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Productivity porn
I have a pornography problem, but it’s not what you’re thinking. In fact, if you’re anything like me, you might too.
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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
A few of our favorite SSH tricks and tips sure to improve your daily experience.
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Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any!
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Zotero 6
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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So you want to use OpenRouter?
Might seem simple on the face of it, but unfortunately it's pain all the way down.
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How to build a personal webpage from scratch
An opinionated introduction to designing and deploying a modern static webpage.
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Git undo: We can do better
Update for future readers: Are you looking for a way to undo something with Git? The git undo command won’t help with your current issue (it needs to be inst...
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Awk in 20 Minutes (2015)
Awk is a tiny programming language and a command line tool. It's particularly appropriate for log parsing on servers, mostly because Awk will operate on files, usually structured in lines of human-readable text.
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Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Track Claude Code's daily performance on SWE-Bench-Pro as we collect an Opus 5.5/high baseline.
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New(ish) command line tools
A list of new(ish) command line tools
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4x Smaller, 50x Faster
News about asciinema development and new releases
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PYX: The next step in Python packaging
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Neovim 0.5 is overpowering
Home page and blog of David Zhang (@crispgm), a minimalist programmer, photographer, and lifehacker.
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Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
Every year, we have a new iPhone that claims to be faster and better in every way. And yes, these new computer vision models and new image sensors can exercise the phone as hard as they can. However, you could already take good pictures on an iPhone 10 years ago. These are incremental improvements.
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Writing a good Claude.md
`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
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Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
From the Zed Blog: Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.
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One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite
I figured out how to run a SQL query directly against a CSV file using the sqlite3 command-line utility:
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Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.
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If OpenSSL were a GUI
What if OpenSSL were a GUI program? Here's what it might look like.
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I ditched the algorithm for RSS
Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.
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Dropbox Project Infinite
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Ripgrep – A new command line search tool
In this article I will introduce a new command line search tool, ripgrep , that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw performance of GNU grep. ripgrep is fast, cross platform (with binaries available for Linux, Mac and Windows) and written in Rust .
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9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
Thoughts on building Paper as an indie maker.
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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.