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I've seen the term "request coalescing" used to refer to a technique to minimise the impact of cache stampedes. Protects your backend systems from huge spikes in traffic caused by …

There are many types of request that cannot be made with client-side JS alone, but for those that can, the ability to send those requests client-side would be handy.

Anecdotally, I've heard the term "doomscrolling" being used by a reasonable number of different people in different circles to refer to passively consuming "bitesize" content (e.g.…

This is very cool - I haven't seen anything like it before. I've spent about half an hour noseying at places I've lived or considered living, fascinating. The view of changing hous…

What model are you using now that fixes the issues you experienced on your 735xt?

We're conflating the Ninja Creami with Ninja's smoothie makers and blenders - they are separate product lines

Is the project named spinup or rallyup? The HN post title differs from the GitHub repo

People might not buy a game if they don't think they'll get a fair play experience.

The poke feature is back! It was re-introduced this year some time.

It also seems reminiscent of KSQL - consuming multiple input topics, and producing output to a topic defined using a query written in a SQL-like language that defines how the input…

Meta point - this page has one of the nicer "snap" scrolling mechanisms I've seen on Mac with a touchpad - scrolling still feels natural, but when I let go it snaps to a single sli…

Strange. It shouldn't alert you unless the AirTags aren't connected to their own phones - do they leave their phones behind when going for a walk?

This objectively makes the world a worse place. I challenge you to come up with any ethical angle that supports your work on this product.

Your first point is almost a meme at this point - so many products can be written off as pointless with the statement: > As a [type of tech person], [product] is completely unneces…

Some of the cost might come from buying a computer suitable for video editing, which I can imagine could be a couple of thousand dollars.

The thing I'm most impressed and surprised about is that archive.org runs a Windows 3.1 emulator in the page, so you can actually use the program. I fully expected it to just be in…

Capitalism.

haveibeenpwned.com does not use the k-anonymity method that you've described when searching for phone numbers: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-...

A fun problem on a Mac is that if you're using APFS for your filesystem, if it fills up, you can't delete any files. It's caught me out a handful of times, and each time, the only …

> There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced Tim Toady) is a Perl programming motto. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to...

You being vaccinated only cuts off the path that the virus can take to somebody if the vaccine gives you sterilising immunity - otherwise, it may just prevent you experiencing dise…

On the whole, I agree that the adoption of QR codes more widely is a good thing - they are a useful tool to solve a certain class of problems, but in pre-COVID times, they often we…

And now, we've reached equilibrium again: every major social network now has stories.

There's an option in the Preferences to "Show a badge on Slack's icon to indicate new activity" which, when unchecked, may stop the behaviour you're describing.

Using a lambda to route requests to other lambdas would result in you effectively doubling your Lambda cost, as your routing lambda would sit idling while waiting for the target la…