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The essential powertool for macOS.

The essential powertool for macOS.

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Gain access to system functionalities buried deep in System Settings or ones that require writing Terminal commands. Control the macOS User Interface. Keep the Mac awake during long tasks and quickly turn off displays when needed. Mass Eject External Drives in a safe way. Quickly switch Audio Output devices. Mute the Internal Microphone for privacy. Measure the speed and latency of your internet connection. Quickly restart the Network Stack. Reset internal macOS databases. Empty the Trash when it doesn't want to cooperate. Refresh the system…
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15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die

15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The server webminal.org runs on a single CentOS Linux box with 8GB RAM. Thatโ€™s it. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no auto-scaling. One server since 2011. It has survived: A datacenter fire in 2021 (we lost 150k user accounts) Multiple power outages in the Netherlands That one time in 2017 when a Spanish tech blog sent 10,000 users in one day My friend Frestonโ€™s insistence that Slackware is the only real distro The idea The idea was simple. I was sitting at my Windows machine at…
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How I manage Images for my Blog

How I manage Images for my Blog

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TL;DR I use an Excalidraw, wrap the elements of interest with a frame, name it with export_ prefix, my forked excalidraw extension automatically generates SVGs for light and dark mode. Using Excalidrawโ€‹ I used Excalidraw a lot in the past. When breaking down a technical problem for myself When explaining a concept or an architecture to my coworkers. Just recently a new usecase evolved. Expressing my thoughts in my Blog. While writing my first article the dependency between graphics and the text lead to…
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How to Survive in Tech in 2026

How to Survive in Tech in 2026

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: It has been three months into 2026, and ChatGPT has evolved since 2022. We have seen AI take the world by storm. This reflection piece attempts to remind us of our motive and value proposition as humans in an AI-shaped world. Without a doubt, AI will sit in the economic driverโ€™s seat, and our old ways will become โ€œthe horse.โ€ If you have a horse, as with any industrial revolution, the automobile is coming. You will need new skills to navigate your new vehicle. Please…
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Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Machine learning feels recent, but one of its core mathematical ideas dates back to 1952, when Richard Bellman published a seminal paper titled โ€œOn the Theory of Dynamic Programmingโ€ [6, 7], laying the foundation for optimal control and what we now call reinforcement learning.Later in the 50s, Bellman extended his work to continuous-time systems, turning the optimal condition into a PDE. What he later found was that this was identical to a result in physics published a century before (1840s), known as the Hamilton-Jacobi equation.Once…
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AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

AI and bots have officially taken over the internet, report finds

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: D3sign | Moment | Getty ImagesBots have taken over the internet.The State of AI Traffic report released Thursday by Human Security, a cybersecurity firm, showed that artificial intelligence and bots have officially eclipsed human users."The internet as a whole was created with this very basic notion that there's a human being on the other side of the computer screen, and that notion is very rapidly being replaced," Stu Solomon, CEO of Human Security, told CNBC.Automated traffic, defined by Human Security as "internet traffic generated by…
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andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA: HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME ยท GitHub

andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA: HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME ยท GitHub

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME This project is a High Definition Audio aka Azalia codec and controller driver. It's for Intel 915 and later chipsets motherboard onboard audio that's not AC97. It is designed for all versions of Windows with Windows Driver Model (WDM) support, but only Windows 98 SE and ME are officially supported currently. Windows 98 First Edition may work but there are known issues with sample rate and but depth conversion not working, and because Microsoft doesn't recommend WDM…
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Claude is running git reset –hard origin/main in my project every 10 minutes ยท Issue #40710 ยท anthropics/claude-code ยท GitHub

Claude is running git reset –hard origin/main in my project every 10 minutes ยท Issue #40710 ยท anthropics/claude-code ยท GitHub

โœจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Summary Claude Code performs git fetch origin + git reset --hard origin/main on the user's project repo every 10 minutes via programmatic git operations (no external git binary spawned). This silently destroys all uncommitted changes to tracked files. Untracked files survive. Git worktrees are immune. Environment Claude Code version: 2.1.87 (Homebrew cask, compiled Bun binary) OS: macOS 15.4 (Darwin 25.3.0, arm64) Shell: zsh Evidence 1. Git reflog: 95+ entries at exact 10-minute intervals e8ea2c9 HEAD@{2026-03-29 22:19:09 +0200}: reset: moving to origin/main e8ea2c9 HEAD@{2026-03-29 22:09:09 +0200}:…
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First Judicial District of Pennsylvania to ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

First Judicial District of Pennsylvania to ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Listen to article โ€ขย 0:00 minPhilly courtrooms are remaining friendly to the Luddites. At least with eyewear.The Philadelphia court system is implementing a ban on all forms of smart or AI-integrated eyewear, the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania announced this week.The ban will go into effect Monday. From then on, any eyewear with video and audio recording capability will be forbidden in all of the First Judicial District buildings, courthouses, or offices, even for people who have a prescription. Other devices with recording capabilities like…
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New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays

New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays

โœจ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Starting with the M4 and including the new M5 generations of Apple Silicon, macOS no longer offers or allows full-resolution HiDPI 4k modes for external displays.The maximum HiDPI mode available on a 3840x2160 panel is now just 3360x1890 (with a 6720x3780, instead of 7680x4320 backing store) - M2/M3 machines did not have this limitation.With this regression Apple is leaving users to choose between:Full screen real estate at 4k (3840x2160) with blurry text due to HiDPI being disabled.orReduced screen real estate at 3.3k (3360x1890) with sharp…
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