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Samsung's flagship 990 Pro SSD just got slashed to a near-record low price for Prime Day. Here's what to know.

Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job

Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users

Following its official debut last month, Google is now rolling out Android 17 to compatible Pixel phones, alongside additional exclusive features as part of the

Considering a PC upgrade, but not sure about how much RAM to buy? Here's how I make that decision in the current climate.

For those who've used both, did Mythos feel noticeably more capable than Fable? submitted by /u/TeamAlphaBOLD [link] [comments]

Known primarily for containers and servers, Alpine Linux isn't always considered for traditional desktop use. I think this lightweight distro could be your dail

Apple has released the first iPadOS 27 beta, offering early access to an upgraded Siri, new Safari features, and more.

Microsoft is releasing a server Linux, a container Linux, and a Windows 11 built for Linux programmers. Here's why.

I can't remember the last time Microsoft kicked off a Build keynote with Windows front and center, but that's exactly what CEO Satya Nadella did this week. Nade

This web-based Linux platform makes it easy to explore dozens of distributions, from the familiar to the obscure. It's free and works in any browser.

I've been using Linux since 1997. If you intend to climb the hierarchical ladder of Linux users, then there are things you'll need to learn along the way.

People feature with Afolabi Oyebiyi, a software engineer at Nigerian software consulting firm Cyclone, on how he navigates the digital world.

Looking for non-Linux open-source options? From ghosts of past operating systems to fascinating works in progress, here are my top picks.

Hi all, Aram and Eduard here - authors of Modelence ( https://github.com/modelence/modelence ), an all-in-one backend platform for teams tha

Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact. 36 comments, 94 points on Hacker News.

Authorization Bypass in Next.js Middleware. 2 comments, 25 points on Hacker News.

Trailbase: Fast, single-file, open-source app server built using Rust and SQLite. 99 comments, 314 points on Hacker News.

Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object. 103 comments, 285 points on Hacker News.

Hi everyone, I'm a software developer with decades of experience making web apps and various side gigs (mostly Python, JS, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java). I spe

Hi HN, I’m excited to share Spot, a simple, cross-platform, React-like GUI library for Go. It is just a few days old and has lots of missing features but I&#x27

Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components. 101 comments, 112 points on Hacker News.

A bit of context: I work remotely for a company with offices in Europe. I get paid pretty well, actually super well compared to my local market average salaries

Supertokens: Open-Source Alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito. 82 comments, 212 points on Hacker News.

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database. 194 comments, 551 points on Hacker News.

My own faults aside, what I dislike about every "Learn to code" website is that they always show you the tools but never show you how to put them toge

How do you build auth for your SaaS apps? Do you use a library like NextAuth? Do you use a provider like Auth0 or Supabase Auth? Do you build your own auth? I&#

Hey HN! I want to share my side project with you. It's called Bud and it's a full-stack web framework for Go. I created a short video to show you how

Just(JS) – A JavaScript web framework in the top of the TechEmpower Benchmark. 0 comments, 13 points on Hacker News.

Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword. 49 comments, 134 points on Hacker News.

How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go. 155 comments, 293 points on Hacker News.

I've seen a ton of startups heavily relying on JavaScript and variations of it, some Ruby on Rails but very rare I've seen companies start off with .N

Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres. 88 comments, 269 points on Hacker News.

Whilst my world is on hiatus for the foreseeable, I've decided to learn enough web development to ship a few product ideas I've had on the back burner

Hacking up your own shell completion. 32 comments, 164 points on Hacker News.

A short tutorial on decorators and meta-classes in Python. 0 comments, 13 points on Hacker News.

600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015). 137 comments, 357 points on Hacker News.

I come from a Ruby on Rails background. It is great - working with Rails has had two huge upsides for me. First, the framework means there is a good way to do a

ReactOS 0.4.7 released. 59 comments, 229 points on Hacker News.

Show HN: Keratin AuthN – Accounts and Auth Microservice in Go. 54 comments, 104 points on Hacker News.

Show HN: Two grpc microservices with mutual TLS and token authentication in Go. 6 comments, 61 points on Hacker News.

If TypeScript is so great, how come all notable ReactJS projects use Babel?. 235 comments, 373 points on Hacker News.

Django 1.8 and Python 3: Complex app tutorial, end-to-end. 29 comments, 185 points on Hacker News.

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: an HTTP/2 client in Go [video]. 29 comments, 153 points on Hacker News.

But i wana make a webapp, how should i go about building a web app without touching javascript, is there any frameworks like gwt for golang, or C++, rust

Show HN: Baws, a simple Python and JavaScript WebSocket framework. 3 comments, 11 points on Hacker News.

Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework. 159 comments, 304 points on Hacker News.