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It ranks MCP servers by measured uptime instead of stars: 15,338 remote endpoints pinged, 12,459 currently answering protocol handshakes every 15 minutes, 2,326 listed as active in the official registry and never responding (MCPbeat). Scoring is 40 points for answering, up to 40 for weekly npm/PyPI downloads on a log scale, up to 20 for tools read from tools/list. The Show HN title advertised different figures than the dashboard, so cite the dashboard. About 15% of the registry is a phantom directory.
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This one rearranged my week. An essay published August 4 walks through Databricks' independent benchmark of coding harnesses against its own multi-million-line codebase. Pi, a harness with four built-in tools and a system prompt under 1,000 tokens, paired with Opus 4.8 at xhig...
It captures agent sessions against your server across Claude, ChatGPT and other clients, surfacing intent, reasoning, every tool call, and success scores, then groups sessions by use case ranked by volume and success rate and clusters failures by root cause. $50 per additional...
The Model Context Protocol has a security problem that's no longer theoretical — it's statistical. Between January and February 2026, researchers filed 30+ CVEs against MCP servers, clients, and infrastructure. One package with nearly 500,000 downloads carried a CVSS 9.6 RCE....
A multi-stage npm supply chain worm dubbed SANDWORM_MODE deploys rogue MCP servers into configurations of Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code Continue, and Windsurf. At least 19 typosquatted packages harvest npm/GitHub tokens, SSH keys, and cloud credentials, then pro...
The SANDWORM_MODE npm worm introduces a brand-new attack class: malicious MCP server injection via supply chain compromise. At least 19 typosquatted packages modify MCP configurations of Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Continue, installing rogue MCP servers that har...
GitHub | Python, MCP Databricks released v0.1.1 today: official MCP server exposing 50+ tools, 19 markdown skills teaching Databricks patterns, and Claude Code/Cursor/Windsurf integration. Another major enterprise platform shipping official MCP server support. Covers Spark pip...
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