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Spaced Repetition Under the Hood: How We Decide When to Show a Word Again

Disclosure: I build VibeLing, a vocabulary app. This post is about the scheduler inside it — what it does, what we deliberately didn't build, and the thing that broke once real people started using it. Every spaced repetition app has one function at its core: given a word and everything that has happened to it so far, return a date. Show it again on that date. Everything else — the card UI, the audio, the streak counter — sits on top of that one decision. We got that function wrong in an interes

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Shopify's Open Secret: Every Store Exposes /products.json

Shopify's Open Secret: Every Store Exposes /products.json Build in public: how I turned a 10-line trick into a working Shopify scraper — no login, no CAPTCHA, no anti-bot. If you've ever tried scraping an e-commerce site, you know the drill: Cloudflare walls, CAPTCHAs, session tokens, cat-and-mouse games with anti-bot teams. Then I discovered that most Shopify stores hand you their entire product catalog on a silver platter. Every Shopify store has a public JSON endpoint: https://STORE.com/pro

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Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?

I might need to hop on a 2018 mac for some dev work, so just curious what those still on it think about it. Are there major roadblocks, or you mostly fine once you get your code editor/remote ssh? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139703 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Moore's Law for Everything (2021)

Article URL: https://moores.samaltman.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139699 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Nomophobia

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomophobia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139683 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Sprite Sheets 101: A Practical Guide for Indie 2D Game Devs

Picture this: your 2D game started clean, a few sprites here and there. Fast forward a few months and you've got a folder with 200+ individual PNGs, load times are dragging, and animations are choppy. Sound familiar? There's a decades-old fix for this, and it's still the industry standard in 2026: sprite sheets. Instead of loading a separate file for every frame, tile, or UI element, you pack them all into one texture. Your engine reads a single image instead of hundreds — and that one change ri

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