Cosmic DE update: System76’s new Linux desktop environment
Hello world! Alex here with the latest batch of updates from System76 engineers on the development of COSMIC DE, as well as some Settings mockups where you can explore some of the new changes. For those of you who don’t know, System76 is moving the feel and front-end functionality of Pop!_OS to a faster codebase, […]
YouTube has become the world’s nanny
Readers without kids may not have heard of CoComelon. Parents of young children, though, will already be picturing the big-eyed 3-D baby at the centre of this kids’ series and hearing the whisper of its ceaseless songs. Whether or not their kids watch it online, CoComelon’s astonishing popularity makes it hard to avoid. In the […]
Discovery could extend battery life by replacing tape that causes self‑discharge
It happens far too often: you plug your laptop in and walk away only to return hours or days later to find it has lost some of its charge despite sitting idle and unused. The phenomenon — called self-discharge — has frustrated users and industry alike, and puzzled manufacturers trying to determine why lithium-ion battery […]
Tell HN: Heroku deleted my database with no warning
Last December, Heroku nuked the database on one of my active projects. I was travelling at the end of the year and did not catch wind of this until I returned and saw messages about an issue with the app. Sure enough, I checked and noticed that the database was gone and detached on December […]
Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps
Hi HN, we’re Max and James, co-founders of Needl (https://www.needl.tech). Needl is a single search bar for all your apps that lets you find any document, message, or file you need. Here’s a demo video: https://www.loom.com/share/652ae56c8ee34bc2a84b8aacf479a9f4. We’ve all struggled to find information and couldn’t remember if it was shared over Gmail or Slack or Notion. […]
QuestDB, Open-Source Database, Is Hiring a DevRel Engineer (US-Based)
About QuestDB We have built the fastest open source time series database from the ground up to offer breakthrough performance for real-time analytics. We are the fastest growing database within the fastest-developing database category. Developers rely on QuestDB as the analytic backbone of real-time systems ranging from FinTech to machine learning, IoT, and application monitoring. […]
CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days
San Francisco’s Sunset District will be upzoned for new, high density housing to help add 80,000 new homes via the housing element approved by SF city gov’t and the state. A little known law will eliminate the zoning ordinances of the vast majority of cities throughout the Bay Area. Yes, seriously. It’ll occur this Wednesday, […]
Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back. The Instagram co-founders, who departed Facebook in 2018 amid tensions with their parent company, have formed a new venture to explore ideas for next-generation social apps. Their first product is Artifact, a personalized news feed that uses machine learning to understand your interests and will soon let you […]
Weaponizing hyperfocus: Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale
Hello, world! I’m Xe, and I am the first Developer Advocate at Tailscale. I’m a prolific blogger, VTuber, and an avid technologist. I started working on Developer Relations (DevRel) at Tailscale in Spring 2022. Today I’m going to trace through the history of DevRel at Tailscale and how working on DevRel has transformed a part […]
Is AM Radio Dead?
…that was the question I asked my Dad, a radio engineer for many decades, who worked at the biggest AM station in St. Louis, KMOX. The station is approaching its centennial in 2025, as are—some YouTube commenters argue—its primary audience! [embedded content] I recorded that video during my convalescence at my parents’ house (I am […]