"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Dick the Butcher
"It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." - Grace Hopper
"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides." - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Show HN: Sourceminder.org - token-efficient code search
sourceminder.org
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The Great Software Quality Collapse (2025)
techtrenches.dev
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Show HN: SourceMinder, a Context Aware Code Search for Solo Devs and Claude Code
ebcode.com
2 points·by ebcode··3 comments
Coroutine prime number sieve (2022) [pdf]
cs.dartmouth.edu
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America's Moral Moment on the Senate Floor [video]
youtube.com
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The Strike Is Coming
generalstrikeus.com
52 points·by ebcode··31 comments
Twilight of the Crypto-Geeks (2000)
salon.com
2 points·by ebcode··0 comments
The Canary
washingtonpost.com
218 points·by ebcode··54 comments
The Theory of Topos-Theoretic 'Bridges' – A Conceptual Introduction (2016)
glass-bead.org
21 points·by ebcode··4 comments
Netiquette Guidelines
datatracker.ietf.org
2 points·by ebcode··0 comments
Paper #74. Viewstamped Replication Revisited (2021) [video]
youtube.com
1 points·by ebcode··0 comments
Keynote Speech to the 1996 Oopsla Convention
patternlanguage.com
11 points·by ebcode··2 comments
Federal Act on Use of Electronic Means for the Performance of Official Duties
datenrecht.ch
3 points·by ebcode··0 comments
Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree
pubs.aeaweb.org
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To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
gutenberg.org
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The Iron Wall (1998)
web.archive.org
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Commodore 64 Chip Designer Interview: Albert Charpentier (2022) [video]
And it reads to me like they have some other reason to move on from SWE Bench Pro, but they don't want to say what it is. They say right up top, "~30% of the tasks are broken." But that leaves ~70% un-broken, which seems pretty good to me. It would be nice if they would also say: "Here's the list of instances that are broken: <CSV>". Or, "Here's the subset of SWE Bench Pro we will use going forward." They're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Still plugging away on SourceMinder (https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder). I know, I know, everyone and their brother is working on token-saving schemes for LLMs. But I’ve found it to be useful even without the LLM. I’m working on a proper website for it now where you can try it out in the browser (wasm port) — try before you don’t buy (it’s GPL). Feedback welcome.
I’m working on a tool that is a more token-efficient code search than grep. I don’t have hard numbers yet, but it’s been working for me to get longer sessions. https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder
SourceMinder: A “code index” tool that finds symbols in a codebase and creates a single table sqlite database for the index. It uses tree-sitter to parse the AST and add the symbols and what they are (function, class, argument, etc) to the db. I currently have it working with TypeScript, C, Go and PHP. I’m working on adding Perl next, after someone requested it here on HN.
Yep! Java, Perl, and Ruby are all on the to-do list. I’ll start with Perl since you asked. And it takes me about two weeks to implement a new language. Check back in January.
> A 10% improvement every month gets to be a 10x improvement in (math...)
1.1^24=9.85, so yeah, if you could reliably get a 10% speed-up each month, you’d get to 10x in roughly 2 years. (But I’d expect the speed-up per month to be non-linear.)
I picked these up at a used bookstore ages ago, since they had the three-volume set. My recommendation would be to familiarize yourself with just the table of contents that’s printed on the binding, and when you come across something adjacent in your day-to-day work (e.g. Search), review the papers in that section. Those books are an excellent snapshot of the field at the time.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - Dick the Butcher
"It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." - Grace Hopper
"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides." - Thich Nhat Hanh
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