It’s OK to hardcode feature flags

It’s OK to hardcode feature flags

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Feature flags (or toggles) are often used to control the visibility of new features in a product. There are a few different ways to implement them, but the most talked and marketed about is to use feature flag management software. The simplest way of course is to hardcode them, though itโ€™s the least written about. While feature flag management software can be powerful, they are also a source of complexity and risk. The blogspam marketing behind them is so strong, that admitting theyโ€™re unnecessary feels…
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Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

Why are there no flow batteries with symmetric ferrocyanide electrolytes?

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: If you have looked into flow batteries for any length of time, you will have found that the ferrocyanide/ferricyanide redox couple (ย [Fe(CN)6]ย 4โˆ’, Fe(CN)6]ย 3โˆ’) is one of the most widely used in the field. This is because this redox couple has very high redox stability, great kinetics, significant solubility (0.7-1.2M depending on the exact salts used) and a redox potential that is lower to that of the Fe2+/Fe3+ redox couple (+0.22V and +0.5V respectively Vs saturated Ag/AgCl), with high stability under high pH conditions. Potassium ferrocyanide,…
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Fine, Iโ€™ll build my own text editor! โ€“ David Bushell โ€“ Web Dev (UK)

Fine, Iโ€™ll build my own text editor! โ€“ David Bushell โ€“ Web Dev (UK)

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: and make it editable with a contenteditable attribute. That attribute has a plaintext-only value that is perfect for code. All content remains within a single text node.<div contenteditable="plaintext-only" autocapitalize="off" autocorrect="off" spellcheck="false" translate="no"> div>Copy CodeAttributes like spellcheck must be disabled to avoid input latency spikes. Want to guess how many days it took me to discover that fix? Days!Using contenteditable gives native text selection and undo history etc. So much accessibility goodness is wired up for free by the browser. The Selection API provides metrics I…
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A world where every interaction is worth having

A world where every interaction is worth having

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Thereโ€™s a certain type of service you never forget. You call, and they remember who you are. You talk, and they know what happened last time. You need support, and they help you on the spot. You are busy, and they know when to leave you alone. The type of conversation that makes you feel understood. The type of service that shows that youโ€™re cared for. The type of interaction that's actually worth having. But over the past decade, this kind of service has…
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Atlas: A World Modelย for Spatial Intelligence

Atlas: A World Modelย for Spatial Intelligence

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave, and evolve so that we can render imagined worlds for creative users, simulate the real world in high fidelity, and help robots plan actions. At World Labs, we build these general purpose world models in pursuit of spatial intelligence. Today we are introducing Atlas, our next-generation world model. Atlas is an omni model that we pretrained from scratch to natively operate on text, images, video, and 3D. It is a…
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East River Source Control Names Jujutsu Creator Martin von Zweigbergk Chief Technology Officer // ERSC

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: NEW YORK (September 1, 2026), FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE East River Source Control has appointed Martin von Zweigbergk, creator of the Jujutsu version control system, as chief technology officer, to lead engineering on the companyโ€™s next generation version control platforms. von Zweigbergk began Jujutsu as a side project in late 2019 and turned it into his full-time work at Google. The project has more than 30,000 stars on GitHub and ships under the Apache 2.0 license. Before Jujutsu, he worked on Fig, the Mercurial client that…
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How accurate have Ed Zitron’s AI skeptic predictions been?

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I was curious how well the predictions of the most widely cited AI skeptic I've seen (Ed Zitron) have done, so I looked at how his predictions panned out. To disclose my own biases, I've never had a particularly strong pro or anti AI progress position. For example, in 2022, I did a comprehensive look at predictions Futurists made, including well-respected folks like Kurzweil and found them to be generally wrong on both the prediction results as well as the reasoning. On the flip side,…
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Codex bundles LibreOffice

Codex bundles LibreOffice

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 1st September 2026 I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime, including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010): The ~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documents folder includes skills which tell Codex how to find and use those binaries. โšก **Whatโ€™s your…
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses โ€“ Krebs on Security

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses โ€“ Krebs on Security

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the…
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20 Years Later, โ€˜Idiocracyโ€™ Resonates More Than Ever

20 Years Later, โ€˜Idiocracyโ€™ Resonates More Than Ever

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texasย Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Corporations twist public institutions into thinly veiled cash cows. Unprecedented drought and food insecurity loom. A civil servant who tries to use science to save millions of lives is threatened with death. News and entertainment, religion and profanity, politics and violence, eating and excreting have all collapsed into a singularity of the human condition.I canโ€™t tell whether Iโ€™m remembering the plot of Idiocracy or this is…
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