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A 3D printer can produce an endless array of tools and accessories to enhance your existing hobbies. Since the weekend is the best time to get crafty, why not print a few things to get you in the mood this weekend?
Seven years ago, Google introduced a more affordable series of Pixel phones, and we've seen 10 models since. The whole point of the lineup, at least to me, has been to give people the Pixel experience without the flagship price tag—and that's the basis on which I ranked them.
Most Fire TV updates feel like they change things just to change them, and I've thought that plenty of updates have made things worse. This recent update is different. Amazon pushed out changes that actually make the device easier to live with day to day, such as a smart home control panel that doesn't interrupt what you're watching, a navigation overhaul that puts
Encrypted DNS sounds like an easy privacy win if you set it up correctly, and it is, but please don't treat it as some bulletproof, foolproof solution that hides everything you do from everyone who might want to know. In fact, it doesn't hide your browsing from your ISP.
The youngest driver in the house often ends up with the oldest car in the driveway, or at least that is how it always went when I was growing up. When your teen takes the keys to a “hand-me-down” vehicle for the school year, there are a few things you can ask your mechanic to look at, or even do at home, to ensure its long-term reliability.
I'm a big fan of the Linux Operating System. I have been using it in some form or another for about two decades (starting with Red Hat). I enjoy working with it and experimenting with different distros. I even occasionally teach beginner-friendly Linux courses. While Mint has been my daily driver for a while (and is, itself, a derivative of Debian, according to Debi
Asking for a magazine writer for a feature story about "IoT" connected home appliances. The primary question behind this feature is: “I have to now use an app to operate my washing machine. Why?!”The feature explores why this is happening, what technology is behind that, and how this trend (?) might evolve as consumers increasingly complain about app overwhelm.Any pointers to details on how these systems work would be welcome. If you have worked on any of the underlying software, the w
Hello everyone,I’ve been building Seisin, a desktop app for keeping an entire job search in one place.I was planning on posting this back at v1.0, but held on to see a bit more of what HN was like before posting here. I kept building in the meantime, so what’s here now is v1.1.It tracks applications, interviews, offers, resumes, contacts and notes, then turns all of that into analytics automatically.Some of what’s in it now:- Analytics (response rate by source, response time, weekly activity &am
I was always having this anxious feeling before the interview about not getting the job. Because of that, I tended to try to prep as much as I could to at least pass the first round of interview. However, interview prep research took time and was mostly the same thing: figure out what the company's dealing with, work out what the role is actually screening for, then write questions against that. When you have 2 or 3 interview invitations, you may need to spend quite some time to properly re
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The Google Pixel 11 range is here with preorders officially underway in Australia, and we’ve covered all the best offers from both retailers and telcos across the country.While there are plenty of great options out there, for our money, the best preorder deal comes from Vodafone. The telco is quite literally giving away a Sony PlayStation 5 Slim console and an extra DualSense controller for free when you preorder the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL until August 19.Given that t
💥 Challenging the Status Quo — Empowering Collectors, Not Replacing GradersFor over three decades, the trading card industry has revolved around a small handful of grading companies. Their slabs define the market, their opinions shape card values, and their turnaround times and fees dictate how quickly collectors can grow their collections or sell their investments.But collectors deserve better.TCGrader was built to challenge the status quo — not by replacing professional graders, but by empower
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An in-depth conversation with the screenwriter of the fan favorite 2000 comedy Bring It On.Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
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AeroPress coffee makers are going cheap right now, in a whole rainbow of colours, and you'll find the complete set right here. Almost every colour is 20% off at Rave Coffee right now, except for the rare green model, which is out of stock at most retailers but available with a slightly more modest 16% price cut at Coffee Omega.These colourful coffee makers are super lightweight, and even more versatile than you might have realised. Did you know that you can use them t
Developing prototype custom IoT solutions usually means a breadboard, jumper wires, sensors, peripherals (such as a realtime clock and storage), a microcontroller, and a lot of custom program code. Deployment into the hands of users is another additional project in itself. What if you could simplify and speed-up the whole prototype and deployment process using one simple, compact and cheap device?What if prototyping and deploying custom IoT solutions could be as simple as following these steps:*
I'm a navigation officer on commercial ships, seven years at sea. Two things here that might interest you.First, promotion in the merchant service runs almost entirely on competency. Self-marketing, like a perfect CV, barely helps. Competency, like taking action during man overboard, mattered far more.Second: on Christmas night, a ship fired a rocket parachute flare. Hundreds of ships saw it. That's a distress signal. Every vessel that sees one is obligated to report it. The radio play
Hi HN,Founder of Maxint here, we just launched Orca (https://orca.maxint.com/)One major hurdle for us, following the deployment across iOS, Android, Linux, MacOS, Windows and Web, was monetization. There was no standardized store, schema or architecture to define, integrate and track subscriptions, consumables and non-consumables across platforms.We tried RevenueCat and Adapty, however both were limited to mobile and web, while we still had to manually set up all products and enti
