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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
my org at work adopted openspec, and i strongly dislike it. every change, medium or larger, turns into a large set of multiple markdown documents, each that need review. and they are never handwritten - always slop, filled with the all the tells of ai writing, which i personally find grating.

i find a small, human written spec to be much more effective than these large spec documents.

the idea is that you iterate with your agent to write the spec, you implement, then eventually that spec gets merged into a "spec corpus" that describes all the behavior of the repository. but i don't think that prose can ever enumerate all the behaviors required of code, nor should it. the spec almost immediately becomes out of date.

Comment · 2 months ago
Mormons are salivating
Comment · 3 months ago
Do you purchase every book two times, or do you have a home devoid of physical books that you enjoy? Genuinely curious
Comment · 7 months ago
Example

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   │              `----'              │
   ├──────────────────────────────────┤
   │ DEBUGGING xxxxxxx-----------  39 │
   │ PATIENCE  xxxxxx------------  32 │
   │ CHAOS     xxx---------------  19 │
   │ WISDOM    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx--  90 │
   │ SNARK     xxxx--------------  22 │
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   │ TOT 202               hackernews │
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Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
I've been using a webapp I build to do the same thing, and I've really enjoyed it.

https://yazzy.carter.works/

Example: https://yazzy.carter.works/https://paulgraham.com/submarine....

https://github.com/carterworks/yazzy

It uses Steph Ango's/kepano's defuddle under the hood.

The live version is hosted on a single free-tier fly.io node, but it is easily self-hosted.

Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton