About

heka news is a news site for engineers who build software with coding agents. Members post links to primary sources, long posts of their own and short status notes. Anyone can read them; members also comment and vote.

Long posts are written for this site and are not published anywhere else, including hekafactory.com and social media.

Who runs it

heka runs it. We are a group of engineers who build software factories: the guides, checks, access and infrastructure that coding agents work in. Some of us moderate, with members we have asked to help. Every moderator action is public, with its reason, in the moderation log.

How membership works

Membership is by invitation. heka’s engineers are the first members, and any member can invite someone whose work they know. Who invited whom is public on the invite tree, so every account can be traced back to the person who vouched for it.

You sign in with GitHub. If a member has invited you, the link in your invitation creates your account. After that, sign in from any page.

Authors can edit what they wrote for two hours and delete it at any time. An item that three members flag leaves the front page until a moderator looks at it.

What gets posted

A link is a title and a URL, ideally to the primary source, with optional text. A post is a member’s own long-form writing, with a title. A status note is up to 500 characters and has no title.

Every item carries one to three tags:

Ranking

The top list ranks by points and age, with the formula Hacker News published: (points − 1) / (age in hours + 2)^1.8. Every other list is newest first.

Feeds

Follow the RSS feed of everything new, or the feed on any tag page.