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Show HN: I made a tool after being stuck in dependency hell
Hi HN,

I built Hypermod to help developers automate large-scale code migrations. If you've ever had to upgrade dependencies, refactor thousands of files, or apply the same fix across multiple repos, you know how painful and time-consuming it can be. Hypermod makes this process faster and more reliable by combining static analysis, AI-powered codemods, and GitHub automation.

Why I Built This

I've spent years working with large codebases where upgrading dependencies or migrating frameworks was a nightmare—lots of manual work, brittle scripts, and coordination across teams. Existing tools like codemods and regex-based find-and-replace help, but they often fall short when dealing with complex transformations across multiple repositories. I wanted something that could automate the entire process while integrating directly into CI/CD.

What’s Different

- Works in a GitHub Action: Unlike other tools that clone your repo to an external server, Hypermod runs directly in a GitHub Action, keeping everything secure and within your workflow.
- AI-Powered Codemods: Generate migration scripts automatically based on before/after code samples.
- Multi-Repo Support: Apply transformations across multiple repositories at scale.
- Customizable Transformations: Use static analysis and AST-based codemods to apply complex changes reliably.
- Safe & Auditable: All changes go through Git, so you can review and test before merging.

Try It Out

You can test it out in our sandbox editor without signing up. If you want to run it on your own repos, there’s a free plan for open-source projects and a Pro plan for private repos.

Would love to hear your thoughts—feedback, ideas, or pain points you’ve had with code migrations!
It's a good move but blanket 200k may mean that a kid from a well-off family in Iowa with a 150k income is able to get free tution while a kid with not so well off family in California with a 210k income is unable to get free tution.

Income as a number doesn't have much meaning until Cost of living is taken into account.
> As they say, the surest way to destroy your enemy is to make them your friend.

Defeat, not destroy. The best way to defeat an enemy is to make them your friend. Destroying someone would not be very friendly (unless they want to be destroyed).
Ah yes, I do see that distinction. I was only talking about what they were _doing_, not what they _expected_
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All else equal, more supply of landlords means less supply of housing. So you are just shifting demand from buying to renting. I wouldn't expect prices to lower.
Including "YCombinator".
Glad you asked. Have you checked the online version https://cascii.app

There, all exported drawings come with a short link. This is so that months later anyone reading / seeing can edit their own copy online / keep it up to date.

You can also create an account to manage your own drawings.

Side note - when you use real pasting, it will not remember meaningful information (that's very hard to do elegantly). In your example, I'm guessing that 3x3 table you pasted in could not be properly edited like a table again. Hence, use short links so that Cascii remembers state.
I wonder if someone could have ported pkgsrc to it, create a POSIXish compatibility shim library (maybe there already is one), and, I wonder how much of the denizens lingering in the pkgsrc would have ported over “for free”.
Hello, original author here. I was delightedly surprised to see this game got attention. I believe I referenced https://wcdf.net/rules.htm when writing the game. The game has been updated. If a piece is clicked and has no moves, pieces with moves are briefly highlighted.
$250K is low: Kind of a "Peak HN" comment :). I was actually going to say it seems kind of high. This looks like it's globally, not just in high COL areas, and across all levels of management, not just Directors and VPs. Kind of surprising the average is that high.

Then again, this is HN, where they say the "average" tech worker in the world makes $400K and drives a Ferrari.
It would take taxing the entire top 20% to make any headway and once people on HN figure that out, they'll tar and feather anyone who says "tax the rich" within earshot. It's probably necessary but it's never going to fly.
So, the people that manage the managers?
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I like the old wisdom about apples personally: "One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch".
Yes, you can always push that admin and coordination and communication work down to the ICs. I'm sure you'll be thrilled to get that added to your plate.
If your views are mainstream with those empowered to down vote and you tend towards noncontroversial opinions and "flow with the crowd" or can pretend to do so, HN probably is better than Reddit.

Although Reddit is a very low bar.

If you like your opinions strong and you think for yourself and you resent being signaled which way to respond and think, you'll be down voted and treated with condescending comments by those who like echo chambers of agreement.
Such stubborn renitency. Then calm down with track 18 from here:

https://www.1001tracklists.com/tracklist/1zv7xhrt/giuseppe-o...

Or same thing with video from the event, starting at about 48 minutes in, for about 3.5 (or 5) minutes on:

https://youtu.be/Tvji-wFsN_w?si=izXPKFEXA-f8sQoo&t=2877

Audi, Vide, Tace, remember?
I’m exaggerating a lot here, but one concern people have with quantum computing is what if it breaks all cryptography, but doesn’t help us solve “useful” problems.

The what if is pulling a lot of weight here but I hope it makes my point.
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> won't impact prices

I strongly suspect that wall street has looked at 401k's/index funds as a giant money filled piñata. It is a huge pile of money following a well understood algorithm which makes it vulnerable to attack.

I suspect that this is the absolute core of "dark pool" strategy. Any trade that happens behind closed doors that "doesn't impact prices" means that an index fund is buying or selling at a price other than the "real" price meaning that dark pools are functionally a wealth transfer from grandma to an institutional trader.
I really wish this article said what the big O runtime for the classical and quantum algorithms are
That's efficiency! I mean, Trump is so efficient that, besides dismantling the federal government, imposing creative tariffs and bringing Putin's peace to Ukraine, he has still found time to fly to Mar-a-Lago on Air Force One for a round of golf on 7 of the first 8 weekends of his presidency...
Do his "good examples" even follow his recommendations? e.g. I think they don't contain a 0x00 byte.
And without care. Everyone's precious photo albums will go with them to the grave. We live in a time where the books and data we write are likely to vanish long before any previous period. We don't leave behind books, codexes, or scrolls, or stone tablets anymore.

Scholars will have more clue about life in 4th century via the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection than 21st century Terra Haute, Indiana.
I think we might be experiencing an outbreak right here, symptoms include over reaction to anything Trump does, posting politics to HN, and excessive downvoting.
Weight is probably more important overall, but size can make or break usability in specific situations. A 16” laptop is not fun to try to use in an economy airplane seat for example, but a 12”/13” (especially if it has a trackpoint to cut down necessary arm movement) works great in the same circumstance.
The issue is that, apart from the Shor’s algorithm, it is hard to find a quantum algorithm, substantially faster than a classical one.

Moreover, since cost of qubits scale exponentially, a slight reduction in the power of a polynomial-time algorithm is not enough to offer a practical benefit.
The economic cards seemed more stacked against workers, so resentment for managers builds more quickly than the opposite direction. Management who resents their workers can also fire them. Workers who resent their managers must go find another job. And offshoring/nearshoring for workers happens more than managers.

Would be interested in comparing the interview processes for ICs vs. managers at Amazon. Probably no leetcode-equivalent for managers?
As I deployed Starlink in an extremely obstructed spot last year for a few weeks, where multi-second dropouts were quite common... it impressed me JUST HOW MANY satellites they have up there, and just how usable my dish was despite only having ~60% of its field of view clear. It's switching satellites much more often than every five minutes.

The built-in obstruction mapping tool quickly demonstrated that though each satellite represents a tiny slice of sky... over the course of the day you're seeing a vast number of satellites at a high variety of spatial angles and orbits.

I wouldn't recommend that obstructed situation to anyone (and it's going in a much clearer location this coming summer) but the users I was supporting reported it a far far better solution than the 4G LTE they'd been depending on prior. Not a patch on fiber, but a great solution for an awkwardly remote property.
https://archive.md/ofFDk
> There’s a good reason management arises.

Look, you have me for the rest of your post, but let's not imagine that the kind of management we see in an orthodox corporation in the year 2025 is some kind of emergent grassroots property.

It's a tool created by owners to exercise control over the people whose labour they own.
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My day job (company died a couple of weeks ago). We had > 100,000 LTO tapes in the end. With data archived way back in 2002 until present. We were still regularly restoring data. In our busiest years we were doing what averaged to 177 restores per day (365 days a year). Barely any physically destroyed tapes.

I see a few articles citing robotic failures as a big issue, but really someone can just place a tape in the robot if critical recovery is needed and the robot has died.
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Underrated basically always means "I really like it but no one in my social circles has brought it up unprompted", in my experience. Really annoys me.

Saw someone call the The Wild Robot, nominated for 3 Oscars, underrated the other day.
My experience has generally been that a group of intelligent adults are capable of both planning and steering the course of their development efforts as well as carrying out those development efforts. It's not unprecedented, or a particularly radical thesis: in university research labs, as a PhD student, post-doc, or professor, you manage yourself (PhD students meeting with their advisor once every few weeks).

Sure, there are meta-conversations about process and compensation, and there are younger employees who may need more guidance, and there are intersections with product managers etc. But the ratio of managers to ICs is often higher than needed.
I don't doubt you're right but the irony is illegal drugs go through the postal mail by the metric fuck tonne.
It's because the motivation for these acquisitions doesn't have much to do with product. It's just a way to extinguish outside talent and innovation that could disrupt down the road.
Most things are different from each other. Why does that difference matter in this case? It looks a lot like traders trading in a market. That isn't manipulation.
Harvard has a $53.2 billion endowment. That's where the money comes from.
As a non native speaker, I didn't know the word "delve" but now I know this word. I think internet community is learning from LLM?
Try the people that manage the people that manage the people that manage the managers. Maybe.

Definitely not the people being laid off.
How did you decide on routing engine? I’ve used Graphhopper in the past — is OSRM an improvement?
Yeah that would work for drones and slow cruise missiles but not ICBMs.
Throw them all out other than the 10 or 20 that are still technologically relevant (USB-C, HDMI, etc.). Next time you need one, buy one for $5 on eBay. You get all your storage space and time you’re going to spend on this back and all it costs is a few bucks to buy the one cable out of all of them that you’ll ever really use again.
I've had uncaring in person pharmacists
Back in the day, I had a Fujitsu Lifebook P-1120 with an 8.9" screen. It was perfect, but eventually fell behind the times. Even then, I kept using it for writing until it completely died.

I replaced it with a X200 and then X220 Thinkpad, which is still what I use for everyday computing needs. At 12.5" it works well for me, and even that is a tad bit large. I would happily go with a laptop with the same performance specs with a 9" screen. (Although, I doubt anything else would support the same onboard storage options my current X220 has: mSATA, SATA, SD card, and NVme in the ExpressCard slot are a very convenient mix for me.)
So many llama's with unwhipped asses.
One part of the company designed infrastructure, and another part used it. The results feel disparate because they're very separate markets.

Amazon did it on a shorter timeline and shipped the usage before the infrastructure, but it's not as wildly different as you state. The same seed grew branches in different directions, whose tips ended up very far apart from one another.
Free software isn't about source code either.

One of the four freedoms often gets a note that you need source code to make modifications, but this is not the focus, the focus is on being able to control your computing. source code is one very small possible prerequisite to some of that in some cases, but if all you have is source code you don't have freedom.
https://archive.ph/w7YYW
You missed the /sarky at the end.
The NYT sent me a free Google Cardboard once!
It’s DEI hiring to hire people who were hired to speak their own fairly unstudied Native American language?

It’s clear (and this is yet another case) that this whole DEI non issue is a fabricated propaganda dog whistle to certain people.

This will go down in American history for all the dreadful reasons it deserves. Absolutely dark and disgusting times America has entered.
> An ICBM is coming in at hypersonic speeds in the terminal phase, you’re not going to guide it anywhere using cell tower signals.

Hypersonic glide ICBMs have been successfully tested by China, and are under development in the US, so it's entirely possible to maneuver, and optionally guide them in the terminal, though perhaps not advisable on a jammable channel, except perhaps as an anti-radiation weapon.
Things like this remind me of the "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" cartoon:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:What_if_it%27s_a_big_hoax...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Pett
Given we have an epidemic of controlled substance abuse (driving its postal theft) I'm not sure this is such a bad thing
Tuition is often subsidized with the expectation that graduates will get a better salary than otherwise, generating more tax income in the long run than the amount of the subsidy. As such, free or heavily subsidized tuition can actually be a great investment for the government.

And yes, from that point of view, the students are the product.
I don't think it's useful to look at absolutes like this.

The question is, how many managers did they hire since the last round of layoffs, and what percent are being layed off now? Or, in other words, what's the bad hire rate? How does that unavoidable number compare to the industry?

14k people is 0.9% of their employees. Let's say they have a 16% manager ratio. That's maybe 5% of their management. What's the management/non-management ratio? Is it meant to balance for the reductions in headcount?
As an active investor, anyway.
Maybe it sticks to whatever colors are initially shown, and there's a button to "reset colors"?
That raises red flags that the standard market regulations are bad - they are signalling that they believe an exchange with different rules is better for both traders. That would be bad for all the traders stuck on the exchange with inferior rules, but the solution is to reform the standard exchange.

Probably trying to get away from HFT if I were going to guess blindly.
~48.3% of the US would probably be happy to join the EU.
Think sensor fusion for all the hardware and software in your company funneled into a great UI that manages to balance ease of use, intelligent automation, and powerful searching/graphing capabilities.

We trialed it at my last company. It managed to impress the CEO and my security team at the same time for vastly different reasons.
OT but what’s current in terms storing data in space ie on the moon or elsewhere within the solar system?
Off topic, but how pleasant to land on a fast-loading site without a bunch of battery & soul draining ads and social detritus
A lot of women complained about the "boys only club" in the 70s/80s/90s. While things have gotten better for women, there is still a lot of "club" going on.
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I don't think they do those things for validation. They do those things for control. Even c++ game developers create there own entire standard library replacements.
> I wouldn't bother running anything through a scan.

I take it you're not aware of any job portals ala myworkdayjobs having any automated anti-AI scans in place? Thanks for responding though.
Look to give you the benefit of the doubt there are some experiences you probably just havent had.
I don't know, maybe! I just did a half-arsed google and got an M.2 adaptor that doesn't look like it's designed for daily swappage? But maybe you're talking about something else.
It's because the people that lied about the pandemic and vaccines never got punished and we just went on with our day.

People's lives got ruined and we seriously had people saying that parents refusing to get their children vaccinated should havd their children taken away.
Really was a brilliant machine. I still have one on a desk paired with a Cinema Display. Weighed nothing when out and about and turns into an iMac at home. Mine is in its dotage now because the battery only lasts about an hour so it never leaves the house or does much heavy lifting, and it’s been replaced with a 14 inch MacBook Pro M3 alongside an 11 inch iPad Air. So pleased that Apple got rid of that pointless Touch Bar and returned to function keys. My M3 is like a platonically good laptop even though I wish it was a touch lighter. I managed to type out a 140,000 word book on my iPad when travelling. Having started on 8-bit home computers I’ll never stop being amazed by the world of computing hardware perfection we now live in.
This is probably over-engineered, even for people who can juggle their kubernetes inventory in their head.

For things like the bottom of my desk, I use a cable stapler to attach gear ties. You can easily add or remove a cable without tools.

I know, gear ties are kind of expensive. You can get cheap plant wire+foam thingies if you want.

Zip-ties are good for permanent or needs-to-be-secure situations, but I rarely guess right on "permanent". Then I need to dig out a cable nipper and another properly sized zip tie to make changes.
> Laptop size doesn't matter. Laptop weight is what matters.

Depends what you do with them. For years I have used laptops in development simply to avoid all the wiring associated with desktops, and for doing things like running the JetBrains tools, screensize and CPU does matter.

I don't do dev anymore, so my priorities have changed.
This is great. My WiFi is provided by a microwave link - it’s good but expensive.
> When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it’s not going to hurt us.

This got me confused for a second. I thought they were referring to some movie.
Each one of them who INSISTED we should "Just talk about the tech, not the politics" and that "You can't hold someone ethically responsible for creating a weapon, you must hate ONLY the people who use them"
Maersheimer has basically destroyed his reputation with his nonsense on hubris on Ukraine. Not only is he wrong be he refuses to admit he's wrong even when his contortions make him sound like an idiot. Example claiming Putin is not an imperialist

Actual history shows NATO bent over backwards to appease Russia (hint how many non local troops did nato have near russian borders before 2022? Almost none)and that Ukraine was not about to join NATO in 2022 or 2014 and that everyone including Putin knew this. Hell after the revolution of dignity but before the Russian invasion of Ukraine/local coups(Crimea in the south and parts of eastern Ukraine) Ukraine wasn't even seeking to join NATO, it was seeking to join the EU (which was also at best a difficult goal tha5 would take a long time).
Related Tell HN: US Government is surveilling HN (17 points, 5 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344704
That's also my understanding. One big boss and a bunch of compliant minions. As if Amazon wasn't already dog-eat-dog enough. This won't end there.
For those that have used Wiz, what makes it so great?

It's one of the fastest growing enterprise saas company ever in history.

But why?
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753626
You wonder if Wiz is having second thoughts about IPO just as we go into recession
The bezel size on the 2011 11" air vs the current 13" air with its Retina display makes that upgrade a no-brainer. 2011 11" was my prior fav, but 2024 13" air is the new king.

I recently spent 2 hours working on an airplane in economy class on a 16" pro, and all those extra specs didn't help me ssh to a cloud instance, and that large size made it extra tough. Air is the best.
> With no leader to target

In a way, the broader extractive system is setting up actual physical-property landlords as the sacrifical target... When it doesn't have lobbyists arguing the real drain are taxes.

Even in neo-manoralism, people still glanced towards wherever the manors are constructed.
Yeah, I’ve been working in the industry about 20 years, and I’ve had one bad manager experience (and also a couple of not-great experiences where I didn’t really _have_ a manager).

Tbh I think this “we should have fewer managers” thing is just the current management fad. It’ll pass sooner or later.
I guess that would be about asymmetrical encryption. Which is today indispensable for a lot of infrastructure. Still, there's symmetrical encryption, which is mostly untouched by Shor's algorithm.
genius. I love it. I'll take 14 of these immediately!
omg this is beautiful, great job!
Laser light can be dispersed or bent by atmosphere and whatever is suspended in it, like smoke or drizzle. Also, it needs precise targeting.

I can assume that laser links work wonderfully in outer space.

On land or sea, I can imagine using tactical smoke generators to disrupt laser links and visual navigation, giving an advantage to to systems that use e.g. microwaves for "vision", and radio channels for communication.

Also, why are you afraid of this development?
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