Living with an Apple Lisa [video]
Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you
Imagine actually doing all those things you’ve been putting off Because now the phone call happens without you. DMV appointment booked while you sleep Refund processed during your morning coffee Insurance claim filed between Zoom calls Subscription cancelled with zero guilt trips
The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens
Annals of Inquiry The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens Guy Consolmagno, the head of the observatory, says of celestial revelations, “Even scientists who don’t believe in God have to believe in ‘Oh, my God.’ ”Photographs by Marta Giaccone for The New Yorker Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story When the late […]
The Useless UseCallback
#1: The Uphill Battle of Memoization #2: The Useless useCallback 한국어 Add translation I thought I’d written enough about memoization by now, but I feel there is one pattern I’m seeing a lot lately that makes me think otherwise. So today, I want to look at useCallback, and to some extent useMemo, in situations where […]
Sign in with Google in Chrome
Sign in with Google in Chrome Underpass App Company News July 28, 2025By Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company Many websites such as Yelp show an annoying “Sign in with Google” banner when you visit. This is what Google calls the One Tap user experience. Fortunately, my web browser extension StopTheMadness Pro hides “Sign in […]
I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave
Streaming gameplay from one machine to another over a network is a reasonably popular use case these days. These use cases demand very, very low latency. Every millisecond counts here. We need to: Send controller input from machine A to B over network B renders a frame on the GPU B encodes the frame into […]
Different Clocks
Clock Graphics These clocks are generated as scalable vector graphics using JavaScript. Feel free to use and modify the source code. Each clock displays the current Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): Loading… Binary These squares show the Unix time, which is a 32-bit signed integer representing the number of seconds since 1970. Polygons These polygons show […]
Claude Code weekly rate limits
Hi there, Next month, we’re introducing new weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, affecting less than 5% of users based on current usage patterns. Claude Code, especially as part of our subscription bundle, has seen unprecedented growth. At the same time, we’ve identified policy violations like account sharing and reselling access—and advanced usage patterns like […]
Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler
At Heartbeat, we have a lot of different tasks that need to run at a particular time. Users can create draft posts or events that get published at a certain time. Event reminders need to be sent at a certain number of hours before an event. Automated workflows can be set up that send emails […]
Yes in My Bamako Yard
YIMBYs have been winning in some of the most productive cities on Earth. Legislative victories in California and the UK have made it easier — if still not easy — to build. The logic of pro-housing reforms is both straightforward and well-supported: Fewer regulatory barriers to building mean more houses, which leads to more affordable […]