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Spaces launch in Element
Spaces rethink grouping rooms and people, fundamentally improving Element and Matrix to better group conversations instead of viewing all rooms all of the time.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 754 posts.
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How and Why to Log Your Bash History
An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.
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The Microsoft MFA system almost brought me to a nervous breakdown
Update 12/10/21, 10:15 UTC: I never imagined this post would reach the front page on Hacker News and gather so much support. Thank you all…
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Minimal PDF
Most PDF files do not look readable in a text editor. Compression, encryption, and embedded images are largely to blame. After removing these three components, one can more easily see that PDF is a human-readable document description language.
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WebMCP is available for early preview
WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your site with increased speed, reliability, and precision.
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools
I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
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Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts
It’s quite gratifying that Markdown has not only become so popular, but after 21 years, continues to grow in popularity, to the point now where there clearly are a lot of people who seemingly enjoy writing in Markdown more than even I do. But I think it would be a huge mistake for Apple to make Apple Notes a “Markdown…
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Command-line tools for data science
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Sep 19, 2013. 21 min read. Data science is OSEMN (pronounced as awesome). That is, it involves Obtaining, Scrubbing, Exploring, Modelling, and iNterpreting data. As a data scientist, I spend quite a bit of time on the command-line, especially when there’s data to be obtained, scrubbed…
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Tools for thought: graphical algebra and Fourier analysis
" I think a lot of mathematics is really about how you understand things in your head. […]
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Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio
This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.
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ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant
Ever since I tried ChatGPT and GPT-3, everything else feels painfully dumb and useless: Siri, Alexa, Google Home and all other “smart”…
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Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on how to protect yourself if you're experimenting with them.
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Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
I’ve pretty much always been a DVCS apologist. I know quite a few people who’ve been using DVCSes since Mercurial and Git, and a few who go back to BitKeeper , but I can totally out-hipster you. I was there for Monotone . I actually remember struggling to grok tla , and being happy that someone took the time to write…
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We Tried Slack and Regretted It
Back in April, all was well with our community of busy adults learning to code. We were communicating using Gitter.im, a GitHub based chatroom system. And yet every day, someone would ask me “Why aren’t your campers using Slack?” I’d considered Slack...
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How to Replace Docker with Podman on a Mac
Back in March 2021, I wrote about how I replaced Docker with Podman on a Mac using VirtualBox and Vagrant after an old version of podman machine became depre...
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RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE
“When will there be a Rust IDE?” Update: RustRover is now generally available, with free non-commercial use and commercial licensing options. Learn more about the RustRover release. We get this
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Use GNU Emacs
This work by Keith Waclena is copyright 2026 and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
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Azure Container Instances
Containers have fundamentally changed the way developers develop their applications, the way applications are deployed, and the way system administrators manage their environments. Containers offer a broadly accepted and open standard, enabling simple portability between platforms and between clouds. Today, I am…
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The success and failure of Ninja (2020)
Reflecting on my most successful open source project.
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Thunderbird 68.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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My Tungsten Cube (2019)
A few months ago I bought a featureless cube of tungsten. It’s 1.5 inches across and cost $130, but I argue it was one of the best purchases I’ve made recently.
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A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film
Narrowband trichromatic (RGB) light sources are superior to broadband (white) light for scanning color negative film; there are very good reasons why all commercial film scanners use RGB. ( film scanners were using blue LEDs at least a decade before they would be widely used in consumer products! ) Scanning film with…
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Running Costs of a SaaS app
A close look at the costs that go into running Cushion and the reasons why we use specific services.
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Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android and iOS with one ...
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Edit is now open source
Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub!