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Announcing unlimited free private repos

The GitHub Blog20192,867 points684 commentscited by 5Tech Industry & Business details

Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.

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Zed 1.0

Zed Blog20262,153 points690 comments Software Engineering details

From the Zed Blog: The editor we set out to build is now 1.0.

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Backing up Spotify

Anna's Archive Blog20251,980 points701 comments Tools & Productivity details

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Farewell, Google Maps

inderapotheke.de Blog20181,747 points527 comments Life, Learning & Writing details

Haben Sie Zweifel? Sie wissen nicht, wo Sie das Präparat kaufen und wie Sie es mit anderen Medikamenten verwenden können? Fragen Sie einen Spezialisten.

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Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

Meta Engineering Blog20161,714 points469 comments Tools & Productivity details

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Hacker News API

Y Combinator Blog20141,714 points298 commentscited by 15Software Engineering details

Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API [https://github.com/HackerNews/API]. [https://github.com/HackerNews/API] We’ve partnered up with Firebase [http://firebase.com] (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real time, which should be a huge improvement for developers who had to…

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Sublime Text 3.0

Sublime Text Blog20171,653 points675 comments Software Engineering details

Compared to the last beta, 3.0 brings a refreshed UI theme, new color schemes, and a new icon. Some of the other highlights are big syntax highlighting improvements, touch input support on Windows, Touch Bar support on macOS, and apt/yum/pacman repositories for Linux.

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How journalists use youtube-dl

Freedom of the Press Foundation20201,651 points328 comments Tools & Productivity details

The popular free software project “youtube-dl” was removed from Github on Friday following a legal notice from the Recording Industry Association of America claiming it violates copyright law. The tool is widely used by journalists for various reporting purposes.

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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

Immich20251,464 points688 comments Tools & Productivity details

How Google actively breaks Immich deployments, an open-source Google Photos alternative.

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Sublime Text 4

Sublime Text Blog20211,436 points630 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!

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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Signal Blog20241,422 points872 commentscited by 11Security & Privacy details

Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...

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Ghostty 1.4

Ghostty20261,358 points447 comments Tools & Productivity details

Release notes for Ghostty 1.4.0, released on October 27, 2026.

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Sunsetting Atom

The GitHub Blog20221,320 points853 commentscited by 5Tools & Productivity details

We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.

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GIMP 3.0

GIMP News20251,312 points508 comments Open Source details

Release notes for GIMP 3.0

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Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

Anthropic Blog20261,298 points565 comments AI & Machine Learning details

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Kagi20261,275 points1,961 commentscited by 21Tools & Productivity details

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

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Introducing the Keybase filesystem

Keybase Blog20161,252 points462 comments Systems & Performance details

Browse technical documentation on the public-key cryptography that powers Keybase. Learn how Keybase Chats, Files, Teams, and Git are secured.

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Documenting the Web together

Windows Blog20171,210 points203 comments Web & Frontend details

Today, we’re excited to share some big news for developers around the world wide web: We’re committing our resources towards making MDN Web Docs the best place to go for web API reference. To kick things off, today we started redirecting over 7,700 MSDN pages to corresponding topics in the MDN web docs library powered

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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Quesma Blog20261,192 points759 comments AI & Machine Learning details

Qwen3.6 27B is finally a smart model we can use for coding on MacBook or NVIDIA RTX - with llama.cpp and OpenCode.

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Is something bugging you?

Antithesis Blog20241,179 points418 comments Software Engineering details

At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.

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I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace

InstaVM Blog20251,143 points286 comments AI & Machine Learning details

Building a completely offline AI workspace with local LLMs, sandboxed code execution, and browser automation — no cloud dependencies, maximum privacy.

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Study mode

OpenAI Blog20251,130 points805 commentscited by 4AI & Machine Learning details

Introducing study mode in ChatGPT, a new learning experience that helps you work through problems step by step, guiding students with questions, scaffolding, and feedback for deeper learning.

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Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

AWS Blog20201,091 points481 comments Tools & Productivity details

Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it answered “PENTAGON […]

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