Many things that we consider temporary at first become a permanent part of our daily lives, for one reason or another. As an example, I placed my first SSD on top of my case's built-in 3.5-inch drive enclosure because I couldn't be bothered to properly install it and left it there for years until I built a new PC in a new chassis. In the case of Windows, a stopgap d
I've always found flashcards to be one of the most fun and engaging ways to learn new things. The idea of quizzing yourself and getting instant feedback just by flipping a card strikes an elegant balance between simplicity and effectiveness. Now, if you're like me and also enjoy flashcards, you probably know about Anki—it’s one of the most popular student apps out t
Apps are always competing for your attention. I easily get more than 300 notifications a day on my Android phone, and maybe 50-100 are important enough to go through. Unwanted or less important notifications steal your attention and drain your phone’s battery a little as well.
<p>Do you have old Wii Remotes lying around your house? Well, it’s a good thing you didn’t throw them away years ago. Thanks to modern software, those Wii Remotes can live a new life on your desk in several fun and unique ways.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/08/a-wii-remote-sitting-on-a-table.jpg' />
Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2.The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits betw
For the last several years, our team has been working on one question: does every new native mobile platform really need to be a new development project?We used to develop social and business platforms as separate projects, and kept running into the same problem: much of the work had to be done again each time. So we tried to change the process itself — from repeatedly developing new platforms to creating them from an engineering system we had already built.We developed and patented an approach
I built rNet.Why I built ? : I was using both an agentic IDE and a Hostinger deployment agent. One day, I ran out of credits on the deployment agent. To keep using it, I either had to wait for credits to reset or upgrade to a higher subscription or buy tokens. At the same time, I already had a subscription for the IDE, but I could not use those credits on Hostinger. simply despite having credits, we cannot use them.The basic idea is simple: users buy credits once on our platform and then use tho
Most people assume their phone's lifeline is something you either accept or ignore. Samsung builds in fast charging, so fast charging is what you get. The phone heating up while it's plugged in feels like a normal side effect instead of a sign that something's slowly going wrong. If you want your phone's battery to last longer, you shouldn't keep this option on fore
As concerns about AI replacing jobs continue to grow, a new report highlights 15 careers expected to thrive despite rapid advances in automation.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1629904853893-c2c8981a1dc5?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTN8fEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTYzMTU2ODQ2NA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
So, you have a 3D printer and a smart home, and want to combine the two. Today I'm going to show you five unexpected ways that you can combine your love of extruding plastic and making your smart home more accessible.
Before the comments blow up on me, I'm not claiming these are the four most technically impressive Linux applications ever written. There are plenty of more ambitious or technically complex programs out there. What makes these four stand out is that they helped solve the kinds of problems almost every desktop user runs into, especially people defecting from Windows,
Buying a luxury SUV usually means paying for more than a nicer cabin and a prestigious badge. For many shoppers, the bigger question is whether that premium experience is worth the added complexity and potentially higher repair bills.
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I had spent months refining my Linux desktop environment. Every config file had a place, my command line tools were selected for the way I worked, and my desktop shortcuts, panel layout, themes, and custom scripts were configured exactly the way I wanted.
I love portable power stations so much that my wife and I have backed up our home with Anker SOLIX batteries instead of an automatic gas generator or a built-in home battery. Here's what I've learned after having just experienced three power outages in the span of two weeks.
A new tablet can be great for typical uses such as browsing the internet or watching shows and movies. If you're thinking about buying a new tablet for another purpose, then it's worth considering whether an old eReader could do a better job.
Waze is good at what it does, but what it does comes with the cost of privacy. Companies love to claim you need to lose privacy to get certain features. That's not true. There are plenty of features that you can keep without needing Waze or its way of sending information to servers. You can pick open-source alternatives to Waze and Google Maps and have the same feat
Fire TV is built around streaming services, but my favorite app does something more. NOVA Video Player lets me build a polished, Netflix-style library from my own local files, without needing to run a Plex or Jellyfin server. It makes a Fire TV device so much more powerful.
