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Re:Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay on Sunday January 04, 2026 @09:53AM (#46488503)
But he couldn't run fast enough to escape, so probably no \s
Re:Battle of the Mallocators on Sunday April 13, 2025 @01:00AM (#43670211)
Yes there is lots of evidence that jemalloc fares better in high concurrency applications.

Fun fact, jemalloc was the default allocator for rust but was dropped off and use default system allocator to have smaller binary size

I like the current approach with focus on plain file sync and sharing. Keep it up!

I typically self host with full disk encryption which I trust more than application level encryptions. Guessing that works for most self hosters

Thank you for working on this. As a long term user of Nextcloud, I appreciate alternatives. Nextcloud is a beast with a lot of features but most of the folks I know including me use it mostly for files so projects like these can be useful.

Most lightweight alternatives I found use some non standard format to store files instead of leaving it to the filesystem which keeps me away from using those. I am glad bewCloud is not doing that.

Think of it as a productivity hack - Less time spent switching apps means more time enjoying your distractions right where the real work happens: the terminal! :)

Show HN: Hacker News over SSH – Browse HN Articles Directly from Your Terminal

https://github.com/adeekshith/hn-over-ssh

Hello HN! I'm excited to showcase my latest project: "Hacker News Over SSH". Inspired by terminal.shop recently featured here, I've created a tool that lets you interact with Hacker News through a terminal interface.*What it does:* Hacker News Over SSH allows users to browse HN content directly from their terminal. It is not feature complete yet. As of now, it allows browsing top stories and...

( Read More... | 2 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Posters of the IPv4 and IPv6 internet as of Jan 1, 2023 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @01:34AM (#34204178)
IPv6 is so expansive and seemingly endless that it reminds me of driving through the Midwest
> Author claims it doesn't connect to internet even though it has full network access permission

Hi! Watomatic developer here. The newer version does access internet (Github API) for following reasons: - To show release notes in the app - (in works) To warn users about outdated versions. This is an issue esp in the non Google Play landscape. - (in works) To show recent contributors list in the About section ...

Having access to internet made lots of things easy so thought that was a pragmatic choice :)

Re:Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:29PM (#27052893)
Looks like a great book but was unable to download. Tried with more than one emails.

Edit: Looks like they programmed it to work only with Gmail and probably other mainstream email providers.

They may not remove FB but they may just stop accepting updates if Facebook does not comply
Re:Show HN: Watomatic - Auto reply to break away from WhatsApp on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @09:09AM (#26153970)
Hi HN!

I recently made this auto reply app for WhatsApp with a focus on moving away from it. Many are having a hard time convincing friends and family to move away from WhatsApp and I hope this tool helps with that.

It basically just auto replies to all WhatsApp messages with the message you set. Just enable it and set a message something like "Hey I am not using WhatsApp anymore. Please switch to Signal" and it takes care of the rest.

- Simple: Set the message and it auto replies to all WhatsApp messages - Option to Auto reply to group chats - Respects your privacy - No analytics or tracking - Does not connect to Internet - Free an open source (GPL)

Future improvements (just a couple weeks away): - Option to set reply frequency: For example users can set reply frequency to 1 day and it only replies once a day for each person/group. - Support for auto replying Facebook messenger

Please let me know what you think!

Re:SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Friday February 12, 2021 @12:13PM (#26115916)
Wow this is super amazing (and little horrifying). Never knew SVG can contain Javascript. Always thought of it as just a little safe vector graphics markup.
Wow! That is awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
Re:Free Wolfram Engine for Developers on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @11:39AM (#19971165)
I think you are confusing Wolfram Language (WL) with Wolfram Alpha (WA).

> my MIT licensed open source project Resin [0] does pretty much of what WA does

Does it? Resin looks more like an NLP framework at a quick glance. WA is an actual answering engine with data included. I fail to see a comparison. Not to mention the website is down.

Re:Show HN: Yet Another HN “Who's Hiring” Browser on Sunday May 13, 2018 @04:11PM (#17060787)
Items that has "No Visa" are also included when Visa is selected. This needs to be fixed. Otherwise, it is great. Thanks!
Re:App sizes are out of control on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:13PM (#14902285)
I have been replacing traditional apps with PWA's or mobile websites wherever possible (on Android). They hardly take up any space and also seem to behave well (drains less battery) compared to traditional apps.

I could replace the following with PWAs:

- Twitter

- Uber

- Lyft

- Google news

- Instagram

- Flipboard

- Shopping sites like Walmart, Wish

and many more.

Facebook and Amazon have no PWA's but have mobile websites. (Facebook mobile web works well with Opera. On other browsers it annoyingly redirects to play store to install messenger)

Re:Show HN: Identify mushrooms from pictures on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:33PM (#14841871)
Here is another tool that identifies many other things http://imageidentify.com/
Re:Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps on Friday July 21, 2017 @11:49AM (#14821450)
Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Terminator

IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin, Thunderbird

PDF Reader: evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: Thunderbird

Video Player: VLC

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