Better Air Purifiers by surprisetalk

Are you looking for a project where you could substantially improve indoor air quality, with benefits both to general health and reducing pandemic risk? I’ve written a bunch about air purifiers over the past few years, and its frustrating how bad commercial market is. The most glaring problem is the widespread use of HEPA filters.

ByHackTechMay 11, 20250Comments

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A Better Man Page Viewer by todsacerdoti

We open up man pages for all kinds of CLI commands everyday. We should have a frictionless man page viewer that stands up to the task. After recently reading Man pages are great, man readers are the problem ↗, I was curious what a better viewer would be and why we put up with the

ByHackTechMay 3, 20250Comments

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Nix: Better Way for Fun and Profit by birkey

Every project depends on existing software that is beyond your control. Nix DSL enables you to declaratively specify your projects dependencies, a repo or a tar-ball down to the file digest of its content, which is what gives nix superpowers of being a deterministic and reproducible package manager. This means that if your inputs stays

ByHackTechApril 22, 20250Comments

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Lasers Make Better MRAM by rbanffy

You may not know it, but chances are you use spintronics every day. Spintronics is the technology that uses the magnetic spin states of electrons to store and process data. It appears in the magnetic processes that store data in multi-terabyte desktop hard drives; and in the magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) at the heart of

ByHackTechFebruary 7, 20250Comments

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Understanding GPT a Bit Better (2023) by bkudria

Here is something you can try to understand ChatGPT and similar systems better, by looking in to your own brain. I’m going to write three statements here. I want to you to introspectively examine your own reaction to them. These will not be trick statements; I am not trying to fool you or embarass you

ByHackTechJanuary 9, 20250Comments

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Better string handling for the Linux kernel by chmaynard

Welcome to LWN.net The following subscription-only content has been made available to you by an LWN subscriber. Thousands of subscribers depend on LWN for the best news from the Linux and free software communities. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to LWN. Thank you for visiting LWN.net! By Jonathan CorbetOctober 26, 2023 The

ByHackTechOctober 26, 20230Comments

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Show HN: Snapglyph.com – Better open graph images for publishers by gregorym

Your Twitter (X) headlines deserve to be seen Increase by 40% the number of clicks on your Twitter (X) links by displaying your headline directly on the image. How does it work? SnapGlyph is incredibly easy to implement and d

ByHackTechOctober 13, 20230Comments

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Better Open Source Facial Emotion Recognition with LibreFace by Hard_Space

The art (it is difficult to refer to it yet as a science) of Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is, arguably, in a nascent state. The prevailing methodologies, such as the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), are subject to frequent criticism; and the available tools to implement these principles – assuming you support those principles –

ByHackTechAugust 25, 20230Comments

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Please Make a Better Kindle by dshipper

Sponsored By: Sanebox Today’s essay is brought to you by Sanebox, the AI email assistant that helps you focus on crucial messages, saving you 3-4 hours every week. It must be a nightmare to become a Kindle product manager. You show up on the first day of work ready to reinvent the most important advancement in

ByHackTechJune 2, 20230Comments

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Better in Every Way Is Impossible, Why Legacy Tech Will Not Go Away by jeffrey-sherman

A common tech fallacy is that legacy tech will go away if only you build a better version. Make something “better in every way” and then you can get rid of the old version. When you own the software, you can force change. But you can’t do it by making something better in every way.

ByHackTechMay 5, 20230Comments

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