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Show HN: Procfile-compatible tool with hot reload, readiness, dependencies, etc.

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2 points·by alecthomas·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Show HN: Aim – AI-assisted verifiable SQL migration generator

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2 points·by alecthomas·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

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alecthomas
·22 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That doesn't seem likely, given that there's a reference from February 2025 documenting the pattern.
alecthomas
·29 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
What was wrong with it?
alecthomas
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> There is a vast, hugely funded, and incredibly adept propaganda machine aimed at about half the country.

There are propaganda machines directed at everyone.

> And no, I don’t think “my side” would be immune to a similar machine speaking the language we like to hear, but I just think that hasn’t happened (yet)

It seems incredibly naive to believe that propaganda in this age isn't utilised by all "sides". My base assumption for any information, particularly from mainstream media, is that it's biased one way or the other.
alecthomas
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I found it very amusing :)
alecthomas
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I've never seen Prolog used at all in the wild, but OPA (and its ancestor, Datalog) are fairly common.
alecthomas
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Unfortunate! I have a bunch of keyboards and a FILCO is my favourite, my daily driver. It just feels ... solid.
alecthomas
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
From skimming the linked PR it looks like it's all been open source, but has been tightly coupled to their deployed instance. The PR appears to be decoupling things completely by making all hard coded values configurable.
alecthomas
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Oh this page is great! I just released AIM [1] which is a tool that generates verified SQL migrations using LLMs, and I tested a bunch of models manually. I think I'll just link to your page too!

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/aim
alecthomas
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Someone else said this below...

> Go designers distinguish between Go language as defined by Go spec and implementation details. > //go:fix is something understood by a particular implementation of Go. Another implementation could implement Go without implementing support for //go:fix and it would be a fully compliant implementation of Go, the language. > > If they made it part of the syntax, that would require other implementations to implement it.

...I'm not sure I buy that argument TBH.
alecthomas
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
These are called directives [1], and are treated as metadata by the compiler.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/go/ast#Directive
alecthomas
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That is...disturbing.
alecthomas
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
https://hazelengine.com/ is another
alecthomas
·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Preach!
alecthomas
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Reminds me of the sadly dormant @shit_hn_says [1].

I'm guessing it's dormant because the level of discourse on HN has devolved to a point where nearly every comment on HN would now qualify.

[1] https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says