Hacker News Reader

Comment by grimgrin | Hacker News Reader

4y5k, have some self-respect. you could have cooked on this for a little bit longer than: yesterday. there is one commit! this is ... quite possibly, but I'm unsure, the first "show hn" with a single commit, lol

View on HN

I never publish my "first_draft" branch - never.

Why does it matter. It's pretty normal to do a bunch of dev locally and then at some point create a public gh repo and then push

you can do that with full git history, the first commit is "upload files" or something like that, which I assume is via the UI because that is def not dev speak

Not necessarily. Plenty of devs (me included) clean up or reinit git history before a first release or going public. I understand it’s now read as an AI slop signal, but that’s no reason to dismiss their work.

its not the only reason it is sus, I imagine you too use several dignals, likely evolving in the age of ai

You could, but why is it important?

Are you asking why transparency in the git history and how the code was created is important?

How do you git bisect when a bug was introduced in the mega-commit paradigm? This generally beneficial most for the primary developer.

Separately, the presence of mega commits is a red flag in the age of ai and slop. It's a warning sign for too much eyes-free coding. The agents are not good enough for this. If you are not staying in the loop and managing changes, then I have serious concerns about the security and reliability of the software.

update: idk how I have positive points on my comment above

I wouldn’t make one like it again. simply because I really have no clue how long the author thought about their project

hell, another front page Show HN has a single commit

Devil's advocate, it could have been a bunch of squashed commits. I've done that when open-sourcing stuff from work, after making sure the code didn't have any stray references to work-related items.

back at peak Slop HN, there were a ton of these, the fastest I recall was a few minutes from first commit time to Slop HN time

example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492202

I recall sub-10m, but don't care to search has any harder

I initially developed and tested it locally in my own scratch environment before pushing the first public release via the web UI. I've now pushed the full structured commit history so the progression is visible. Also just released v0.1.1 on PyPI (`pip install ghostman`).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com