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And two linux ports: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux https://github.com/abrauchli/usbee

For context - I assume this comment is referring to Kagi still paying Yandex to use their index. I've collected some links here last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinat…

If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are: - twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87) - six times as expensive on the input (…

He posted about him leaving Facebook on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7302785... He also reflected on his time and Haskell usage at Facebook here: …

Not that it answers your question, but the move happened in 2020 to "hire more easily, act more swiftly, and pursue ideas that were previously not possible". https://blog.thunderbi…

Pop-ups [1] in Niagara launcher do this. However, it comes with other unconventional UI decisions which might or might not be to your liking. [1]: https://help.niagaralauncher.app/…

It took me a moment to find, but Alertly claims to do something similar while being open-source. Last commit was made two years ago though. https://f-droid.org/packages/com.example…

Just in case you need sources: Kagi is using [1] Yandex and paying them as of June 2025. This is a long-standing position, which was also voiced [2] in November 2024. Regarding Yan…

Take a look at Open-Xchange, it's not developed by Thunderbird folks but otherwise fits the bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange mailbox.org is based on it.

I was browsing through the issues of extrepo and found deb-get, seems pretty useful too: > deb-get makes it easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories…

Keep in mind that using Beeper for Instagram breaks their ToS and often gets your account suspended or banned. This happens with both cloud and local bridges. https://www.reddit.co…

Isn't this something we already know from the mass–energy equivalence? In the same way that a nuclear reaction that produces heat must cost the object mass (and therefore gravitati…

There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location https://timeguessr.com/ Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3720…

There's also a great documentary on Stanislaw Lem. It's in Polish, but with English subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw Lem himself talks about the movie a bit t…

Can you say the same thing about iCloud, AppStore?

It should have the same constraints as nix itself — i.e. easiest on linux, slightly more complicated on macos. Bug isolation is probably the best next step for you. Is it during ni…

Promising efficiency, "new functionality written in Rust". But also: > Available under a commercial license, Synapse Pro will alhelp fund and accelerate the continued open source d…

Depending on the domain, a language workbench might be a good fit. https://spoofax.dev/ https://www.rascal-mpl.org/

There is some information here and in references, but it's sparse on how he entered the university. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Alek_Sigley

Certainly, the problem is bigger than just computers. I was trying to say that if you don't understand how computers work your chances of getting confused are higher since they are…

Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts? Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they…

Besides being allegedly hard to shut down without breaking iPhones, there's also this statement given to Ars Technica: > Migicovsky had a few different answers. The broadest one, r…