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Re: on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:17PM (#43270204)
Microsoft recently announced that Skype will be retired in May 2025 as they push users toward Microsoft Teams (official announcement https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/02/2... ). This means that many users who have years of chat history stored in Skype will need an alternative way to access their conversations.

At Simkl, we’ve worked with Skype data before — years ago, we built tools for recording and storing Skype chats and calls. With Skype shutting down, we wanted to create a privacy-focused, local solution for viewing exported Skype chat history.

Introducing Skype Chat History Viewer A simple, fully local tool to browse your exported Skype chat history without any cloud dependencies.

Features: - Local Database Storage – Your chat history stays on your device, nothing is sent to any server. - Faster Loading – Large conversations load quickly, even if you have years of messages. - Search Functionality – Quickly find old messages without lag. - Stats on your conversations - Monthly and hourly peak times stats when and how much you chatted on Skype. - Persistent Data – Your chat history remains available between sessions without needing to reload files.

Since Skype is going away, we wanted to make sure users still have control over their own chat history in a private, offline-friendly way.

Try it out here: https://skype.simkl.com/

Ask HN: Facebookexternalhit behaves like a Spider – Block or not to Block?

Block or not to Block?facebookexternalhit behaves like a Spider indexing all sites, not actually what was submitted to Facebook for Card dataWhat originally was supposed to be previews of URLs is now being used to crawl all the internet (based on our logs from different sites). It also sometimes makes up non-existant pattern URLs to crawl more that it can find in it's index.I assume all the...

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Re:Ask HN: Is Google Dead? on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:44PM (#40592569)
It's been my experience as well, 80% of websites that had previously content displayed in google results are just not in Google index any more. Google only left titles of the pages in index which won't rank well in search results and won't be able to find the content of those pages.
Re:Show HN: What is my phone number on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:20PM (#40550610)
The Android app tries to use the SIM card info on Android. The website can only detect your phone number by calling the provided number. The app has 500K+ installs.

Sometimes it's hard to remember the phone number on the spot or you get a new SIM and want to see its phone number. Very handy for older folks.

Works from any country does not pick up the phone.

Show HN: Personalized Recommendations on Simkl for Movies, TV Shows and Anime

https://simkl.org/introducing-personalized-recommendations-on-simkl-a-game-changer-5d83046f2236?gi=9c565b781db7

Personalized Recommendations: Tailored Just for You! Ever felt lost in the sea of TV shows, anime, and movies ? We’ve all been there. But guess what? Those days are over. Say hello to Personalized Recommendations. This isn’t just any update; it’s your ticket to a curated watchlist that feels like it was handpicked by your best friend who knows your taste inside out.Uses two separate...

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Ask HN: What percentage of your site is saved in Google index?

In the past years, I've been noticing Google's declining ability to save multiple website contents into its index. Yes, it does craws the website, and most of the links, but actual amount of pages in Google has been declining in all websites that we know of.While Microsoft is indexing and saving at a 5-10X rate more than Google.What was your experience with Google Index?How to check: 1. Open...

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Re:CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome) on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @08:45AM (#37480308)
From experience, in many cases it's 50% savings when done correctly and considerably makes the app\website faster on large images when you have 20-50 images to load on one page.
Google actually has a list of websites categorized as banks and financial institutions. Yes it does not cover every single case but that's a start.

Extensions are not malicious by default, but some developers are selling well known extensions to bad actors (unknowingly) who can change things.

In most cases you only need the extension to inject their scripts only in certain websites, not all.

Right now Chrome provides an option in each extension's settings "Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites you visit:" with an option to allow only when you click on the extension.

That config can easily be applied to every extension in Chrome's settings IF that was an option and add any extension to allow list by default on specific sites where you need.

Currently during extension install when the extension needs access to the all websites where you want to use it there is no option to select which website you want to allow it to be used on (the extension developer does not know where you want to use it so they make it to allow on all websites).

Sometimes purges take way longer, like 15 minutes and you have no idea when the purge was completed to allow sending new traffic to that destination to get the new data. One good option is to add purge status via API (and probably on the purge page with a list of recent purges) to know when that purge request has been completed. For example sending a purge request would provide a purge token, which you can later use to check if the purge has completed.
Re:Show HN: We made an open-source personalization engine on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @10:32AM (#30778818)
What are approximate the costs in your demo https://demo.metarank.ai/ example to train and run the service?
Ukraine has one of the best fiber optic and cable network systems in the world built 10-15 years ago. It had mobile internet in subway station and between subway stations in 2002-2004, way before anyone in the world.
Re:Success Story: Simkl's TV App on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:03PM (#14664881)
This is the best feature of Simkl, it recommends new stuff to watch every day and helps you know that new episode of your favorite show has aired.
Re:Netflix Secret Categories Revealed by Chrome Extension on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:30AM (#10900942)
There's a whole arsenal of Netflix enhancements in this extension. I like the Secret Categories, can find lots of new interesting movies. Plus a Netflix Randomizer for "special" occasions when no idea what to watch.
Re:A directory of Netflix's “secret” categories on Thursday January 14, 2016 @02:51AM (#10900115)
Netflix Secret Categories are also available in Simkl for Netflix Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simkl-for-netflix-... with random Netflix search and watched\to watch filters
No, there's Sherlock and Dr Who. I love DR Who by the way
I wish I had more time to waste on those cool shows. This is the best time I can waste, better than games :)
Re:Automatically Mark as watched your TV, Anime + Movies on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @05:13AM (#7737193)
They do have already posted a prototype software for PC for TV Shows and Anime. I tried to watch some of my tv show files and saw a popup that I'm watching that episode (detected correctly)