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barefeg commented on Show HN: Klavis AI – Open-source MCP integration for AI applications   github.com/Klavis-AI/klav... · Posted by u/wirehack
barefeg · 4 months ago
For some time, authentication was not part of the MCP. Now it’s there https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26/bas... so I’m wondering what is being addressed in Klavis. Is it something that the reference implementation of MCP lacks? If so, will it eventually make it to MCP?

I think it’s important to release SDKs that are secure by default, so not providing this in the reference MCP would be a big issue.

In my view, MCP should be maintained by the vendors themselves. It’s too complicated to use in the enterprise if everything comes from the community with questionable security. So I applaud initiatives that try to solve this. I think smithery.ai provides something similar while also being a repository of servers (I’m not associated with them), but again the problem is needing to trust an extra middleman vendor.

Does anyone else share this view? For example, will AWS (or insert any other hyperscaler) end up providing the “Bedrock” of MCP where security is native to the platform? Or will individual companies (Box, Google, MS, etc.) start rolling them out as part of their standard developer APIs?

barefeg commented on Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps   github.com/langfuse/langf... · Posted by u/mdeichmann
suninsight · 8 months ago
Bunch of them : Langsmith, Lunary, Phoenix Arize, Portkey, Datadog and Helicone.

We also picked Langfuse - more details here: https://www.nonbios.ai/post/the-nonbios-llm-observability-pi...

barefeg · 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing your blogpost. We had a similar journey. I installed and tried both Langfuse and Phoenix and ended up choosing Langfuse due to some versioning conflicts on the python dependency. I’m curious if your thoughts change after V3? I also liked that it only depended on Postgres but the scalable version requires other dependencies.

The thing I liked about Phoenix is that it uses OpenTelemetry. In the end we’re building our Agents SDK in a way that the observability platform can be swapped (https://github.com/zetaalphavector/platform/tree/master/agen...) and the abstraction is OpenTelemetry-inspired.

barefeg commented on The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done   bluepnume.medium.com/the-... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
barefeg · a year ago
He hinted at wanted to be convinced to work at the company. It seems as if he wants people to just know he’s good and people offer him the job instead of applying for it. It’s a bit contradictory since he applied for the job in the first place.
barefeg commented on Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement   jnnnthnn.com/leike.png... · Posted by u/jnnnthnn
ldayley · a year ago
Thank you Jan for your work and your courage to act and speak candidly about these important topics.

Open question to HN: to your knowledge/experience which AGI-building companies or projects have a culture most closely aligned with keeping safety, security, privacy, etc. as high a priority as “winning the race” on this new frontier land-grab? I’d love to find and support those teams over the teams that spend more time focused on getting investment and marketshare.

barefeg · a year ago
From this interview https://youtu.be/Nlkk3glap_U?feature=shared it seemed Anthropic was focusing more on those topics rather than winning the race. He hinted at being “forced” by the competition to release their models.
barefeg commented on Haystack DB – 10x faster than FAISS with binary embeddings by default   github.com/carsonpo/hayst... · Posted by u/carsonpoole
barefeg · a year ago
I was confused for a bit but there is no relation to https://haystack.deepset.ai/
barefeg commented on Binary vector search is better than FP32 vectors   blog.pgvecto.rs/my-binary... · Posted by u/gaocegege
barefeg · a year ago
This technique had a very recent resurgence via https://txt.cohere.com/int8-binary-embeddings/. Hugging face also covered the technique here https://huggingface.co/blog/embedding-quantization. It seems like a very good tradeoff compared to the shorter embeddings which require fine tuning via the matryoshka technique. On the other hand, Nils Reimers suggests that trivial quantization of the full precision embeddings is not as good as using “compression friendly” embeddings like Cohere’s Embed V3. Does anyone know what’s the difference in precision between trivial quantization and optimized embeddings?
barefeg commented on Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS   github.com/philips-labs/t... · Posted by u/ta988
SOLAR_FIELDS · 2 years ago
We were baking AMI’s like this for a little while but our current setup is quite even fancier - you can do everything in containers and then a distributed in cluster buildkit cache and registry be hosted and backed by S3, and not only do you get a remote reusable cache that syncs extremely fast but you no longer have to rely on external artifact registries being flaky, which if you pull from Dockerhub frequently know this is an actual significant problem.

We actually looked at using this project from OP at the beginning of our ci journey but eventually decided on actions-runner-controller due to its higher level of robustness and configurabiltiy

barefeg · 2 years ago
Could you give more details/resources on the distributed in cluster buildkit cache?
barefeg commented on Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features   github.com/goniszewski/gr... · Posted by u/thunderbong
9dev · 2 years ago
Aside. I completely stopped using book marks. Everything relevant to me will be an open tab, and closed once read or no longer useful; everything not immediately relevant enough to warrant an open tab will probably not be read anyway, or the link broken once I get back to it.

This has made my digital life a lot less burdensome to manage, and it also felt freeing to drop all that unorganised baggage.

To all those bookmark junkies out there - do you really actually read all that stuff, or is it just data hoarding? (And I don’t mean this in spite, I’ve hoarded lots of data at one point or another myself :-))

barefeg · 2 years ago
Have you tried the arc browser? It embraces having lots of open tabs and organize them as you wish (or not) https://arc.net/
barefeg commented on Show HN: ColBERT Build from Sentence Transformers   github.com/raphaelsty/neu... · Posted by u/raphaelty
barefeg · 2 years ago
Do you need to have the same number of positive and negatives? Is there any meaning of pairing a positive an a negative in the triplet?

u/barefeg

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