Thread: ack 2.12, a source code search tool for programmers

ack 2.12, a source code search tool for programmers (beyondgrep.com)

L 12 pts 5 comments by jm May 7, 2014 programming Programming (General) thread

srclib: a hackable, polyglot source analysis library for making better code tools (srclib.org)

L 6 pts 0 comments by sqs Aug 14, 2014 compsciemacsgojavascriptprogrammingreleaseruby Web Development Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

780GB of data, tools, and source code were stolen from EA by purchasing a stolen cookie to get access to the company's Slack and social-engineering an IT Support employee (vice.com)

~ 21 pts 7 comments by unknown Jun 11, 2021 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Changing the web one tool at a time, with Kelly Norton, principal software engineer at Mailchimp and creator of open-source code search engine Hound (about.sourcegraph.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by jdorfman Mar 1, 2022 programming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Blink Code Search: GUI indexed grep in Windows, Linux-source code indexing tool (github.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by thunderbong Aug 25, 2024 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Open-source code-search tool Sourcebot now supports Gitea (github.com)

HN 21 pts 2 comments by bshzzle Oct 23, 2024 Programming (General) thread

Open-source code-search tool Sourcebot now supports searching multiple branches (github.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by bshzzle Nov 7, 2024 Programming (General) thread

Share links in Sourcebot, our open-source code search tool (sourcebot.dev)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by bshzzle Jan 10, 2025 Programming (General) thread

Open-source code repos open to supply chain attacks, researchers warn (scworld.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by ricecat Jun 7, 2025 Programming (General) thread

Show HN: An open-source code indexing and search tool (github.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by Fendy Jul 2, 2025 Programming (General) thread

Show HN: Package Search MCP – enable agents to search dependency source code (trychroma.com)

HN 12 pts 1 comments by HammadB Sep 10, 2025 thread

Hi all - Hammad here, CTO of Chroma.<p>We’ve been working closely with teams building AI systems for the software engineering stack - autocomplete bots, PR review agents, and code assistants. One common pain point we see: these systems hallucinate about dependencies.<p>While most companies index the...

How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code (polarsignals.com)

HN 107 pts 16 comments by manojvivek Nov 4, 2025 Web Development thread

Starting to building an open-source tool to track how AI agents search the web (github.com)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by alhwyn 2d ago AI / Machine Learning Programming (General) thread

Brackets — open-source code editor built with the web for the web (brackets.io)

L 5 pts 0 comments by danielsarsi Aug 11, 2012 browsersdesignjavascript Web Development Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

> Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License. It looks good.

Google I/O 2014 talk: Building Sourcegraph, a large-scale code search engine in Go (sourcegraph.com)

L 7 pts 3 comments by sqs Jul 14, 2014 apigoprogrammingscalingweb Web Development Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Productivity / Career / Business thread

Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code of government malware published (netzpolitik.org)

L 10 pts 2 comments by aspensmonster Aug 6, 2014 security Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread

Announcing Hound: A Lightning Fast Code Search Tool (codeascraft.com)

L 6 pts 1 comments by kellegous Jan 28, 2015 go Programming (General) thread

Open source typeface "Hack" brings design to source code (arstechnica.com)

L 14 pts 10 comments by developernotes Sep 1, 2015 design Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

Should likely have a "font" tag, however that tag does not exist.

Sourcegraph, a new self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation, search, and review (src.sourcegraph.com)

L 36 pts 12 comments by sqs Nov 24, 2015 gojavaprogrammingreleaseshowvcs Programming (General) thread

Happy holiday bulk geocoder: CSV of addresses to lat/lon's using an open-source stack (holidaysearch.mapzen.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by drewda Dec 23, 2015 release Programming (General) thread

Why working on Chrome made me develop a tool for reading source code (coati.io)

L 2 pts 2 comments by pushcx Jul 29, 2016 practicesrelease Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Generate C interface from C++ source code using Clang libtooling (samanbarghi.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by rsadowski Dec 10, 2016 c Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

Position Independent Source Code: A small, stack based programming language (pisc.junglecoder.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by yumaikas Dec 19, 2016 go Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

This is a small scripting language that is a side project of mine.

Announcing Sourcegraph Server 2.4: free, powerful code search (about.sourcegraph.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by beyang Jan 10, 2018 programming Programming (General) thread

What is a good open source audio search or acoustic id tool or starting points for building one?

L 7 pts 11 comments by colindean Nov 4, 2018 askvisualization Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

I'm working on a side project to identify audio clips that have been (poorly) pieced together. A short clip may actually be the result of piecing together clips from one or more of series of larger works of approximately the same audio quality. These are voice clips from podcasts. A goal is to detec...

blink - A tool which allows you to edit source code of any C++ project at runtime (github.com)

L 15 pts 2 comments by mikejsavage Dec 14, 2018 cc++ Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General) thread

codecrumbs - visual tool for learning a codebase by putting breadcrumbs in a source code (github.com)

L 19 pts 3 comments by bliashenko Feb 19, 2019 javascriptprogrammingvisualization Web Development Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread

The prototype iPhones that hackers use to research Apple’s most sensitive code (motherboard.vice.com)

~ 7 pts 2 comments by unknown Mar 7, 2019 ~tech Apple / macOS / iOS Internet / Digital Culture thread

Astuto: an open source customer feedback tool (github.com)

L 13 pts 4 comments by riggraz Dec 27, 2019 javascriptreleaserubyshow Web Development Programming (General) thread

Hi everyone, for the thesis of my degree in Computer Engineering I developed Astuto, a tool to collect, manage and prioritise user feedback. It was heavily inspired by [Canny](https://canny.io/). The main difference between Canny and Astuto is that the latter is open source and self hosted. So...

Performance improvements in Sourcegraph's precise code intelligence backend (about.sourcegraph.com)

L 4 pts 2 comments by efritz Jun 22, 2020 goperformance Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread