Best of Hacker News — February 2023
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Why We’re Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch
Thunderbird is undergoing a massive rework to get rid of technical and interface debt, improve sustainability, and create a consistent design system. The project aims to make the code base leaner, rebuild the interface from scratch, and switch to a monthly release schedule. Thunderbird, as a monolithic application, has faced challenges due to technical debt and a lack of resources. The project is now owned by MZLA Technologies and actively developed by a growing group of paid employees. Despite changes, Thunderbird remains open and collaborative.
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Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website to make you stay on Edge
Microsoft is injecting full-size ads on the Chrome website to encourage users to stay on Edge. They use aggressive methods and throw shade at Chrome, claiming the added trust of Microsoft. Although Google promotes Chrome, they only show banners on their own websites.
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Visual design rules you can safely follow every time
Learn visual design rules that can be followed every time to create coherent and visually appealing designs. Find out how to create a cohesive color palette, align elements, determine spacing, handle shadows, set text size, design buttons, create rounded corners, and avoid hard visual divides.
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core-js/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md at master · zloirock/core-js
Core-js is the most popular and comprehensive polyfill project that provides support for the latest ECMAScript standard and proposals. It contains about half a thousand polyfill modules and is designed for easy integration with tools like Babel and @babel/preset-env.
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Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
Apple charges a $99 yearly developer fee even if you don't want to publish your app on the Appstore. The provisioning certificate in Xcode provides temporary access to the app on your device. Apple's Appstore guidelines can be confusing, making it difficult to publish niche hobby applications.
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LAION-AI/Open-Assistant: OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Open Assistant is a chat-based assistant project that aims to improve language and provide access to a large language model. It includes a chat frontend and a data collection app for improving the capabilities of the assistant.
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An important next step on our AI journey
Google is introducing Bard, a conversational AI service powered by LaMDA, which combines the world's knowledge with large language models. AI features will also be added to Google Search to distill complex information into easy-to-digest formats. Additionally, individual developers and enterprises will have access to the Generative Language API, starting with LaMDA.
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dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide: 🐙 Guides, papers, lecture, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering
This post is a prompt engineering guide that contains papers, guides, lectures, references, and tools related to prompt engineering for large language models. It explains the importance of prompt engineering in developing and optimizing language models for various applications.
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Effortless automation built for developers
Trigger.dev is code-first so you can create workflows where they belong: in your codebase. Your workflows run on your servers, not ours, not our servers. We only receive the data you choose to send to us. Subscribe to API changes and make requests, we’ll handle authentication for you.
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robinmoisson/staticrypt: Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed.
StatiCrypt is a tool that uses AES-256 and WebCrypto to encrypt HTML files with a password, allowing for password protection without the need for a back-end server. It provides options to encrypt files online or through the command-line interface. The encrypted files can be decrypted in the browser.
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Scalability is overrated
Startup founders often prioritize scalability, but this can overlook the advantages of doing unscalable things. Building scalable processes can be time-consuming and limit flexibility. Doing unscalable things can help understand customers better, enhance the customer experience, improve brand perception, and allow for direct customer interaction.