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Hacker News mentions (505)

• What I Discovered About Making Great Widgets: Insights From 100+ Real Users

  For this study, I selected Reddit and Hacker News, platforms where many tech enthusiasts gather. I posted my inquiry in major Android and iPhone subreddits and waited for responses. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• Jank's new persistent string is fast

  Sure, but in a language without the zero terminator the empty string doesn't need an allocation. With a zero terminator, only SSO allows us to avoid that. There are a lot of empty strings. [On a typical modern 64-bit computer] An empty Rust std::String is 24 bytes, exactly the same as the Clang libc++ std::string as somewhat smaller than an MSVC or GCC std::string Most strings are "pretty small" but... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

  William: My current role primarily shapes my strategy. I learn a lot from the engineers and users of Linkerd, who are at the forefront of these technologies. I also keep myself updated by reading discussions on Reddit platforms like r/kubernetes and r/Linkerd. Occasionally, I contribute to or follow discussions on Hacker News. Overall, my primary source of knowledge comes from the experts I work with daily, giving... - Source: dev.to / 24 days ago

• Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  A simpler, cross-platform, solution is to use headless Chrome to save pages as PDFs. Example I just tried and worked for me: > chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required. - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Appreciation Jar mentions (2)

• Building a privacy-friendly, self-hosted application architecture with SvelteKit

  Let's start with a high level infrastructure diagram and then go into more detail. There's a lot to unpack but we're going to go through each part of the diagram one by one! The overarching architectural goal of this app was to be able to run everything "in-house" without relying on third party services, which I managed to accomplish while still having modern fetures like realtime updates, tracking and error... - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Appreciation Jar - digital journaling for couples

  You can find the app for iOS and Android at: Https://appreciation.place/. Source: about 1 year ago