bertman

You can read the story in the html source.

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956153

The author addresses exactly this in the postscript of his article.

I think you misslopped something. The slop you linked actually deletes '404' bookmarks and does not offer JSON export.

Your description is not accurate and quite misleading.

>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

Like I said: What do you mean with this? You did not build a "VPN" that runs in the browser. Your extension sets up a web proxy.

And worse:

>or log user data.

You're implying you're running some kind of "no log" service which is false.

>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

What does that even mean? This AI-coded extension uses a Cloudflare worker to generate API keys for the proxy service "webshare.io". It then uses the Chrome proxy API (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/p...) to set up a Webshare proxy server.

>or log user data

Webshare.io log everything they can, as expected (https://www.webshare.io/privacy-policy)

Site seems down. https://web.archive.org/web/20251022103755/https://drewdevau...

Complete article (extracted from the site's <meta> HTML element and converted to Markdown):

https://privatebin.net/?4c31faa3cd73a20c#3fu148gYZqMAwHCY2xx...

Reference: https://youtu.be/hHwjceFcF2Q (Blade Runner scene)

Discussion from 3 years ago, when this was originally posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34351503 , 566 points, 358 comments

Thanks for this!

Sam Henri Gold's readme is really funny, especially in comparison to Fartscroll-Lid's soulless AI emoji slopfest of a readme.

It had a high intensity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal#Intensity

I find it hilarious that the Youtube spokespersons go out of their way to clarify that this is "not the bad GenAI shit that we know everyone hates but the good kind, you know, machine learning and stuff, you know, trust us"

It's right there in the popup.js source code.

https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchromewebstore...

Interesting quotes:

>“We try to disclose complexity only when necessary,” he said. “So if you don’t ask for a particular tech stack or anything, we will build you a web app. It’ll be using Next.js, it’ll be written in TypeScript, and it’ll be styled with Tailwind.” These are the “most modern technologies” that are available for web development, he added.

So this makes sense I guess:

>The Next.js team is updating the framework so that it plays better with LLMs and agentic AI, Khandelwal said.

At first, I was confused because I didn't get why they would call it "hand-picked" when literally every single "article" on that site is attributed to the site itself.

And then I clicked a random page and, well, it's slop:

>By amplifying the signal from minority class data and leveraging the diversity of models, these methods enhance prediction accuracy and fairness across all classes. When paired with complementary techniques such as resampling, adjusting class weights, or generating synthetic data, ensemble methods can yield even more robust results in handling imbalanced datasets.

Comet is not a browser, it's two Chrome extensions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525230

>you're just proving you'll be left behind.

... said every grifter ever since the beginning of time.

I'm still sad that they'll probably never provide a proper web client instead of that suboptimal Electron desktop thing.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4466

>Is it just a re-branding as Tiki?

Looks like it. The source link at the bottom of the page goes to https://github.com/chkas/easylang

This uses the [Turndown JavaScript library](https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown).

Additional information that's hopefully helpful for HN readers:

* This extension has been vibe-coded (example from the code: "// IMPORTANT: Replace this with the ACTUAL URL where your auth-iframe.html is hosted!")

* It sends your email content to ParaAI (https://paraai.pro/) for the actual text completion

Yeah, but if you're trying to promote your AI generated React bloat wrapper in a "Show HN", you should at least be honest and describe how it's actually working instead of writing mindless, non-coherent, intentionally misleading ad blurbs without any actual information imho.

Using CompressorJS means lossy image compression. You really shouldn't be calling this "Instant, Lossless File Compression" on your page.

Also, because you're using CompressorJS's default settings, you should know that PNG files > 5 MB are converted to JPG (https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs?tab=readme-ov-f...). Your site, however, keeps the .png file name ending for the converted image, again falsely suggesting lossless compression.

This is a CompressorJS wrapper.

https://fengyuanchen.github.io/compressorjs/

https://github.com/fengyuanchen/compressorjs

In the second paragraph, it says:

>Hosters with a focus on virtual servers, are only listed in the category virtual private server (VPS) hosters.

>https://european-alternatives.eu/category/vps-virtual-privat...

Hetzner is the very first entry in that category.