git-of-theseus
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git-of-theseus | hn-search | |
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13 | 1,651 | |
2,362 | 526 | |
- | 0.6% | |
4.3 | 2.9 | |
6 months ago | 7 months ago | |
Python | TypeScript | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
git-of-theseus
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I Parsed Git Statistics
https://github.com/erikbern/git-of-theseus
- The half-life of code and the ship of Theseus
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Show HN: Visualize the Entropy of a Codebase with a 3D Force-Directed Graph
A tangentially related tool you can use to look at a repo over time is Git of Theseus[1]. It shows things like "what percentage of the code in this repo survives 6 months.
[1]https://erikbern.com/2016/12/05/the-half-life-of-code.html
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The Road to 128 bit Linux
There're some more in the presentation article: https://erikbern.com/2016/12/05/the-half-life-of-code.html#:...
A kernel line has half-life 6.6 years.
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How to look at familiar codebase with “fresh” eyes again
Look at the codebase with Git of Theseus or Codescene
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Rich Hickey – open-source is Not About You
I guess one good example (that was mentioned just yesterday here on HN) would be Flask vs FastAPI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31953470 - "There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask "
Quick count finds that FastAPI has 48422 lines of code, while Flask has 9995. Flask just achieved "Zero standing issues/PRs" while FastAPI has 1.1K open issues and ~500 open PRs.
Large surface area/API quickly leads to be overwhelmed when you're trying to maintain it. Adding new features/fixing existing ones becomes harder as well.
Best bet to make sure something is maintainable over time is to add as little as possible to it, and if you really have to, make sure you're also removing something at the same time.
Otherwise you need a massive team just to be able to "survive" and not making things rot.
There is this blogpost as well about the "half-life of code": https://erikbern.com/2016/12/05/the-half-life-of-code.html
Someone run that tool on the Clojure codebase as well, and it really shows how well the Clojure codebase has been written, as most code that was initially written is still there and does what it needs, without having to be rewritten.
- Show HN: Git Timeline Generator – Visualize contributions to any Git project
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Do you think it's possible to automatically detect Technical Debt from the source code?
Some parts of technical debt, you can find with https://github.com/erikbern/git-of-theseus or https://codescene.com/
- Git-of-Theseus – Analyze how a Git repo grows over time
hn-search
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Rule of Thumb: Anything that looks fancy is not worth you time
- Ads with Psychological tricks
Truly good websites have around 2 facts per 10 word sentence, and get instantly to the chase. Also: good websites give you the names of all their competitors/alternative websites before showing their own stuff, and give you further reading.
Right now the world of technology is supposedly more innovative than ever, but somehow Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/) and Search Hackernews (https://hn.algolia.com/) beat billion dollar search engines.
Articles written decades ago are still unsurpassed in terms of quality and ease of understanding, but the best modern websites can do is textbook explanations. It is time society graduates from boilerplate buzzword textbook culture.
Now the gems of the internet are slowly being buried beneath mountains of trash.
If something sounds boilerplate it isn't good enough.
Don't bother saying something that has been said before, and better.
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What makes a translation great
>for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Oh, I see. We actually discussed Pound about four years ago - just a little back and forth about the ABC of Reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196681
>What's your explanation of why Pound went Fascist?
I'm not sure I particularly have one; I haven't read any of his longer political or cultural (i.e. non-literary) works. I just think it's silly to correlate an approach to translation that you dislike with fascism. Especially as I'm not sure it even makes sense on its own terms: I can only read your comment as 'lazy translator? Figures that he would be a fascist', but if I imagine the type of translation a fascist would approve of, the approach I picture is fastidious, fussy, concerned with fidelity to the point of stickler-ishness. (Isn't that from where we get 'grammar nazi'?)
And oh, well, since you ask I'll take a shy at it: my vague sense is that he became fascist because saw a society in decline due to it becoming more and more a sham society: opulence without virtue, power without vigour, money no longer tied to actually existing goods. (Of course, all of this shades easily into antisemitism.) He saw fascism as the answer; It's easier to see in retrospect that it wasn't.
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Zed Decoded: Linux When? – Zed Blog
"multiplayer notepad" goes back 15 years at least - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... notepad&sort=byDate&type=comment
it was used back with a popular website which opened a text document and anyone viewing could type, but I can't remember the name. That became a thing in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Floobits, and lots of self-hosted and cloned sites.
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Louis Rossmann: YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]
If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at [email protected].
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation in 2021
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
I understand the reason for repeating these sentiments—it's the same reason why they get upvoted to the top of threads*—but repetition of this kind is what we're most trying to avoid here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
* I've marked this one off topic now.
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Validating app for manufacturers enhancing process reliability and efficiency
I was looking for it in the guidelines. There are a couple of conventions for postings. Consider a bit of prior examples: [https://hn.algolia.com/?q=show+hn]
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Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News
yeah there are only three stories coming up from the site search
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=postgres+clustering
only one is semanthically correct, the other pick up the wrong version of clustering (i.e. k-means instead of multi master writes)
but yeah if one doesn't test the hard cases, how does one know it preserves semantics :D
- Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays
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The Scientific Method Part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams
Like dismissing the work of Feyerabend or Wittgenstein without seemingly having read either:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
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Any Google Analytics Alternatives?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What are some alternatives?
Gource - software version control visualization
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
compojure - A concise routing library for Ring/Clojure
parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
pre-commit-hooks - Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit
readability - A standalone version of the readability lib
ts-macros - A typescript transformer / plugin that allows you to write macros for typescript!
yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents
yesql - A Clojure library for using SQL.
milkdown - 🍼 Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework.