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Announcing unlimited free private repos
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 2,090 posts.
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Zed 1.0
From the Zed Blog: The editor we set out to build is now 1.0.
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Farewell, Google Maps
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Hacker News API
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
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
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
How Google actively breaks Immich deployments, an open-source Google Photos alternative.
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Sublime Text 4
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’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
Release notes for Ghostty 1.4.0, released on October 27, 2026.
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Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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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No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
Bad service in the subway? Transit's offline motion detection shows where you are between stations, and reminds you when your stop’s up next
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Kiro: A new agentic IDE
A new agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production
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Postgres IDE in VS Code
We are excited to announce the public preview of the brand-new PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), designed to simplify PostgreSQL...
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Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU
How to run Stable Diffusion locally so you can hack on it