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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 :)

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245
1•naves•49s ago•0 comments

My Obituary for Dr Tim King, Tripos, AmigaOS, Helios and UK Online Pioneer

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-70/5289101
1•lproven•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Civic Nightmare –Browser JRPG about a citizen in a savage civilization

https://github.com/Daniele-Cangi/civic-nightmare
1•DanieleCangi•7m ago•0 comments

Elder fraud scheme that allegedly moved millions through dummy Florida companies

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit-hole-targeting-seniors
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Yuval Noah Harari on the economic and political perils of AI

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/20/yuval-noah-harari-on-the-economic-and-political-per...
2•andsoitis•8m ago•0 comments

AI and Infrastructure Engineering

https://omegion.dev/2026/08/ai-and-infrastructure-engineering/
1•0megion•8m ago•0 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
1•bookofjoe•9m ago•0 comments

Developer's Open Source Tool Strips Anthropic's New Claude Watermark

https://startupfortune.com/a-paris-developers-open-source-tool-already-strips-anthropics-new-clau...
1•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

The quiet tycoons powering Africa's rise

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/08/23/the-quiet-tycoons-powering-africas-rise
1•andsoitis•9m ago•0 comments

Building the Ed-O-Meter: Notes on Writing My Own LLM Benchmark

https://reinvently.co.uk/blog/building-the-ed-o-meter-llm-eval-harness/
1•Bluestein•10m ago•0 comments

I made the first interactive TUI Portfolio

https://twitter.com/i/status/2091469688270393377
2•jdhruv143•12m ago•0 comments

Intermediary Liability in Brazil: The Intricate Path Ahead

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/intermediary-liability-brazil-intricate-path-ahead
2•hn_acker•12m ago•0 comments

Intentic.dev – shared chat, UI and billing for independent SaaS tools

https://intentic.dev/
1•radarsu•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Modern demo of Douglas Hofstadter et al.'s 2001 Letter Spirit project

https://github.com/Paul-G2/letter-spirit-2-js
2•Paul-G2•14m ago•0 comments

Predicting AI model release dates with stats

https://releaseoracle.xyz/
2•akeyes6•15m ago•0 comments

I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

https://en.andros.dev/blog/09a21bdd/i-turned-unix-talk-from-1983-into-the-interface-for-my-ai/
1•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

https://fabiensanglard.net/agent.md/index.html
2•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8

https://pikuma.com/blog/pdp-8-minicomputer
1•ibobev•18m ago•0 comments

Niu Lai and the provenance problem: why "human slop" isn't a moat

https://niu-lai.net/post/niu-lai-provenance-problem/
1•RealLeon•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ClaudeGate – Run Claude Code CLI with Any AI Model (DeepSeek, Gemini)

https://github.com/Santosh-Prasad-Verma/ClaudeGate
1•Tarun121•23m ago•0 comments

America Is Building a Surveillance State Like China's

https://reason.com/2026/08/21/america-is-building-a-surveillance-state-like-chinas/
3•pseudolus•25m ago•1 comments

Powerful extensions do not need powerful code

https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2026/08/23/powerful-extensions-do-not-need-powerful-code/
1•jaytaph•26m ago•0 comments

CliffordNet: All You Need Is Geometric Algebra

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06793
1•niklasbuschmann•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gogress a simple SQL database in Go with WAL support

https://github.com/igomez10/gogress
1•igomeza•28m ago•0 comments

I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines and ported it to Windows

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic
5•Gorsefound•29m ago•1 comments

I asked Codex to design its own CPU and then write a Space Invaders-style game

https://twitter.com/Angaisb_/status/2091511260265263604
1•qwertox•29m ago•0 comments

I Prompt [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegqGzD-kvc
1•tosh•30m ago•0 comments

Talk Like Claude Day

2•KenPainter•31m ago•0 comments

Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1991–1995: A Chronology

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1991-1995.pdf?emrc=413db2
2•joebig•31m ago•1 comments

Tabular World Model Leaderboard

https://huggingface.co/spaces/TabArena/leaderboard
1•zurfer•35m ago•0 comments