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Kaushik Gopal
Personal blog · kau.sh/blog · on HN as sorcercodeprogrammingaiproductivity
Kaushik Gopal's personal blog at kau.sh covers programming, ai and productivity. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “One Source of Truth for AI Instructions: Single Agents.md”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kaushik Gopal's blog for posts on an AGENTS.md agent-instructions file, the Commit Mono font, and Tufte-style sidenotes in Jekyll footnotes. Comments only point to these posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- One Source of Truth for AI Instructions: Single Agents.md2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-10
- Powering your Hugo blog with Bluesky Comments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-21
- Combating AI coding atrophy with Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-05
What Hacker News says?
this makes sense and as usual great eye by Simon. progressive disclosure is such a powerful concept, that every other tool is going to start adopting it. we've personally had such great results adopting it, especially for performing high quality large migrations. I wrote about this but I'm certain that eventually commands, MCPs etc will fade out when skills is understood and picked up by everyone https://kau.sh/blog…
Comment linking /blog/claude-skills/
on “OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI”Submitted How to Firefox as a story · 818 points
HN discussionhere's a similar implementation for Bluesky that I whipped up sometime back. https://kau.sh/blog/bluesky-comments-for-hugo/ I like my implementation cause it blends really well with the blog making it looks almost native. transferring the burden of maintenance - curation to a social media platform (and a slightly more open one to boot) has been a complete win.
Comment linking /blog/bluesky-comments-for-hugo/
on “I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse”Submitted A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad as a story · 328 points
HN discussionThere's truth to a lot of what's said in this post and I see many people complain but these opinions feel short sighted (not meant derogatorily - just that these are shorter term problems). > Teams that care about quality will take the time to review and understand (and more often than not, rework) LLM-generated code before it makes it into the repo. This slows things down, to the extent that any time saved using th…
Comment linking /blog/container-traffic-control/
on “Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code”Submitted What does $0=$2 in awk do? as a story · 131 points
HN discussion> The initial init makes some CHARM.md Oh god please no... can we please just agree on a standard for a well-known single agent instructions file, like AGENT.md [1] perhaps (and yes, this is the standard being shilled by Amp for their CLI tool, I appreciate the irony there). Otherwise we rely on hacks like this [2] [1] https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md [2] https://kau.sh/blog/agents-md/
Comment linking /blog/agents-md/
on “Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal”Submitted Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding as a story · 52 points
HN discussionCommit Mono apparently: https://kau.sh/blog/commit-mono/
Comment linking /blog/commit-mono/
on “A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad”Submitted Powering your Hugo blog with Bluesky Comments as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI wrote an article (this morning actually!) on picking up Rust to combat AI brain atrophy. My background is JVM-based (Kotlin), and my main contenders were Go vs Rust vs Zig. My reasoning for settling on Rust: If I wanted something more general-purpose and ergonomic, I'd stick with something like Kotlin, which has wider ecosystem support. Go could fit here too, but I've heard from more experienced folks that Go's si…
Comment linking /blog/learn-rust-ai-atrophy/
on “Why we built Lightpanda in Zig”Submitted Cognitive Burden as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI recently wrote a post on a way we can [reclaim em dashes back]( https://kau.sh/blog/reclaim-dash-lowercase-from-ai/ ). The key to do it without the LLM stigma is surrounding it with spaces which still doesn't violate typical writing rules.
Comment linking /blog/reclaim-dash-lowercase-from-ai/
on “I miss using em dashes”Submitted What a Mac mini and Tailscale enables as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe author made a post about it: https://kau.sh/blog/jekyll-footnote-tufte-sidenote/
Comment linking /blog/jekyll-footnote-tufte-sidenote/
on “What does $0=$2 in awk do?”Submitted One Source of Truth for AI Instructions: Single Agents.md as a story · 4 points
HN discussioni feel your pain my friend. i really do. i don't have your skills of actually customizing or changing glyphs in fonts directly but i've customized and used scripts to fix glyph characters available as open type features. I've done this for fonts like: - [Iosevka]( https://kau.sh/blog/build-iosevka-font-mac-os/ ) - [IBM Plex Mono]( https://kau.sh/blog/freeze-alt-char-open-type-font/ ) - [Jetbrains Mono]( https://gith…
Comment linking /blog/freeze-alt-char-open-type-font/
on “Making Google Sans Flex”Submitted Combating AI coding atrophy with Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot sure how you would define successful though. I built a Firefox addon almost entirely through vibe coding and I know at least 5 other random souls on the Internet who have used and thanked me for it. But it is by now stretch popular it makes money if those are the measures. I was trying to test the theory if it's even possible to release something production grade with vibe coding. Wrote about the experience here…
Comment linking /blog/container-traffic-control/
on “Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?”Submitted Hacking Your Keyboard with Karabiner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Age of the AI Phone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Tailwind CSS to a Hugo Blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replace Git-number with native Git aliases as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Let me help you get to Inbox 0 with Gmail (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is a motorbike for the mind – not always a good thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Source of Truth for AI (by Android engineer) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Own your online presence – Step 1 as a story · 1 points
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