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New comment by skvark in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

skvark — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:04:58 +0000

I think most relevant data that provides best answers lives in GitHub. Sometimes in code, sometimes in issues or discussions. Many libs have their docs there as well. But the information is scattered and not easy to find, and often you need multiple sources to come up with a solution to some problem.

New comment by skvark in "Show HN: GitHits – Code example engine for AI agents and devs (Private Beta)"

skvark — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:13:47 +0000

The main reason is that most real blockers are tied to a specific language ecosystem. Even if the high-level ideas transfer across languages, the actual fix usually depends on the language’s APIs, tooling, and conventions. When someone is searching, they typically need something that fits the environment they are working in at the moment.

So the language choice in GitHits mainly steers the system toward code that is immediately usable.

Another part of the story is that finding patterns across languages is a much harder problem. It requires a level of semantic, cross-language search that does not really exist yet in a reliable way. I would love to reach that point, but today the best results come from staying within one ecosystem at a time.

Under the hood, there are several search modes, and not all of them are strictly language specific. The language selection guides the search, but it does not fully constrain it. And at some point, there might be a more generic search mode that is not tied to any single language at all, but that will take more research and iteration.

New comment by skvark in "Show HN: GitHits – Code example engine for AI agents and devs (Private Beta)"

skvark — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:11:04 +0000

Thanks! While those languages are not yet "officially" supported, GitHits works with them as well. The results might not be that good as with the ones I have enabled officially since the search and final output is partially steered by the selected language.

Show HN: GitHits – Code example engine for AI agents and devs (Private Beta)

skvark — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:59:52 +0000

It has been almost 10 years since I started the opencv-python packaging project. Scaling it to more than 100 million downloads as a side project showed me how much ease of installation and proper package distribution matter to users. It gave the computer vision ecosystem a noticeable boost. Now I have a new idea that I hope can help even more people across the broader software engineering world.

A while ago, I realized I kept giving the same advice to teammates and friends when they ran into a programming issue they couldn't easily solve: go to GitHub and look at how others solved it.

There is a huge pool of underused example material across open source. Most problems developers face are not that novel. With enough digging, someone has already solved the same issue in code or at least posted a workaround to an issue or discussion thread.

The trouble is that GitHub search is limited and works only when you already know the right keywords. You also need the time and patience to go through and read all the results, connect information across files, repositories, issues, discussions, and other metadata, and then turn that into a working solution. The same limitations apply to Stack Overflow and other search tools.

LLMs changed a lot, but they did not change this. They do not perform equally well across all programming languages, and their training data is always stale. They cannot reliably show how to combine multiple libraries in the way real projects do. For these and many other cases, they need a real, canonical code example rather than an outdated piece of documentation written for humans.

That is why I started building GitHits. It is designed to handle the work that humans and AI coding agents struggle with: finding real solutions in real repositories and connecting the dots across the open source ecosystem.

GitHits searches millions of open-source repositories at the code level, finds real code and surrounding metadata that match the intent of your blocker, and distills the patterns it finds into one example.

The initial product is in private beta, with MCP support to connect GitHits to your favorite coding agent IDE or CLI.

What makes it different from Context7 and other generic documentation search tools:

- It is built around unblocking, not general search

- It does not require manual indexing jobs

- It works for humans through the web UI and for agents through the MCP

- It clusters similar samples across repositories so you can see the common path real engineers took

- It ranks the sources using multiple signals for higher quality: the selected sources might be, for example, a combination of code files, issues, and docs

- It generates one token-efficient code example based on real sources

It is not perfect yet. Right now, GitHits supports only Python, JS, TS, C, C++, and Rust. More languages and deeper coverage are coming, and I would appreciate early feedback while the beta is still taking shape. If you have ever lost hours stuck on a blocker you knew someone else had solved already, I would love to hear what you think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105112

Points: 11

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Vision Is All You Need: V-RAG (Vision RAG) Demo

skvark — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Softlandia-Ltd/vision-is-all-you-need

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42396902

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

LLM-Based Agents for Tabular Data Processing

skvark — Fri, 10 May 2024 07:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://softlandia.fi/en/blog/llm-based-agents-for-tabular-data-processing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40316182

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Jolla Turns 10 Years

skvark — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jolla.com/happy-birthday-jolla/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28862898

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by skvark in "Flask 2.0"

skvark — Wed, 12 May 2021 19:39:36 +0000

Many projects are dropping support for old Python versions very fast. It's not surprising given the history of the Python 2 -> 3 transition. No one wants to end up in that situation anymore. For example, NumPy has already dropped 3.6 support (3.6 will be EOL later this year).

New comment by skvark in "Will Linux phones stay around this time?"

skvark — Sun, 02 May 2021 10:06:28 +0000

I have currently Sony XA2 with Sailfish OS. Just ordered Xperia 10 II so I have it ready when they publish the official version for it. I have been using Sailfish as my daily driver since the original Jolla phone was released in 2013.

The only issue that I might see as a blocker for some users is that the Android layer is not perfect. It does not support Bluetooth properly so pretty much any Android app that connects to some external peripheral like smart watch will not work. Additionally, you might need to install for example microG to run some apps via the Android layer.

New comment by skvark in "Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years"

skvark — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:45:42 +0000

There exists also a Finnish mini series called "The Hobbits" (1993): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHFKdgjEugs

New comment by skvark in "Comparing Svelte and React"

skvark — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:54:33 +0000

RTK Query looks great, I'll check it out.

New comment by skvark in "Comparing Svelte and React"

skvark — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:53:00 +0000

Redux Toolkit is great and removes most of the usual Redux boilerplate which seems to be the most often used argument against Redux. Additionally, I usually use a function which uses createEntityAdapter, createSlice and createAsyncThunk methods to create Ducks bundles for each REST API resource automatically. As a result I get all async action creators, reducers and basic selectors for some REST API resource with a couple of lines of code.

III-V multi-junction solar cell with 39% efficiency

skvark — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 06:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/03/10/iii-v-multi-junction-solar-cell-with-39-efficiency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473732

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by skvark in "The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled"

skvark — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:57:13 +0000

Azure Function App development experience is indeed pretty nice at least when using .NET Core. There are some issues, like loading secrets to the local dev environment from Key Vault has to be done manually and easy auth (App Service Authentication) does not work locally.

New comment by skvark in "SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video]"

skvark — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:29:50 +0000

If the Falcon 9 landings feel mundane, I would recommend to follow Starship development. Starship SN6 might do a 150 meter hop later today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky5l9ZxsG9M

New comment by skvark in "Google suspends some business with Huawei"

skvark — Sun, 19 May 2019 20:52:43 +0000

It was announced in 2017 that China was investing in its own mobile OS based on Sailfish OS (http://www.goodnewsfinland.com/jolla-goes-full-steam-ahead-i...). I don't know what's the status of the project currently. Russia has had similar plans (http://rusletter.com/articles/operating_system_sailfish_from...).

New comment by skvark in "Android vendors, don’t kill my app"

skvark — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:40:22 +0000

There is Sailfish OS (https://sailfishos.org/). It's a GNU/Linux and has true multitasking.

New comment by skvark in "Jolla is the last company with an 'alternative' mobile operating system"

skvark — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:42:40 +0000

iPhone X introduced very similar gestures as seen on Sailfish OS (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208204). They might be a bit alien at first, but once you get used to them, they are in my opinion far more powerful (one-handed use), faster and more intuitive than buttons. I have used Sailfish OS based phones since 2013 as my daily driver and Android/iOS UX feels very clumsy to me.

New comment by skvark in "This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With"

skvark — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:39:52 +0000

Python's packaging system was and is still sometimes somewhat broken. However, it's getting better: compilation related issues are rarer nowadays thanks to the wheel pre-built package format (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0491/). Another great thing is the manylinux tag (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0513/) which allows to create portable packages which are compatible with many distributions + contain all required dependencies. For example, I didn't want to compile anymore OpenCV all the time by myself so I made it available as wheel package in PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/opencv-python