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Re:Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:04PM (#49424405)
The late Cohost also lacked like, reply, and follower counters; it was generally regarded positively. It did have an unread notifications counter though, so you knew you went viral when that read 99+.
Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
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Re:Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline v...
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:19PM (#48530708)
I'm a fan of compatibility with established formats!
Sounds awesome. There is a lot of untapped potential with respect to efficiently archiving and indexing websites. I saw the impressive things Marginalia Search is doing in this area (the blog is great when it gets technical). There is also a lot of very complete archives of websites out there which are not being indexed at all, and I would love to make them available for researchers. In any case, I'm interested in your project!
Re:Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline v...
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @02:05PM (#48530537)
That's neat! In my opinion, the WARC format is quite tricky and underspecified especially since HTTP2 introduced new semantics. It encodes too much in-band and requires rewriting of the server data. A mitmproxy capture is higher fidelity and supports capturing modern features such as WebSockets. I think if we could wrap Kage's crawler interactions by it and store its capture (the intercepted traffic), we could make a potentially nice new archival format.
Re:Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline v...
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @01:56PM (#48530411)
Cool concept. I would like to see this combined with mitmproxy for archive grade fidelity. You could be saving exactly the data served and at the same time a representation by a modern (contemporary) browser, with all JS having run. This combination would be my perfect replacement for the WARC format.
Re:WikiLambda the Ultimate
on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:41AM (#48526688)
Looks nice! I have my own vision and plans in this field :)
Re:WikiLambda the Ultimate
on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:29AM (#48500607)
I rather like Wikidata and see a lot of untapped potential in it. In contrast, WikiLambda feels like a fully utopian project. I already shudder from the complexity of a medium to large MediaWiki template, and I'm not convinced this system can be expanded into a full programming ecosystem - one that's supposed to cross the bridge to natural language too.
phpBB Authentication Bypass
Re:Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtl...
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:19PM (#48439164)
I only recently learned about serializable transactions and it seems bonkers that this is not the default. It makes a lot of sense combined with the event sourcing pattern. I believe it allows you to query for state in the decide function and then emit events safely without having to implement aggregates or versioning (aka you have "dynamic consistency boundaries"). The crucial part is that if any of the queried information changes before the event is emitted the transaction fails and business logic has to be retried until you get a conclusive answer.
Re:Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:59AM (#48381209)
At the Czechoslovak Game Archive, we have recently received and digitized a version of the Robot Karel educational programming environment for the Czechoslovak IQ 151 home computer stored on a vinyl record: https://herniarchiv.cz/en/blog/88-robot-karel-na-vinylove-de...
Microsoft bets on AI to modernize Windows
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Matrix Is Cooked
Introducing premium accounts to fund the matrix.org homeserver
Re:Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine...
on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:24PM (#44075183)
Meanwhile in Estonia, they just agreed to resolve child support disputes using AI... https://www.err.ee/1609701615/pakosta-enamiku-elatisvaidlust...
Re:How to learn a new language like a baby
on Sunday March 16, 2025 @11:14AM (#43379687)
I'm learning German and I've been enjoying browsing and reading with Nuenki. It's a lot of fun to see a sentence in context and find out you are simply able to understand it, though sometimes I have to fight the urge to instinctively hover to reveal the original text. Thank you for this plugin!
The entire Hollywood ecosystem is tottering on the brink
Microsoft-trusted Brazilian CA issued unauthorized google.com certificate
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How Virtual Reality Died
Re:XFCE 4.20 Aims to Bring Preliminary Wayland Support
on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:41PM (#41760126)
Check out waypipe. It's not compatible with every piece of software, but when it works, it's like one of those magic "run x application over the network" legends except it actually works well.
Re:We only learnt of our son's online life after he died at 20
on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:09PM (#41752147)
I think you are mischaracterizing both fandoms and furries (which I categorize to be distinct, because they're not "fans" of any particular popular media property, but I already digress). Much like people can form major hobbies in music, fantasy (books), theatre, sports et cetera, being a furry means being appreciative of art of anthropomorphic animals and connecting with other people over that. Now there are many in the furry community who are hurt, traumatized, "not normal", seeking escape as you are saying, and the community is exceptional for giving them space (that's a good thing, this community is then replacing traditional spaces providing community that may be failing them, like churches). But being a furry in itself is nothing indicative of not being able to, at the same time, live a "normal" life that you imagine.
Re:Not a Normal Field Trip
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @06:05PM (#41573371)
I'm from a central European country and my mother always made sure to record episodes of the Magic School Bus shown here on TV for me to watch on VHS. No doubt an influential show even beyond the US.
Digital Decluttering
The Light Phone 3 is a little less light – but a lot more useful
Announcing TypeScript 5.6
Re:Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:03AM (#39951061)
I wasn't able to figure it out. The docs [1] have absolutely no information or overview on how the tool works, or how you should get started with creating a simple installer. Besides setup instructions, it only has details on individual sub components, beginning with with "Burn bundles". All linked tutorials are for previous versions of WiX. Is the expected workflow that I read a v3 tutorial and then read the "v4 for v3 users" article (which immediately leaves me discouraged with "A lot about WiX has changed between v3 and v4"), or that I immediately purchase enterprise support?