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New comment by funkattack in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

funkattack — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:02:43 +0000

It's a door opened by git (interpret-trailers), walked through by GitHub with the Co-authored-by key and UI support, GitLab followed.

New comment by funkattack in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

funkattack — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:58:27 +0000

Currently you'd read quite a lot of: "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 "

New comment by funkattack in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

funkattack — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:58:28 +0000

This is fundamentally a scaling problem, not a tooling problem. When AI generates PRs that no single person can fully grasp, the question isn't "how do we make reviewing 5,000 lines more comfortable" – it's "who is actually vouching for this code?" The answer is already deeply embedded in Git's tooling: every commit carries both an author and a committer field. The author wrote the code, the committer is the person who put it into the codebase. With git blame you always know who is to blame – in both senses. In the age of AI-generated code, this distinction matters more than ever: the author might be an LLM, but the committer is the human who vouches for it. Disclosure: non-native English speaker, used AI to help articulate these thoughts – the ideas are my own.

New comment by funkattack in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

funkattack — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:20:06 +0000

Non-native speaker here. I’ve always loved that we say “commit” not “upload” or “save”.

New comment by funkattack in "CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects"

funkattack — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:44:06 +0000

I mean, i love those kind of cli tools but in my current mood, instead looking for it on github, I'd probably ask an frontier model:

“Create a cross-platform CLI tool that scans multiple Git projects (grouped by category) and reports their status (clean, modified, ahead, error) based on a YAML config.”

Allways surprised how far this gets me. Most of my dotfiles now got created this way.

New comment by funkattack in "Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?"

funkattack — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:13:55 +0000

Current workflow that might stick:

I’m using SuperWhisper for voice dictation and casually chatting with Claude Code, which I just start in the Obsidian vault directory.

I’m currently onboarding into a new project and need to gather and structure information quickly. So I just jot down whatever comes to mind — in natural language, no structure.

Claude takes care of organizing it: generating #tags, creating [[links]], and making things retrievable later.

After a couple of weeks, I can ask things like:

• What did I do yesterday?

• Who is “John Doe”?

• Which project uses Java version 21?

• …

Happy to share more if anyone’s curious.

(English reviewed with a bit of help from ChatGPT — non-native speaker here.)

New comment by funkattack in "One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch"

funkattack — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:09:38 +0000

Community enforcing as in shibboleet? https://xkcd.com/806/

New comment by funkattack in "Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?"

funkattack — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:04:46 +0000

In the German market it’s recruiting and placement agencies. Shameless self plug I collected a list of URLs https://github.com/eigenfunk/freelance-recruiting-de

New comment by funkattack in "I will always prefer to work from home"

funkattack — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:53:32 +0000

I'd chip in doing laundry or dishes whilst on a boring call I'm forced to attend. Just don't forget to mute the mike on the headset.

New comment by funkattack in "New Taschen book on the history of the computer"

funkattack — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:37:03 +0000

Shouldn't forget to mention, not all titles are SFW.

New comment by funkattack in "Battleship"

funkattack — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 21:30:54 +0000

The most important rule is rule number 4. Ships have to be placed bevor the first shot.

New comment by funkattack in "What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry"

funkattack — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 11:37:36 +0000

That is called the long tail, right?

New comment by funkattack in "America’s bald eagle population continues to soar"

funkattack — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:58:53 +0000

Does remembering this: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/06/09/Americas-bald-eagle-... make me old?

New comment by funkattack in "Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History"

funkattack — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:13:05 +0000

In my book "credited appropriately" reads like, put the site down till you have done your homework!

New comment by funkattack in "Git Internals, Techniques, and Rewriting History"

funkattack — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 06:16:59 +0000

Slide #39 seems to use a graph from https://marklodato.github.io/visual-git-guide/index-en.html#... , that is published under "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)". This should be credited appropriately and your content should be shared alike.

New comment by funkattack in "Dark Patterns"

funkattack — Thu, 20 Dec 2018 09:46:45 +0000

Marriage is always easier than divorce. In those terms its a dark pattern too.

New comment by funkattack in "37signals Works Remotely [video]"

funkattack — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:59:26 +0000

What I don't understand about the working remote discussion ist, that it only goes half way. It seems to be a discussion like: Lets work remote but keep everything else the same. Lets keep the company, lets keep bosses, lets collegues, lets keep meetings lets keep the chat at the coffee machine.

Working remotely, as I understand it, means, that you have to transform the company employer relationship in a way that it works using rather abstract or technical infrastructure or interface. The company has to know or to learn, and define, what kind of services or deliverable it can expect from its employees. Also the employee has to learn how to present his service or deliverables in a way that they get noticed and impress someone very far away.

It is sort of an bidirectional API that both have to serve and use.

My question now is, what is the reason for a company to have employees if the service they need is so well defined and could be offered by anyone capeable of serving that API? Why have employes if you can have contractors? The same question holds for the employees, if capable of offering that service in such a well defined way, why not turn into a company themselves and offer that service to anyone willing to pay?