitly a release with no new features. It just focused on performance, efficiency, and reducing overall memory usage. Famously Apple even advertised it as having "zero new features". Recent macOS releases feel like they're going in the opposite direction. Really wish their next release would be more like Snow Leopard.
by mmooss | 2025-10-29 01:52:47+00:00
I'm sure you're aware of the challenges of defining 'political bias' - usually people mean 'political views that conflict with mine', and what 'people' mean, LLMs learn.

Also, do you think Musk suddenly wants to be non-biased? Musk is openly, explicitly, and aggressively biased in favor of his views and against anything that conflicts with them. Wikipedia has a NPOV rule; Musk has a My Point of View rule.