💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Top Posted on April 9, 2026 by Aywren As of this month, Netflix prices are going up again. The lowest price plan – the one that subjects you to ads – will now be $8.99 plus taxes/fees a month. This probably works out to be 10-ish dollars. Don’t know because I don’t plan on sticking around to find out. I shouldn’t even have Netflix right now. Back in December, when I lost my job, I put the account on cancel. However, after coming back…
🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The worst part about the MacOS window management situation is the inability to instantly switch spaces, and that Apple has continuously ignored requests to disable the nauseating switching animation. Sure, it’s not that long, but I switch spaces often enough to the point where it becomes very noticeable and drives me insane. I believe to have found the best solution to instant space switching! But before I show you, of course, other people share the same sentiment. I claim that none of the surveyed contemporary…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 05 April 2026 - 14 mins read time Tags: csharp database ecs gamedev typhon 💡Typhon is an embedded, persistent, ACID database engine written in .NET that speaks the native language of game servers and real-time simulations: entities, components, and systems.It delivers full transactional safety with MVCC snapshot isolation at sub-microsecond latency, powered by cache-line-aware storage, zero-copy access, and configurable durability. Series: A Database That Thinks Like a Game Engine Why I’m Building a Database Engine in C# What Game Engines Know About Data That…
💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Going forward we’ll occasionally feature first-hand accounts of people building personal AI tooling to take on some part of their non-coding work. This is a story from Giorgio Liapakis of wibci. If you have a story to tell, drop us a note at editors@technically.dev. In January, I gave an AI agent $1,500, full control of a Meta Ads account, then walked away.The product was a small AI/marketing newsletter called Growth Computer, and the brief was to get qualified subscribers at the lowest cost possible…
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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 09 Apr 2026 I was working on a project that has nothing to do with Vercel. No vercel.json, no next.config, no Vercel dependencies. Nothing. And then this popped up: “The Vercel plugin collects anonymous usage data… Would you like to also share your prompt text?” Every single prompt. On a non-Vercel project. That felt wrong. So I went deep into the source code with Claude. tl;dr: A deployment plugin is asking to read every prompt you type, across every project. Why? The consent question isn’t…
✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Am I German or Autistic? | Millerman School Millerman School Both involve systematic thinking, a preference for precision, and difficulty pretending small talk is acceptable. The question is which one explains it. 15 questions · 2 minutes · One uncomfortable truth Begin the Diagnostic Your Result Scores are independent — they don't need to add up to 100%. Share your result Share on X Copy The questions you can't answer with a quiz Some of the most serious thinkers in the tradition — Kant, Wittgenstein,…
🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I've been working on Pizza Legacy, an open-source reimplementation of the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon. The game has a close-zoom street view of the cities, and when you scroll around it you can see a steady stream of cars driving through the streets. Maybe 20 or 30 tiny sprites at a time, but they navigate the road network, queue behind each other at intersections, and generally look like a living city. Yes, it was a bit buggy because sometimes they would drive through…
💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not reprint, perform, alter or adapt in any way without first checking with the author. Thanks. “They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “Meat. They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet,…
💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: "She", for example, is younger than "he", and seems to be an amalgamation of two Old English female pronouns, Birkett says – "heo" and "seo". "[These] probably combined over time, to make 'she'," he says.Vikings and werewolvesAnother commonly used modern pronoun, "they" – along with "them" and "their" – is actually not Old English at all, according to Birkett. It arrived with Old Norse, a Scandinavian language spoken by the Vikings who invaded and settled in England from the 800s onwards. "They" then spread…
