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https://intertapes.net/
1•poniko•1m ago•0 comments

My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging

https://mtlynch.io/first-impressions-of-meshcore/
1•mtlynch•3m ago•0 comments

I built a tool to restore old family photos without ruining them with AI

https://forevi.ai
1•poznerd•3m ago•1 comments

Designing Electronics That Works

https://nostarch.com/designingelectronics
1•0x54MUR41•3m ago•0 comments

Most LLM cost isn't compute – it's identity drift (110-cycle GPT-4o benchmark)

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/blob/main/sigma-runtime/SR-EI-03/benchmark_report_S...
1•teugent•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: PlanEat AI, an AI iOS app for weekly meal plans and smart grocery lists

1•franklinm1715•4m ago•0 comments

A Post-Incident Control Test for External AI Representation

https://zenodo.org/records/17921051
1•businessmate•5m ago•1 comments

اdifference gbps overview find answers

1•shahrtjany•6m ago•0 comments

Measuring Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Dev Productivity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
1•vismit2000•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lazy Demos

http://demoscope.app/lazy
1•admtal•8m ago•0 comments

AI-Driven Facial Recognition Leads to Innocent Man's Arrest (Bodycam Footage) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M4F_U1eEw
2•niczem•9m ago•1 comments

Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025

https://plasticsoldierreview.com/ShowFeature.aspx?id=27
1•YeGoblynQueenne•10m ago•0 comments

Error-Handling and Locality

https://www.natemeyvis.com/error-handling-and-locality/
1•Theaetetus•11m ago•0 comments

Petition for David Sacks to Self-Deport

https://form.jotform.com/253464131055147
1•resters•11m ago•0 comments

Get found where people search today

https://kleonotus.com/
1•makenotesfast•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An early-warning system for SaaS churn (not another dashboard)

https://firstdistro.com
1•Jide_Lambo•14m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Musk has never *tweeted* a guess for real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto

1•tokenmemory•15m ago•2 comments

A Practical Approach to Verifying Code at Scale

https://alignment.openai.com/scaling-code-verification/
1•gmays•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: macOS tool to restore window layouts

https://github.com/zembutsu/tsubame
1•zembutsu•19m ago•0 comments

30 Years of <Br> Tags

https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags
2•FragrantRiver•26m ago•0 comments

Kyoto

https://github.com/stevepeak/kyoto
2•handfuloflight•27m ago•0 comments

Decision Support System for Wind Farm Maintenance Using Robotic Agents

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/8/6/190
1•PaulHoule•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X-AnyLabeling – An open-source multimodal annotation ecosystem for CV

https://github.com/CVHub520/X-AnyLabeling
1•CVHub520•30m ago•0 comments

Penpot Docker Extension

https://www.ajeetraina.com/introducing-the-penpot-docker-extension-one-click-deployment-for-self-...
1•rainasajeet•31m ago•0 comments

Company Thinks It Can Power AI Data Centers with Supersonic Jet Engines

https://www.extremetech.com/science/this-company-thinks-it-can-power-ai-data-centers-with-superso...
1•vanburen•34m ago•0 comments

If AIs can feel pain, what is our responsibility towards them?

https://aeon.co/essays/if-ais-can-feel-pain-what-is-our-responsibility-towards-them
3•rwmj•38m ago•5 comments

Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store Drama

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-xai-lawsuit-apple-openai
1•paulatreides•41m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Build it yourself SWE blogs?

1•bawis•41m ago•1 comments

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
3•Fiveplus•47m ago•0 comments

How Did the CIA Lose Nuclear Device?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/13/world/asia/cia-nuclear-device-himalayas-nanda-devi...
1•Wonnk13•47m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Firefox from Ramdisk (macOS Only)

https://github.com/mauron85/Firefox-Ramdisk
5•finchisko•6mo ago
I hacked this app for my needs in one single before noon in Swift. ChatGPT and Grok turned out to be super helpful.

It solves the problem, where Firefox writes excessive amounts of data. Even if you disable disk cache. It still stores lot of data. cookies, session storage data...

You might wonder why I made this as an app instead of using Automator or a bash script.

The main advantage of an app is that it displays splash screen with progress, while the RAM disk is being created. With a script based approach, you typically just have to wait a few seconds while the profiles sync in the background before Firefox finally launches. Automator scripts also tend to display an unsightly spinning cogwheel in menu bar, which isn't ideal.

It's MIT licensed and source code is provided.

https://github.com/mauron85/Firefox-Ramdisk

Comments

ndegruchy•6mo ago
Neat, this looks a lot like the Linux-focused Profile Sync Daemon[1], which can move your profile to a RAM-backed tmpfs. PSD does more browsers, though. I wonder if PSD could work on macOS, too.

[1]: https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon

finchisko•6mo ago
The reason I created this was because I missed the profile sync daemons commonly found in Linux. I haven’t looked into this specific one, but most available solutions are Linux-only.