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Authentic Victorian & Georgian Doors: Traditional Character Meets Modern Performance
Restoring a period property is all about getting the details right. From fireplaces and flooring to windows and ironmongery, the right architectural features can completely transform an old home.One of the most important—and often overlooked—details is the door.Original Victorian townhouse doors are highly sought after because of their distinctive proportions, craftsmanship, and character. Unfortunately, finding an original door in excellent condition, at the right size, and suitable for modern
Director Kevin Macdonald tells HTG how he captured Gal Gadot’s intense action in Prime Video's The Runner
Ask any director, and they'll tell you that filming a movie is rather difficult. Now try shooting a movie where the protagonist is constantly on the move. That is one of the several challenges director Kevin Macdonald faced in The Runner, a new Prime Video action movie starring Gal Gadot.
I switched to Samsung for one hidden feature and discovered 3 more I can't live without
I have been loyal to iOS since 2018. I liked the polished iOS experience and reliable day-to-day performance. But one Samsung feature kept tempting me to buy their phone. Samsung offered me something Apple still doesn’t: DeX, a full desktop-style interface that runs from my phone. It became a game-changer for my productivity.
I built a better Spotify Wrapped in Excel—and you can too
For the past couple of years, Spotify Wrapped has left me underwhelmed. The insights it serves up never feel all that “insightful” — which is strange, because Spotify clearly has a mountain of data on my listening habits. So I decided to get my hands on all that data and build my own Spotify Wrapped. I requested my full listening data from Spotify and processed it m
Home Assistant 2026.9 finally makes it easier to understand and control your smart home
Home Assistant 2026.9 update is out today. And it aims to solve the everyday guesswork that comes with running a smart home. The latest release answers questions like why an automation fired, which entities need your attention, or seeing how Matter devices are connected. The September update also has several other changes that make the open-source home automation pl
Your inexpensive OBD-II scanner can tell you more than why the check-engine light is on
I tend to hold on to my vehicles for a long time, which means things eventually wear out or stop working the way they should. I also try to handle repairs myself whenever it makes sense. Sometimes that's as simple as replacing a sensor or tracking down a bad connection, but the hardest part is usually figuring out what's actually wrong.
Stop treating your Android phone like just a phone—here's what it can really do with USB-C
<p>Android phones, especially the most expensive models, are pretty capable devices. They have as much RAM as some laptops, and their processors are often as fast as laptop CPUs from a few generations ago. </p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2024/10/1000089885.jpg' />
Still hanging on to an old GTX card? Here's how to put it to work
Nvidia's GTX cards may be too old to support any modern, demanding uses, but they're still among the best GPUs of all time.
4 new Netflix documentaries to watch in September
Netflix is bringing a particularly varied lineup of documentaries this September, covering everything from a viral Olympic controversy to the long shadow of 9/11. Some stories revisit major moments in history, while others uncover events most people may have never heard of.
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
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Show HN: Semantic Overlays – an NX bit for LLM prompt injection (live demo)
I've built a new method for steering LLMs called Semantic Overlays, small trained adapters on a frozen model which change how it perceives a piece of its context. The most readily applicable usage is to mitigate prompt injection, and it lets us take a very-injectable Qwen-3.5-9B to SOTA scores on all the prompt injection benchmarks I could find. (They are only blackbox attacks, but I did NOT train on anything like them — whitebox attacks are out of scope for this paper)I'm excited for
Ask HN: What's the job market like for Sales Engineers
I'm a Staff-level PM at a tech company right now, and have found myself in a really rough corner. I transitioned from a Sales Engineer role to a Product Manager role almost over 6 years ago, mostly to spend more time with family and not have to travel as much. It's been a fun ride.I increasingly find myself wanting to go back to being customer-facing. I'm not super interested in this whole FDE thingy. It seems like it's going to fizzle out once VC subsidization of consulting
Ask HN: Do you know the non-tech version of Hacker News?
Hacker News is a community where mostly technical people collaborate, discuss, share about the things they are building or working on. People also post about jobs and those who are searching for jobs. As a community, we can connect with each other very easily through direct message or exchanging through email.I wonder, is there a direct equivalent to Hacker News, with the same level of discussion, project sharing, and job networking built specifically for non-technical people?
Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?
I started a new job a little less than a year ago as a product owner/manager for a legacy enterprise system. Unfortunately the job has not at all been what I expected and what was sold to me in the interview process for a number of reasons.I don't want to get too much into it, but the main reason is that my job was supposed to be leading a modernization project to expand our legacy enterprise system with modern API-based integrations, but our development team simply does not have exper
Construction Job Openings Hit Highest Rate in Nearly Two Years
Job openings in the construction industry reached 326,000 in July, according to the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1659077189460-04ecefe8d521?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8Mjl8fEpvYiUyME9wZW5pbmdzfGVufDB8fDJ8fDE2NjE4MTM2ODU&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
These 3 open-source apps do what Windows should have built into the OS years ago
Microsoft has kept Windows on a steady path for years. Most updates focus on refining and upgrading existing features instead of drastically changing core OS functionality. While Windows’ defaults are perfectly fine for the most part, I decided to revamp a few core parts with open-source tools while keeping the overall Windows 11 look and feel I’ve grown familiar wi
I traveled the world to visit an SSD factory and learned why they keep getting more expensive
<p>As a tech journalist, it's easy for me to go ahead and criticize RAM and SSD makers for price hikes, and ignore the reasons as to why that might be happening.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/arol-factory-hero.jpg' />
The 14S is Dell's next answer to the MacBook Neo—and it should be more affordable, too
Dell has another answer to the MacBook Neo just months after unveiling the redesigned XPS 13. The PC maker has introduced a new, overhauled 14S laptop that it claims is a better pick than Apple's most affordable model—if you're willing to make a few tradeoffs.
Tweetstorm: Justin Marks on Exposition
A series of tweets on the best way to handle exposition: Seduction!Screenwriter Justin Marks has been described at Ain't It Cool News as the “most gainfully employed professional fanboy on the planet.” Understandably so given the fact Justin has written such projects The Raven, Super Max, Suicide Squad, Shadow of the Colossus, Hack/Slash and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo.In addition, the Hollywood Reporter featured this guest column Justin wrote called “My
India’s tech workforce gets another jolt: Oracle is cutting around 3,000 jobs while Microsoft puts about 500 employees on PIPs as companies shift budgets towards n…
India Business News: Layoffs have headlined the global tech landscape for over a year now and the trend continues as the industry faces one its biggest disruptions in rece.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1656857371344-736a4b06d7a2?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MXx8VGVjaCUyMEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY1Njk3NjA2NA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
