Best of Hacker News — October 2022

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   Obsidian 1.0

   Obsidian 1.0 has been thoroughly redesigned on desktop and mobile. The new design is not only more beautiful to look at, it's also more robust, accessible, and easier to theme.

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   Feather – Simply beautiful open source icons

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   The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it

   The running costs of Wikipedia are a tiny fraction of the amount raised each year. In the 2012/13 year the Foundation budgeted for $1.9m to provide all it’s 100% true. It seems that many ‘charities’ separate out into volunteers to do the actual work and a professional layer of ‘managers’ who are often well paid.

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   Fake books

   At the peak of the non-fungible token (NFT) craze, I purchased about a dozen highest-rated NFT books on Amazon. At the time of my purchase, it ranked #3 in Amazon search results and had hundreds of five-star reviews. At first glance, the book is simply bad.

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   Python 3.11.0 final is now available

   Python 3.11.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language. It contains many new features and optimizations.

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   runvnc/dadsresume: My dad's resume and skills from 1980

   My dad is 92 and we just put him in a home. I have been clearing out the house and found his resume and skills (application letter) from 1980. In case anyone is interested in what one particular old timer programmer did.

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   Pokemon Deckz

   Pokemon Deckz Pokemon Cards V2 A collection of advanced CSS styles to create realistic-looking effects for the faces of Pokemon cards. The cards use 3d transforms, filters, blend modes, and interactions to provide a unique experience when taking a closer look.

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   How to communicate effectively as a developer

   Longer-form writing gives you an opportunity to dive deeper into what you are saying. Many organisations cannot afford to hire a technical writer, so the task of producing clear, helpful, accurate prose falls on you, the developer. The clearer and easier-to-understand you make your writing, the longer the lever gets.

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   valeriansaliou/sonic: 🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.

   Sonic is a fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend that runs on a few MBs of RAM. When queried, it returns IDs that you might find it convenient to run Sonic via Docker.

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    The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken – Custom Packages Can Now Be Installed

    The PS5 has been jailbroken and cracked wide open marking the first major hack on the system since its launch in 2020. Notorious hacker Lance McDonald posted a video of his newly jailbroken PS5 console on Twitter showing off some of the now-enabled settings.

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