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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 546 posts.
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Seven Levels of Busy
Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my be
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Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client. Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world. ReviewStack is a demonstration code review UI for Gi…
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I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
What will happen when our phones record everything we say 24x7 using AI to process that information?, before someone else does, I tried to do it myself, and this is the result. First of all some clarifications. It’s not really 24x7 because I didn’t find it useful to leave it
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Your Next Smart Home Device is a $30 Used Kindle
If you know how to use a command line, you can build one
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How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
Why throw away your old Camera? In this guide we'll show you how simple it is to reuse your old Camera as a webcam using the NixOS linux distribution.
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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
Why I uninstalled Plex Media Server after over a decade and migrated my movie and TV show collection to Jellyfin instead of Emby.
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On CAD
With cheap 3D printers and PCB manufacturing services you could conceivably design something and have a physical prototype on your desk in the same week. It is quite common to see hardware projects on github that contain firmware source code, STLs for 3D printed parts, and Gerber files for PCBs. To assemble them you…
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Sublime Text 4 Build 4142
Sublime Text 4, build 4142 is out now with new features, performance improvements and bug fixes.
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Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size
Examining why some popular iOS apps suddenly got bigger after releasing with Xcode 14.
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Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
Every year, we have a new iPhone that claims to be faster and better in every way. And yes, these new computer vision models and new image sensors can exercise the phone as hard as they can. However, you could already take good pictures on an iPhone 10 years ago. These are incremental improvements.
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Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
For web automation/testing, Selenium has been the de facto "standard" since forever. It's simple to get started with and supports almost every programming language. My problem with it has been: It's good enough, but nothing more. It doesn't work that well with modern, Javascript framework heavy sites (Angular, React
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Idiot Proof Git
Aliases, etc that have made rebase-based workflows in Git much less advanced feeling.
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My DIY ergonomic travel workstation with aluminum and magnets
Ever since moving from NYC to SF to work at Anthropic I’ve been visiting NYC and working remotely quite often. So I designed myself a travel workstation that lets me get the best of ergonomics and packability.
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Writing down what I do in Obsidian
An update on my years-long habit, with a new tool.
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Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house
Artificial lighting is omnipresent in contemporary society with disruptive consequences for human sleep
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Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products
Developer, writer, indie hacker · 📍 Montreal, QC
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Signal Introduces Stories
If your favorite way to update your friends about life disappears in 24 hours, we’ve got some happy news for you. Stories are now available on Signal for Android and iOS, with Desktop coming soon!
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Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing
Tech-Tutorials, Howtos and buying advice2022208 points161 commentscited by 3Hardware & Electronics details
Audio CD ripping - optical drive accuracy listing
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Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing
The unedited, writerly feel of monospaced fonts meets the readability and legibility of proportional ones.
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Bike: Innovative Rich Text Editing
Bike Outliner now supports rich text! Download Release notes Bike’s rich text editing should be familiar. There’s also innovation 1 . I’m trying to improve the fundamentals of how…
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Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code
Who writes the developer documentation for your product? During the early days of my tech career, I worked on a database replication product at IBM. My immediate team had developers and testers but not a single technical writer. I can speak for myself when I say that I never bothered to know who keeps writing the…
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Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
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A few of my favourite things about the OpenBSD Packet Filter tools
Guest Post: How to use PF features and tools.
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iPhone 14 Pro camera review: A small step, a huge leap
When the iPhone was first introduced, it packed in quite a few innovations. At a now-legendary keynote, Steve Jobs announced that Apple was launching a widescreen iPod, a phone and an internet communications device. These three devices were not separate new products, he revealed — they were all functions of
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Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero
BYOPM is a self hosted portable Password Manager implementation based on BitWarden and Raspberry PI Zero.