HN Rerank Development

Configuration for developing a Hacker News story re-ranking system using Aider AI pair programming assistant.

What This Does

This Aider configuration optimizes the development workflow for a Python web application that re-ranks Hacker News stories. It uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet with aggressive caching, auto-commits, and file watching to streamline the development process.

Instructions

When a user activates this skill, configure Aider with the following settings:

1. **Set the AI model:**

- Use `claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219` as the primary model

- Enable prompt caching with `cache-prompts: true`

- Set cache keepalive pings to 2 to maintain context

2. **Configure development workflow:**

- Disable streaming (`stream: false`) for complete responses

- Enable auto-commits (`auto-commits: true`) to save progress automatically

- Enable file watching (`watch-files: true`) to detect external changes

3. **Load project context by reading these files:**

- `Python.md` - Python coding guidelines

- `README.md` - Project documentation

- `pyproject.toml` - Project dependencies and configuration

- `main.py` - Main application entry point

- `posts.py` - Post handling logic

- `data_collection.py` - Data collection module

- `fasthtml-ctx.txt` - FastHTML framework context

4. **Maintain awareness of:**

- The project is a FastHTML-based web application

- It involves web scraping and data processing

- Code should follow Python best practices defined in Python.md

- All commits should be meaningful and automatic

Usage Example

```bash

Create .aider.conf.yml in your project root

cat > .aider.conf.yml << 'EOF'

model: claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219

cache-prompts: true

cache-keepalive-pings: 2

stream: false

auto-commits: true

watch-files: true

read:

- Python.md

- README.md

- pyproject.toml

- main.py

- posts.py

- data_collection.py

- fasthtml-ctx.txt

EOF

Start Aider (it will automatically load the config)

aider

```

Important Notes