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Sublime Text 4
Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
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Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
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Filing the corners off my MacBooks
I file the sharp corners off my MacBooks. People like to freak out about this, so I wanted to post it here to make sure that everyone who wants to freak out about it gets the opportunity to do so.
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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Writing about software, systems, and the craft of building things.
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TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem
A browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.
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An NFC movie library for my kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...
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Ghostty 1.4
Release notes for Ghostty 1.4.0, released on October 27, 2026.
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Do not download the app, use the website
The 2010s was the Wild West of the mobile world. You couldn't walk past a row of cubicles without hearing a manager cough "Mobile-first", much like "AI-first" is today. Every company, from the biggest
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All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
Last night I was listening to the latest Under the Radar , where Marco Arment dove into nerdy detail about his recent Overcast server issues. The discussion was great, and you should listen to it, but Marco's recent server troubles were pretty similar to my own server issues from last year, and so I figured I'd share…
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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.
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Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
rant about me wasting time
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Sunsetting Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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My Favourite Git Commit
I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime. I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git commit.
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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
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.
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Please put units in names
Using strong types, or putting units in names, is a small effort that can make a tremendous difference for code readability.
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Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?”
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
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Apple passwords deserve an app
First, let’s consider three random tweets: They already have. They definitely should. They seemingly won’t… but why? We all know that Apple has nice built-in password management in macO…
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A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
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Introducing the Keybase filesystem
Browse technical documentation on the public-key cryptography that powers Keybase. Learn how Keybase Chats, Files, Teams, and Git are secured.
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Greppability is an underrated code metric
Keeping your codebase searchable will make your maintenance life easier in the long run. A collection of guidelines to keep your code base greppable
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Apple Photos app corrupts images
The Apple Photos app sometimes corrupts images when importing from my camera. I just wanted to make a blog post about it in case anyone else runs into the problem. I’ve seen other references to this online, but most of the people gave up trying to fix it, and none of them went as far as I did to debug the issue. I’ll…
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Documenting the Web together
Today, we’re excited to share some big news for developers around the world wide web: We’re committing our resources towards making MDN Web Docs the best place to go for web API reference. To kick things off, today we started redirecting over 7,700 MSDN pages to corresponding topics in the MDN web docs library powered
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Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
Gmail's rapid descent into belittling their users, powered by AI.
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Qwen3.6 27B is finally a smart model we can use for coding on MacBook or NVIDIA RTX - with llama.cpp and OpenCode.
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I still like Sublime Text
I still use Sublime Text in 2025 even after trying a lot of other editors