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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @01:42AM (#43156459)
I’m working on a code generation agent that lives and operates inside of GitHub instead of being tied to your IDE so that PMs and others can generate PRs.

https://rivets.dev

Ask HN: Bug Tracking Software with Automations?

I'm looking for bug tracking software which can be used by both support/QA staff and also the development team. As such, we'd like it to be as closely integrated with Github as possible.But we would like a fairly specific feature - we want the ability to automatically increase the priority based on the number of reports something has, without requiring the team do this themselves (e.g. the team...

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Small typo on the page: "You need to include the Auhtorization header with your API Key to call these endpoints."
Re:Ask HN: Where do you deploy to in 2018 and how? on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:17AM (#16473496)
We use Ansible for everything, deploying into AWS. It's really great and I found it to be far easier to wrap my head around than anything else I looked at.
We use it with node for a bunch of things like PDF generation, asynchronous calls to various HTTP services etc. I think it's excellent.

The worst part about it by far is CloudWatch, which is truly useless.

Check out https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda for running it locally for testing btw - saved us hours!

Re:Someone had set up a Wikipedia page about me on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:05AM (#13905740)
Knob, I guess!
I'd be really, really interested in this, especially with Chromecast support. What are you writing it in? Perhaps I could help a little. Would appreciate if you could shoot me a message when you're ready!
This is awesome! Great idea.
Re:Ask HN: How could we solve the problem of domain squatters? on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @03:19AM (#10545417)
The first thing I thought of was some rule saying that you have to be 'using' the domain within, say, 2 years or it gets pulled from you.

But then the problem is, do we want someone policing what the definition of 'using' a domain is? Hell no.

I think that unfortunately the way it's going is that you basically use a different TLD, but even now it's beneficial to have the .com if you can (especially among non-developer audiences who aren't used to .ly, .io, etc etc). 'Just go to whatever.io' to your grandma isn't as obvious as 'Just go to whatever.com'.

This looks amazing - really great work. I'll definitely check this out properly.
Re:The decline of Stack Overflow on Monday July 06, 2015 @09:29AM (#9838927)
Actually I agree with you - good point - I can see why being on the other end (i.e. as the answerer) can be really frustrating, especially as you said, your answer can be 'more' correct with greater detail etc.

As I said, my experience could very well be based on that I've only asked something like 5 questions on there, all very specific, which is really the kind of question perfectly suited for a site like that.

Re:The decline of Stack Overflow on Monday July 06, 2015 @06:04AM (#9837951)
I don't know whether it's because of the type of questions I've ever asked on there, but I've found it to be excellent, and I always get my questions answered perfectly.

The attitude on there seems to be slightly terse, but, it is designed and really focussed on Q&A, not discussion. So I don't know that I really agree with the criticism of it.

Re:Which of the following company names do you think is best? on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @06:05AM (#7909268)
Sumstar is surely the best. Other than that, Perfecto is cool though I don't think it really applies as well.

Ledgerama could give decent branding if you did a kind of parallax effect on the site to make it like a diorama..

Still, I'd go with Sumstar. That's good.