Sunday, 28 July 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas
521 by akshaysg | 197 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, we’re building Haystack Editor ( https://ift.tt/PJWICXn ), a canvas-based IDE that automates the boring stuff (plumbing, refactoring, and finding code) so that you can focus on the exciting parts of software development! You can see a quick overview of Haystack at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uZnR5D_cc ! (It's currently only on Mac OS but we're working on Linux and Windows. Edit: just added a Linux download!) Haystack was born out of our frustrations with working in large and mature codebases, specifically with navigating and editing functional flows (e.g. the code flow for adding an item to the Amazon shopping cart). Oftentimes dealing with such flows would involve navigating a maze of files and functions, and making any edits would involve a lengthy process of doing corresponding downstream/upstream plumbing. Haystack attempts to address this in the following ways: 1. It allows you to explore your codebase as a directed graph of functions, classes, etc on the canvas. We feel like this better fits how your mind understands your codebase and helps you find and alter functional flows more intuitively. We especially want to utilize this for pull request reviews! 2. It has a navigational copilot that makes edits across files or functions much easier. After you make some changes, Haystack will try to predict your next action and create functions/methods or refactor upstream/downstream code for you. Haystack will surface these speculative edits on the canvas in a way that you can easily dismiss or incorporate them, allowing you to make large changes with a few clicks or keystrokes. 3. Haystack will utilize natural language search so you don’t have to play “Where’s Waldo” to find a functional flow in your codebase. This is coming soon! We’re still pretty early in development and we really want to perfect the experience of navigating and editing code on a canvas. Any feedback would be much appreciated! PSA: Since Haystack is a VS Code fork, you should be able to move your extensions and keyboard shortcuts. Please let us know if you have any issues with this!

New best story on Hacker News: An experiment in UI density created with Svelte

An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
582 by 11001100 | 164 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, 19 July 2024

New best story on Hacker News: FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges

FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
714 by Avshalom | 309 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update)

Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update)
607 by BLKNSLVR | 228 comments on Hacker News.
My workplace has a number of people reporting Windows blue-screening and going into a boot loop. The IT Department have a number of servers recently gone offline and have said there's a chance that the two issues are related, and potentially due to a Crowd Strike application update. My laptop blue-screened and rebooted, but is working fine after the reboot. A local radio station has also said they've got the same issues with their laptops and their phone system is down as a result. Not seeing anything on news sites yet. Anyone else seeing similar? Above is all based in Australia.

New best story on Hacker News: Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
480 by OuterVale | 112 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, 17 July 2024

New best story on Hacker News: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
497 by herbertl | 194 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL violations

Jailbreaking RabbitOS: Uncovering secret logs, and GPL violations
556 by Retr0id | 134 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Panic at the Job Market

Panic at the Job Market
490 by speckx | 434 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
486 by pentagrama | 96 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: DB of Startups Who Are Ready to Spend VC Money. Supercharge Your Sales

Show HN: DB of Startups Who Are Ready to Spend VC Money. Supercharge Your Sales
989 by vcfundedstart | 2 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Scraping 1k+ news sources and aggregating all Startup information

Show HN: Scraping 1k+ news sources and aggregating all Startup information
502 by scienceiscool | 0 comments on Hacker News.


Monday, 1 July 2024

New best story on Hacker News: Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts

Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
580 by _rend | 1101 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems
542 by robinhoodexe | 211 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative

Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
516 by clementpiki | 151 comments on Hacker News.
Many years ago, I made VJ softwares (to mix live visuals in clubs) for unexpected platforms like the Game Boy Advance, the Playstation 2 and the Raspberry Pi. This year, I’m back with a new web-app: Pikimov. Inspired by Photopea (a free Photoshop clone), I created this web-based motion design & video editor as an alternative to After Effects, to fill empty void. It's free, without signup, without cloud uploads (your files stay on your machine), and your projects are not used for AI models training.