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The git history command deserves more attention

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze.jj, an alternative to git, gets discussed a lot these days (1, 2, 3, 4) and is often pitched as a solution. While I’m very sold on the problems jj is trying to solve, the way it solves them hasn’t quite hit home with me.…
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What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?

What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: One interesting trend in the AI startup segment this year is the rise to prominence of a specialized software engineering role called “Forward Deployed Engineer” (FDE.)One way to think about FDEsThis role has even been dubbed “the hottest job in tech” by venture capital (VC) firm, a16z. An FDE does a mix of software, sales, and platform engineering, and the role has seen a major recruitment uptick since around the start of the year, fuelled by the need for integrating AI solutions. But it’s…
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Manifest Man – by Alex Bronzini-Vender

Manifest Man – by Alex Bronzini-Vender

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: *THIS SATURDAY, July 18th, to celebrate our readers, fellow editors, and many esteemed contributors, The New Critic will party in New York on from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.Doors open at 8. Registration is required.​A paid subscription to The New Critic is necessary to register.If you’re not yet a paid subscriber, you can become one below. For $30 a year, paid subscribers get access to Postscript, our interview series, Contra, our criticism section, and exclusive New Critic parties like July 18th’s all-night open bar.*Register now!Kit…
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One Shot Challenge — One Prompt, One AI Model, One Shot

One Shot Challenge — One Prompt, One AI Model, One Shot

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: One prompt in, something spectacular out. Build a whole game, a living world, a toy that feels impossible. The more complex, rich and deep, the better.A year ago this was impossible.The newest models, like Fable 5Fable 5, Opus 4.8, GPT-4.6 Sol, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.5, GLM 5.2, DeepSeek V4, Seed 2.1 Pro, Qwen3.7 Max, Kimi K2.6, Muse Spark 1.1build entire apps, games and worlds from a single prompt. No scaffolding. No back and forth. You describe it once, and a working thing comes…
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Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs: Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust: kernel, std-style user library, and 60+ coreutils — boots on i386 in QEMU. · GitHub

Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs: Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust: kernel, std-style user library, and 60+ coreutils — boots on i386 in QEMU. · GitHub

🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A modern Rust rewrite of the Linux 0.11 kernel — boots on i386 in QEMU, runs a self-hosted Unix-style userland. $ cd kernel && make run … Welcome to linux-0.11-rs. https://github.com/Poseidon-fan/linux-0.11-rs (login: 0 @ linux-rs :: Wed May 27 09:35:43 UTC 2026) [root@linux-rs /root]# ls /bin | wc -l 69 linux-0.11-rs rebuilds the 1991 Linux 0.11 kernel from scratch in modern Rust. It keeps the original system's semantics — what it does — while rethinking how it's expressed: stronger types, clearer module boundaries, idiomatic…
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marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser: CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. · GitHub

marcelpanse/youtube-guitar-tab-parser: CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. · GitHub

đź’Ą Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the guitar tab. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF. It works out of the box with no configuration — the PDF is written to out/.pdf, with the video title as a heading on the first page…
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TFTP Honey pot Results – Information Camouflage

đź’Ą Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured. When the TFTP honey pot runs, both servers see between 20 and 50 TFTP packets per day. Both servers see mostly the same traffic. I was extremely excited when I got daily UDP port 69 traffic, most of it in TFTP format. I was let down when I realized…
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The Same TypeScript Costs 73% More Tokens on Claude Than GPT

đź’Ą Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Every model's pricing page shows one number you are meant to compare: dollars per million tokens. Put two side by side and one looks cheaper. That comparison is broken - and if you build with an AI coding agent, it is broken in the most expensive direction. The price is per token, but a "token" is not a fixed amount of text: each model's tokenizer cuts the same file into a different number of pieces, and you pay per piece. Here is the number…
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Founding Software Engineer at PgDog

Founding Software Engineer at PgDog

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Hey! PgDog is a tiny database startup, based out of SF, with a global team. We’re scaling the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is in production, used by dozens of companies, large and small. The problem is big, but so is the opportunity, and we’re hiring! About the role The jack of all trades. Rust, Postgres, a bit of infrastructure, networking, distributed systems, and so much more. You’ll build features that will go directly into our customers hands, the day you ship them. With…
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Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark

Apple’s New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The result, up front Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer is the most accurate on-device speech engine we tested. It beat every Whisper model we ship, including Whisper Small, on both the clean and the noisy half of LibriSpeech, while running roughly three times faster than Small. And the API it replaces, SFSpeechRecognizer, came last on clean speech: behind even Whisper Tiny, a 40MB model. Enginetest-clean WERtest-other WERModel size Apple SpeechAnalyzer (iOS/macOS 26)2.12%4.56%system Whisper Small (WhisperKit CoreML)3.74%7.95%~460MB Whisper Base5.42%12.51%~140MB Whisper Tiny7.88%17.04%~40MB Apple SFSpeechRecognizer (legacy)9.02%16.25%system Lower is better: WER…
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