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Choly's Blog
Personal blog · choly.caprogrammingai
Choly's Blog is a personal blog at choly.ca about programming and ai. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Semgrep: AutoFixes Using LLMs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a post about debugging Go with rr, a reverse (time-travel) debugger. The commenter cites it while noting they rarely use debuggers in Go.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Documented Procrastination
Most-linked posts?
- Semgrep: AutoFixes Using LLMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-25
- Git: Programmatic Staging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-02
- Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-22
What Hacker News says?
Same here. I very rarely reach for a debugger. Especially with Go where you can recompile the binary very quickly. I tend to reach for a debugger when doing post mortem debugging or when I work with C where that's usually the easiest way to get a stack trace when a program crashes. That said, time travel / reverse debuggers can be quite useful indeed: see http://choly.ca/post/debugging-go-with-rr/
Comment linking /post/debugging-go-with-rr/
on “Go 1.17 Release Notes”Submitted Git: Programmatic Staging as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agent Recursion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git: Programmatic Staging as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Semgrep: AutoFixes Using LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Refactoring Rhythm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Semgrep: Rewriting semantic code search results using LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr as a story · 1 points
HN discussion