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New comment by msukkarieh in "A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]"

msukkarieh — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:58:59 +0000

As one of the cofounders of an open source tool (Sourcebot) we have seen the "AI slop PR" issue explained here first hand. The amount of of PRs we get now from people who clearly have never even deployed or used our tool is staggering. We're working on a solution for this that leverages our tool, and plan to make it available for free for OSS projects. If you have any ideas, please reach out to me: michael at sourcebot(dot)dev

Ask questions on the Claude Code codebase

msukkarieh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:34:19 +0000

Article URL: https://app.sourcebot.dev/~/askgh/alex000kim/claude-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594876

Points: 3

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New comment by msukkarieh in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

msukkarieh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:17:57 +0000

Built a tool to ask questions on the Claude Code source code: https://askgithub.com/alex000kim/claude-code

We reached bug zero using Linear

msukkarieh — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:52:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sourcebot.dev/blog/bug-zero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094509

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by msukkarieh in "Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big"

msukkarieh — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:31:31 +0000

I think most people would be okay with an exit tax if it's reasonable. Requiring the owner of a business generating €20k in profit to then pay €70k in taxes is not reasonable.

Canada also has an unreasonable exit tax. Canadian founders are taxed on 50% of the FMV of their shares on departure. So if you own half of a company that is worth $50m, your taxable income for the year of departure is increased by $12.5m.

New comment by msukkarieh in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

msukkarieh — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:22:55 +0000

> When you write code, how much of your time do you truly spend pushing buttons on the keyboard? It's probably less than you think. Much of your prime coding time is actually reading and thinking

Totally agree, IMO there's a lot of potential for these tools to help with code understanding and not just generation. Shameless plug for a code understanding tool we've been working on that helps with this: https://github.com/sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

New comment by msukkarieh in "Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience"

msukkarieh — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:35:32 +0000

This looks awesome. I've used GPT to do something similar but having a platform like this would be very powerful. Congrats on the launch! Very excited to try it out soon

New comment by msukkarieh in "Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data"

msukkarieh — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:27:15 +0000

I've never lived in NYC - are median studio apts in West Village really $6k? Website looks awesome but I'm hoping that the data isn't true

New comment by msukkarieh in "Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase"

msukkarieh — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:11:13 +0000

hey I'm Michael (the other cofounder). If the products are purely internal[1] then you're able to use, modify, and distribute the code as you please (even if you're a commercial org). If you have any additional questions about the license feel free to reach out at license@sourcebot.dev

The Fair Source website is a great resource to learn more: https://fair.io/

[1] The only restriction on the code is that it cannot be used for a commercial product that substitutes for our software. We have a few teams that have connected Sourcebot into internal dev dashboards! This is 100% allowed by the license

New comment by msukkarieh in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

msukkarieh — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:41:33 +0000

I once set the "dont sleep on disable mode" and totally forgot about it. Took me a month to realize after my laptop would be drained over night. That tool definitely would've been helpful in this case!

New comment by msukkarieh in "Show HN: Nia – MCP server that gives more docs and repos to coding agents"

msukkarieh — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:55:11 +0000

Shameless plug of our MCP server that does the same thing and is free and self-hosted https://docs.sourcebot.dev/docs/features/mcp-server

New comment by msukkarieh in "Do not download the app, use the website"

msukkarieh — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:03:18 +0000

One interesting side effect of this for instagram is that the website is much worse than the app, which makes it much harder to doom scroll. I have the app deleted on my phone and occasionally visit the website to check for messages and updates from friends

New comment by msukkarieh in "Clowns to the Left of Me"

msukkarieh — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:43:08 +0000

Great point. At the end of the day if these tools were truly that harmful then it would cause the user to never use them again

Clowns to the Left of Me

msukkarieh — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:45:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.korny.info/2025/07/19/clowns-to-the-left-of-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44660525

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by msukkarieh in "Playstation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded"

msukkarieh — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:41:05 +0000

https://archive.is/hgoBM

Playstation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded

msukkarieh — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:40:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/playstation-executive-jade-raymond-leaves-studio-she-founded

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44057364

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by msukkarieh in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

msukkarieh — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:35:52 +0000

Facebook is a great example of doing this and it succeeding very well. Zuck recognized that Facebook was going to zero and bought WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus. My guess is that sama sees the writing on the wall and knows that he must expand OpenAI in a similar way.

What happens to OpenAI competitors that can't make similar moves is another question.

New comment by msukkarieh in "Zod 4"

msukkarieh — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:58:36 +0000

We've been using zod for our open source tool and are loving it! Will definitely try to migrate over to v4 soon, thanks for the project!

Show HN: An MCP that fetches code context from all your repos

msukkarieh — Fri, 16 May 2025 18:35:32 +0000

Hey HN!

One of the biggest limitations of tools like Cursor is that they only have context over the project you have open.

We built this MCP to allow you to fetch code context from all of your repos. It uses Sourcebot under the hood, an open source code search tool that supports indexing thousands of repos from multiple platforms.

The MCP server leverages Sourcebot's index to rapidly fetch relevant code snippets and inject it into your agents context. Some use cases this unlocks include:

- Finding all references of an API across your companies repos to allow the agent to provide accurate usage examples - Finding existing libraries in your companies codebase for performing a task, so that you don't duplicate logic - Quickly finding where symbols implemented by separate repos are defined

If you have any questions or run into issues please let me know!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008545

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by msukkarieh in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

msukkarieh — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:21:39 +0000

The only time I've actually stood up during a standup was when I interned at Ubisoft. We would have ~25 people in a room all standing on the perimeter and we'd say what we were working on one by one. As an intern I really liked it because I got to hear what problems everyone was working on.