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Re:Show HN: BrowserBox – Remote Browser on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:43PM (#31506998)
Thanks for the feedback! A cobrowsing demo app should be live in a few weeks. :)
Re:Show HN: BrowserBox – Remote Browser on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:40PM (#31506957)
Ajit from BrowserBox team here.

The core premise of BrowserBox and Mighty is similar - virtualize and run browsers on the server. Mighty is desktop app meant for end users. BrowserBox's API is for developers who can integrate it into apps or build custom apps using the platform. In the long run, one can potentially build a Mighty like app using BBX APIs. It is still early days and looking for active feedback from the community to see where it can go.

Re:Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:15AM (#25370020)
This is refreshingly fast! Definitely going to try typesense in my projects.
The article states, "The operation was carried out under local anesthesia." Without one, pain will make any hand movement near to impossible!
The linked homepage states that the latest update was in 2012: "Revamped interface with more consistent names, rewrote some parts, bugfixes.".
Re:Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:48PM (#8038252)
I love it too. Drag-n-drop and collapsing them makes managing tabs so much easier. Its hard to navigate tabs in a browser without it!
Re:Uber sign-ups soar by 850 percent as cab drivers protest on Thursday June 12, 2014 @09:27AM (#7883200)
Streisand effect works on its own!
Re:No Girls Allowed on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @08:15AM (#6840005)
Don't ads create false memories[1] and consequently our behavior?

[1] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/ads-implant-false-...

Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @04:39AM (#5742484)
Using Sieve it is possible to monitor any kind of webpage. It should be possible to monitor websites that require you to log in to check updates too.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @04:38AM (#5742481)
At its core, the essential work is to detect changes important to the user. Adding summarization techniques to further weed out the noise would be a very important improvement.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @01:16AM (#5742027)
Liked this suggestion. Unfortunately the domain names getsiv.com and sivapp.com are taken.

Edit: siv.io could be nice.

Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:45PM (#5739928)
Thats an excellent suggestion. We do have plans to modularize the browser component to offer browser as a web service.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @03:32PM (#5739505)
It is not possible select content using iframes due to client-side security restrictions imposed by the browser.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @02:53PM (#5739263)
Thanks for your kind words. The stack is a mix of both. Browser runs on the server and sends updates to the client via websocket. Then it is painted on the client. On the client-side a part of noVNC js library is used to capture input and is sent to the browser running on the server.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @02:45PM (#5739216)
Ah IE5! It has been a very long wait. :) We are hard at work to launch Sieve. Optimistically we should be ready in a couple of months.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @01:36PM (#5738839)
Thanks for the great feedback. :)

Getting started would certainly be much simple when using screenshot or page HTML for comparison. Sieve could do that too! More work needs to be done to make startup faster.

On the other hand having filtered text provides multiple advantages. The filtering becomes accurate. It can be used to compute rules to take conditional actions. Notifications delivery via email and SMS would make more sense as well.

Running a browser on server enables another cool function. User could record macro and run the macro when text satisfied a pre-condition.

Edit: typo

Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:41PM (#5738524)
Thanks. I like sifter. Going to check if it is available.
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:13PM (#5738372)
Glad that you liked the concept. Wasn't aware of the unfortunate name collision. I am open to suggestions. Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes on Monday May 20, 2013 @11:50AM (#5738243)
Hello HN! I am excited to show Sieve. Its in alpha state and under active development.

Would appreciate your feedback. Checkout Visual Selector used to let user filter content from a webpage.

Re:Light Table 0.4 released on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @05:17AM (#5637103)
This is awesome! I haven't used an IDE for a long time now but LT has shown enough to convince me to use one.
Re:Yahoo shuts down six products on Friday April 19, 2013 @05:27PM (#5578780)
Not pertinent to the discussion, but why does some of the links use http://google.com/url?q= prefix for redirecting URLs? Any advantage of doing so instead of directly linking to the posts?
I prefer https://github.com/jed/domo to create DOM elements in browser. Its output is a real DOM element whereas in pithy.js, its string.
Re:Standups are Not Poisonous on Saturday March 30, 2013 @01:20PM (#5466013)
> This puts less emphasis on "looking useful" as individuals and more on championing tasks to see their completion.

This is a very good approach. Separating task and people is key to getting things done. When things are getting tough for an individual, the team can rally behind.

Aren't they sentient? They are able to perceive and feel things.
Re:Contest: Hack my bitcoins and keep them on Saturday March 09, 2013 @02:48PM (#5349381)
I was expecting a twist in the plot. :)

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