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Show HN: Plot lines of code over time in Git repositories

https://github.com/emanueldonalds/git-loc-plot
2•genericspammer•1y ago
It's a small wrapper around cloc (https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc), which just provides a convenient way to plot lines of code over time in a Git repository.

The script runs cloc on each commit in your current branch, starting from HEAD tracing back until the first commit.

For large repositories with many commits, you can tell it to only count every n:th commit with the '--step' option to speed up processing.

The way it works is quite sub-optimal, since every single file is counted in each commit, even if the file didn't change since last iteration. Might be a fun project later to find some nice optimizations, maybe by counting files one by one and keeping a dict of line count by file hash, or something along those lines.

Maybe someone will find this script useful, maybe not, anyways happy to hear if someone has any thoughts :)

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09867
1•vismit2000•1m ago•0 comments

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-ra...
2•andsoitis•12m ago•0 comments

New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner

https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-an...
2•newsomix9xl•15m ago•2 comments

The traits that make engineers stand out, according to Coinbase's CTO

https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-cto-shares-traits-standout-engineers-have-ai-era-2026-8
2•doctaj•17m ago•0 comments

Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/11/gen-z-has-rediscovered-the-joy-of-going-to-the-movies
4•andsoitis•18m ago•2 comments

Nvidia's Great Silicon Showdown

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/11/nvidias-great-silicon-showdown
1•andsoitis•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AirStats – the lightest Mac menu bar system monitor

https://airstats.app/
2•byrencodes•18m ago•0 comments

Advanced AI Sycophancy

https://www.seangoedecke.com/advanced-ai-sycophancy/
2•chaychoong•20m ago•0 comments

Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2026/am-i-the-problem/
1•abelanger•22m ago•0 comments

I built a failover daemon for Vast.ai spot GPUs, found 5 real bugs testing it

https://github.com/enplabs/spotwarp
1•choi5844•23m ago•0 comments

A least-privilege linter for Claude Code agent policies

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cognitive-fab/polycheck
1•jdubray•27m ago•0 comments

Skills from a Smart Bear

https://skills.asmartbear.com/
2•mooreds•28m ago•0 comments

Malicious Chrome VPN Extensions Discovered That Do Traffic Redirection

https://socket.dev/blog/chrome-vpn-extension-impersonation
1•feross•28m ago•0 comments

Replantio

https://replantio.com/
1•gdss•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kernelspace- interactive course on systems programming for LLM Serving

https://kernelspace.naigap.com/
1•praveer13•38m ago•0 comments

Why Tokenmaxxing Is for Fools. A Rant on Fake Productivity

https://joereis.substack.com/p/why-tokenmaxxing-is-for-fools-a-rant
3•doppp•38m ago•0 comments

Text Watermarking for Non-Academics

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-08-12-Text-Watermarking-for-Non-Academics/
1•nikolay•40m ago•0 comments

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-says-gemini-has-reached-1b-users-faster-than-any-other-...
3•Gaishan•41m ago•1 comments

Fastest Inference Meta Muse Glimmer 30B on Apple

https://www.basecompute.co/getbasert
2•lukasonedge•44m ago•0 comments

Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state

https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/08/california-rhna-housing-affordable-progress/
2•littlexsparkee•46m ago•1 comments

We're in the Most Dangerous Period – With Doomberg [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP6PCZTPQ2U
2•Bender•46m ago•1 comments

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview

https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027
1•tmp10423288442•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spend.Report – See what you're spending money on each month

https://spend.report/
1•nadermx•49m ago•0 comments

A podcast trying to complete Campaign for North Africa

https://www.wargamer.com/board-games/the-campaign-for-north-africa-two-years
1•pavel_lishin•52m ago•0 comments

GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft

https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/gpu-management
2•gmays•53m ago•0 comments

Jellyfish force shutdown of three reactors at French nuclear plant

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/11/jellyfish-force-shutdown-of-three-reactors-at...
4•gadcam•53m ago•2 comments

The Art of Not Buying Disk

https://sonirico.dev/posts/the-art-of-not-buying-disk/
1•sonirico•55m ago•0 comments

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-at...
17•dangle1•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Askance, a human-in-the-loop GUI for agentic coding

https://github.com/tobico/askance
1•tobicoh•1h ago•0 comments

Xirp – Spotify's macOS app for running AI coding agents

https://xirp.spotify.com/
1•hmokiguess•1h ago•0 comments