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Re:Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:58AM (#50006613)
quite cool! keep up the good work!
Re:Ask HN: How are you handling Gmail ending POP3 and Gmailify? on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:52AM (#46792728)
Yeah that is what we also figured. We are using https://forwardmyinbox.com which works quite well.

Ask HN: How are you handling Gmail ending POP3 and Gmailify?

Starting January 2026, Gmail is removing support for POP3 and Gmailify. This means millions of people who rely on Gmail to consolidate emails from other accounts will suddenly lose features like spam protection, inbox categories, and advanced search on their third-party emails.If you manage multiple email accounts, how are you planning to keep all your emails flowing smoothly to Gmail or...

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Show HN: Forward My Inbox – IMAP‑to‑Gmail Forwarding After Gmail Kills POP3

https://forwardmyinbox.com/

Google is killing POP3/Gmailify in January 2026, breaking workflows for fetching email into Gmail.I built Forward My Inbox (https://forwardmyinbox.com) as a replacement: connects to your IMAP inbox and forwards new emails to Gmail while preserving threading, reply-to, and labels—no POP/Gmailify needed.Credentials are encrypted, headers are preserved, forwarding is instant. Looking for feedback...

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Ask HN: Why does it still make sense to review stupid bugs at PR time?

Ask HN,Code reviews are essential, but I keep seeing the same pattern: PR reviews are full of comments about trivial bugs, lint issues, and convention mismatches that could have been caught before the code ever left the developer’s machine.With AI-assisted coding becoming the norm, this seems worse, not better. AI is fast, but it happily produces subtle bugs, inconsistent patterns, and sloppy...

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Re: on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:42AM (#46629830)
Ask HN,

It feels increasingly backwards that PR reviews are where we catch basic bugs, style issues, and convention violations.

With AI writing a large chunk of code now, the volume of small, avoidable mistakes has gone up. Yet we still wait until PRs to point out things that could have been flagged instantly, pre-commit, on the author’s machine.

PR review should be about design, correctness, and tradeoffs — not “missing await”, inconsistent patterns, or obvious slop.

Is there a good reason pre-commit review isn’t the norm, or are we just accepting an inefficient workflow because it’s familiar?

Curious how others see this.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:47AM (#46589236)
https://commitguard.ai code reviews that are faster than linter that auto run pre commit and fully configurable.
Re: on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:42AM (#46589166)
Most code review happens at PR time, after code is already written, tested, and context is gone.

With more AI-written code, tests pass but logic issues still slip through. Would earlier, pre-commit code reviews make more sense?

I’m exploring this idea with a tool that reviews logic at commit time — curious how others think about timing reviews earlier.

Re:Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:29AM (#46573712)
Hey.
Re:What do you think about a "linter" for code logic? on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:48AM (#46573514)
Linters are great for style and syntax, but logic errors still rely heavily on human review. Do you think a linter for code logic - for example: risky condition changes, missing error handling, inconsistent early returns, or unsafe null/undefined assumptions - would be useful in practice if it ran at lint-stage or commit time?

Curious to hear what would actually help

Hi HN,

I spent some time improving the CommitGuard landing page to make it clearer and more direct about what the tool does.

I’d love your honest feedback, does it make sense at a glance? Any suggestions for improvement?

https://commitguard.ai

Re:Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:39PM (#46569187)
Yip this won’t help them. Though I sure help there aren’t a lot of them ;)

Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based

https://commitguard.ai

Hi HN,I’m experimenting with commit-based code review as an alternative to PR-based review.Instead of analyzing large PR diffs, this reviews each commit incrementally, while context is still fresh. It’s fully configurable and intentionally low-noise, high signal - focused on catching issues that tend to slip through and compound over time.The goal isn’t to replace CI or PR review, but to move...

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i like the idea v nice
Re:New code review tool I made on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:57PM (#46544950)
its not :)
Re:New code review tool I made on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:26PM (#46544551)
I have found that PR based code reviews are two noisy and non configurable. Also unpredictable as to when they will run or if all is ok. Also it is never clear who’s problem it is (more like no one is intrested in dealing with it or it is just ignored totally)

So I created this tool that runs on commit. It is easily configurable and bypassable.

Would love to hear what community thoughts are on this idea.

You can also add custom prompts, choose context option and severity.