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Re:Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:46PM (#23728666)
I tried browserless.io, it sends every frame as picture from the backend to the browser. I suppose quik will use the same technology?

While supporting IE without any developer work is very impressive, I think quik has some limitions: 1. requres a lot of bandwidth, a place using IE has a high chance don't have a modern internet infrastructure, thus limiting concurrent users. 2. Playing video is basically impossible because intraframe compression is just not efficient enough even on a good network.

Re:Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service on Friday July 03, 2020 @06:44AM (#23722860)
Is it like GeForce now but for webpages?

Show HN: Raspberry Pi (or any Linux machine) monitor app

I made a system monitor app for new linux users.When I started playing around with raspberry pi, I always wonder why things like htop don't show cpu frequency (really, for me (and maybe a lot of people from windows) not seeing the frequency is super uncomfortable) So here we are, a monitor app that will display the cpu frequency, temperature and more!Some features: - Zero setup - Nothing is...

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