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Model Context Protocol Reference Servers

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Quite telling -- thanks for the insightful comment as always, Simon. Didn't know that, even though I've been discussing this on and off all day on Reddit. He's a smart man with…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month41 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-11-25 17:28:18 UTC to 2026-09-04 02:23:20 UTC.

02468102024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 commentsNov 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 2026

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Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC321
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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What Hacker News says

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rahimnathwani·Mar 19, 2025
For anyone trying this at home, if you want a starting point, you could use OP's, or you could use the official Filesystem API: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr... There are folks using just this filesystem API for coding: https://x.com/Zirkman/status/1897003182049649000 I'm not sure I would prefer it to using Cursor. I was using Claude Desktop client to edit a bunch of (non-code) text files a couple of days ago, and a couple of times it crashed, and I had to restart it. When this happened, it lost some conversation history, although of course the files it had already edited were fine. There are other approaches to having Claude edit files, but they're less suited for use with MCP (and hence they don't save cost like the OP does). A) Aider gives very specific instructions about how Claude should describe patch
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operations: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/dd4d2420df51dc29c2aed... This works, but I don't know if anyone has tried using this technique in an MCP server. It seems like the way OP and the Filesystem MCP might be superior for small edits, but Aider's approach might be better for multiple edits in a single request-response. It should be possible to do this with an MCP server. B) Anthropic provides fine-tuned models (text_editor_20250124 and text_editor_20241022) that know a specific text editing protocol: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/tool-us... You could build a coding assistant like Aider on top of these, but obviously you're then tied to this implementation and it's harder to switch out models. And it wouldn't work with Claude Desktop.
In Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
Gerardo1·Mar 18, 2025
Yep. MCP is a project run by Anthropic (https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol) that "enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools." They host a repo with lots of what they call "reference" implementations, including this one for postgres which naively takes a query from a request and shoves it at your database with no validation, escaping, anything: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/blob/7d6cdb6... There's an issue calling this out, and it's been labeled a bug, but still. When you go to their documentation, the only example of actually building a server is this section where they just...use an LLM to build it. Here's their prompt: > Build an MCP server that: - Connects to my company's PostgreSQL database - Exposes table schemas as resources - Provides tools for running read-on
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ly SQL queries - Includes prompts for common data analysis tasks So, I think there's a fairly high chance that all of the "reference implementations" they're hosting are AI generated with basically no security considerations or code reviews made.
In Building AI agents to query your databases

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