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Replit Blog is the company blog at blog.replit.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2021, 103 different Hacker News readers have linked it 266 times, most often “Betting on CodeMirror”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Most-linked posts?
- Betting on CodeMirror6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-03-10
- Replit now supports every programming language in Nix6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- Announcing Replit Ventures5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-04-13
- Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-12-15
- Betting on Nix5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-10-25
- Replit and Codex – Beta Release4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-09-28
- Debuggest4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-24
- Productizing Large Language Models3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
- CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-31
- Replit - How to train your own LLM Models3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-19
What Hacker News says?
> I feel it could become an easier Docker for people wanting to try programming with little fuss. In a lot of ways, repl.it is doing this. https://blog.replit.com/powered-by-nix
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on “Postgres WASM”Submitted Replit Mobile App as a story · 372 points
HN discussion(Replay engineer): Yes, replit has been working on adding similar functionality ( https://blog.replit.com/debuggest ). In fact: we've been collaborating with them on it! :)
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on “Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development”Submitted Why we switched from Webpack to Vite as a story · 355 points
HN discussionInteresting take on ideas well presented in a blog post, dubbed as "CLUI": https://blog.replit.com/clui
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Will Nix Overtake Docker? as a story · 327 points
HN discussionPatrick from Replit here. Excuse the self-promotion, but if you're curious how Fig got started by building their MVP on Replit, check out their interview on our blog: https://blog.replit.com/fig . Edit: And of course big congrats to Matt and Brendan on the launch! It's been a lot of work and a long time coming. You've built a great product!
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on “Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal”Submitted Replit now supports every programming language in Nix as a story · 263 points
HN discussionWe have a sneaking suspicion that the robots that write LLM code are going to like SQLite too. We think what coding agents like Phoenix.new want is a way to try out code on live data, screw it up, and then rollback both the code and the state. Prescient. Agents would of course work well if they can go back in time to checkpoints and branch from there, exploring solutions parallely as needed. Anyone who has experienc…
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on “Litestream: Revamped”Submitted We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure as a story · 251 points
HN discussionYes we have stories from all over the world where people are using mobile to build real things. There is a kid in Egypt, for example, that built discord bots for a living on his phone. Additionally there are also lots of cases were fairly well off folks with access to desktop computers and wifi that find themselves with a phone and want to prototype an idea or make a quick change to a project. I’ve been using it and…
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on “Replit Mobile App”Submitted Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021) as a story · 247 points
HN discussionReplit | Full-Time Engineering Roles | Hybrid in Foster City, CA Build software faster. Replit is an AI-powered software development and deployment platform for building, sharing, and shipping software fast. Look what we've been up to: https://blog.replit.com/introducing-replit-agent Available Roles: - Software Engineer, Platform - Software Engineer, Workspace UX - Software Engineer, Product - Staff Software Enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020) as a story · 178 points
HN discussion> I wonder if we'll ever really have something like that on top of Nix or NixOS. Xe, go do it! (: In all seriousness, Fly.io has explored this path (and very well may pursue it depending on RoI of going down this route, I'd imagine): https://github.com/superfly/recco Even though I'd like Fly.io to be more like Heroku, it is railway.app that comes the closest (but I believe they use buildpacks like Fly.io does rather…
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on “I Miss Heroku's DevEx”Submitted Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B as a story · 160 points
HN discussionI understand the feeling of being taken advantage of, but this seemed clearly like an over-reaction. A 100% apology was in order from my (sideline) opinion. He's just an ex intern having some fun, probably trying to impress his former boss even. I was reading through the replit blog to see what kind of things are trade secret vs public, and noticed that they didn't go out of their way to highlight that Bret Victor's…
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on “How did Replit respond to this blog post?”Submitted Replit Apps as a story · 126 points
HN discussionMy experience was seriously different. I started with Slackware, switched to Arch and after a failed attempt to run some AUR scripts, I was tired and switched to NixOS. Incidentally, I treat both my Emacs config and my NixOS and home-manager configurations as Igors. They are never really finished. In this sense, the "many months of effort to get to that point" does not matter. Also, with NixOS I feel I can be bolder…
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on “Our Roadmap for Nix”Submitted The Python Package Cache as a story · 39 points
HN discussionReplit actually has every nix package installed: https://blog.replit.com/nix They mount a 1TB volume with all packages preinstalled
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on “Installing Every Arch Package”Submitted How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python as a story · 37 points
HN discussionCool to see Kaboom on HN again! Kaboom is the culmination of multiple attempts at creating a game programming environment aimed at new coders. It started in 2018 when we noticed that many kids come to Replit from Scratch ready to transition from blocks to coding and get lost trying to find the best way to make games. There are many ways to make games with Replit -- pygame, html, love2d -- but based on our research t…
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on “Kaboom – JavaScript game programming library and environment”Submitted Building LLMs for Code Repair – Replit as a story · 35 points
HN discussionIt's CodeMirror! All I had to do was write a Janet grammar for it -- very easy to do. CodeMirror is pretty amazing -- I was able to implement the "edit values with your mouse" by just asking CodeMirror for the syntax node under the cursor, checking if it parsed as a number, and if so replacing it with a different string. https://codemirror.net/ https://github.com/ianthehenry/codemirror-lang-janet I went with CodeMir…
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on “Show HN: Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math”Submitted GhostWriter Beta and AI Mode as a story · 26 points
HN discussionCreate React App is a crime against computers. It's an absolute resource hog, which maybe is okay for Facebook engineers with $3000 MacBooks, but we can't give that much resources to free users. To use React on Replit you should use Vite. We were on HN just yesterday talking about it, it's an absolute delight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26972400 If you really want to use CRA on Replit, you should buy the h…
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on “We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure”Submitted Replit AI for All as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSome companies host bots, internal tools, and increasingly micro-services. But primarily side-projects and increasingly early-stage startups (e.g. https://blog.replit.com/blubbr ). One fresh thing is plenty of developers in India are hosting covid support apps on Replit. This particular app has done 1m+ hits in the past 24 hours: https://covid.army/ You can add __repl after any app to get the source: https://covid.a…
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on “We Built Our Own DNS Infrastructure”Submitted Secret Management on Replit as a story · 14 points
HN discussion
