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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 146 posts.
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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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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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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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Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
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Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Ever since git init ten years ago , Zig has been hosted on GitHub. Unfortunately, when it sold out to Microsoft , the clock started ticking . “Please just give me 5 years before everything goes to shit,” I thought to myself. And here we are, 7 years later, living on borrowed time.
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Announcing the Beta release of ty
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
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Firefox tab groups are here
What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –
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What is HDR, anyway?
It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.
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Claude for Chrome
We're piloting Claude in Chrome to test browser-based AI capabilities while addressing prompt injection risks and building the safety measures needed before wider release.
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PYX: The next step in Python packaging
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
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Writing a good Claude.md
`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.
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Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Claude Integrations
Claude can now connect to your apps and tools through Integrations, while advanced Research searches across the web, Google Workspace, and connected services to quickly deliver comprehensive reports.
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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
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1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
On October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine. Event Recaps & Recordings | Photos | Impact Stories | Support the Internet Archive | Press Kit Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with libraries and…
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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
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Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Typst 0.14
Typst 0.14 is out now. With accessibility by default, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more, it has everything you need to move from draft to...
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Apple Invites
Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.
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ChatGPT Pulse
Today we’re releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.
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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
Catch your best ideas before they slip through your fingers Do you ever have flashes of insight or an idea worth remembering? This happens to me 5 10 times e...
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By default, Signal doesn't recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...