Topics /
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 4,416 posts.
In the early days of the platform, Android developers working from Linux and Mac OS X connected their device via an USB cable and were good to go. Windows users had to find and then install drivers. That was super-annoying.
UPDATE: Awesome Screenshot 3.7.12 now offers an 'opt-out' setting to address this (but it's on by default) - read my new article here.
Lessons learned from piloting in the third dimension
The big news today is Llama 2, the new openly licensed Large Language Model from Meta AI. It’s a really big deal: Llama 2 is available for free for research …
This domain is for sale! Fast and easy shopping. Trusted and secure since 2005.
You thought your family was going to be talking about web3 this Thanksgiving. But they’re actually talking about ebikes. Let’s help you prepare. Ebikes are about to change the world. They are already the best selling electric vehicles, and are selling as fast as factories can make them.
It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration:
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.
Creating backups is a basic necessity for anyone who stores data. With the help of a dedicated server, the Linux operating system and the rsync software, you can securely and efficiently retrieve data from any computer via an SSH connection and store it in a backup. It doesn’t matter if there is another Linux server…
I was visiting family this past weekend and saw an iMac from 2007 and MacBook from 2008 destined for the trash. As the tech nerd of the family, I was asked if these machines were still useful at all. I also had a 2012 Macbook Air no one was using,...
An opinionated view on the boilerplate starting point of any .NET console application
Some pros and cons of using Excel for software development compared to the traditional approach of using a programming language
Over the last 18 months, I've taken the time to create 108 short YouTube videos that summarize all of the commands that are found in the Coreutils Package . These videos focus mostly on Coreutils v8.3, but also included are a few commands from v9.0 as well. For each of the blog posts, I've adapted and modified the…
Today I want to show you a watch modification that I've been working on. I'm calling it the Data Runner, and it's another F91W mod, this time going the extra mile to make something functional and nice looking.
Someone : Did you hear that Facebook/Google uses a giant monorepo? WTF! Me : Yeah! It's really convenient, don't you think? Someone : That's THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I've ever heard. Don't FB and Google know what a terrible idea it is to put all your code in a single repo? Me : I think engineers at FB and Google are…
I spent way too long figuring out the how to make video calls feel natural. Here’s the best advice I came up with.
A practical guide to starting a personal blog you can keep for years, without depending on social platforms or fragile tools.
[ Update Nov 27: This post had issues, and I retract some of my more provocative claims. See the errata at the end. ]
My blog just scored a perfect 100 on every Lighthouse category. I love blogging. I wanted to build a blog that’s light, fast, free of clutter, able to run multiple blogs, and fully accessible on top of that. And finally, at long last, I’ve more or less pulled it off. It was quite a tedious proces...
I have been using the Julia REPL as my day-to-day calculator on the command line for more than a year now. I am surprised that I haven’t seen more posts talking about how powerful and extensible the language is for simple numerical calculations and scripting In fact, the Julia REPL is much more than a simple…
A recurring meeting serves as a powerful forcing function for long-running projects.
Rahul's Blog
This week, I'm grateful that my coworkers know to come grab me if something seriously weird is going on, because it...
In order to get something done, maybe we need to think less.
