headline
stringlengths
8
94
content
stringlengths
43
235
Amazon to introduce a new Alexa feature to mimic anyone’s voice
A new Amazon Alexa feature can mimic any human's voice using less than a minute of recorded audio.
Last Week in AWS (Newsletter)
This is a funny weekly roundup of news about the AWS ecosystem. If you're an AWS power user, you'll love this newsletter, it's curated by Corey Quinn, a consultant that helps companies reduce their AWS bills.
Deep Learning Models (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a collection of various deep learning architectures, models, and tips. Each topic is divided into subsections for TensorFlow and PyTorch in Jupyter Notebooks.
Inverse Scaling Prize (GitHub Repo)
Win up to $100,000 for finding an important task where larger language models do worse.
A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet
Cloudflare experienced an outage on Tuesday morning, impacting a range of sites such as Discord, Shopify, Grindr, Fitbit, and Peloton.
Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series - Episode I - Official Teaser (53 seconds of pure bliss)
This is the trailer for part 1 of a 3-part virtual reality Star Wars series that will launch on Oculus Quest in 2019.
UI Movement (Newsletter)
UI Movement is a great newsletter for design inspiration with 5 nifty animations delivered to your inbox every Friday!
Awesome WASI (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a collection of things regarding WebAssembly WASI ecosystem. It contains general resources, WASI-compatible runtimes, utilities, WASI programs, articles, podcasts, and resources in Japanese.
A New Species of Absolutely Enormous Waterlily Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight
The new species of giant waterlily was initially mistaken for another known species.
Kubernetes YAML Generator (Website)
This page generates a YAML script based on an editable configuration. Users can specify resource types, DNS policies, containers, and other settings and easily export them.
Announcing Spring Native Beta!
The Spring Native beta is now available. It supports compiling Spring applications into native images. Spring applications can now be deployed as a standalone executable without needing a JVM installation.
The Incredible PyTorch (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a curated list of resources for PyTorch. Categories include tutorials, object detection, visualization, optimization, neural network compression, and much more.
CalcuLaTeX (GitHub Repo)
CalcuLaTeX is a pretty-printing calculator language. It outputs mathematical and scientific notation. Examples are available in the repository.
A new plant-based material can replace plastic food packaging for keeps
A team of scientists has developed a biodegradable and antimicrobial food packaging solution that could finally put an end to the need for plastic-made food packaging items.
Node.js Developer Roadmap (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a roadmap to becoming a Node.js developer. There are linked resources for most topics.
EU Approves Landmark Legislation to Regulate Apple and Other Big Tech Firms
The rules will target 'gatekeepers', large companies that own platforms with large numbers of users in an entrenched and durable position.
12 Exciting Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2022
This article gives an overview of engineering milestones that will happen in 2022. The technologies include Wi-Fi 6E, electric planes, 3-nanometer chips, cryogenic energy storage, and more.
Awesome CTO (GitHub Repo)
This repository has a list of resources for Chief Technology Officers, with an emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies. Topics include hiring, management, architecture, technology, marketing, and more.
Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market? (Hacker News Thread)
This thread is full of tips on how to attract funding from Venture Capitals despite the recent market downturn.
Termshark (GitHub Repo)
Termshark is a terminal UI for tshark. Users can remotely debug machines with large pcaps without copying the information back to their desktops. It is written in Golang, and binaries are available for download.
Turkey’s Newfound Cache of Rare Earths Could Supply the World’s EVs and More
Turkey recently discovered a massive rare earth reserve almost as big as the world's largest in China.
Markwhen (GitHub Repo)
Markwhen is a tool that converts markdown-ish text into a cascading timeline. It supports simple US/EU date styles, ISO8601, images, links, locations, and more. Examples are available.
Dockerfile Security Best Practices
One of the easiest ways to mitigate security risks is by following some rules when writing Dockerfiles. This article explains several basic security issues and how to detect them.
natto.dev (Website)
natto is a tool for manipulating JavaScript expressions on a spatial canvas. It uses panes to evaluate expressions, store values, and display data. Canvases are saved in the browser.
awesome-baremetal (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a list of bare-metal tools. All items on the list have been recently updated within the last 6 months or are still deemed relevant by the curator.
Blobs App (GitHub Repo)
Blobs App is an easy way to generate blob shapes and export the SVG or Flutter code. Users can choose the color, outline, and the randomness and complexity of the shape of the blob. A link to the web app is available.
videoinput.js (GitHub Repo)
videoinput.js creates an HTML element that can record video inputs and POST them directly to a URL. It can be used to create a simple form-like interface for recording and submitting videos.
A List of Post-mortems (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a list of post-mortems. Each item has a link to the incident report as well as a description of the cause of the system error.
Happy Valentine’s Day 2021 from @US_CYBERCOM (Twitter Thread)
@US_CYBERCOM tweeted out a link to 12 crypto challenges designed by the information security community as a Valentine's Day present. The puzzles come in a range of image and sound files.
esbuild (GitHub Repo)
esbuild is a JavaScript bundler and minifier. It is at least 100x faster than other JavaScript bundlers tested, with benchmarks available in the repository.
Data Diff (GitHub Repo)
Data Diff is a command-line tool and Python library to efficiently diff rows across two different databases.
Starship (GitHub Repo)
Starship is a minimal, fast, customizable prompt for any shell. It displays important information in a sleek and unintrusive manner. A quick GIF demo is available showing the prompt in action.
The new wave of React state management (14 minute read)
This post discusses the core problems that global state management libraries need to solve.
Starter Workflows (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains templates for on-boarding a new user into GitHub Actions. The templates are written in YAML and cover solutions for continuous integration and automation.
CSS Grid: Newspaper Layout (Website)
This page contains code to create a full newspaper-style effect using CSS. A demo is available. Links to download or copy the code are easily accessible.
Coronavirus Data API (Website)
This API gives four options to track the coronavirus: global stats, country stats, full timeline, and country timeline. Data can be queried using AJAX or $.ajax() in jQuery.
This Amplifier Chip for Light Is Faint No More
A new device is able to boost light signals up to 1,000 times.
Netflix Hangouts (Website)
Netflix Hangouts is a Chrome browser plugin that makes Netflix look like a conference call, so you can Netflix at work with peace of mind.
Veonim (GitHub Repo)
Veonim is a modal IDE built on Neovim and VSCode extensions. It features auto completion, fuzzy searching, hints, error management and debugging tools, references, and more. It is currently in heavy development.
Beast (GitHub Repo)
Beast is a build system designed for the purpose of power, speed, and productivity.
CloudQuery (GitHub Repo)
This is a cool open source point and click tool to turn any website into a serverless API on AWS. There's a gif demonstrating how easy it is to create a serverless API for Hacker News with this tool, pretty nifty.
Rocket (GitHub Repo)
Rocket is an async web framework for Rust with a focus on usability, security, extensibility, and speed. It provides routing, pre-processing of requests, and post-processing of responses. Documentation and guides are available.
Structured text tools (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a list of text-based file formats and command-line tools for manipulating them. It also includes tools for producing structured text output and CLIs for single-file databases.
HeyDesigner (Newsletter)
This is a daily curated newsletter for product people, UXers, PMs and frontend developers. Curated by typography, alien, and robot enthusiast Tamas Sari.
Dawn (GitHub Repo)
Dawn is a reference theme from Shopify. It has Online Store 2.0 features and only uses JavaScript when required. Dawn is built on theme code principles that ensure fast websites for mostly logged-out traffic.
WikipediaQL (GitHub Repo)
WikipediaQL is a query language for data extraction from Wikipedia. It can return structured data through selectors. Examples are available in the repository.
awesome-web-effect (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a collection of cool web page effects. The effects can be simply inserted into any page. Categories include mouse effects, background decorations, image effects, SVG animations, and more.
Illustrations (Website)
This website features over 120 completely free illustrations. 100 of the designs were made during a 100-day illustration challenge.
Startup Founder Holiday Season Tips
From frustrations to the risk of failure, startup founders go through a lot. But there is a time when they can vent it all out. Learn how they successful founders spend the holiday season.
VS Code theme studio (Website)
VS Code theme studio helps you easily design, deploy, and share VS Code themes. A marketplace with existing themes is available.
numpy-ml (GitHub Repo)
numpy-ml is a collection of machine learning algorithms implemented exclusively in numpy. It includes a range of models, data preprocessing methods, and utilities.
TypeScript Weekly (Newsletter)
I've been looking for a decent TypeScript newsletter for a while and I finally found one I'm happy with. Lots of great TypeScript tutorials and resources here, curated by Marius Schulz, a front-end developer at Facebook.
Pinia (GitHub Repo)
Pinia is an intuitive, type-safe, and flexible Store for Vue. It features Devtools support and support for extensions. Pinia works for both Vue 2.x and 3.x. Demos are available.
System UIcons (Website)
This site contains a collection of 220 system UI icons. Developers can search for the icon they need and easily add the image to their site via SVG code, CDN link, or by hosting the icon directly.
CSS Spider (Website)
CSS Spider is a Chrome plugin that allows developers to view and edit CSS by hovering over elements. Code can be copied and exported to codepen with a click. There is a 35-second video showing how to use the plugin on the site.
Cardboard SDK (GitHub Repo)
Cardboard SDK provides everything required to create VR experiences for Google Cardboard. It supports VR features such as motion tracking, stereoscopic rendering, and user interaction via the viewer button.
Up (Github Repo)
Up is an open source commandline tool that lets you write Linux pipes and preview the results in real time. This makes it a lot easier to write scripts using grep, awk, wc, etc. by providing instant scrollable feedback.
Beautiful Codes (Website)
This site lets you edit the look of your code, then download it as a PNG. You can change the background color, font, theme, and more. The site displays a preview of the code.
Defensive CSS (Website)
This site contains practical CSS and design tips for building future-proof user interfaces.
FoundersGrid (Weekly Newsletter)
FoundersGrid is a bi-weekly newsletter that includes a curated list of stories in tech, actionable business guides, and discounts on new tools and products. Sort of like a weekly version of TLDR!
Metarank (GitHub Repo)
Metarank is a machine learning tool that personalizes product listings, articles, recommendations, and search results to boost sales. It can be integrated into apps without any machine learning expertise. A demo is available.
Tsunami (GitHub Repo)
Tsunami is a general network security scanner for detecting high severity vulnerabilities with confidence. It relies heavily on its plugin system, with all publicly available plugins hosted in a separate linked repository.
forgit (GitHub Repo)
forgit is a tool designed to help people use git more efficiently. It provides a UI and makes many of git's functions interactive. Screenshots are available.
Verbum (GitHub Repo)
Verbum is a flexible text editor for React.
Some Assembly Required (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a short but approachable introduction to assembly.
ninja: a simple way to do builds
ninja is an extremely simple build system. This article describes how to use ninja to quickly convert SVGs into PDFs.
Glow (GitHub Repo)
Glow allows you to render markdown on the command-line. It can be installed using your favorite package manager. An example of its output is available on the repository.
JsQuery (GitHub Repo)
JsQuery is a PostgreSQL extension that adds a json query language with GIN indexing support. It features a way to search in nested objects and arrays and more comparison operators with indexes support.
SQLGlot (GitHub Repo)
SQLGlot is a Python SQL parser and transpiler. It can read, write, and translate a wide variety of SQL dialects. SQLGlot is fast and customizable. Examples are available.
Developer-friendly Real-Time Video (Sponsor)
Mux’s Real-Time Video integrates seamlessly with live and on-demand video, all in one API. Now you can build better real-time experiences — all with best-in-class video infrastructure. Learn more.
RETRO Is Blazingly Fast
RETRO models are 25x smaller than the competition, leading to huge savings in training and inference costs.
Recoil (Website)
Recoil is a state management library for React. It provides capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone. A 33-minute video is available that explains and demonstrates how Recoil works.
How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project? (Hacker News Thread)
Lots of sound advice for getting over the fear of shipping a project here, from breaking things down into smaller subtasks to utilizing your own existential dread.
New SpaceX Starlink Maritime service brings internet to boats
Boat owners will now be able to access Starlink's internet service from the most remote waters across the world.
pattern.css (GitHub Repo)
pattern.css is a CSS only library of patterned backgrounds. It supports all modern browsers and developers have full color control. pattern.css is under 1KB when compressed.
Moving Gradient animation with CSS
This article shows you how to make a complete page background animation with CSS moving gradients. It explains how the code works, and then it shows how the code can be modified to make more complex effects.
Copii. Ready to use fully functional copy button for GitHub README files
Copii is a button you can add to your README files in GitHub to easily copy code to the clipboard. An example is available on the page.
Khaby Lame dethrones Charli D’Amelio as the most-followed TikTok creator
Khaby Lame, a 22-year-old from Senegal famous for wordlessly fixing viral life hacks, is now the most followed creator on TikTok.
Teleport 9 - Introducing Machine ID (Sponsor)
Big release from Teleport today! Teleport 9 now includes Machine ID: the identity-based access for machine connections. Learn more in this blog post.
Tesla Model S Plaid breaks 200 mph top speed for the first time
A Tesla Model S Plaid was able to reach the automaker's promised top speed of 200 mph after it was hacked to remove software limitations.
Toshi (GitHub Repo)
Toshi is an open source full-text search engine written in Rust (it's a competitor to Elasticsearch). It works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.
PDM (Website)
PDM is a modern Python manager with PEP 582 support. It installs and manages packages without the need to create a virtualenv. PDM features a simple and fast dependency resolver, a PEP 517 backend, and PEP 621 project metadata.
Milkdown (GitHub Repo)
Milkdown is a markdown editor. It is themeable and hackable and it supports math equations, tables, collaboration, emojis, and more. A live demo is available.
Bubble Tea (GitHub Repo)
Bubble Tea is a Go framework based on The Elm Architecture for building terminal apps. It is suitable for both simple and complex terminal apps, both inline or full-window. Examples are available.
State of Javascript 2018 (Survey)
This is the annual State of Javascript survey, complete with salaries and demographics of Javascript developers, popularity of Javascript frameworks and libraries, and awards!
Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers? (Hacker News Thread)
Last Friday I posted this story on "productivity multipliers" with a broken link, here is the correct link.
VSCode Browser Preview (GitHub Repo)
This is a tool that gives you a real browser preview inside your VSCode editor so you can debug in real time. It uses a headless Chrome instance under the hood.
Yaade (GitHub Repo)
Yaade is a collaborative API development environment. It is self-hosted, secure, and persistent and it features a dark mode default. Requests can be called on localhost as well as on remote servers. Screenshots are available.
A Senior Engineer's CheckList (16 minute read)
This is a checklist of tasks that can be applied to any software engineer but is targeted at senior engineers. Each task is sorted by effort, category, and its impact on one's career and company.
Wasmer (GitHub Repo)
Wasmer is a standalone JIT WebAssembly runtime, which is able to run any WebAssembly file. It aims to be fully compatible with Emscripten, Rust, and Go. Wasmer can be embedded directly into Rust applications.
Dopefolio (GitHub Repo)
Dopefolio is a multipage portfolio template for developers. It is easy to set up, free to use, and can run without any additional frameworks or libraries. A playground demo is available.
Elf (GitHub Repo)
Elf is a reactive immutable state management solution built on top of RxJS. It is modular by design and it features a CLI, first class entities support, persistent states, devtools, and more. Examples are available.
MapLibre GL (GitHub Repo)
MapLibre GL is a community fork of mapbox-gl before their switch to a non-OSS license. mapbox-gl provides interactive, customizable maps in the browser. An example on how to migrate from mapbox-gl is available.
Radial Menu (GitHub Repo)
Radial Menu is a highly customizable radial menu. It only requires a few lines of code to set up and every part of the menu can be changed, including the rotation, color, style, icons, and size of the buttons.
Clay.CSS (GitHub Website)
Clay.CSS is a micro CSS util class for applying 3D claymorphism styles to elements. It is fully customizable and extensible with CSS variables. SASS mixin is supported. Examples are available.
Zoom Earth (Website)
This website provides near real-time satellite images. Users can adjust the time, search for locations, and view recent images of storms, wildfires, property, and more. The data is gathered from a variety of international sources.
ConsoleMe (GitHub Repo)
ConsoleMe makes AWS easier for end-users and cloud administrators. It consolidates the management of multiple accounts into a single web interface. ConsoleMe is extensible and there is a basic set of plugins available.
Hello (Web Tool)
Hello is a super simple video chat tool that works without any sign up, you just go to the URL and it will give you a share link to invite any friends you want to the chat.
Is This the Hottest Market on Earth? (Sponsor)
Is This the Hottest Market on Earth? . The global wealth of billionaires has soared by $5 trillion since the pandemic and they know what they want: art. A lot more. With some works selling for 15X
Magazine Layout (GitHub Repo)
This is a nifty open source library from AirBNB that makes it really easy to display images in a grid on iOS. If you're making anything that needs a nice directory layout like AirBNB this library looks pretty cool.