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Save your eyes, start using f.lux
Software to warm up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
2023-10-12: I have written a followup with some details about the process used to generate this list: Extracting HN Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API, Vol. II
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How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
Take note of the title of this blog. What you read below will give you some additional knowledge that may help you identify a hidden camera but it certainly won’t guarantee that. We got lucky…
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How to find a remote job
Join DeeKit's global community of digital nomads. Find friends, work opportunities, and adventure anywhere in the world.
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Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
In Dec 2022 I watched Richard Stallman's talk on the EmacsConf , it was titled "What I'd like to see in Emacs". One of the interesting points Mr. Stallman pointed out in this talk was "memorable names", "I think every …
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CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
It seems that (1) there is still more software in circulation that depends on archaic CRLF line endings than I originally thought and (2) many people do not share my enthusiasm for creating a CRLF-free world. Alas. This makes me sad, but it is what it is. Thanks to everyone who was willing to give the idea a test run…
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Burner Phone 101
Hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library, this Burner Phone 101 workshop introduced participants to phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely.
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OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics
We take a look at the analytics built into the OxygenOS, the flavour of Android built by phone manufacturer OnePlus.
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Google Scholar PDF Reader
Researchers have long loved PDFs for reading papers. You can focus on absorbing the scholarship – the format is simple and clean. Researche...
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The strangest computer manual ever written
It's dark and funny and unlike anything else
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Switch off bad TV settings
Watch movies like the makers intended by switching off weird smart tv settings.
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Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
A guide on how to convert .epub e-books into high-quality audiobooks narrated by neural text-to-speech
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Why Learn Awk? (2016)
Jonathan Palardy's blog about technology
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Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
A new set of the Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the ...
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An Introduction to JQ
In this article, I'm going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works.
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Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
How I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have a bricked MacBook returned to me.
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Disassembling Sublime Text
This afternoon I spent some time with the free trial of the Hopper Disassembler looking through the binary of Sublime Text 3. I found some interesting things and some undocumented settings.
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CLI text processing with GNU awk
Example based guide to mastering GNU awk
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Introducing Keybase Teams
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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The 'Egg' Laptop
When I was kids, I draw my perfect laptop PC to note. At that time, I couldn’t have the laptop. But, now I can start my project!
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Automated Hydroponic System Build (2020)
Hydroponic farming is a method of growing crops without soil, with the main benefits of environmental and nutrient control, water conservation, and reduction of labor. This technique relies on a number of technologies that the principles of automation can be applied in order to improve yield and consistency. In this…
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I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
I spent a lot of money on Google ads last year across Search, Display, Youtube, Discovery, and Gmail. Here's what I learned.
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Git is my buddy: Effective Git as a solo developer
At this point, most developers use Git as a tool for collaboration. We have our rote-learned commands to pull, commit, and push. And of course, there's that one coworker who knows a bit more about Git…
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Mac at any scale
What it takes to run Macs in a datacenter: custom MacBook racks, virtualizing macOS with Apple's Virtualization framework, and building and distributing huge VM images across the fleet.
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A different kind of keyboard
I’ve always been attracted to chording keyboards in theory, but I lack whatever childhood musical training is required to wrap my fingers around them. So I made something else: an arpeggio keyboard. Peggi is an eight-key keyboard that fits on the back of your phone. While chording keyboards require you to press…
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Style your RSS feed
How to make your RSS feed look nice and provide useful information at the same time.