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Gauge
Company blog · gauge.sh/blogprogrammingai
Gauge is the company blog at gauge.sh, writing about programming and ai. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Parsing Python ASTs 20x Faster with Rust”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gauge for its Python tooling and engineering write-ups, such as a post on making AST analysis faster by making extensions lazy. Comments mostly point to its products rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose coupling, you can unlock a codebase that your engineers and AI love to work in. Improve
Most-linked posts?
- Parsing Python ASTs 20x Faster with Rust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
- Microservices Can Wait2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-21
- How to visualize your Python project's dependency graph2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-03
- Python extensions should be lazy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-07
- How to Build Hot Module Replacement in Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-27
What Hacker News says?
The site also suggests LLMs care a great deal one way or another. "Unlock a codebase that your engineers and AI love." https://www.gauge.sh/ I think they do often act opinionated and show some decision-making ability, so AI alignment really is important.
Comment linking /
on “AI makes tech debt more expensive”Submitted AI makes tech debt more expensive as a story · 467 points
HN discussionCo-author here - We do provide a web platform ( https://www.gauge.sh/platform ) which we have been developing with design partners. The fundamental difference between using Tach alone vs. the platform is that the platform provides incremental enforcement at the pull request level. We're always happy to chat about adding more design partners! email: founders@gauge.sh
Comment linking /platform
on “Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase”Submitted Python extensions should be lazy as a story · 115 points
HN discussionYes, good call out - I actually wrote a bit more about this and how we arrived at our solution with `tach`. [0] https://www.gauge.sh/blog/the-trouble-with-all
Comment linking /blog/the-trouble-with-all
on “Show HN: Strict interfaces and dep management for Python, written in Rust”Submitted The Trouble with __all__ as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSome related work from the same people, around how they sped up their AST analysis [0]. It looks like they have a few tools that would be very useful for wrangling existing python codebases and getting them under control. [0] https://www.gauge.sh/blog/python-extensions-should-be-lazy
Comment linking /blog/python-extensions-should-be-lazy
on “Show HN: Strict interfaces and dep management for Python, written in Rust”Submitted How to visualize your Python project's dependency graph as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing Python ASTs 20x Faster with Rust as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices Can Wait as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices Can Wait as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Make CI Fast and Cheap with Test Impact Analysis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build Hot Module Replacement in Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Monoliths as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing Python ASTs 20x Faster with Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build Hot Module Replacement in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling Tach to Large Codebases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Visualize Your Python Project's Dependency Graph as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Validate uv workspace Dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microservices Can Wait as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Visualize Your Python Project's Dependency Graph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to isolate a Python module with Tach as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing Python ASTs 20x Faster with Rust as a story · 1 points
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