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Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by fishbone on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:44AM (#48892581)
Thanks, and just to mention, I’ve had awesome results using Autoresearch loops on other things like SQL performance.

Prompt example:

You are a SQL performance researcher. Run the following SQL query to establish a baseline, then come up with hypotheses to improve performance. Score each result and run 5 iterations. Avoid any regressions, each result must contain the exact same rows and columns.

See https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch

Re:Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT) by patates on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:14AM (#48893068)
Also works wonderful for generating AI scripts, goal being increasing the elo rating after a tournament run. Also having deep and shallow tests save a lot of time. Deep tests are run sparingly while shallow tests are run after each change.