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MCP in LM Studio
New in LM Studio 0.3.17: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Host support. Connect MCP servers to the app and use them with local models.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 146 posts.
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Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python
Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static type checker that analyzes Python code to ensure type …
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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified
Excalidraw+ is officially SOC 2 Type I certified! Here's how we got there — the tools, policies, infra changes, and what we learned along the way.
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How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
This week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you don't want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it.
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Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
Turso Offline Sync is now in public beta. Write to local SQLite databases offline at file speed, then sync push and pull with Turso Cloud when reconnected.
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New coding models and integrations
GLM-4.6 and Qwen3-coder-480B are available on Ollama’s cloud service with easy integrations to the tools you are familiar with. Qwen3-Coder-30B has been updated for faster, more reliable tool calling in Ollama’s new engine.
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MCP: An in-depth introduction
Understand the building blocks of the Model Context Protocol - tools, resources, prompts, transports, sampling, and roots - and how they fit together.
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Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI
We're excited to announce an enhancement to Gemini CLI that makes your workflow more powerful a...
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Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python (2018)
Behind the scenes blog of pretix, your friendly ticketing system from next door.
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Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)
A rundown of seven common mistakes is system architecture diagrams and how to fix them
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Dagger: A shell for the container age
Build powerful software environments and containerized operations from modular components and simple functions. Perfect for complex software delivery and AI agents. Built by the creators of Docker.
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An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio
Explore the upgraded Google AI Studio with Gemini 2.5 Pro, agentic tools, and enhanced multimodal capabilities for developers to build sophisticated AI apps.
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Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%
We expected small models to be fast, but our benchmarks revealed a common reliability trap. Here’s our deep dive on finding and fixing it.
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Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool
Democratizing silicon
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Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
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I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.
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Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)
Uncover deeper insights beyond ZIP codes with geospatial analysis. Explore the limitations of ZIP codes and discover alternatives for spatial understanding.
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Closer to the Metal: Leaving Playwright for CDP
Why we dropped Playwright and switched to raw CDP for faster, more capable browser automation.
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OSS Rebuild: open-source, rebuilt to last
Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts. As supply chain attac…
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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use
RubyMine, a JetBrains IDE for Ruby and Rails, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.
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Why Cline doesn't index your codebase
Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?" It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems access to large knowledge bases. But for Cline, we've taken a…
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Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve effic…
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JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
All JetBrains AI tools – including our improved AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie – are now available within our IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier.
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A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated to no avail. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.
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Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team
We are thrilled to announce Zensical, our next-gen static site generator that addresses and overcomes the technical limitations of MkDocs
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