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One of the things I often find missing in articles and discussion of these topics here on HN is the understanding that different people are really quite different. Articles or comm…

This looks like a form Epic would send to software vendors who have not passed one of the industry standard security certifications (SOC 2, for example). This is common practice fo…

tl;dr If you've got an embedded system (Arduino say) and you need to communicate with it over seiral/USB/etc, Bakelite takes care of all the tedious bits like data serialization, f…

This is one of those things you just have to try and see if it works. I've quit caffeine completely for a few weeks, and didn't notice a difference in my sleep quality.

This is doable. I'm using the Quest, so you don't have access to the camera images, but you can do a calibration phase where you figure out how a user's hands map to keys. I'm not …

I've been fiddling around with building UI's that use hand tracking in VR. Given the lack of physical feedback and the low fidelity of today's tracking methods, it turns out to be …

The fact that this article exists makes me happy.

Most people find it very hard to delete things. Even archiving it for later is harder than you'd think. Easing into it seems like a better approach if you haven't run across this c…