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5 ways to repurpose an old or broken Galaxy Z Fold
If you've got a Galaxy Z Fold you aren't using anymore and don't plan to sell, you can put it to good use even if its screens no longer work. Thanks to the phone's versatility, courtesy of its massive foldable display and beefy hardware that's quite capable even in older Galaxy Z Fold models, the most popular foldable around can fulfill a variety of roles.
GPT-6-Astra: infinitely pairs of consecutive primes with distance at most 186
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Wrapping Component Libraries
How production libraries handle decoupling, and what I learned building my own wrapper layer The Pattern Everyone Uses (But I Didn't Understand)Ever notice how you can import Material UI components like this?import {Button} from '@mui/material';import {Button} from '@mui/material/Button'; // Also worksOr how Lodash lets you do:import {debounce} from 'lodash';import debounce from 'lodash/debounce'; // Also worksI used these libraries for years without thinking about how they worked interna
Building Super-Flexible Web Applications
Multi-Layer Runtime Configuration: How to Change Your Entire UI Without Rebuilding The ProblemHardcoded configuration is everywhere:Need to change the primary color? Edit the code, rebuild, redeploy. Want to test two different button styles? Duplicate code or feature flags in your CI/CD. Supporting multiple clients with different branding? Maintain separate codebases or complex build configurations.CSS variables help with colors, but what about behavior? Feature flags? Icons? Layout prefere
My $3 DIY cooling hack dropped my home server's temperature by 8°C
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Fire TV is quickly becoming the worst streaming option for homelabbers
Amazon's Fire TV streaming devices have been based on Android from the start, which made them an excellent choice for anyone who likes to tinker and modify things. Amazon subsidized the price of Fire TV streamers by monetizing them with ads and, of course, using them as a funnel for subscriptions and more Amazon purchases.
Show HN: Aura – a Rust agent that investigates and fixes production incidents
We run a SaaS that handles petabytes of data. Our SRE team experimented with using claude, openclaw, langchain, etc. within our incident response workflows. We struggled with overflowing context, lethal trifecta vectors, hallucinations, and burned a lot of frontier tokens mostly on easy work. Approval fatigue was a challenge, and we drew a hard line at relaxing permissions in production.Long story short, we built and open-sourced AURA, a Rust-based harness specifically designed for the type of o
Show HN: Authorizer – open-source auth for enterprise apps and agents
I'm Lakhan, the creator and maintainer of Authorizer. I've been working on it for a few years.Authorizer is an open-source authentication and authorization server that can be self-hosted.The project started around authentication for applications and users. Over time, I started running into a broader set of problems involving services, workloads, and agents making requests.That's a big part of what led to the work in 2.4.One area I spent a lot of time on was delegation. An agent ca
Show HN: POWBlock proof-of-work microservice for any server
Hello everyone! Longtime HN lurker, first time real contributor.I'm the lead programmer behind the POWBlock project. Back in 2024 we started developing something that didn't exist: A universal, stack-agnostic bot blocking gate that you can attach to any server like a high-performance sidecar. The idea was to create a PoW defense system for Varnish/Vinyl Cache because nobody ever made a vmod for it, and we didn't want more proxies stuffed into our stack. But as the final
Show HN: Litelink – local-first, embedded stream capture into Iceberg tables
Hi HN! I just wanted to share litelink a local-first, embedded capture library I built in python (code is heavily AI generated but designed and reviewed by yours truly). I've been using this for point-and-shoot WebSocket capture but I imagine it could also be useful for observability/metrics ingestion as well. Litelink supports a single writer per stream.I've been doing a lot of development and deployments on tiny VMs (2 vCPU, 8GB, 50-100GB disk) and didn't want the complexit
I've used Excel for years, and this is one shortcut I keep coming back to (Alt+;)
Every Excel power user knows that keyboard shortcuts are one of the best ways to speed up their workflow. But there's one problem: there are more than 200 of them. My way around this is to focus on a select handful that genuinely save me time, and Alt+; is high up that list.
I loaded Ubuntu Touch on an old phone to "de-Google" my life—here's where it all went wrong
DeGoogling your digital life is difficult, though not impossible, when you have an Android phone. By default, all of Google's services are deeply integrated into the operation of the phone; if you start removing them, you'll quickly find your phone no longer functions.
I stopped getting lost in KDE’s settings after finding these simple shortcuts
Linux is well known for being receptive to customization, and KDE Plasma is no exception. In contrast to the minimalism of GNOME, KDE’s shell lets you fine-tune hundreds of different settings, and the default way to do so is via System Settings.
DOM In JavaScript
DOM in JavaScriptWhen we create a webpage using HTML, the browser needs a way to understand and manage all the elements on that page. For this, the browser creates a structure called the DOM.DOM stands for Document Object Model. It represents an HTML document as a tree of objects, where elements like <html>, <body>, <h1>, <p>, and <button> become nodes that JavaScript can access and modify. What is the DOM?Consider this HTML:<!DOCTYPE html><html&
Dear Past Me: A Model 200 Is Not a Database Commit
Dear past me,You wired a remote coding model into a webhook. The first response looked almost like valid JSON. You shipped the handler right before lunch anyway.By evening the table held four ghost rows. The remote hop still answered with HTTP 200. Your catch block kept retrying the same broken shape.That pattern wasted a working day. The model was not the root cause. Your output contract was missing. The failure you can reproduce without folkloreStatus 200 only proves the socket completed.
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
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"Your security headers are in .htaccess. Cloudflare Pages cannot read them."
<p>Trade-offs, since they are real: first load is heavier than a server-rendered equivalent because the processing code ships to the client. Mobile Lighthouse performance is 67, mostly blocking time from the framework. Large files are limited by the device's memory. Complex Office layouts convert approximately, not perfectly.<br><a href="https://toolsholic.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://toolsholic.com</a></p>
Employment-Based Immigration Backlog Exceeds 1.2 Million People
The employment-based immigration backlog in the United States now exceeds 1.2 million people, according to a new analysis of USCIS data.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1559523182-a284c3fb7cff?crop=entropy&cs=srgb&fm=jpg&ixid=MXwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mjd8fEVtcGxveW1lbnR8ZW58MHx8Mnw&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=85' />
Graduates weigh business study now against a later MBA in tough job market
People who might have worked before business school are increasingly looking to an immediate masters in management ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1636115837651-6f2a5c7ef01a?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTZ8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNzYyNzI5NjQ4fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080' />