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There's not much discussion there. That submission was raided by comments from new accounts and it got penalized by HN.

I'm speaking from first hand experience.

I returned to Syria recently and so did 2 millions in the past 2 years. The country is doing better relatively speaking. It's not a first world country but most people have food and safety, and there's aid organizations to help those in need.

There's no conflation in priorities. Every bit helps. People are trying to start businesses and rebuild the country but this tech blockade contribute to making life harder unnecessarily.

Many essential tech services like ChatGPT, Gemini, Coursera, Udemy, Stripe and many others are still sadly unavailable to people in Syria even though sanctions have been lifted and the legal barrier no longer exists.

So, they pretty much bought the entire thing without transferring company ownership? It's weird to split the information on multiple posts.

They want to maintain the community they have because it's the real asset for any open-source project, which is the direction they're betting on.

They're not buying the product. They're buying the company so they can pivot and implement their vision.

Basically, the investors lost interest but the team is passionate and see a path to success. They won't be maintaining the old product, they're going in new direction.

So this is a principle you live by to avoid time sinks in any form. Fair.

I'm interested, what makes HN frontpage different? Why spend time on HN but avoid "fun" submissions? To me the extension serves as almost a shortcut to help you find interesting stories you're looking for. I imagine you also closely monitor and limit the time you spend on HN as well?

Do you have recommendation for books or articles that resonate or helped influence you regarding this.

I implemented this and pushed a new release v1.3.0. It should be live on all browser stores within few days.

This is a nice feature will add it next in the coming days.

It shouldn't need anything other than the permissions requested on install.

- Visit a submission page like this Show HN.

- Check permissions for the extension. Maybe they were skipped on installation somehow.

- Are you using other extensions for HN? they might obstruct this extension from integrating with the site.

Interesting. It's likely possible.

I need to investigate what kind of mutations the other extension is doing to HN interface and figure out a way to be compatible with it on top of the native one.

I opened a GitHub issue if you're interested in following the status there: https://github.com/imdj/HNRelevant/issues/24

It's harsh to compare this to social media personalized feeds when it's fundamentally different.

> if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it

This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search field by default and then you get to fetch results at your command. Very much like an embedded search engine.

Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you come across on goodreads. It only shows when you visit a discussion you're interested in. The nature of this website by itself is quite different from other social media.

But I understand where you're coming from and appreciate you raising awareness.

Awesome to hear. Thank you for giving it a try.

Glad to hear you're enjoying it.

I think I know why it was hard to identify the font. I used two:

The larger text (Orange) is 'Space Grotesk': https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Grotesk

The smaller text in black is 'Roc Grotesk'

I see you reaping some benefits already lol.

Indeed, to me it feels an essential part of HN experience now. I truly missed it on mobile which led me to adapt it to support Firefox android.

Thank you for giving it a try. I'm confident you'll find it comes in handy in more ways than one. If you have any feedback let me know.

> I can assume I'm supposed to copy the url in the link? But its nav item on the site.

In feedly and many readers, you can just enter the website URL and it'll find the feed(s) automatically if present.

But in general, how RSS work, you copy the URL to the RSS feed and give it to Reader to subscribe/follow the website. https://reedybear.bearblog.dev/feed/

When the author publishes a new piece, they update the file located at this URL and your reader will fetch you the new content.

Previously:

Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463762 - April 2011 (114 comments)

Bug 647959 – Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10839315 - January 2016 (68 comments)

Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35490740 - April 2023 (25 comments)

> Why not just use the Chrome render engine directly from Rust?

This is what projects like Tauri (in Rust) and Wails (in Go) are doing[0][1]. Utilizing Webview to develop applications, but they still don't support mobile, Tauri mobile is in beta.

Basically Tauri and Wails are on one side (HTML/CSS) trying to approach cross platform by supporting mobile platforms, while Flutter and Kotlin Compose Multiplatform started from the other side.

So it depends on your needs, web-first or mobile-first, and what platforms matter to you. So far Flutter is in the lead offering the most polished experience when it comes to supporting all platforms (Web, desktop, iOS, Android).

[0] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

[1] https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

>> Anthropic seems to be more aligned with the original goals of OpenAI.

> What is open about Anthropic ?

OpenAI's goal was to build value for everyone without concern for profit. But due to its radical mission drift towards market dominance, to the opposite extreme, it made other companies look better.

From OpenAI's announcement[1]:

> Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return

> Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world.

But ever since the ChatGPT craze, OpenAI ironically got completely consumed by capitalizing on financial return. OpenAI's transformation was so extreme it made other players such as Meta, Anthropic, even Google, now seem more rational and healthy by comparison. These companies are publishing research papers, open models, contributing more to the ecosystem and overall appear to be more mindful and conservative when it comes to the ethical and societal impact.

[1] - https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/

> I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle

What's on the approved stack? I imagine .Net and Java/spring are the standard, right? anything else like php, python, go etc?

> I bet they could have 2 interns porting the thing to Google App Engine and then migrate the database

How can you possibly have this assessment without looking at the code/infra?

There are many things that affect cost beyond the visible features. The project isn't in a vacuum. It's interlocked with their other services infrastructure.

You can judge Google however you want, but they're not stupid or amateurs. These types of announcements immensely damages their image and affect their customers, if they could avoid it easily as you imagine, why would they not?

They've built the service and run it for many years for billions of people. A more realistic guess would be that for whatever reason, the price is higher than what's visible on the surface and they're not willing to pay it.