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These grifters need to go…
Re:Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:12PM (#45814777)
I’m sorry to hear about that. What version are you on? Looking to fix / repro this asap

Ask HN: Open-source alternatives to enterprise-grade code indexing/RAG systems?

I've been exploring various AI coding assistants (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, etc.) and noticed they all share a common foundation: sophisticated retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that enable deep understanding of codebases. These systems excel at:- Rapidly indexing entire codebases- Semantic search across code snippets- Contextual ranking of relevant code sections- Integration...

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Re:Retool Workflows 2.0: visual automation and code on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:37AM (#37779997)
Excited to see this. We have a lot of scripts that combine both code and SQL and it's been a pain to run them from the CLI, especially when things break and you need to insert random print() statements to understand what changed about the data
Re:2024 College Free Speech Rankings on Monday September 25, 2023 @11:21PM (#37653914)
Website seems to be down because Elon posted it. Here's a PDF version: https://5666503.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5666503...

Edit: https://archive.ph/G4001

Just my 2c, but those gaps look too uneven to be produced by a framework. They remind me of my own html from scratch when I didn’t use a formatter or linter haha

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