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Kite.com
Company blog · kite.com/blogprogrammingai
Kite.com is the company blog at kite.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2016, 63 different Hacker News readers have linked it 105 times, most often “AI based autocomplete for Python coding”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 37 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link kite.com as the home page of the Kite coding assistant, along with its privacy policy, FAQ and Python blog posts such as SMOTE and web scraping tutorials.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the privacy page answered their concerns quite nicely.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 37 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- AI based autocomplete for Python coding9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-04-21
- Kite – Programming Assistance7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-04-14
- Kite – Programming Copilot5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-14
- /privacy3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-14
- /enterprise3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-28
- Handling Imbalanced Datasets with Smote in Python2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-08-26
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-29
- /settings/files2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-24
- Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-17
- /static/media/autocomplete-python-flow.690d3185.png2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-26
What Hacker News says?
I haven’t seen any comparisons yet to the competition. How does copilot compare to the likes of kite and tab9? https://www.kite.com/ https://www.tabnine.com/
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on “GitHub Copilot”Submitted Kite – Programming Copilot as a story · 1138 points
HN discussionI remember another company called Kite [1], working on a similar approach - smart autocompletion - this however uses GPT-3 so it's a bit different I guess because it doesn't detect what you're trying to do but rather transforms technical natural language into code. Right? [1] https://www.kite.com
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on “GitHub Copilot”Submitted Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code as a story · 1080 points
HN discussionFirst, this is amazing. I want. Second, I do a lot of code readings that include not shareable code, I would imagine a lot of developers from a lot of companies would be in the same position. From https://kite.com/privacy/ : * all the python files in your authorized directories are sent over the network * everything you type in these files are sent as well * all the terminal commands you are going to type (ouch ouch…
Comment linking /privacy/
on “Kite – Programming Copilot”Submitted Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python as a story · 553 points
HN discussionI was about to ask some questions about exactly what gets sent to Kite and what you do with it. Your privacy page[0] answered my thoughts and concerns quite nicely. [0] https://kite.com/privacy
Comment linking /privacy
on “Kite – Programming Copilot”Submitted Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, secures $17M in funding as a story · 173 points
HN discussionPSA: I removed the whitelisted directory from my local install of Kite and then uninstalled the application. Logging into https://kite.com/settings/files still shows my machine and all of the synced files. I still had to manually purge my machine and files from that page. If you think your files were removed, check again.
Comment linking /settings/files
on “How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community”Submitted AI-Powered JavaScript Completions as a story · 141 points
HN discussionIf you want to see if they have any of your data, check: https://kite.com/settings/files I have zero faith this page actually works though. A few months ago I deleted all of my data and I checked back today and it has reappeared. (I uninstalled the client and deleted my login token back then too, so as far as I can see it's their issue.) I have sent them a stern email to delete my data. If you want your data deleted…
Comment linking /settings/files
on “How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community”Submitted Kite Responds to the Minimap and Autocomplete Issues as a story · 116 points
HN discussion> it uploaded all of the source code on my computer to their service. That sounds crazy, so I reviewed their privacy policy[0]. It looks like Kite now requires users to whitelist the directories it indexes and automatically purges files you remove from the local index. The Privacy Policy says that: > When you use our services, we may collect [...] Any source code files on your computer's hard drive that you have exp…
Comment linking /privacy
on “How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community”Submitted Kite: Thoughts on Security as a story · 103 points
HN discussion> It is unclear what Kite’s business model is Their business model is to sell subscriptions to a premium version: https://kite.com/pro#business
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on “How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community”Submitted Best Practices for Using Functional Programming in Python as a story · 93 points
HN discussionThey use machine learning to see which code patterns follow other code patterns and then make suggests based on that. "Oh, I see you've written X. Most people who write X follow it with Y." However, this requires reading people code that they upload to their servers. See their privacy policy here: https://kite.com/privacy .
Comment linking /privacy
on “How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source community”Submitted How to Scrape the Web Using Python? A 8 Minute Read as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThere are other AI-based code completion systems than Copilot, at least Tabnine[1] and Kite[2] come to mind, I'm sure there are more. [1] https://www.tabnine.com/ [2] https://www.kite.com/
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on “Copilot sells code other people wrote”Submitted Kite Adds Linux Support, Opens Line-of-Code Completions to More Python Devs as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI think you might be confusing Sourcegraph with Kite[1] (zero relation with Sourcegraph). Kite tries to do something like what you are describing. With Sourcegraph, we have editor plugins for various editors[2] but they only perform "Open current file on Sourcegraph" and "Search selection on Sourcegraph" actions, nothing like what you are describing yet. [1] https://kite.com/ [2] https://about.sourcegraph.com/docs/i…
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on “Sourcegraph is now open source”Submitted String Formatting with Python as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNo that was Kite, they paid editor plugin developers to take over the plugin and then added their code complete which requires sending all source code to their servers. https://qz.com/1043614/this-startup-learned-the-hard-way-tha... https://kite.com
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on “Sourcegraph is now open source”Submitted Latest Kite Security Features, Mac Uninstallation Bug as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNo, that is https://kite.com/ (absolutely no relation to Sourcegraph).
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on “Sourcegraph is now open source”Submitted Create a 3D Printed QR Code Using Python as a story · 10 points
HN discussionKite | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://kite.com Kite's mission is to use machine learning to automate away the tedious and repetitive parts of programming in order to enable software developers to be more efficient and productive. Our product brings the web's programming knowledge — intelligently sorted completions, all the documentation, and thousands of great examples — right into your favorite edi…
Comment linking /jobs?job=ml&ref=keyvalues
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted AI based autocomplete for Python coding as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDear Kite, I really love this idea, but hell no I'm not using it yet. Here's why... I'll cut to the point here, so please forgive the bluntness as I mean no insult or accusation, just honest criticism, and I'm gonna try to cover a lot in as small a space as possible. There's not even a mention on kite.com about how data is handled that I can find anywhere. What is the method of transport? What stands between skids a…
Comment linking /blog/thoughts-on-security
on “Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python”Submitted Kite – Artificial pair programmer as a story · 7 points
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