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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 140 posts.
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Getting Started with QGIS, PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OSM data with PostGIS and QGIS.
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PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads
PortableApps.com has hit the 1 billion portable apps downloaded milestone. That's 1,000,000,000 portable apps served to millions of users in dozens of languages all over the world. All of the 1 billion portable apps served from PortableApps.com were freeware or open source software which run on our open source, free…
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Elementary OS 6.1
We come bearing gifts and Yule tidings!
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W external antenna mod
We've barely scratched the surface of the Pi Zero 2's capabilities. [Brian Dorey] shows us how to hack your Pi's WiFi and improve its performance. A u.FL footprint can be discovered in line with the onboard WiFi antenna, implying that someone had to connect an external antenna.
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: Touchpad Gestures Now Shipping
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Cheating at a company group activity using Unix tools
The tools you didn’t know you need
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Improving GitHub Code Search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
UPDATE 1/5/2022: We have begun rolling out the redesigned Notepad for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Wi
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The "five whys" productivity technique
If you're having trouble with your productivity, consider finding the root using the 5 Whys technique.
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AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
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Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
14 November 2022: This blog has been updated to remove the link to the preview form. Last year at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Barr wrote about the exciting availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a new EC2 M1 Mac instance. The introduction of EC2 Mac…
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4x Smaller, 50x Faster
News about asciinema development and new releases
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Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
Update (Dec 3, 2021): We’ve received an overwhelming number of requests for the Fleet Early Preview program. Unfortunately we can't accept any new requests, but we will continue sending invites to tho
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Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags
Remember YouTube5? And a Dinosaur remembers. YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube...
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New differential fuzzing tool reveals novel HTTP request smuggling techniques
We enable the world to secure the web. Burp Suite, the Web Security Academy, and world-leading research from PortSwigger — the AppSec community’s home.
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Durable Objects now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
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How to Create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel
Describes how to create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel using Excel's charting capabilities
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Where should the debugger set a breakpoint?
When you search for executions of a function in Pernosco (or set a breakpoint in a more traditional debugger), how does the debugger decide where to stop? You might think it just stops at the first instruction in a function, but that's not true in general. Debuggers actually stop immediately after the function's…
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Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool
The new on-call management tool is available in beta preview for Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans.
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Improving first impressions on Signal
The phenomenon of unsolicited and unwanted messaging dates back to the earliest communication platforms: from prehistoric cave graffiti and postal chain letters to popup ads and robocalls. To prevent spam, most online services rely on large-scale inspection of plaintext conversation content or de...
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Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Vantage users can now add a Slack webhook to their Vantage account and receive daily, weekly or monthly reports of their cloud costs in their team's Slack channels.
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Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
Windows 10? Or Windows 11? Well, why not Linux instead? Here are 11+ reasons to switch to the great open source operating system now.
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Usbimager – A non-electron based alternative to Balena Etcher
USBImager, Windows, Linux, MacOS
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Hypertext Tools from the 80s
The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.
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iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things
The iPhone 13 Pro features a new camera capable of focusing closer than ever before—less than an inch away. This opens a whole new dimension for iPhone photographers, but it’s not without surprises. Let’s take a tour of what this lens unlocks, some clever details you might
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A new public beta of GitHub Releases
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.