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Show HN: git-repo-name – CLI to sync repo name between local and remote

poundofshrimp — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:28:02 +0000

Hey HN,

I frequently create GitHub repos for new projects and sometimes have to rename them to keep things organized. To make renaming easier, I built a CLI tool that helps to keep local and remote git repository names in sync.

It works bi-directionally and supports these two main use cases:

- When you rename a repo on GitHub, you can run `git-repo-name pull` to update the local git directory name. - When you rename a local git directory, you can run `git-repo-name push` to rename the repo on GitHub.

In both cases, it makes an API call to GitHub, compares the repo name to the local directory name, and automatically renames the appropriate side.

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462168

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Maximize Mac Windows with Keyboard

poundofshrimp — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 07:50:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.petrgazarov.com/posts/maximize-mac-windows-with-keyboard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903417

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New comment by poundofshrimp in "Yishan Wong: "Google's Gemini issue is not about woke/DEI""

poundofshrimp — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:59:39 +0000

Google likely knew of this issue, but you need to understand that DEI-related missteps are judged a lot more harshly by the society than other types of errors. So, for Google this was likely “choosing the lesser evil” type of scenario. Anticipating edge cases for LLM behavior is very difficult, but it’s hard to imagine that no-one at Google tested vikings and 1940s Germans before the release.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Alexei Navalny has died"

poundofshrimp — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:08:13 +0000

Neither of the links works

New comment by poundofshrimp in "The "3 standup questions" are terrible and need to die"

poundofshrimp — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 23:20:50 +0000

Talking about what I did/what I’m planning to do on a regular cadence forces me to reflect on my time spent and makes me more focused. I also love hearing what others are up to because it promotes collaboration between us. The latter point is completely ignored by the author.

However, the blockers question is a waste of time. Blockers should be resolved as fast as possible, not wait until the next scheduled meeting.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "How Quora died"

poundofshrimp — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:08:08 +0000

Quora merging “all related” answers onto the same page is one of the most annoying things about it. I switch it to “Answers” 100% of the time.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Tesla's week gets worse: Fines, safety investigation, and recall"

poundofshrimp — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:10:19 +0000

They should have a separate term for this, like “over-the-air recall”. This sort of thing will happen more and more often as in-car computers become more relied upon.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Why you've never been in a plane crash"

poundofshrimp — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 03:44:45 +0000

When I first started to program professionally, I was fascinated with the blameless postmortem culture that my ex-employer had. I thought (and still do) it is incredibly conducive to systemic improvement. I’m happy it is legally codified in the aviation industry.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours"

poundofshrimp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:22:43 +0000

I find it hard to believe CORS is the root cause. It’s more likely that the server returns an error response and _that_ response doesn’t include the CORS headers.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time"

poundofshrimp — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:56:30 +0000

I’m curious what the largest bottleneck in robotics AI is - algorithms, training data, hardware, something else?

From a practical point of view, it seems like there would be vastly less training data available because almost all of it needs to be created by hand, as opposed to chatbots that can use already existing troves of internet text.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Culture Change at Google"

poundofshrimp — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:38:32 +0000

> But, coming back to my first decade at Google, it was incredible to see employees valued above everything else. Perhaps this is a privilege only possible in a culture of infinite abundance. Or maybe not? Maybe it's possible in a limited-resource culture too, but only if the company is small.

Every team that I’ve been on where I felt this way was when that company was rapidly growing and successful. I can’t say the reverse is necessarily true, but can success be the key ingredient that enables this, not the company size?

New comment by poundofshrimp in "US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission"

poundofshrimp — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 04:14:58 +0000

Both phone and desktop consumers can install third-party apps on their devices. From this point of view, there is no fundamental difference. Yet, on desktops, people are free to install freely, but on the iPhone, Apple controls all third-party installations.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission"

poundofshrimp — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:40:22 +0000

To see why Apple’s mandatory commissions are absurd, compare phones to desktop computers. There is no fundamental difference between the two. So, why is it okay to install whatever you want and pay for it directly on desktops, but on phones it is not?

The “better security” argument just doesn’t make sense in this context.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "The $500M Dollar Typo"

poundofshrimp — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:55:13 +0000

This is curious but saying that “single typo cost the USPS 500 million dollars” is misleading since they got it all back in the end.

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Signs that it's time to leave a company"

poundofshrimp — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:30:04 +0000

Amazon Q is powered by an LLM that is not very capable (there are no official benchmarks, AFAIK, but the community consensus seems to be that the level is akin to GPT 3.5).

I wrote a Chrome extension that allows you to use GPT-4 Turbo from Chrome's side panel. It (optionally) gets context about your data if you choose to share your screen with it.

https://github.com/petrgazarov/cumuli-aws-console-chat

New comment by poundofshrimp in "Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant"

poundofshrimp — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:00:11 +0000

For all we know, the death could have been fabricated and the guy is still alive under another identity. This isn’t entirely unreasonable given Iran would have probably tried to kill him anyway, so this could have been agreed by him and the government beforehand to protect his life.

Show HN: Cumuli – AWS Console Chat

poundofshrimp — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:38:14 +0000

Cumuli Chrome extension adds a side panel with LLM chat to all AWS pages, and lets you add screenshots of the console to your queries to get context-aware responses. It's similar to Amazon Q but uses GPT-4 Turbo with vision.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38718601

Points: 2

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New comment by poundofshrimp in "Show HN: Salami – declare your cloud infrastructure with natural language"

poundofshrimp — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:20:54 +0000

Spoiler - no big reason other than it was available and I thought it sounded cool

Show HN: Salami – declare your cloud infrastructure with natural language

poundofshrimp — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:25:13 +0000

Hi HN!

Salami is an open-source DSL that lets you declare Terraform-style configurations with natural language. The compiler uses LLM (currently GPT-4) to convert natural language into Terraform code.

This project's main motivation was to better integrate LLMs into the developer workflow. Salami makes it easier to program in natural language without switching and copy-pasting. It’s also more accurate than GPT-4 alone, as it can catch errors and generate code that is more likely to be correct.

The GitHub repo has several examples you can easily run. I also wrote a blog post and recorded a short demo video.

Blog post: https://www.petrgazarov.com/posts/infrastructure-as-natural-... Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej629E0WOIY

Thanks for checking it out!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37953955

Points: 4

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New comment by poundofshrimp in "Looking for a cofounder to replace finance ERPs"

poundofshrimp — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:38:35 +0000

Cool idea, PM me if you're still searching for a co-founder. Cheers