Developer tools

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• Looking for

  do a code review in my place

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  I am not looking for a tool to do a code review in my place.

  chacham15 · Oct 21, 2026in “Ask HN: What AI tools help me understand a MR?”

• Looking for

  could actively edit a set portion of code, maintaining a small diff above a moving target

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  But I was looking for a tool that could actively edit a set portion of code, maintaining a small diff above a moving target

  nathanpankon · Oct 11, 2026in “How big is a Git commit?”

• Wish it existed

  module-level safety property in the type system such that unsafe would be a capability granted by the user’s code

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  I’ve always thought there should be a module-level safety property in the type system such that unsafe would be a capability granted by the user’s code.

  binary132 · Oct 10, 2026in “Unikernels were hard. key word: were”

• Wish it existed

  better way for devtool projects to contribute to frontier labs training pipelines or properly posttrain their own agent coding models

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  There should be a better way for devtool projects to contribute to frontier labs training pipelines or properly posttrain their own agent coding models.

  weitendorf · Oct 2, 2026in “SvelteKit 3”

• Wish it existed

  layer boundary and they write some kind of abstraction to cross it but the abstraction itself is garbage or doesn't follow existing API patterns

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  Or they actually do see that there should be a layer boundary and they write some kind of abstraction to cross it but the abstraction itself is garbage or doesn't follow existing API patterns.

  moshegramovsky · Sep 29, 2026in “GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price”

• Wish it existed

  some kind of Plan mode like harness feature to try as hard as possible to stop it from beginning to code

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  I don't use Plan mode because I plan out work with a ticket based approach (that also works as a memory store), but I wish there were some kind of Plan mode like harness feature to try as hard as possible to stop it from beginning to code.

  viccis · Sep 26, 2026in “Plan mode is dead”

• Looking for

  Microduck, or is it currently controlled/programmed directly through the SDK

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  Is there an app for Microduck, or is it currently controlled/programmed directly through the SDK?

  TBR007 · Aug 27, 2026in “Microduck”

• Wish it existed

  space between "in the standard library" and "in a library written by some random person with a github account"

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  There should be a space between "in the standard library" and "in a library written by some random person with a github account".

  mort96 · Aug 20, 2026in “Bun 1.4”

• Wish it existed

  client-dev-tool as good as those for the back-end

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  But in principle there should be a client-dev-tool as good as those for the back-end.

  galaxyLogic · Aug 13, 2026in “HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript”

• Wish it existed

  qrcode URL scheme that lets browsers behave the same way as a camera scanning a QR code

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  Maybe there should be a qrcode URL scheme that lets browsers behave the same way as a camera scanning a QR code.

  layer8 · Jul 1, 2026in “Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font”

• Startup idea

  Captcha-proof mock hands that wave with remote control http json api

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  New startup idea: Captcha-proof mock hands that wave with remote control http json api.

  tosti · Jul 1, 2026in “Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand”

• Wish it existed

  just an SDK for building apps (i'll vibe code towards a great epub experience, i'm fine with that)

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  > i wish there was just an SDK for building apps (i'll vibe code towards a great epub experience, i'm fine with that)

  camel-cdr · Jun 24, 2026in “The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader”

• Wish it existed

  just an SDK for building apps (i'll vibe code towards a great epub experience, i'm fine with that)

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  i wish there was just an SDK for building apps (i'll vibe code towards a great epub experience, i'm fine with that). and, i'm fine plugging it in via USB or even SCPing files over wifi. but, it sends my reading progress to a server every time i use it which is highly annoying and concerning. however, the form factor is sufficient.

  dfee · Jun 24, 2026in “The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader”

• Wish it existed

  20 year rule for all released commercial software to release the source code outside of national security concerns

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  I think there should be a 20 year rule for all released commercial software to release the source code outside of national security concerns.

  AtlasBarfed · Jun 13, 2026in “A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones”

• Wish it existed

  CLI flag to get the default diff output without unsetting up

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  Even after doing sem setup there should be a CLI flag to get the default diff output without unsetting up.

  znnajdla · Jun 7, 2026in “Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git”

• Wish it existed

  middle layer that preserves enough state to resume and debug while aggressively quarantining obvious secret classes and high-risk blobs

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  I'd love a middle layer that preserves enough state to resume and debug while aggressively quarantining obvious secret classes and high-risk blobs.

  jazzen · Jun 6, 2026in “Show HN: Ccgs – Collaborative Claude Code sessions, stored in Git branches”

• Wish it existed

  fast search api codex could hook into to answer internet questions faster

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  I wish there was a fast search api codex could hook into to answer internet questions faster.

  lumost · May 28, 2026in “DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode”

• Wish it existed

  public corporation, like Wikipedia, that starts scraping the Web and provides an api for anyone to access

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  There should be a public corporation, like Wikipedia, that starts scraping the Web and provides an api for anyone to access.

  noosphr · May 21, 2026in “We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot”

• Why is there no

  single multiplatform cli tool that can be ran on Mac/Linux/Windows

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  m1ddc works fine on my Mac, but why isn't there a single multiplatform cli tool that can be ran on Mac/Linux/Windows?

  bni · May 18, 2026in “Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)”

• Wish it existed

  standardized government ID service/API

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  > There should be a standardized government ID service/API

  thrance · May 9, 2026in “EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"”

• Wish it existed

  standardized government ID service/API that allows a person to let it disclose their age (or other user selected information) to a requesting site/service

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  There should be a standardized government ID service/API that allows a person to let it disclose their age (or other user selected information) to a requesting site/service.

  rswail · May 9, 2026in “EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"”

• Wish it existed

  developer uptime index that measures these things that we use every work hour

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  I feel like there should be a developer uptime index that measures these things that we use every work hour.

  imglorp · Apr 29, 2026in “Ghostty is leaving GitHub”

• Why is there no

  simple hard cap at the Bedrock/API level

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  Why is there no simple hard cap at the Bedrock/API level?

  Zephyr0x · Apr 28, 2026in “$38k AWS Bedrock bill caused by a simple prompt caching miss”

• Wish it existed

  chance for collaboration - everybody coding their own system seems like a lot of effort duplication

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  I wish there was a chance for collaboration - everybody coding their own system seems like a lot of effort duplication.

  zby · Apr 25, 2026in “Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)”

• Wish it existed

  HN post whenever there ISN'T an issue with some GitHub service

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  At this point, I feel like there should be a HN post whenever there ISN'T an issue with some GitHub service.

  eshack94 · Apr 24, 2026in “Incident with multple GitHub services”

• Wish it existed

  some kind of standard to tell CLI apps what features to expect from the system pager, so they can act accordingly …

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  I wish there was some kind of standard to tell CLI apps what features to expect from the system pager, so they can act accordingly …

  da_rob · Apr 16, 2026in “I made a terminal pager”

• Wish it existed

  CLI preview command when making changes in Cloudflare

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  I wish there were CLI preview command when making changes in Cloudflare.

  f-serif · Apr 13, 2026in “Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare”

• Wish it existed

  dead simple installer TUI that had a common API specification so that you could host your installer spec on your

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  I wish there was a dead simple installer TUI that had a common API specification so that you could host your installer spec on your.domain.com/install.json - point this TUI at it and it would understand the fine grained permissions required, handle required binary signature validation, manifest/sbom validation, give the user freedom to customize where/how things were installed, etc.

  bikelang · Apr 9, 2026in “Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++”

• Looking for

  highlights code, features, or products produced by this type of development

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  Does anyone know of a site that highlights code, features, or products produced by this type of development?

  dirtbag__dad · Apr 3, 2026in “Cursor 3”

• Would pay for

  API request to guarantee I get a response right away

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  When I'm in the mood to code I'd pay for API request to guarantee I get a response right away.

  journal · Mar 27, 2026in “Ask HN: $50 monthly budget, which coding models would you recommend now?”