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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 522 posts.
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Dream-1
Today, we're releasing Dream-1, a World Action Model that controls robots it has never seen, performs tasks it was never shown, and runs from $3/hour.
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Blackholing My Email
How Counter-Strike map credits led to my email address being harvested by worms, and why I had to ask my ISP to blackhole it.
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Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
The website of Ike Saunders
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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
An attempted improvement that only makes things worse. It is time we start naming this phenomenon in software engineering.
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Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk
The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.
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The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)
Using the wiki on GitHub makes life more difficult for your users, and you as a maintainer. Use the `/docs` folder and GitHub Pages instead and keep your docs in sync with code
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Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git
Semantic understanding on top of Git. Diff, blame, impact, log. Functions, not lines.
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Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting
Spotting differences in code is an important part of what we do, Delta is by far the best CLI diff tool I ever used.
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How to get a free .arpa domain
Learn how to get a free .arpa domain by abusing IPv6 reverse DNS delegations on Hurricane Electric, configuring deSEC, and hosting a live website.
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Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling
A working tmux setup for running Claude Code and other AI agents: session-per-project naming, pane layouts, send-keys for scripting an agent, capture-pane for reading one back, and the status-line monitor. Plus the limits you hit at four agents.
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3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup
Apparently, one of my hobbies is making updates to my ergonomic setup, then blogging about it from an Amtrak train. I've gone and done it again.
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How Complex is my Code?
What code complexity can mean — from Big O notation and Cyclomatic Complexity to the surprising insights psycholinguistics can offer software developers.
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward
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Protobuf has LSP support
Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, spec-compliant LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code…
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I made a terminal pager
A writeup on implementing my own terminal viewport component in Go, which is used in my Terminal pager robinovitch61/lore and in my Kubernetes log viewer terminal application robinovitch61/kl.
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …
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Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file
Range Requests Are All You Need
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Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API
We are releasing cf, our new command-line tool that mirrors the entire Cloudflare API and supports programmatic TypeScript configuration. We are also open-sourcing Forge, our internal SDK generator.
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Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
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Adaptive PDFs
An idea for PDFs that render normally for humans while exposing clean markdown structure to extractors and LLMs in the same file.
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Please do not A/B test my workflow
Anthropic is silently A/B testing Claude Code's plan mode on paying users. This isn't a consumer app. Stop treating it like one.
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ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
For nearly three decades; or November 1996 to be exact, PDFs have relied on Deflate—the same compression algorithm that powers your ZIP files. Meanwhile, the web moved on. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli, a compression algorithm so efficient it now powers 95% of internet traffic. Websites got faster. Downloads got…
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Productive Procrastination
Productive procrastination is real. But understanding why we avoid the work we actually love might be the key to getting more of it done.
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ASCII-Driven Development
~15 years ago, we had Balsamiq Mockups (2008). Deliberately sketchy. Intentionally low-fidelity. The comic-sans-looking wireframes were a…
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An iroh powered smart fan
Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere.
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Designing and assembling my first PCB
About a couple months ago I purchased an Arduino Nano ESP32 dev board. I had this sudden itch and I wanted to play around with hardware. I don't really have much experience in this space, besides working on firmware for an IoT company over a decade ago, but I've written tons of software over the years. I was very…
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I love my Bluetooth keyboard
I recently went on a ten day trip to China where I didn’t take my computer. 1 I still wanted the ability to take notes quickly, so I bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone.
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Workspace Agents in ChatGPT
Workspace agents in ChatGPT are Codex-powered agents that automate complex workflows, run in the cloud, and help teams scale work across tools securely.
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What is Codemode
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?