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New ask Hacker News story: Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code

Norrin – Git/ diff control in Claude Code 3 by gagewoodard | 1 comments on Hacker News. You can now control diff inline, track files, and reject/ accept as you like in Claude Code. With this new tool you get Cursor-like control over your claude code agents making your code cleaner, you never get lost in changes, and can reduce your PR review time by more than half. https://norrin.dev

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown?

Ask HN: How should I convert Microsoft Word documents to Markdown? 4 by lkrubner | 3 comments on Hacker News. I took over a project that was built by an overseas team. They set up a data ingestion process. They have a step in the ingestion where they use Libre Office (in headless mode) to convert Microsoft Word documents to PDFs. Later we convert all PDFs to Markdown. They felt that it was best to convert everything to a PDF, and then convert all of the PDFs to Markdown. What I notice is that LibreOffice can create very complex PDFs when the Microsoft Word document has: 1. tables 2. multiple columns 3. strikethrough text I am thinking we should go straight from Microsoft Word to Markdown. What is the right software for that?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic?

Ask HN: Are You a Workaholic? 3 by julienreszka | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know I am. I need to chill. Sloth bad but the opposite too.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?

Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI? 3 by johndavid9991 | 6 comments on Hacker News. As a developer, my own workflow has shifted completely over the last few months, but I feel like I'm still uncovering the best patterns. I'm curious about the specific inflection points where things clicked for others. Was it a shift in how you prompt, a change in your tech stack, or learning when not to trust the output?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?

Ask HN: Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else? 3 by JohnDSDev | 3 comments on Hacker News. Do you use Claude Code, Codex, or a different vibe coding/agentic engineering tool for most of your work? Why?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic?

Ask HN: What technique do you use to make Claude Code deterministic? 3 by hbarka | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m curious to hear from the HN community how you tamed this probabilistic non-deterministic genius generate a deterministic and repeatable result 100% percent of the time.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?

Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future? 3 by JohnDSDev | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you think humans in the future in general will be more or less happy than they are now?