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Show HN: On-device meeting transcription for your Mac

Hi HN!Like a lot of people, I love Granola and use it every day. The onboarding experience, the numerous delighters, the flourishes and the way it just works are all testament to the quality bar you can clear with an Electron app given enough care and expertise. It was the first app I'd ever used which recorded system audio on Mac without recording video too, which sparked a year-long obsession with Apple's Core Audio taps API, led to me creating an open source Swift library which make

Show HN: I'm trying to help aspiring Data Analysts

I have been working as a freelance data analyst for 9 years now, and everything is going well for me.Two years ago, I created a Discord community for data analysts and we are now 700+ members.Talking with the community made me realized how lucky I was to have a job and proper experience in data analysis because, god, it is hard right now to find a first job.So I decided to spend my free time building D8A academy. It's a roadmap of projects, which is what most people in the Discord were aski

Ask HN: Anyone else found the Portuguese freelancer tax system impenetrable?

I moved to Lisbon on the D8 visa 14 months ago. Issuing a recibo verde (thePortuguese freelancer receipt) requires navigating Portal das Finanças — noEnglish version exists.The wrong selection in one dropdown can silently opt you into a 23% VAT regimeyou never collected from clients. A friend discovered this six months later viahis accountant. €23k liability.I've been building an English-language layer over the workflow (VerdeDesk) —plain-English field explanations, income tracking, VA

How to Get a Virtual SMS Number for App Verification in 2026

*The Problem With Using Your Real Number*Every time you sign up for a new app or service, they ask for your phone number. This creates privacy risks:Your number ends up in data breach listsYou get spam calls and SMSPlatforms track you across services*The Solution: Virtual SMS Numbers*A virtual (temporary) phone number lets you receive SMS verification codes without exposing your real number.*How It Works*`// Example: Automate SMS verification with APIconst response = await fetch('https://tempnum

🧠 What is JSX in React?

JSX stands for JavaScript XML. It lets you write HTML-like code inside JavaScript, making UI creation easier in React.📘 Example:function App() { const name = "Aman"; return <h1>Hello, {name}</h1>;}✨ Key Points:• JSX looks like HTML but works inside JavaScript• You can use JavaScript expressions with {}• JSX is converted into React.createElement() behind the scenesJSX makes React code more readable and developer-friendly. 🚀

Deploying a TanStack Start App with Neon Postgres and Cloudflare Workers

URL: https://isaacfei.com/posts/deploy-tanstack-start-neon-cloudflareDate: 2026-02-23Tags: TanStack Start, Cloudflare Workers, Neon, Drizzle ORM, DeploymentDescription: A step-by-step guide to deploying a full-stack TanStack Start application with Neon serverless Postgres (via Drizzle ORM) to Cloudflare Workers, using GitHub integration for CI/CD.This guide walks through deploying a full-stack TanStack Start application to Cloudflare Workers with Neon as the serverless Postgres database, using D

Grounds for celebration: these 6 coffee machine deals are too hard to resist in Afterpay Day sales

Whether you prefer a fully-automatic, manual or capsule coffee machine, there are plenty available at great prices for Afterpay Day. <img src='https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JfHHhVJuWyaT9Vk2mEgy9Z-1280-80.jpg' />

On Writing

&#x201C;I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.&#x201D;Continue reading on Go Into The Story »

Page One: “Step Up” (2006)

Screenplay by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg, story by Duane AdlerContinue reading on Go Into The Story »

Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

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Building Parzero.ai: From HTML to WordPress in Minutes

Building Parzero.ai: From HTML to WordPress in Minutes 👋 About MeHi, I’m Mohamad Darwish, a developer based in Germany.I’ve been passionate about coding since I was a kid, and recently I built Parzero.ai, an AI-powered tool that helps developers convert static HTML into clean, editable WordPress structures — saving hours of manual work. 💡 The ProblemEvery developer who works with WordPress knows how time-consuming it can be to turn an HTML template into a WordPress theme or block

The Day I Discovered Type Design

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Generate a PDF from Any URL in Node.js — No Puppeteer, No Headless Browser

Generating PDFs from web pages is one of those tasks that looks simple until you're knee-deep in Puppeteer configuration.You install the package. You launch a browser. You call page.goto(), wait for networkidle2, call page.pdf(), handle the timeout, close the browser, write the file. And that's the happy path — before you've dealt with the Docker sandbox flags, the 300MB Chromium binary in CI, or the memory leak that shows up on page three.There's a cleaner way. The SnapAPI approachSnapAPI'

Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm

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Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers

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Show HN: CareerKit – ATS scorer and resume tailoring tool for job seekers

I applied to over 200 jobs last month. Tailored resumes by hand, rewrote cover letters late at night, and still got no responses for most of them.Eventually I realized the problem wasn&#x27;t the resume quality. It was that ATS systems were filtering applications out before a human ever read them. Most job seekers have no visibility into why this happens or how to fix it per role.So I built CareerKit.You upload a resume and paste a job description. It returns an ATS compatibility score, flags mi

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voltairlabs.com&#x2F;). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections.Here’s some footage: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;1173862237&#x2F;ac28095cc6?share=copy&amp;fl=sv&amp;fe=... and a photo of our latest prototype: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;bYHnqZ4.The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they&#x27;re aging. Over 50% of

Apple TV fans will get a great free upgrade for discovering movies and TV shows soon, but there&#039;s a catch

Apple TV is changing the way it recommends movies and shows to you — say hello to 'Genius Browse'. <img src='https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/dJLScJgqfLGCRGmqVoKtsP-1280-80.jpg' />

Noq: n0&#039;s new QUIC implementation in Rust

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Google will make you wait 24 hours to sideload Android apps (Update)

One of the biggest Android stories of last year was Google’s planned major changes to sideloading. It caused a legitimate uproar in the community, leading Google to backtrack a bit. Now, we’re getting our first look at what these new restrictions will look like.