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DataBench

Every developer has a graveyard of bookmarks. One site for JSON formatting. Another for Base64. Another for regex testing. Another for CSV conversion. You're constantly switching tabs, and worse — pasting sensitive data into random servers you know nothing about. So I built DataBench. It's a single browser-based workbench with 25+ tools data people use daily: JSON Formatter & Validator Regex Tester CSV → SQL INSERT Generator Base64 Encode/Decode Unix Timestamp ...
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Running a software jam in a world of slop

I'm Fox. I'm a 16 year old, and I've been working mostly working on making projects I thought were cool & would do well on the internet over the last year. You can check out my other blog posts if you want to get a sense of what that means: https://foxmoss.com/blog >. Hack Club noticed these projects and thought I would be well suited to run an event. This was my reaction, I wanted to make something that could encourage the same competition as well the feedback I get from places like HN and app...
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Supabase (YC S20) Is Hiring for Multigres

Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/2e718684-4f75-4a99-8d6b-3b6bd44e4228 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699842 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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The Card That Made the Apple II Serious

Article URL: https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700317 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike

Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157680/Ships-keep-moving-through-Hormuz-despite-strike-and-suspension-of-IMO-exit-strategy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700805 Points: 26 # Comments: 3
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This might be the new best smart speaker

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 134, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're okay in all this heat, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Polymarket lies and Jalen Brunson and […]
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This puzzle game’s simple premise hides surprising depth

What's the Password? has a simple concept: To solve each of the game's more than 100 puzzles, you have to type in the right four-digit password on a number pad. That might sound like a limited constraint. But the simplicity gives solo developer Dan DiIorio, better known as TrampolineTales, lots of room to play with […]
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Inside the room where the smart home industry is still betting on Matter

Four years ago, overlooking a canal in Amsterdam, the smart home industry collectively launched Matter, the one interoperability standard to rule them all. Heralded as the solution to the industry's struggles, Matter was built on open standards and existing technologies and is the result of years of collaboration between traditional rivals, including Apple, Google, Amazon, […]
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Why is Apple asking me to pay more for Big Tech’s AI obsession?

Tim Cook recently said price increases were "unavoidable" and described the company's pricing as "unsustainable." The 16-inch MacBook Pro saw its price go up by $300. The 11-inch iPad Air went from $599 to $749. Even the HomePod Mini got a $30 bump to $129. Cook squarely placed the blame at the feet of the […]
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Indie developers got tired of waiting for a new Star Fox, so they’re making their own

Nostalgia remains a powerful force. So much so that, in exploring the echoes of a late-'90s childhood spent skimming the water of Corneria and sneering "cocky little freaks!" in time with a monkey encased in a Gundam suit, I'm simultaneously describing playing Star Fox 64 (Lylat Wars if you're nasty) in 1997 and streaming it […]
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The Guardian’s Kai Wright refuses to buy a new phone

Kai Wright is the co-host of Stateside with Kai and Carter over at the Guardian. But Wright has been bringing his unique insights to listeners for years. He's also hosted Notes From America, The United States of Anxiety, and Indivisible. He's a Peabody Award-winning journalist who has profiled powerful men, explored what it means to […]
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My test had a comment that said 'in memory fallback'. It wasn't.

The test test_warmup_eval_no_flag_subprocess_exits_0 was running the real warmup eval command, no , dry run , against the live production state file. It had a comment claiming "in memory fallback." That comment was wrong. The editable install ( pip install e ) resolves STATE_PATH at import time to wherever the real state.json lives. There is no separate test context, no isolated state, no in memory anything. Every time that test ran, it loaded the live warm up anchor, evaluated it, a...
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My First Python Project: Lessons Learned While Building a Number Guessing Game

Hello everyone! 👋 I'm a self-taught Python learner, and today I completed my very first programming project—a command-line Number Guessing Game. It isn't a large project, but finishing it feels like an important milestone because it's the first application I built from start to finish on my own. Why I Choose This Project After learning the basics of Python, I wanted to build something practical instead of only solving small exercises. A number guessing game seemed like t...
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How To Prepare For A Golang Interview: A Practical Guide For Mid & Senior Engineers

A Go interview is rarely about syntax alone. Yes, you should know how slices work, how goroutines and channels behave, how interfaces compose, and how errors propagate. But for mid and senior roles, interviewers are looking for something deeper: Can you build correct software under real constraints? Can you reason about trade-offs and explain them in plain language? Can you debug production issues, prevent goroutine leaks, design simple APIs, write tests, and explain why you chose on...
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Building Surf Rush: A Full-Featured Telegram Mini App Game with React, TypeScript & HTML5 Canvas

Building Surf Rush: A Full-Featured Telegram Mini App Game with React, TypeScript & HTML5 Canvas How I engineered a real-time endless runner with XP progression, power-ups, daily missions, and a reward store — entirely inside Telegram. Introduction The Telegram Mini App ecosystem has quietly become one of the most exciting frontiers in web development. With over 900 million monthly active users and a built-in distribution channel that requires zero app store appr...
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How to Detect Which Font Is Actually Rendering in a Browser (Not Just the CSS Stack)

getComputedStyle(element).fontFamily returns the CSS declaration: "Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN", "Yu Gothic", "Noto Sans JP", sans-serif . That's not the font that rendered. It's a priority list. The browser picks the first one that's available and contains a glyph for the character being rendered. For Latin text, this distinction usually doesn't matter — Windows, macOS, and Linux have converged on a small set of common system fonts. For Japanese, it matters enormously. The visual weight, str...
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How to Set Your Freelance Day Rate as a Developer (With a Free Calculator)

One of the hardest things about going freelance as a developer isn't writing code — it's knowing what to charge. Charge too little and you're basically doing a salaried job without the benefits. Charge too much without backing it up and you scare off clients. Most developers I've spoken to either guessed their rate or copied someone else's. Neither is a great strategy. In this article I want to walk you through exactly how to calculate your freelance day rate properly — based on real numbers, ...
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nginx Event Loop — Complete Lifecycle Reference

nginx Event Loop — Complete Lifecycle Reference A precise, bottom-up reference covering every buffer, syscall, interrupt, and data movement from the moment a TCP packet hits the NIC to the moment a response is sent back. Two concurrent users are used throughout as a concrete example. Table of Contents Foundations — fd and Socket Hardware Layer — NIC, DMA, Interrupts Kernel Structures and All Buffers epoll — How the Worker Waits Efficiently nginx Startup Seque...
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The Case for Standardizing the Design of Websites

People complain that websites are all starting to look the same. They are not entirely wrong. A lot of modern websites do look alike. They have familiar navigation bars, predictable layouts, large hero sections, cards, and responsive grids. Buttons look like buttons. Forms look like forms. But, I would argue that's a good thing. Software is supposed to feel familiar. A website is not a painting. It is not a brand mood board. A website is usually a tool that someone is trying to use to acco...
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I open-sourced A full-stack, peer-to-peer coinflip betting game on Solana

A full-stack, peer-to-peer coinflip betting game on Solana A full-stack, peer-to-peer coinflip betting game on Solana. Players connect a wallet, create or join on-chain game rooms, and compete head-to-head for 2× the stake. The UI updates in real time over WebSockets, outcomes are resolved on-chain with Orao VRF, and the backend tracks rooms, chat, and match history in MongoDB. I open-sourced coinflip-casino for developers in Solana / Anchor smart contract development . This post wa...