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Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
Organic Maps impressed me with its elegant UI, effective routing, and good ethics.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 589 posts.
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Treemaps are awesome
An alternative to pprint for generically visualizing heterogeneous, hierarchical data
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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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Still Love Telnet
How to use the telnet command on the bash command line to debug network problems.
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How to legally pirate every font
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🥺: the best sudo replacement
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Burgr – Books in Your Terminal
I spend most of my time writing code in a full screen terminal. I like to read books on my breaks and I'm a big fan of Project Gutenberg, which has over 70...
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Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
tl;dr annotated AHK scripts here. Anybody who’s spent time with me knows how much I love AutoHotKey, the flat-out best Windows automation tool in the world. Anybody’s who’s tried to use AutoHotKey knows how intimidating it can be. So to help with that, I’m sharing (almost) all of my scripts along with extensive…
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Hey, computer, make me a font
This is a story of my journey learning to build generative ML models from scratch and teaching a computer to create fonts in the process.
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Install Windows the Arch Linux Way
Installing Windows strictly through the Command Line is an important tool to have. If windows changes the installer or out of box experience, you can bypass any changes with this guide!
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Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these…
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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
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Modern CSV version 2
And I think you’ll love it. I focused on several areas: Improved UI and user experience Faster performance Useful features Updated documentation For Mac users, Native Apple Silicon (ARM – M1, M2) compatibility If that’s all you need to know, you can buy a license here. Or if you already have a version 1 license, you…
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SymPy makes math fun again
An introduction into symbolic computations in Python. Don't worry, it's much simpler than it sounds. It's about making Python do your math for you with very little investment in the technology.
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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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Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
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GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support
On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion.
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RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
Thoughts for Nov 19, 2023
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How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style,' published May 20, 2021. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
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What a good debugger can do
When people say “debuggers are useless and using logging and unit-tests is much better,” I suspect many of them think that debuggers can only put breakpoints on certain lines, step-step-step through the code, and check variable values. While any reasonable debugger can indeed do all of that, it’s only the tip of the…
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Unified versus Split Diff
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
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ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic
tl;dr: OpenAI is testing the ability to run code and use third-party plugins in ChatGPT. OpenAI has announced that we’re developing plugins for ChatGPT that will extend its capabilities. [Link] Plu…
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From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)
How to find out someone's phone number if you just know their email address and how it can be automated using a new OSINT tool: email2phonenumber
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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
Anyone who posts silly lists like "15 AI tools you can't miss" is truly the one who is lost
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I wrote my own smart home software
I’ve wanted to automate my home for a long time… having a background in industrial automation and software development, it felt like I was in a great position to be an early adopter.
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HDR QR Code
Here’s an HDR QR Code . If you’re viewing this on an Apple device’s built-in display, it should work. If the big QR code is brighter than the smaller one, it works.