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Scoot supports element-based navigation (c/o accessibility APIs), plus grid-based navigation, via two separate modes: https://github.com/mjrusso/scoot Unfortunately both modes are …

Microsandbox's primary goal is to make it easy to build environments for running untrusted code. Nix, on the other hand, solves the problem of building reproducible environments...…

As a Nix user, I'm actually really excited to try this out. I want to run sandboxes based on Docker images that have Nix pre-installed. (Once the VM boots, apply the project-specif…

Great list. Small correction: the latest version of Scoot (admittedly, I haven't updated it in quite some time) offers both grid and accessibility-based navigation modes.

Hi HN! I started building Scoot as an experiment, to see if it was possible to meaningfully reduce my reliance on a physical mouse and trackpad during day-to-day usage of my Mac. Q…

In your first CS courses, you learn how to build linked lists, sets, etc., and implement your very first algorithms using these data structures. Relational databases come later, an…

The code is available here: http://github.com/rhomobile/rhodes

There is an easy hack, given a known list of RSS feeds that do not offer full content and that one desires to be searched -- Simply run the links in the original feed through somet…

I've been using this in production for the past few months and and it's been solid. (If you're working in Python, you can use http://github.com/krobertson/python-ernie with the Erl…

The first bottleneck on the MySQL set-up is the reading, not the writing. Even with the indices stored entirely in RAM (as the author pointed out in his blog post), the MySQL box c…