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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 2,090 posts.
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Increased Subscription Pricing for IDEs, .NET Tools, and the All Products Pack
Since the introduction of subscriptions 7 years ago, we have not increased the pricing of our IDEs, .NET Tools, or the All Products Pack. During this time, we have introduced new products that have been included at no extra cost to everyone using the latter. However, we are at the point where we need to increase our…
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Microsoft Planner
Learn what's new with Microsoft Copilot and how it empowers people and organizations for AI-powered work.
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Why building a Rust LSP is hard
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
I wrote this app to fix a personal annoyance. You probably don’t need it. I’m not an Imgur user. But in my day-to-day browsing, I sometimes encounter a wild...
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Homegrown DevOps Tools at Stack Exchange
In short a lot of stuff is too expensive, isn’t a good fit, or is simply bad software. This ends up leaving an ops team with two options. They can whine about it, or create their own tools. So at Stack Exchange we build our own DevOps tools.
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Deep dive into finding RSS feeds
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
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Fast Android emulator using VirtualBox
Testing on multiple mobile devices is costly, time consuming and the default Android emulator is notoriously slow. What to do? Start using a fast one.
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Open-Sourcing Ax and BoTorch: New AI Tools for Adaptive Experimentation
We are open-sourcing BoTorch and Ax, two new tools that leverage adaptive experimentation to efficiently tackle optimization challenges in tuning software configurations, machine learning hyperparameters, ranking systems, and more.
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Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
Windows 10? Or Windows 11? Well, why not Linux instead? Here are 11+ reasons to switch to the great open source operating system now.
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CodeCov is now Open Source
Authors Note: Hey, we messed up in this post by referring to BUSL-1.1 as Open Source. We’re sorry, we are leaving this post as-is to keep the record clear and ...
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The Future of the Gitlab Web IDE
There are big changes in store for the Web IDE in the coming milestones.
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Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness
When it comes to improving our fitness, every little effort counts. That’s why we’ve created Google Fit – a fitness app that helps you to...
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An Opinionated Yubikey Set-Up Guide
How to set up a YubiKey 5 in 2023.
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Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS
Update: In addition to the Cordova integration described below, Firefox OS is now supported in the 3.5 release of Adobe PhoneGap. If you're already building apps with PhoneGap, you can ...
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Scaling Git, and some back story
A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…
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New year, same old plans
The last time a major release of Light Table was in early 2016. It’s been 3 years. 3 years is a lot in developers time. Since, Light Table’s last release, vscode has developed from 0.10.6 to 1.32.0 . Amazing development happened in La La Clojure Land too, Clojure evolved from version 1.8.0 to 1.10.1-beta while…
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Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month
By replacing pip with uv in our production images, our build pipeline (and therefore releasing a new version) is a lot faster.
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Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Lix is a version control system you import as a library. It records semantic changes to enable diffs, reviews, rollback, and querying of edits.
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A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all
We pulled dozens of AGENTS.md files from across our monorepo and measured their effect on code generation. The best ones gave our coding agent a quality jump…