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Show HN: AI-clean – strip unwanted formatting from text copied out of AI CLIs

TheAndruu — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:32:23 +0000

I kept manually reformatting wrapped paragraphs and trailing whitespace every time I pasted Claude Code or Copilot CLI output into a Slack message or a GitHub issue. So I built a terminal command to run after copying that does the reformatting for me.

Running in a terminal instead of using one of the browser-based formatting tools means less context switching. It handles both regular text, bulleted lists and code formatting all at the same time. Source: https://github.com/TheAndruu/ai-clean

The page above runs the same Go pipeline compiled to WebAssembly — paste your own messy clipboard contents, no install needed. If you want to install it, there is homebrew and one-line install commands.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934341

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New comment by TheAndruu in "Show HN: I made a website to clean up recipe websites"

TheAndruu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:53:03 +0000

It's always bothered me that recipe sites are now full of SEO-targeted text you gotta scroll past just to find the actual recipe. Thanks for this.

New comment by TheAndruu in "Caller-as-a-Service Fraud: The Scam Economy Has a Hiring Process"

TheAndruu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:51:05 +0000

I'm thankful Apple updated iPhones to include the feature where unrecognized callers are asked to state the reason for the call.

New comment by TheAndruu in "Cost of PostgreSQL Performance Issues"

TheAndruu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:49:01 +0000

Honestly any db system is going to be at the mercy of inefficient queries. Regardless of what one uses, optimization will always be necessary

New comment by TheAndruu in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

TheAndruu — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:38:24 +0000

Whenever I start a side-project now, I think through my expectations and set a timeframe to abandon it depending on how those expectations work out.

New comment by TheAndruu in "The Downward Spiral of Technology"

TheAndruu — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:33:05 +0000

It's refreshing to see a story like this make it to the top page on hackernews

New comment by TheAndruu in "What is the Origin of 'Foo' (1999)"

TheAndruu — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:23:42 +0000

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4868904/what-is-the-orig...

New comment by TheAndruu in "Ask HN: What's the difficulty of a mid-career pivot from engineering to AI?"

TheAndruu — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:22:41 +0000

I wouldn't sweat no 4-year AI degree. If a person wanted to advance the theory and innovation within AI, they'd prob want a PhD.

But sounds like you're talking about becoming a practitioner who leverages AI.

The great part about new technology developments like what's happened with AI the past few years is that there is a small pool of people who have experience in the tech.

So if you invested the time to learn and build prototypes on your own, you'd be very attractive to any employer seeking to add the skillsets you practiced.

New comment by TheAndruu in "AI Is a Terrifying Purveyor of Bullshit. Next Up: Fake Science"

TheAndruu — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:59:17 +0000

Much of what is called 'science' is not, in fact, 'science'.

New comment by TheAndruu in "How to Fathom Climate Change's Unfathomable Numbers"

TheAndruu — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:38:31 +0000

I'll take this bet

New comment by TheAndruu in "George Carlin's "Soft Language" (2019)"

TheAndruu — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:24:28 +0000

It's like a breath of fresh air to hear someone make straightforward statements without fear.

New comment by TheAndruu in "Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Results have jumped the shark"

TheAndruu — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 15:20:25 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I had the same suspicion. Makes me wonder if they've teamed up with one of the other big tech companies to supplement their results.

First 1,000 numbers with primes highlighted in binary

TheAndruu — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://00e9e64bacfc74b06a1069830e97141ea323d9b8cc998d93da-apidata.googleusercontent.com/download/storage/v1/b/binary_prime/o/foo.html?qk=AD5uMEv_k8BnMqf4xHQnozzfezMlfkVQLLEKWX8uuUNdstxqj4gZzMivi6rE7U5rVtgqYumWUmWxqqogPuLjVyL1NVuLKHBJQjPwwcZkLTbuPoa4EOZgeqx-rM6isjnGTZ8tXZRg6jFtWH7Q52bs9yRzeFZXTqAvlzNz9jjezREbXTBUxGYr5ka3I_SPfDpdfw-L0BXCdIKBmhid04HELzqxutceaeYPeyShWPPwlFpPEUVQURVJRMalKpsMdpoCeygt2IV6_mtKo0Jvv4GiKqgB6ro2YAdfKW36TDO8bKTkA5XTKvaIqrv4cou3qdevG8FDf9-zt9tofYsg4D-fQaIiFDma97GSSkq3IvJkDxGzIP7bbC9Vw7I3ydHshOagQrIRIEvAi4F2jdUaEoyTXElRY3i5BY4Rnd7Q6p63I13I3eiQ0KAuFpvd8tryy6e_LFYNk3btnFyokCXhRpMGXTzD1X9TfEAEFoTwW1wLUXvAyM8a_y0vMwK2zbqG5hUrHVl6ihfQzkMibA86kEMExC6odwTA9zqNUXwSGTJGnktRNIClpa1miiAMgtnI1oe2jRiuL8Y8stwK799eSuSPjze8iHUZAz6CNxHNAOnSkJJcVATCk_AE0xacxPLb52TkpTHk_f3nzTfecXyjEpjd5HCx7lyQ1yUZRa1ca_2q9dhZvAsv2_AauITI28Sx4tt4-qsOPlpyMrTfC4iBmudA2IpJik2XN-Exf_odB--lPtKmFsI7NdIoQzIHyzoDcs_aZUM8F5RbypEu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975399

Points: 2

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Share projects' Git stats and compete on the leaderboard!

TheAndruu — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:40:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/TheAndruu/git-leaderboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17909339

Points: 1

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New comment by TheAndruu in "Show HN: Jott – A minimal tool for quickly writing and sharing notes"

TheAndruu — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:54:48 +0000

Cool deal. Suggest adding a note on the homepage for how to access notes you save under `https://jott.live/note/`

I saw it on the Github readme

Share projects' Git stats and compete on the leaderboard

TheAndruu — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:25:19 +0000

Article URL: https://backend-gl.appspot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899638

Points: 1

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New comment by TheAndruu in "What advice do you wish someone gave you when you moved from dev to management?"

TheAndruu — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:16:37 +0000

Start working on soft skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_skills

New comment by TheAndruu in "The origins of the TV remote"

TheAndruu — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:15:05 +0000

> "One idea was radio waves, but that was dismissed early on, says Taylor. “If you were in an apartment building, you might start changing the channel on the TV in the next room as well as your own.”

This reminded me how as kids in the 90s, the remote unlock button for our parents' car would set off our neighbor's car alarm if you were too close to them.

New comment by TheAndruu in "The Man Who Walked Backward"

TheAndruu — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:52:39 +0000

You just summed up what I basically wanted to know. Thanks.

New comment by TheAndruu in "The Man Who Walked Backward"

TheAndruu — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 00:02:01 +0000

I can't believe how many words are written about everything except his journey. I kept skimming and skimming but there's so much fluff