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I recently did a", "context": "", "use_case": "analyzing codebases", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams"}, {"id": 774573200, "item_id": 48410825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410825", "by": "jbrooksuk", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mintlify generates an llms.txt and llms-full.txt for all documentation sites. These work really well:", "excerpt": "Mintlify generates an llms.txt and llms-full.txt for all documentation sites. These work really well: - https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms.txt - https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms-full.txt", "context": "", "use_case": "Documentation site generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?"}, {"id": 769624560, "item_id": 48101535, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101535", "by": "RAZKOM", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Im on their free plan and it gets the job done", "excerpt": "You could use something like mintlify to do this. Im on their free plan and it gets the job done", "context": "", "use_case": "docs site", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?"}, {"id": 746471985, "item_id": 46654499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654499", "by": "jedwhite", "date": "2026-01-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a positive thing to see Mintlify launch this", "excerpt": "I shared a repo on HN last week that lets you use remote execution with these kinds of script files autonomously - if you want to. It had some interesting negative and positive discussion. The post mentioned Pete Koomen's install.md idea as an example use case. So now with this launch you can try it with a really intstallation script! I think it's a really interesting idea worth experimentation and exploration. So it", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 765813523, "item_id": 47863345, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863345", "by": "tylerdiderich", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Everything else (Next.js, Docusaurus, Mintlify) felt bloated for a site that updates occasionally", "excerpt": "Hi HN :wave: I built kazam after reaching for Next.js one too many times to ship an internal static site that renders a dozen pages once in a while. Markdown was never pretty enough since I wanted cards, charts, etc. Everything else (Next.js, Docusaurus, Mintlify) felt bloated for a site that updates occasionally and just needs to live in git and render cleanly. kazam is the middle path: a handful of YAML files, zero", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kazam \u2013 my answer to static sites in the age of Claude being my main author"}, {"id": 741157889, "item_id": 46322368, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322368", "by": "sofixa", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "So it's just a Vercel wrapper?", "excerpt": "I genuinely don't know, especially for Vercel to be using them. Vercel themselves can easily be used to host static-ish documentation. But it looks like Mintlify are using Vercel on the backend: https://vercel.com/blog/mintlify-scaling-a-powerful-documentation-platform-with-vercel So it's just a Vercel wrapper?", "context": "", "use_case": "Documentation hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"}, {"id": 741157776, "item_id": 46322361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322361", "by": "sofixa", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they absolutely weren't thinking care security", "excerpt": "> It's not like they weren't thinking about security https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/ The first CVE here definitely sounds like they absolutely weren't thinking care security.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"}, {"id": 741142656, "item_id": 46321416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321416", "by": "hunvreus", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'll stick with good ol' static sites.", "excerpt": "Mintlify does look pretty, but between that and all the React exploits, I'll stick with good ol' static sites. Kinda why I built ReallySimpleDocs [1]. Add Pages CMS [2] to it and you're set. 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Their diagrams on PRs and generated docs have made it much easier to quickly drop into a complex codebase and understand how it works / make meaningful changes. Especially DeepWiki's diagrams + interactive \"Deep Research\" / Codemap feature are amazing at building flow diagrams to answer specific questions. I recently did a", "context": "", "use_case": "analyzing codebases", "switched_from": "", "story": "Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams"}, {"id": 774573200, "item_id": 48410825, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410825", "by": "jbrooksuk", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Mintlify generates an llms.txt and llms-full.txt for all documentation sites. These work really well:", "excerpt": "Mintlify generates an llms.txt and llms-full.txt for all documentation sites. These work really well: - https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms.txt - https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms-full.txt", "context": "", "use_case": "Documentation site generation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?"}, {"id": 769624560, "item_id": 48101535, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101535", "by": "RAZKOM", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Im on their free plan and it gets the job done", "excerpt": "You could use something like mintlify to do this. Im on their free plan and it gets the job done", "context": "", "use_case": "docs site", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?"}, {"id": 767944688, "item_id": 47996543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996543", "by": "aliasocracy", "date": "2026-05-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes, I know. But it works for now", "excerpt": "Working on adding some documentation as I think this may be a bit complex to digest for some. https://alias8818.github.io/enoch-agentic-research-system/ https://solo-09d10f60.mintlify.app/ (Yes, I know. But it works for now)", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosting project docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Enoch \u2013 Control Plane for Autonomous AI Research"}, {"id": 765813523, "item_id": 47863345, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863345", "by": "tylerdiderich", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Everything else (Next.js, Docusaurus, Mintlify) felt bloated for a site that updates occasionally", "excerpt": "Hi HN :wave: I built kazam after reaching for Next.js one too many times to ship an internal static site that renders a dozen pages once in a while. Markdown was never pretty enough since I wanted cards, charts, etc. Everything else (Next.js, Docusaurus, Mintlify) felt bloated for a site that updates occasionally and just needs to live in git and render cleanly. kazam is the middle path: a handful of YAML files, zero", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kazam \u2013 my answer to static sites in the age of Claude being my main author"}, {"id": 750859008, "item_id": 46928688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928688", "by": "falloutx", "date": "2026-02-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Its just https://www.mintlify.com/ with barely customized theme", "excerpt": "Its just https://www.mintlify.com/ with barely customized theme", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Speed up responses with fast mode"}, {"id": 746471985, "item_id": 46654499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654499", "by": "jedwhite", "date": "2026-01-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's a positive thing to see Mintlify launch this", "excerpt": "I shared a repo on HN last week that lets you use remote execution with these kinds of script files autonomously - if you want to. It had some interesting negative and positive discussion. The post mentioned Pete Koomen's install.md idea as an example use case. So now with this launch you can try it with a really intstallation script! I think it's a really interesting idea worth experimentation and exploration. So it", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation"}, {"id": 746428465, "item_id": 46651779, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651779", "by": "cx42net", "date": "2026-01-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Mintlify to write the doc for this", "excerpt": "I've been working on https://DNSRadar.dev for the past three weeks now. I had the need for such a service back when I was working on ImprovMX.com. The checking system I had implemented back then wasn't efficient and had a few false positive. At the time, I thought the market for such a need was very low so I didn't bother, but now that I'm working on https://getfernand.com, I realize I also need it. And with the adve", "context": "", "use_case": "API documentation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)"}, {"id": 745861264, "item_id": 46616329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616329", "by": "effnorwood", "date": "2026-01-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcbiyal7jc2y", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "You Don't Need Mintlify"}, {"id": 741157889, "item_id": 46322368, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322368", "by": "sofixa", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "So it's just a Vercel wrapper?", "excerpt": "I genuinely don't know, especially for Vercel to be using them. Vercel themselves can easily be used to host static-ish documentation. But it looks like Mintlify are using Vercel on the backend: https://vercel.com/blog/mintlify-scaling-a-powerful-documentation-platform-with-vercel So it's just a Vercel wrapper?", "context": "", "use_case": "Documentation hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"}, {"id": 741157776, "item_id": 46322361, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322361", "by": "sofixa", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they absolutely weren't thinking care security", "excerpt": "> It's not like they weren't thinking about security https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/ The first CVE here definitely sounds like they absolutely weren't thinking care security.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick"}, {"id": 741142656, "item_id": 46321416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321416", "by": "hunvreus", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I'll stick with good ol' static sites.", "excerpt": "Mintlify does look pretty, but between that and all the React exploits, I'll stick with good ol' static sites. Kinda why I built ReallySimpleDocs [1]. Add Pages CMS [2] to it and you're set. [1]: https://reallysimpledocs.com/ [2]: https://pagescms.org", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"}, {"id": 741117232, "item_id": 46319827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319827", "by": "Willish42", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Yep, here it is: https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/", "excerpt": "> Apparently one of the other linked posts shows how you can also gain RCE Yep, here it is: https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/ Also linked in his guide (which I missed) and [here in a separate HN post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317546). I think this other author's post is a lot more detailed and arguably more useful to folks reading on HN.", "context": "", "use_case": "Hosted docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"}, {"id": 741110705, "item_id": 46319419, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319419", "by": "marisen", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the linked writeup on the mintlify RCE", "excerpt": "Given this (including the linked writeup on the mintlify RCE), after the React RCE, if think it should be pretty obvious that 1. content security policies should always be used to prevent such scripts (here they would prevent execution of scripts from the SVG) 2. The JavaScript ecosystem should be making ` --disallow-code-generation-from-strings` a default recommendation when running NodeJS on the server. Vercel (and", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"}, {"id": 741100864, "item_id": 46318804, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318804", "by": "gowld", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Mintlify disabled CORS", "excerpt": "The linked site https://heartbreak.ing/ explains that Mintlify disabled CORS, so that 3rd party sites can run code in your Mintlify-using environment (X, Vercel, etc). The OP site says that .svg files can only run scripts if they are directly opened, not via <img> tags. So how does the attack work?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"}, {"id": 741099264, "item_id": 46318704, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46318704", "by": "dfbrown", "date": "2025-12-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "an RCE on a mintlify server", "excerpt": "Their collaborator's report includes a more significant issue, an RCE on a mintlify server: https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/", "context": "", "use_case": "documentation hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"}, {"id": 740839636, "item_id": 46302477, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46302477", "by": "hunvreus", "date": "2025-12-17", "stance": "compare", "quote": "But I really wanted something fast, modern, simple, and good-looking", "excerpt": "It's pretty much as advertised: a really simple documentation template built with 11ty [1] and Tailwind. I've been releasing a few projects in the past year: Basecoat [2], Pages CMS [3], and lately /dev/push [4]. Each one of them needed its own documentation. Sure, I could have used stuff like Mintlify or Docusaurus. But I really wanted something fast, modern, simple, and good-looking. And if possible: no React. Sinc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: ReallySimpleDocs - A minimal docs template built with 11ty and Tailwind"}]}