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Re:Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019) on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:24AM (#30641848)
> I'm well aware you might think I'm proving your point with this response.

You are correct. Your comment was mean. Not even sure why you responded aggressively.

Hostile is perfectly correct word to describe some online communities. Do you think the word "hostile" only applies when you meet people physically?

Re:Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019) on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:29AM (#30640330)
It's complaining for the sake of complaining. Sometimes you need to test the water first. Some online communities are rather hostile after all. As shown by this silly website.
Thank you for the extension. It works well enough for my bookmarks. Just open the bookmarks on my browser and use the "Save all tabs" feature.

I think I'm not the only one who wants an alternative to pocket. A bookmark manager that can archive the links to prevent linkrot.

Thank you. I'll give multiple profiles a try. As mentioned by some of the comments. It's a good tool for managing bookmarks. ArchiveBox supposedly does something similar but I couldn't make it work.
I thought you'd say Infiniminer by Zachtronics.
How to toggle reader mode/readability? It doesn't seem to be able to save pages when I toggled chromium's reader mode on.

I followed the other advice on this thread. In the options:

- Annotation editor > default mode > format the page

- Annotation editor > annotate the page before saving

It automatically format the page into reader mode then I can click "Save the page" icon to save it. But sometimes I want to download the page as is. Like this thread for example. "Restore all removed elements" button doesn't seem to work to revert the changes.

For now I just set default as mode as normal and enable "annotate the page before saving", and then click "Format the page for better readability" when needed.

Looks really similar to https://sumi.news/.

I wonder why these aggregators don't do a weekly version. I don't want to read the news every day.

Re:Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:26PM (#30433237)
More for read it later services like pocket, but I like https://medium.com/life-hacks/fighting-information-overload-...

Basically delete everything every week.

Re:Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:00PM (#30432875)
> 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket.

Thanks for the rec. I've been looking for a pocket alternative. Just a simple bookmark manager that can archive articles. Ideally a desktop app and work offline too. None of that self-hosting stuffs.

I will give Shiori a try.

edit: Never mind. This is not what I'm looking for.

Re:Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please? on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @06:21AM (#30426524)
> Twitter won't let you see the content without logging in anymore.

I don't know why people don't make a bigger deal out of it. I guess everyone has twitter now.

Re:I have no capslock and I must scream on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:34PM (#30422180)
It reminds me every time I asked why a website does a weird thing, the answer was always be "we have done A/B testing".
Re:Ask HN: Quit caffeine? Before and after anecdotes on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:18PM (#30400622)
I didn't quit caffeine. I still drink tea. But I mostly stopped drinking coffee a while back.

A few weeks ago, I tried drinking a cup because I needed to be alert/less sleepy, and I felt like shit. Not sure why, headache, some anxiety, and nausea.

Google told me Wunderlist had natural language support. Microsoft To Do doesn't.
I just checked it. Kinda surprised that Microsoft To Do doesn't have natural language support like Wunderlist.
Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:27AM (#30382433)
Just some misleading chart. "Misleading" is probably too mild.
I guess the Wunderlist team is more competent than their Teams one.
Re:The Elements of Cache Programming Style (2000) on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:23PM (#30366627)
I don't know who started the trend. I personally first heard about the term from Mike Acton's CppCon 2004 talk.

But as pointed out by another comment, I don't think it's that mainstream. Outside HPC and game development. At least that's what came up when you google the relevant terms like cache, locality, etc.

Re:Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:12PM (#30354213)
Any good database for creative commons/free textbooks or technical books?
Re:Building an iPod for 2022 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:46PM (#30349944)
There is regularly-updated comparison chart of modern mp3 players/digital audio players (DAP). https://azalush5.hatenablog.com/entry/2022/01/dap-comparison...

I personally find them too expensive and bulky. With not so great software.

Re:Pocket migration to Firefox accounts on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:15PM (#30316563)
Same. I miss pocket's chrome app. Worked great when offline too.

I don't really care about web service. Any desktop tool that can capture websites like pocket? As in download the stripped-down article. They call it "reader view" sometimes.

There's some extensions/scripts like Markdownload that uses Mozilla's Readibility.js to download stripped-down articles. But it's a bit manual for my taste.

Re:Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:55PM (#30157199)
Honestly, the fact that 4 STDs are incurable still frightens me.
Re:Zim – A Desktop Wiki on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:45PM (#30096308)
I'm pretty sure obsidian can't sort lists. Especially nested multilevel lists. I tried it before and it got too much annoyances without obvious benefits, so I went back to dynalist.
Re:Zim – A Desktop Wiki on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:41PM (#30095928)
Good to know. Thanks for sharing org-cliplink.
Re:Zim – A Desktop Wiki on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:40PM (#30095921)
I will give Doom Emacs a try. Thanks.
Re:Zim – A Desktop Wiki on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:57PM (#30091719)
It's silly. But I want these features in my offline personal wiki:

- sortable table like wikipedia's

- sortable list and other list manipulation tools from dynalist/worflowy's

- automatically adding titles when you copy links of articles/videos/etc.

I'd like to think I'm not the only one who mostly uses lists and tables to organize information and notes. Quick googling says org-mode can do the first 2. I tried spacemacs and it was just confusing. One day.

Re:Ask HN: What's Up with Google? on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:44PM (#30033653)
Got a "The invite you provided is invalid or expired.". I guess it's used up.
Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:51AM (#29981868)
Inaccurate in what way? Indie studios getting bought by Tencent is true.
Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:50AM (#29981859)
How? Quick googling says no.
Re:Learn accounting for free on Monday December 20, 2021 @06:58PM (#29632099)
There are other online resources to learn accounting. A lot of them are listed on https://hledger.org/accounting.html#accounting-links .

https://www.dwmbeancounter.com/ is often mentioned on similar threads. People also like to link to beancount's manual http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/double-entry .

But I agree with mindslight's comment. They all kinda suck. Reading an actual textbook like the top comment suggested is probably better.

This drives me crazy. I feel not enough people are complaining about this. Is finding text from the currently-loaded discussion such a niche thing?

I second the other comments, XenForo is the best currently.

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