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Text-to-CAD
Introducing our machine learning model for generating CAD models from a text prompt.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 589 posts.
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Download all of Wikipedia on your phone
Download all of Wikipedia on your phone and never be without the useful internet ever again.
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MS Paint Cocreator, a new AI-powered experience powered by DALL-E
UPDATE 10/23: The update to the Paint app for Windows 11 that includes Paint Cocreator is now rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel (version 11.2309.20.0 or higher
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A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself
It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
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Upload a Godot HTML5 Game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions
Automatically upload your Android Godot game to itch.io with Github Actions godot-html-export and itchio-butler-upload
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Babashka Babooka: Write Command-Line Clojure
There are two types of programmers in the world: the practical, sensible, shell-resigned people who need to google the correct argument order for ln -s ; and those twisted, Stockholmed souls who will gleefully run their company’s entire infrastructure on 57 commands stitched together into a single-line bash script.
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Rerun 0.9 – a framework for visualizing streams of multimodal data
We're releasing Rerun 0.9.0 with a completely revamped API that gives more control over the underlying data model, a hierarchical and time aware Entity Component System (ECS).
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Small offline large language model – TinyChatEngine from MIT
BLUF : TinyChatEngine provides an off-line open-source large language model (LLM) that has been reduced in size compared to Llama2. This po...
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The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul
What worked for the long haul, what we cut out over time, and the boring tech that keeps the app alive
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Combobulate: Structured Movement and Editing with Tree-Sitter
Combobulate is a package that adds advanced structured editing and movement to many programming modes in Emacs. Here's how it works, and how it can enrich your editing experience in Emacs.
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FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1)
I used to run FreeBSD on older laptops – some more then a decade old – like my favorite ThinkPad W520 daily driver or ThinkPad X220 mobile companion. Today I will share with you my expe…
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Pytest Tips and Tricks
This is a set of tips/tricks for learning and using pytest.
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See the History of a Method with Git log -L
Git can “trace the evolution” of a specific method, showing you logs of how it has changed over time.
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Querying the GitHub archive with the ClickHouse playground
Via this comment on Hacker News I started exploring the ClickHouse Playground . It's really cool, and among other things it allows CORS-enabled API hits that can query a decade of history from the GitHub events archive in less than a second.
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Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
Bootstrapping OCaml projects with Nix
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How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)
Hotbeds are horticultural alchemy. But what is a hotbed and what makes them so magical?
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Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)
Improvements Editor - Empty lines before the frontmatter block are no longer allowed. Previously this was supported by some parts of the app and ignored by othe...
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I prefer semi-automation
I really try to automate part of my work. But I do not always strive to automate the task at hand entirely. I have come to realize, at least for my usual duties, that automation is a balance between the productivity and consistency gains you would get from not doing it by hand versus the time it would take to cover…
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The real “must have” tools for programming
Forget programs. The most important productivity tool for programming is your mind. And the next best set of software development tools are ones that take care of you. It isn’t about Git. Or Docker. Or testing frameworks. These are all useful tools. I use them daily. But they are not the most important software…
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Virtualizing development environments in 2023
The limits of two modern virtualization methods: containers and virtual machines.
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Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways
While making a proposal to update Noto fonts for OpenStreetMap tiles, which fixes an issue with Kurdish labels using ڵا , I noticed a street with mismatched parentheses and was anticipating a deep dive into the tile renderer. But the actual problem was somewhere else:
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A Quick Guide to Mutt
Mutt is not that difficult to get up and running, however, sometimes finding the proper information can be a bit difficult. It is hoped that this guide will get you started, and show you some nice enhancements that help to make mutt (and neomutt) so popular.
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Software audio routers
Wherein Application Audio Is Routed Between Isolated Programs by Virtual Cables, and Streamer-Focused Solutions Are Observed to Have Eased Tedious Setup, While macOS and Windows Tools Such as BlackHole and VB Audio Are Catalogued.
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A Solar Kiln to dry wood. Overview, design and build (2019)
The solar kiln is based on the well know Virginia Tech design, adapted for my own needs and materials I could find easily on local hardware stores. Mine is a small one, with a gross storage space inside of about 1.5 m in length, 0.85 m wide and 0.65 high (~5’ x 2.75’ x 2’ ).
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The quest for a family-friendly password manager
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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TypeScript team released an explorer for performance tuning
Over the past few months, during the lead-up to the TypeScript 5.0 beta, our team spent a good portion of our time looking for ways to improve the