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Fixing Macs door to door
Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.
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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.
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Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
Simple tools for smart, attractive people like you
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We Need Chrome No More
Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is…
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Getting better at Linux with mini-projects
The first thing I wanted to learn more about was UNIX since Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. I also never really felt that I fully understood what exactly UNIX was, besides being a family of fairly similar operating systems.
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Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU
How to run Stable Diffusion locally so you can hack on it
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1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
Travel Mode protects your 1Password data from unwarranted searches when you travel. Find out how – and why — to use it.
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Hang on to Your Firefox
According to Wikipedia , it’s an adage that goes back to 1512 in Germany. People have known for hundreds of years that you should be careful not to throw out a good and vital thing in your zeal to get rid of a minor annoyance.
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Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
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Introducing Keybase Chat
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
In August of 2015, my hands stopped working. This is what happened next.
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Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
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Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Introducing canvas
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Guide to FFmpeg
The ins and outs of FFmpeg, fundamental concepts, media transcoding, and video and audio processing with practical examples for developers.
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The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
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Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
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How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.
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Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)
Last week, I went on an adventure through the electromagnetic spectrum!
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Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
When it comes to most secure browsers, Firefox and its LibreWolf fork are the best alternatives to Chrome on our list - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.
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A visual guide to SSH tunnels
This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows. For example, here's a reverse tunnel that allows only users from IP address 1.2.3.4 access to port 80 on the SSH client through an SSH server.
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Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated....
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Why Bother with What Three Words?
I'll be wording this post carefully as What 3 Words (W3W) have a tenacious PR team and, probably, have a lot more lawyers than I do. W3W is a closed product. It is a for-profit company masquerading as an open standard. And that annoys me. A brief primer. The world is a sphere. We can reference any point on the surface…
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Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
Build your software factory on Warp: factories as code, any model or harness, with evals, benchmarks, and self-improvement built in.
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Hi I’m Hank, and I bought a bus
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I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
A flickering fireplace, a softly lit garden, and a smart home the whole family finally enjoys.
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Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
On August 22nd, I got an email out of the blue from Apple that notified me that I had a new App Review message. It was for my app, WorldAnimals, a light-hearted game for guessing animal onomatopoeia sounds in different languages.Usually, you receive a message after you submit a new version to the...