On an average workday I spend about 10 hours at my computer and that's before you count the many hours I spend on my PC doing things that I enjoy. When you sit behind a keyboard that much, you realize how many simple things you do require too many clicks. Sure, they might only take a couple of seconds in the moment, but at the end of the day all that time adds up.
Buying things online is the best way to save money, but it can be hard to know if you’re buying the right size or measuring properly. Getting this wrong means dealing with returns, which is inconvenient and best avoided. Luckily, these 3D prints can help boost your chances of success the first time around.
Difficulty settings in video games aren't always perfect, and many games still struggle to provide options that aren't too easy or too difficult. While some games like Elden Ring and Monster Hunter Rise forgo this choice altogether, there's a better approach to difficulty settings that too many developers are ignoring.
For most PC gamers, the first instinct when building or upgrading a gaming PC is to look at the latest and most popular GPUs. But with graphics card prices shooting up, you’re unlikely to get great value for your money when buying new, especially from NVIDIA.
It’s been a couple of years since I turned my back on the organic light-emitting diodes and quantum dots of modern TVs in favor of my beloved ultra-short-throw projector. Its bright and clear image beamed onto a big 100-inch ALR screen has turned my living room into a movie theater that rivals some of my city’s repertory cinemas, and it’s the best home theater exper
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In the movies, robots are often human-shaped, mainly because to have a robot in the movie at all, you had to use the "dude in a suit" method. However, since we're also watching a story to entertain people, it's easier to make them care about a robot that looks like a person. The big exception might be R2-D2 and C-3PO. No one likes the latter and people adore the for
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Have you ever found yourself on a system that's lacking the necessary tools? Maybe it was a rescue or installation environment, an unfamiliar system you were repairing, or a Docker container you were debugging. If you've used Linux for a while, you've likely encountered these scenarios, and installing the required tools can be a hassle when all you want is to finish
Quentin Tarantino's love letter to Hollywood's Golden Age is back on streaming. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is now available to watch on Prime Video. <img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/brad-pitt-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood.jpg' />
You finally bit the bullet and bought a fast charger for your Samsung, but for some reason, you're not getting anywhere near the advertised charging speeds. As it turns out, there's a surprisingly well-hidden option in the settings that needs to be switched on before your phone can take advantage of its fastest charging speeds.
There's no denying that VLC is one of the most powerful video players on Windows. On the surface, it's simple enough, but once you dig in, you'll find a deluge of hidden features, such as viewing and recording your webcam feed or converting media files. Most of these features, though, are superfluous for regular users who just want to watch videos.
If you use an Android phone, you’re probably using Gemini as your default AI assistant. Google made it the natural successor to Google Assistant, and while it’s not completely superior to the original, it does integrate deeply with Android, letting you control much of your phone with natural-language commands. However, because it’s Android and not Apple, you aren’t
Do you prefer working from a sheet of instructions and a box full of parts, rather than assembling everything yourself from scratch? Just because a project is straightforward doesn’t mean it can’t be complex or challenging in all the right ways.
As the evolution of AI dominates daily news, have you ever felt anxious, wondering, "Will my job be okay?" For students entering the workforce and business professionals considering their career paths, the impact of AI on employment is a pressing issue. In this article, we will explain, based on
You haven't touched your job site profile, yet scout emails have suddenly increased. Conversely, even though you were receiving several a month until last year, they have stopped completely. Many people over 35 have likely experienced one of these two scenarios.That is not so much a reflection o
Back when Twitter was fun, screenwriters would sometimes string together a series of tweets - what came to be known as "tweetstorms." Advice, personal anecdotes, reflections on the craft. It was pretty awesome.The only problem: Once the tweetstorm came ... it went.So, I took to contacting the writers and asking if I could reprint their tweetstorm at Go Into The Story. That way, they'd at least be stored where folks could access them in the future.Here's an example: In 2015, s
Lately, I've been getting many emails that appear to be from a fellow human HN user who saw something you said on HN, and was inspired to reach out about joining their company.There's usually a faint whiff of AI, though they usually pick a personal detail of yours to mention (to make it not look like pre-AI spam), and sometimes are even sent from the email address of someone listed as a founder on a startup's web site. There's no indication that this is automated, by AI or o
Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard (https://whiteboard.dev.fast/), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard.We were missing the feeling of a “whiteboard session” with another dev where you leave with a deep understanding of a system, so we built this app for ourselves. Whiteboard plugs into the tools you alr
Whether by your strict definition or not AGI is here is immaterial. For 90%+ of humanity AGI is here today, they act like it does and they use it as if it is. Geoffrey Hinton in a recent interview said that according to him it is still a year or so out, but that seems to ignore the fact that he's one of the smartest people on the planet, so he is one of the last to be 'caught up with'.If you have the knowledge of a very significant fraction of humanity at your fingertips, reasonab
