Hacker News Reviews

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Hacker News mentions (504)

• Jank's new persistent string is fast

  Sure, but in a language without the zero terminator the empty string doesn't need an allocation. With a zero terminator, only SSO allows us to avoid that. There are a lot of empty strings. [On a typical modern 64-bit computer] An empty Rust std::String is 24 bytes, exactly the same as the Clang libc++ std::string as somewhat smaller than an MSVC or GCC std::string Most strings are "pretty small" but... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

  William: My current role primarily shapes my strategy. I learn a lot from the engineers and users of Linkerd, who are at the forefront of these technologies. I also keep myself updated by reading discussions on Reddit platforms like r/kubernetes and r/Linkerd. Occasionally, I contribute to or follow discussions on Hacker News. Overall, my primary source of knowledge comes from the experts I work with daily, giving... - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

• Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  A simpler, cross-platform, solution is to use headless Chrome to save pages as PDFs. Example I just tried and worked for me: > chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

  Thanks for the feedback! One big distinction with the "site:https://news.ycombinator.com" hack is that the search on Hacker Search directly runs against the underlying link's contents, rather than whatever happens to be on HN. We also more directly leverage HN's curation by factoring in scores. Appreciate your suggestions; will look into building those! - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

HN to Kindle mentions (9)

• Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite adds bigger screen, longer battery life and USB-C

  There's also the excellent ebook-convert command line tool as part of Calibre which can be used to convert between the formats[1], I use it convert HN content to Kindle e-book for my https://hntokindle.com. [1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Digital Minimalism: What are the alternative to screen time?

  Try printed news papers instead of news apps or sites, Apart from addressing your goals of Digital Minimalism the printed newspapers often have robust editorial practices if the publishing house has been in existence for say >100 years. > Kindle might be OK In case you want to read HN on Kindle too, I got you covered[1]. [1] https://hntokindle.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Web app to parse Kindle's My Clippings.txt

  This should work well with my https://hntokindle.com , Thank you! Source: almost 3 years ago

• Tell HN: Amazon Kindle's browser is not experimental anymore

  I saw in your profile that you are using https://hntokindle.com to read HN on Kindle, Can you read the story as well or just the comments? - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• The Middle East is running out of water, and parts of it becoming uninhabitable

  I read HN on Kindle[1], So low bloat websites like these are always a pleasure to read on Kindle's forever experimental browser. The websites needn't be text only, Reducing useless elements like Techcrunch's content wrap can go a long way to improve readability and accessibility. [1] https://hntokindle.com/ (Disclaimer: I built this). - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago