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マリウス . Hold on to Your Hardware

マリウス . Hold on to Your Hardware

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.For the better part of two decades, consumers lived in a golden age of tech. Memory got cheaper, storage increased in capacity and hardware got faster and absurdly affordable. Upgrades were routine, almost casual. If you needed more RAM, a bigger SSD, or a faster CPU or GPU, you barely had to wait…
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Should QA exist | Jade Rubick

Should QA exist | Jade Rubick

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Should engineering organizations have quality assurance (QA)? A lot of engineering leaders say they should not. I review the topic, and provide some suggestions for QA leaders, and some nuance on the problems with the way QA and engineering work together. 🌶️ ahead! QA should not exist In some engineering leadership circles, the answer is “of course not”. QA is largely seen as an old fashioned practice: “Engineering should own quality”. I tend to be skeptical of this type of engineering hubris. But there…
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‘Suddenly energy independence feels practical’: Europeans are building mini solar farms at home

‘Suddenly energy independence feels practical’: Europeans are building mini solar farms at home

💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Published on 26/03/2026 - 7:00 GMT+1•Updated 15:05 Europe’s reliance on imported fossil fuels has come under fire since the Iran war sparked a new energy crisis. The IEA chief Fatih Birol said this week that "no country will be immune to the effects of this crisis”. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT But what if you, as a consumer, could rely less on energy that’s pumped into your home from the grid and more on energy created in your home or local area? Can home solar panels help during…
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CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)[1], the initiative is a community-led alternative to traditional academic publishing. When the new ORE platform is launched later this year, authorship eligibility will be expanded to include researchers affiliated with institutions in the countries…
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jsongrep is faster than ✨

Check out must-read this 📌 post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💬 **What You’ll Learn**: This article is both an introduction to a tool I have been working on called jsongrep, as well as a technical explanation of the internal search engine it uses. I also discuss the benchmarking strategy used to compare the performance of jsongrep against other JSON path-like query tools and implementations.In this post I'll first show you the tool, then explain why it's fast (conceptually), then how it's fast (the automata theory), and finally prove it (benchmarks).Upfront I would like to say that this article…
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AllSky7.net

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The network is based on the AllSky7 systems manufactured by Mike Hankey. Details about the systems were published in a paper at Meteoroids 2020 conference. Each system contains seven highly sensitive NetSurveillance NVT cameras with the SONY STARVIS IMX291 CMOS Sensor and a 4 mm f/1.0 lens. Five of them are horizonally oriented at an altitude of about 25°, camera six and seven point in northern and southern direction at an altitude of about 70° All together they cover the full sky down…
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Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear.I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the dual G4 MDD above) with FireWire—or even a modern Mac running macOS < 26, with some dongles—and transfer digital video footage between the camera and an application like Final Cut Pro.But with Apple killing off…
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Schedule tasks on the web

Schedule tasks on the web

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A scheduled task runs a prompt on a recurring cadence using Anthropic-managed infrastructure. Tasks keep working even when your computer is off. A few examples of recurring work you can automate: Reviewing open pull requests each morning Analyzing CI failures overnight and surfacing summaries Syncing documentation after PRs merge Running dependency audits every week Scheduled tasks are available to all Claude Code on the web users, including Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Compare scheduling options Claude Code offers three ways to schedule recurring work: CloudDesktop/loopRuns…
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We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A few weeks ago, Cloudflare published “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week.” One engineer and an AI model reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite. Cost about $1,100 in tokens.‍The implementation details didn’t interest me that much (I don’t work on frontend frameworks), but the methodology did. They took the existing Next.js spec and test suite, then pointed AI at it and had it implement code until every test passed. Midway through reading, I realized we had the exact same problem -…
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dmars8047/handymkv: A tool to simplify use of MakeMKV and the HandBrakeCLI tool. · GitHub

dmars8047/handymkv: A tool to simplify use of MakeMKV and the HandBrakeCLI tool. · GitHub

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A MakeMKV + HandBrake productivity tool. HandyMKV is a tool that is designed to automate the process of ripping discs using MakeMKV and then encoding the resulting files using Handbrake. I found the process of manually ripping using MakeMKV and then encoding using HandBrake to be time consuming, disjointed, and error prone. I wanted a tool that would automate the process and provide a more user-friendly experience. Additionally, I wanted to offload the process from my main desktop computer to my home server which is…
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