Hacker News Reader

bdeshion Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder

btw the hoarder project is an active victim of a patent troll[0][1]; the official Firefox extension is currently blocked by dmca[2]. any donations might be helpful.

[0]: https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder/commit/b2c795ccb562c0...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/CMCPP7cc8i

[2]: https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder/issues/899

bdeshion Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

elinks is another textmode web browser that supports some javascript. https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/

bdeshion Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)

spent quality time in my youth making xkcdphone style doodles for the fingertip typing gadget used by a character in Digital Fortress, something like this: https://www.techeblog.com/tip-tap-finger-computer-input-devi...

bdeshion Is XYplorer really written in VB6?

nice to see this on hn. the dev has just announced[1] start of codebase migration from vb6 to twinbasic which should negate all of the cons described in the article.

xyplorer has been providing partial compatibility with 64-bit windows shells by way of some "sidecar" executables, which act like hosts for 64-bit shell extensions, thumbnailers, and whatnot.

iirc some of these sidecar tools were originally written in autohotkey; now that's another interesting language.

[1]: https://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=28273

bdeshion We Remember Noam Chomsky, the Intellectual and Moral Giant

https://x.com/_pinheira/status/1803155896081518754

> Noam is alive. And well. His wife has just confirmed it

bdeshion Noam Chomsky has passed away

https://x.com/_pinheira/status/1803155896081518754 > Noam is alive. And well. His wife has just confirmed it

bdeshion Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024

There's also vaultwarden

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

bdeshion Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0

> God help you if you want to use Goodreads...

How could anyone support Goodreads seeing as their api is closed off? Thankfully calibre has the goodreads-sync plugin which still works as well as it does.

bdeshion Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0

If you meant the splash screen when it starts up, this can be turned off in the settings.

Otherwise the core app's UI looks fine to me personally, though some of the plugins make some, unusual, choices.

bdeshion COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros

~~I think that's supposed to be the scroll bar~~. what's caught my eye is the gaps between the content and the border in the window corners.

bdeshion Lua: The Little Language That Could

I find moonscript indispensable whenever I'm working with lua.

https://moonscript.org/

bdeshion Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license

reminds me about Akelpad which was my preference over notepad++/scintilla editors. It feels similar to Scintilla but uses an allegedly more performant editing component called AkelEdit. It has lots of interesting plugins and easily editable GUI. it was fun to tinker with.

https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

bdeshion Gitea – a painless self-hosted Git service

what discord things?

bdeshion Please stop disabling zoom

another annoyance is links that open in new tabs. if i want to open a link in a new tab, i can do it myself, websites don't have to decide for me.

bdeshion Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

> I forget the name - maybe REST client?

yes. `humao.rest-client`

bdeshion Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?

> Sure, but nothing will encounter or observe them ever again.

like trees falling silently in desolate forests?

bdeshion Ancient Lost Continent Discovered in Indian Ocean

discovered seven years ago, to clarify.

also

> estimate that the lost microcontinent [...] was about a quarter of the size of Madagascar.

that's a wild definition of a continent!

bdeshion Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?

Couldn't something text based ( like this[1] ) be standardized much easily?

1: https://gist.github.com/abravalheri/34aeb7b18d61392251a2

ed. I see another comment points to the conventionalcommits proposal.

bdeshion Show HN: Flash replacement

is this open source? doesn't seem to have any license info.

bdeshion If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)

this video[1] by Dr James O'Donoghue really made me stop and consider how slow the fastest possible speed is, relative to the awesome vastness of space. I mean how many people have actually paused for 8:20 mins and thought, "wow that's a really long time for light to arrive from that star that seems like a stone's throw away!"

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9D5tSbxudQ

bdeshion How to match “A B C” where A+B=C with a regex

And here's a followup: http://www.drregex.com/2018/11/how-to-match-b-c-where-abc-be... (with a rege101 demo that's still live)

bdeshion Show HN: Open-source app to turn headless Chrome into a normal browser

their landing page design is... unusual; sets `dir=rtl` on english text, making the fullstops show up at the beginning of sentences.

bdeshion How to get started with advanced Lego building

brings back memories of ldraw. discovered the multifaceted precision of lego pieces from ldraw wiki and by reading the ldr files.

had only a handful of actual store-bought lego sets, but almost the entire catalog was on my pc, it was amazing.

ldraw+mlcad+ldview: hours of fun!