The most popular blogs of Hacker News in 2025 Michael Lynch maintains HN Popularity Contest, a site that tracks personal blogs on Hacker News and scores them based on how well they perform on that platform. The engine behind … Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net Congrats Simon! Well deserved metric for the level of content that he produces, Its remarkable the amount of high quality posts that come out of Simon Willison. Also this looks like a really great resource to find other high quality blogs that I have not read before.
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Today I discovered vim-speeddating
by tpope. I’m sure I’ve seen years ago but it did not click for my workflow
until today. I often go through pictures from my phone for the past few days
and make Posts tagged: shots posts, but I want to date them to about when the image was
taken most of the time. This allows me to quickly bump days up and down using
c-a and c-x even around the new year.
Sound on, listen to those new switches.
new keeb so good
New keeb feeling so good I don’t want to leave it. I’m going to go from having my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work.
I’m really excited about gastown, an amazing project by steveyegge. It’s worth exploring! Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager
Yesterday I wrote about a way to do light mode screen recording to convert to light mode from dark mode with ffmpeg. I was wondering if it could be done entirely on the front end for web applications. Turns out you can. I’m sure there are limited wikis and site builders that don’t allow adding style like this, but it works if you can.
<video
src="https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/1c53dbcb-4b84-4e94-9f04-a42986ab3fa1.mp4?width=800"
controls
style="filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) contrast(1.2) saturate(1.1);"
>
<!--markata-attribution-->
</video>
0 deg hue rotate
90 deg hue rotate
180 deg hue rotate
270 deg hue rotate
Check out 99 by ThePrimeagen. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Neovim AI agent done right
Convert a video from dark mode to light mode with FFmpeg! Here cassidoo.co Converting video from dark mode to light mode after the fact is a pretty great idea, I’m surprised at how well it does. Its definitely not perfect, but looks really good.
I saw this tip from Cassidoo and had to try it out for myself. I kicked on a screen recording right from where my terminal was, converted it, and it actually looks pretty good.
ffmpeg \
-i screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49.mp4 \
-vf "negate,hue=h=180,eq=contrast=1.2:saturation=1.1" \
screenrecording-2026-01-01_10-10-49-light.mp4
Dark Mode
Light Mode
There are a few unsettling things about it, but overall I feel like it was a success.
I actually like linus’s take here. My parents dropped $4k (~$8k in todays money) on a computer when I was a kid, (which turned into something too $$ to let me touch at that point). I played some educational games that no one else has heard of and I’ve long forgotten along with an early ciivilization game. It was e-waste in 2 years we maybe kept it 5, and it was barely working. Contrast this to my PC now I spent $2k on 3 years ago refurb from 2017, and it has no signs of age from me, does everything I need it to. Ram crisis sucks, the outright reason behind it sucks. But on the bright side you can still get a baller build for less than you could late 90s without inflation. The industry is not there for consumers right now, we had better times, but its still not bad times. Keep the hope alive that good times will come.
Smartphones are black holes They can bend spacetime without you even realizing it. People often get offended when I tell them that I don't have a phone, thinking that I'm lying and I just Sylvain Kerkour · kerkour.com This sounds great…. I’m sick AF right now and dont want to do anything but watch YouTube, and let opencode do my work.
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