Hacker News with Generative AI: Developer Tools

Oh Shit, Git? (ohshitgit.com)
Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible.
Redefining Our SDKs Developer Experience (apideck.com)
At Apideck, we are passionate about delivering the best tools to help developers build integrations effortlessly. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the release of our new generation of Apideck Unify SDKs, now powered by Speakeasy. These SDKs mark a significant leap forward in developer experience, reliability, and ease of use.
Open source all the way down: Upgrading our developer documentation (cloudflare.com)
At Cloudflare, we treat developer content like a product, where we take the user and their feedback into consideration. We are constantly iterating, testing, analyzing, and refining content. Inspired by agile practices, treating developer content like an open source product means we approach our documentation the same way an open source software project is created and maintained.
Show HN: wonderful.dev – social platform for programmers (wonderful.dev)
Showcase Your Skills with Credibility
Building a Self-Hostable Product (fusionauth.io)
In this article, you’ll learn about the architecture, business model, and software design choices necessary to create a self-hostable developer tool.
Show HN: AuthorTrail – Browse files you've touched in a Git repo (github.com/sarimabbas)
AuthorTrail helps you explore your Git repository's history by author. Find and browse files you've contributed to, with quick access to view and edit them.
Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps (github.com/langfuse)
Langfuse uses Github Discussions for Support and Feature Requests.
Develop with the Android XR SDK (android.com)
The Android XR SDK is now available in Developer Preview. We want your feedback! Visit our support page to reach out.
Introducing Mailroom: An open-source internal notification framework (seatgeek.com)
We’re excited to introduce our latest open-source project: Mailroom! It’s a flexible and extensible framework designed to simplify the creation, routing, and delivery of developer notifications based on events from platform systems (like Argo CD, GitHub/GitLab, etc.) In this post, we’ll share how Mailroom helps to streamline developer workflows by delivering concise, timely, and actionable notifications.
Show HN: I Made a Ultra-Low Latency IP Geolocation API in Go (ipflare.io)
Integrate our developer-friendly IP lookup API for precise location data and 99.9% uptime reliability.
Why am I writing a JavaScript toolchain in Zig? (injuly.in)
Few things keep me up at night more than the untapped potential in current developer tooling.
Building Databases over a Weekend (denormalized.io)
In this post we take you on a walkthrough on how you can use DataFusion to build your own developer experience for databases.
Platforms Need New Building Blocks (junctionlabs.io)
Junction Labs’ mission is to empower platform builders with a service to service networking platform that bridges the developer-operator divide.
Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps (fermyon.com)
The Spin community is proud to introduce Spin 3.0 — the latest major release of Spin, the open source developer tool for building, distributing, and running serverless WebAssembly (or Wasm) applications everywhere.
The Future of Programming: Copilots vs. Agents (Part I) (eastwind.substack.com)
With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired another salvo at AI code-generation startups, bringing the competition for developer mindshare to a new level of intensity.
Show HN: Lead.dev – The Startup Competition for Devs (lead.dev)
Compete on the MRR leaderboard, get feedback, find new users and grow your startup. Claim your unique lead.dev/profile and compete on the leaderboard.
Delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep, and blame output (github.com/dandavison)
A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
Ask HN: How do you see GitHub Spark, threat to developer community or a helper? (ycombinator.com)
Just saw the GitHub Universe 2024 and the highlight was GitHub spar which have ability to create micro apps in minutes without any prior knowledge of coding.
My Experience in Testing JetBrains' IDEs (chriswiegman.com)
After a week of using JetBrains IDEs for all of my code I’ve decided to stay with Visual Studio Code.
ToolGit: A collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands (github.com/ahmetsait)
ToolGit is a collection of scripts that extend Git with various sub-commands to make life easier.
Show HN: Mail2github – commit something to GitHub via email (github.com/ulrischa)
Send email and create files in Github with content from the mail.
Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling (astral.sh)
Astral’s mission is to make the Python ecosystem more productive by building high-performance developer tools, starting with Ruff.
Fly.io solves usage-based billing challenges with Metronome (metronome.com)
Fly.io is a developer-focused public cloud that makes it easy to deploy and grow your business. As this lean startup has grown, they’ve faced a now-common challenge: usage-based billing. Jon Phenow, Staff Software Engineer at Fly.io, spoke with Chang Li, Product Marketing Manager at Metronome, about the obstacles his team overcame in making usage-based invoices clear and legible for customers, aligning pricing to value, making pricing updates easier, and more.
Augment Code: Developer AI for Teams (augmentcode.com)
TL:DR: Today we’re unveiling the first in-depth look at Augment Code, and inviting you to sign up to try it for yourself. Augment is the first coding AI that deeply understands your software and that scales to large, complex codebases. Teams can request a free trial here.
Show HN: GitInsights – a lightweight developer metrics platform (github.com/marketplace)
GitInsights is a minimal engineering metrics platform.
X AI – Documentation (docs.x.ai)
xAI offers a world class developer tool set to build scalable applications powered by Grok.
Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders (jeffgeerling.com)
This afternoon I received the following email from Arrow, regarding the Snapdragon Developer Kit for Windows:
I interviewed 100 DevTools founders and this is what I learned (scalingdevtools.com)
In the last two years, I’ve recorded 100 episodes of Scaling DevTools; a developer tools startup podcast.
Cloudflare's bigger, better, faster AI platform (cloudflare.com)
Birthday Week 2024 marks our first anniversary of Cloudflare’s AI developer products — Workers AI, AI Gateway, and Vectorize. For our first birthday this year, we’re excited to announce powerful new features to elevate the way you build with AI on Cloudflare.
Show HN: JSON For You – Visualize JSON in graph or table views (github.com/loggerhead)
The best JSON visualization and processing tool.