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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,504 posts.
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To be productive, be prepared
Motivation by itself gives us the willingness to do something, but nothing more. Once we make a start, the game changes and it becomes about knowing how to make progress.
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MirrorMirror: A Raspberry Pi-Powered Magic Mirror
A magic mirror is a raspberry pi powered monitor behind a double sided mirror. A mostly black web page allows you to add some widgets to the mirror’s reflection as if by magic. This version includes widgets for displaying the weather forecast, the date/time and a nice randomly generated greeting. No low level hardware…
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Build your own summary tool
After Yahoo! acquired Summly and Google acquired Wavii, there is no doubt that auto summarization technologies are a hot topic in the industry. So as a NLP freak, I decided to give a quick overvie…
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I Built a Stereo Vision Board for Hardware Hackers
This article was written entirely by a human, for humans. I tend to get excited about certain chips. This time, it was a microprocessor: The Rockchip …
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Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything
Eduardo Ochs http://angg.twu.net/#eev eduardoochs@gmail.com (HTML version: 2007oct01)
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Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool
From shopping to social media, the average online user will have hundreds of accounts requiring passwords. At the same time, the number of user data breaches occurring each year continues ...
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The Modern CLI Renaissance
Over the past few years, it seems like the rate at which new CLI tools are being written has picked back up again, accelerating after seeing relatively little activity between ~1995 and ~2015. I’d like to talk about this trend I’ve noticed, where people are rewriting and rethinking staples of the command line…
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GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule
The team is targeting May 2024, but it's going to be tough, and here is why
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Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.
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The Curse of Markdown
And the content website wasteland
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Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor
The process of building a remotely controlled tractor.
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Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)
Master Git through understanding, not memorization. Learn branches, merges, and collaboration with clear explanations and visual diagrams.
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New Beeper Android app – Open beta test
It’s the day all you Beeper Android fans have all been waiting for…our new app is ready for you to try out!Our team has been working hard on this stunner of an app. Forget everything you thought yo…
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Automating myself out of development
On how I progressively removed myself using Claude Code out of the development cycle - or did I?..
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History of Emacs and vi Keys (2010)
In my study of keyboarding in the past 20 years, i've noticed that the choices of many shortcuts in many apps are adopted to the many aspects of the keyboard hardware of the time in use by the community. Emacs's keybinding is not simply based on the first letter of commands, but the QWERTY layout's key positions have…
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Architect – A Serverless Framework
I’m a believer in the power of frameworks, and for good reason — the bulk of my career as a programmer and technology leader involved the use of Rails. Durin...
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Stop using natural language interfaces
Natural language is a wonderful interface, but just because we suddenly can doesn't mean we always should.
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Practical Shell Patterns I Use
Over the decades I’ve been using the shell, there are thousands of reusable patterns I’ve picked up from looking over others’ shoulders and googling.
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Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code
This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …
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Frequent Password Changes Is a Bad Security Idea
I’ve been saying for years that it’s bad security advice, that it encourages poor passwords. Lorrie Cranor, now the FTC’s chief technologist, agrees: By studying the data, the researchers identified common techniques account holders used when they were required to change passwords. A password like “tarheels#1”, for…
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A walk through Project Zero metrics
Posted by Ryan Schoen, Project Zerotl;drIn 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix secur...