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gstack

Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

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Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

100x Developers direct repository linkDebated

Participants debate whether the '100x developer' metric represents a genuine productivity leap or merely exaggerated claims based on narrow tasks like boilerplate generation. Critics argue that while AI accelerates specific coding activities, it fails to deliver proportional gains in overall business value due to human attention limits and corporate inefficiencies.

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HN mentions by week20 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-03-12 18:30:47 UTC to 2026-08-25 05:31:36 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

024682026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 92026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 5 submissions, 3 comments2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 12026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 24

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I like using grill me in conjunction with obra superpowers spec driven development https://www.aihero.dev/skills-grill-me https://github.com/obra/superpowers When I'm doing something quite complex I'll also throw in gstack office hours but I find that its usually overkill for many things https://github.com/garrytan/gstack I do often use the /qa skill regardless though. I always hated QA because it was so monotonous and it required a level of organization and creativity i never had (i mean im the developer so if I thought of edge cases id have solved for them) I like that /qa covers and documents every edge case that it tested and I can nudge it about other ones
In Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
To the best of my knowledge Linus Torvalds isn't posting walls of text to Github breathlessly announcing he's 810x-ed [1] his "logical lines of code/day" compared to what he was doing in 2013. And, lest you think generating "600,000 lines of production code in 60 days" [2] is potentially problematic, has also fully solved the primary failure modes of AI coding identified by Andrej Karpathy, once and for all: "Karpathy's four failure modes? Already covered." [1] As someone who has experienced mania, including with a programming bent specifically, it's hard not to raise an eyebrow at the idiosyncratic human-y bits of his thinking floating up from the sea of em-dashes and it's not X it's Y in his manifestos. Plus volunteering this [3] in an interview: “I sleep, like, four hours a night right now,” he told his interviewer, fellow VC Bill Gurl
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ey, during an onstage interview Saturday. “I have cyber psychosis, but I think a third of the CEOs that I know have it as well,” he joked about his current AI obsession. (Tan’s assistant confirmed to us that he was joking. ...) It’s like I was able to re-create my startup that took $10 million in VC capital and 10 people, and I worked on that for two years, and I took anti-narcoleptics — I remember, you know, sort of being on modafinil... [1] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack [2] https://github.com/garrytan/gstack/blob/main/docs/ON_THE_LOC... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code...
In City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
Hi HN, I forked Garry Tan's [gstack](https://github.com/garrytan/gstack) and adapted it for C++ development. The original is brilliant for web dev (Playwright, npm, React). I rebuilt it for the C++ toolchain. What changed: - Browser automation → cmake/make/ninja build system - Playwright QA → ctest + GTest/Catch2 - ESLint → clang-tidy/cppcheck - Browser console errors → ASan/UBSan/TSan/valgrind reports What it does: 13 specialist AI roles: - `/review` — Pre-landing PR review (memory safety, UB, data races) - `/qa` — Build → test → analyze → sanitizers → fix → re-verify - `/ship` — One-command ship with PR creation - Plus architecture planning, design audit, CEO review, etc. My additions (v0.7.0): - n8n integration for GitHub → Slack → Jira automation - MCP server wrapper for external AI agents - Pre-built workflows for common operations T
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ry it: ```bash git clone https://github.com/bulyaki/gstackplusplus.git ~/.claude/skills/gstackplusplus cd ~/.claude/skills/gstackplusplus && ./setup ``` Repo: https://github.com/bulyaki/gstackplusplus Would love feedback from the C++ community!
In Gstack++ – Garry Tan's gstack adapted for C++ development

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