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I love this analogy. I've been particularly feeling like this regarding AI code reviewers recently - I don't want a copilot that will do their own review, I want a hud that will ma…

TL;DR paste an article URL in https://letmesummarizethatforyou.com/ and get a brief summary in a shareable link. Hey HN, Machine generated summaries have become pretty good, and I …

Looks really nice! I'm wondering though whether this is luring me into a dangerous complexity cliff. It seems easy to start using, but will I run into some issues a few months down…

Seems like each source file has a comment saying: Primary Author : *** Review Status: Reviewed I wonder what was their process for version control and code review back in the day?

Hi, I'm curious to learn which companies use big multi-language monorepos these days? (not javascript "project monorepos", Bazel like things) If you work in such a company and can …

GitHub allows stacking PRs you send PR1 to master and PR2 is a pull request to PR1's branch, the diffs look good, and when PR1 is merged GitHub automatically changes its target bra…

Nice (: Gerrit has been offering this for some time now, nice to have it for GitHub as well: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/cross-r...

Great to see that Pants is moving forward even after Twitter migrated to Bazel! I'm curious which big companies are using Pants v2 these days?

That's probably DRM protected content, it's not Javascript hack but a mecahnism that's built in deeper. A high level overview of how it works on Android is here(the secure texture …

I'm building a monorepo, trying to set it up to be as productive as I can: https://medium.com/@amir_h/what-would-an-optimal-monorepo-lo...

"Well, at Trader Joe's, the reality is that over the last couple of decades we've invested those resources in our people rather than build an infrastructure that eliminates the nee…

CL stands for change list. It's the unit of change that goes through code review (so for the context of that document I think the best translation to the git world is PR). Though i…

I'm curious if anyone knows of a project that was started recently (let's say in the last 4 years) and chose SVN as their VCS (or if any project has recently migrated to SVN). I'm …

I like how the giant monorepos (like Google's) serve as a forcing function against these problems. When all of your dependencies are developed on the same repo and are part of the …

Hacker News also got so much slower, is it the load from people hoarding here after not being able to reach FB? [I'm also getting server error trying to submit this comment]