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Tools & Productivity
The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 6,502 posts.
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Why is Excalidraw so good?
The product factors that make it work so so well
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Resetting Xbox
This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, We are beginning the most significant restructure in XBOX history. After careful
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VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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What are your most used self-hosted applications?
The list that's always growing. What are your most used self hosted applications? Here's mine.
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Claude Integrations
Claude can now connect to your apps and tools through Integrations, while advanced Research searches across the web, Google Workspace, and connected services to quickly deliver comprehensive reports.
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Devtools must be open source
The age of personalized software is here.
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Mistral AI Releases Forge
Today, we’re introducing Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge.
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Siri, What Time Is It in London?
Every other service that tries to answer “What time is it in London?” gets it right. Only Siri gets it wrong.
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Bitbucket now rocks Git
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
Yes, probably.
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Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along with code to get started…
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Writing documentation for your house
Have you considered writing documentation for your house?
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Git from the inside out
This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects.
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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
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Reinventing Firefox for Android
With Firefox Preview, we’re combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox's own mobile browser engine -- GeckoView -- the same high-performance, feature enabling motor…
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Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains
Update (Dec 3, 2021): We’ve received an overwhelming number of requests for the Fleet Early Preview program. Unfortunately we can't accept any new requests, but we will continue sending invites to tho
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Don't touch my clipboard
Looking for an em dash I was recently trying to find an em dash character to use in a piece of writing. Since I don’t have the shortcut memorized—for future reference, shift+option+minus on Mac—I did a quick search for it. I didn’t see one on the search results page to copy, so I clicked into the first result: “The…
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Four kinds of documentation
Find the software documentation system for Divio. Includes comprehensive tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. Learn more here.
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$20k bounty was claimed
Prettier, a JavaScript code formatter, has seen an incredible adoption thanks to its careful handling of the very, very, long tail of ways people can write code. At this point, the formatting logic has been solid and after our work on ternaries lands, it will be in a happy state.
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Try Switching to Kagi
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
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My favourite Git commit (2019)
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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Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
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I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...
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Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.
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Stripe CLI
The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.
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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
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1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
On October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine. Event Recaps & Recordings | Photos | Impact Stories | Support the Internet Archive | Press Kit Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with libraries and…