Giving a macOS App Group Its Own Dock Icon: Design Lessons From Cybokron Dock Groups

A group of applications is easy to describe and surprisingly awkward to represent in a desktop interface. A developer might need an editor, a terminal, and a browser together, yet the Dock presents them as separate applications. Cybokron Dock Groups treats that collection as a named unit: something that can have its own icon, open … Read more

Stop Trusting Notification URLs

TL;DR: Every bid response a DSP sends carries URLs that anyone who has seen the response can call: impression, click, win, billing. Most DSPs count whatever comes in, which is where discrepancy reports come from. We treated a notification URL like a cheque: valid only if we issued it, for that bid, and it hasn’t … Read more

Snapchat surpasses 30M paid subscribers

The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their Memories.

500 Blog Posts To Learn About Noonification

Let’s learn about Noonification via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. A daily selection of HackerNoon’s top stories from curious and insightful technologists published at noon. 1. Noonification: Your Daily Dose of … Read more

Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.

Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up?  On this episode of … Read more

ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs

ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot. The update, which is rolling out alongside OpenAI’s new Images 2.6 model, allows you to adjust the GIF’s animation speed, edit individual frames, and share it with others. Before this change, ChatGPT couldn’t natively generate GIFs in a single … Read more