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Built a small agent that can explore a GitHub repository, understand it in-depth, and answer questions about the codebase.

The idea is simple. When you open a new repo, most of the time goes into figuring out: - Where the main logic lives - How modules connect - How to run or debug things

This agent clones a repo, indexes files, and lets an LLM reason over the structure so you can ask questions or automate tasks.

Useful for: - Onboarding large codebases - Understanding OSS repos - Debugging unfamiliar projects - Building higher-level code agents

This came out of experiments we were doing with NEO AI for building autonomous AI Agents where agents need to read repos before modifying them.

Looking for feedback on repo indexing strategies, eval benchmarks, or similar tools people have built.

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Article URL: https://bmarti44.substack.com/p/i-put-a-full-jvm-inside-a-browser

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Article URL: https://github.com/ivan-digital/qwen3-asr-swift

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Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/time-change-british-columbia-9.7112139

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law

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Article URL: https://lookingatcomputer.substack.com/p/rare-not-random

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Article URL: https://the-infrastructure-mindset.ghost.io/brilliant-developer-unreliable-operator/

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Article URL: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032026/iowa-county-data-center-ordinance/

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Article URL: https://haptics.lochie.me/

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Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

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Article URL: https://github.com/ivanbelenky/nbdantic

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I've been using Claude Code heavily and kept wondering "why did this session cost $2?" or "why did it read the same file 15 times?".

Argus is a VSCode extension that analyzes Claude Code sessions from the .claude directory and gives you:

- Step-by-step breakdown of what Claude did - Cost analysis (which tools burned the most tokens) - Performance insights (retry loops, duplicate reads, context pressure) - Token usage visualization (cache hits, compaction events) - Flow diagrams showing file dependencies

Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=argus-cl...

It's basically a "time machine debugger" for your Claude Code sessions. You can click through each step, see tool inputs/outputs, and understand exactly what went wrong (or right).

Tech stack: TypeScript, React 19, Chart.js, Vite

Some interesting findings from my own sessions: - 40% of cost was from reading the same files repeatedly - Retry loops cost ~$0.15 per loop on average - Cache hit ratio varies wildly (10% to 80%)

Limitations: - Only works with local .claude directories (not remote sessions) - Session format is undocumented, might break in future - Analysis rules are heuristic-based

GitHub: https://github.com/yessGlory17/argus

Would love feedback, especially from other Claude Code users!

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/thefp/status/2028587979900420303

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I've been building for almost a year and sharing my journey on X, Reddit, and Hacker News. It seems like I still do not have the ability to break my bubble and reach more users. I really believe in the product I’m building, but acquiring users seems to be a harder task than building the product.

Any suggestions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228246

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Over the past few weeks I’ve hit multiple AI/API outages — and not just one provider.

Model timeouts and HTTP 500/529 errors from Anthropic’s Claude

Repository access issues during a recent GitHub disruption

Database/API hiccups from Supabase

Even intermittent infra blips from major cloud vendors

Individually, none of these are shocking. Every system fails.

But collectively? It feels like the frequency and blast radius are increasing.

It raises some uncomfortable questions:

Are we over-optimizing for speed of development at the cost of resilience?

Are small teams unknowingly building on increasingly fragile stacks?

Is this just visibility bias — or are outages genuinely becoming more common?

Curious how others here are thinking about it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228213

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I’ve been building a video-to-text web app and wanted to share it for feedback. The core flow is straightforward: upload files, start transcription, then track progress in a history page that refreshes automatically while jobs are running. Paid users can submit multiple files at once, and speaker diarization is supported for conversations and interviews.

Over the last few weeks I focused mostly on reliability. I changed the pipeline to extract audio first and then run transcription, which made long-file handling more stable. I also spent time improving failure handling so users see a clear message when a job fails, instead of raw model errors.

Pricing is intentionally simple right now: free users get 3 transcriptions per day, and there is one Unlimited plan at $20/month or $120/year.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the overall UX, whether the failure/retry behavior feels right, and whether the pricing is understandable for first-time users.

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We are thrilled to share our preprint on PantheonOS, an evolvable, distributed multi-agent system for automatic genomics discovery.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.707870v1 Website(online platform free to everyone): https://pantheonos.stanford.edu/

PantheonOS unites LLM-powered agents, reinforcement learning, and agentic code evolution to push beyond routine analysis — evolving state-of-the-art algorithms to super-human performance.

Applications: Evolved batch correction (Harmony, Scanorama, BBKNN) and Reinforcement learning or RL agumented algorithms RL–augmented gene panel design Intelligent routing across 22+ virtual cell foundation models Autonomous discovery from newly generated 3D early mouse embryo data Integrated human fetal heart multi-omics with 3D whole-heart spatial data

Pantheon is highly extensible, although it is currently showcased with applications in genomics, the architecture is very general. The code has now been open-sourced, and we hope to build a new-generation AI data science ecosystem.

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Article URL: https://co-r-e.github.io/dexcode-lp/

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Article URL: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2504.04372v3

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I want to build an iOS app, although I already work as a software developer I'm afraid I can't afford one right now in my country. If anyone has an old Mac that you can gift me I would appreciate it!

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