Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit?

With the recent rumblings over on reddit, I do wonder if reddit will experience its own “Digg moment”. Is anyone here working on their own reddit-like site? I feel part of what they are fundamentally missing is decent embedded search functionality as most people are still using google to search and find a relevant discussion of interest e.g “topic x […]

Launch HN: Fastgen (YC W23) – Visual Low-Code Backend Builder

Hi HN! I’m Constantin and together with my co-founders David and Mike we’re building Fastgen, a low code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB. You can use it to quickly build any custom business logic, cron jobs or complete backends. We just launched our public beta, you can try it out here: https://fastgen.com/ . You can find […]

Ask HN: Code review as part of the peer review process?

Code review helps discover programming errors in software engineering. Would requiring paper author’s to submit reproducible, or at least reviewable, code for generating their results have the same effect on academic research? How much of the ‘crisis of reproducibility’ is caused by code that wouldn’t pass the smell test, let alone a real code review? Story Published at: June 7, […]