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They took a little investor money, then spent a big chunk of it on t-shirts lol: https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k

But then it becomes a question of where exactly draw the line? And if you're going to do that, why not just charge per search so that you're not wasting money on searches you aren't using? Now you just have metered billing.

We've seen how that plays out with cloud computing: a few people wayyyy overpay and subsidise a lot of people on the free/cheap tiers

As I understand it, they aggregate and re-rank results from Google, Bing, Yandex, Brave, (more?), plus their own index.

I've been super impressed by Android Studio overall - it works way better than any other platform-specific fork of a popular editor I've used (looking at you, Arduino). XCode is a waste of my time - it's slow, buggy, and the errors are useless if they decide to ever show up.

With all the "ai text editor" startups we've seen, someone just needs to find a way to hack the XCode build & emulator functionality into a useable editor, and they'll have thousands of paying users in a week.

I really love this! I've seen it in action a couple times in the wild, and it's super cool seeing how the site's design has evolved over time.

It also has the benefit of forcing you to keep your URIs stable. Cool URIs don't change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

Because it's built-in as an extra feature to a watch that you were already gonna buy. Garmin watches can measure blood oxygen, but not many people use the feature because it drains the battery quickly. Samsung watches can do a single lead EKGs. Does that sell you the watch? Probably not. Is it yet another thing a company can add to the spec sheet and use to justify a price increase? Yes.

It would be nice if the author also compared different runtimes (e.g. NodeJS vs Deno, or cpython vs pypy) and core language engines (e.g. v8 vs spider monkey vs JavaScript core)

I went and checked the page in another browser with my adblocker off. Wow. Just wow. I started using ad blockers on everything a few years ago because they became a little too annoying. I somehow missed when the web became nigh unusable from them.

I guess eventually it's a trade-off between doing heavy lifting yourself and paying a little more compute and bandwidth, or offloading it to clients and wasting more energy but at lower cost to the developer. I think there are environmental arguments in both directions (more energy spent computing stuff on the client vs more energy sending pre-computed assets over the networks). I'm not sure which is better ultimately - I suppose it varies case-by-case.

They claim it's a project by these people, who are YC-backed: https://www.taiki.ai/

The Thunderbird team is working on a fork!

"The Thunderbird team was very sad when Firefox Send was shut down. Firefox Send made it possible to send large files easily, maybe easier than any other tool on the Internet. So we’re reviving it, but not without some nice improvements. Thunderbird Send will not only allow you to send large files easily, but our version also encrypts them" - https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-repo...

Apparently Thunderbird are working on reviving Firefox Send and adding encryption.

Overall Thunderbird seem to be doing white well from themselves since rejoining Mozilla: >$8m in donations last year I think.

Yup the cuts across the public sector are far-reaching. I work in research and we're finding it a lot harder to get govt grants (from GNS specifically, but I hear it's the same in other fields of research)

Whenever I need to touch XCode or Android Studio, I'm reminded how lucky web devs are now that almost everything has converged around Vite (death stare at NextJS). Everything Just Works(tm). Simple plugin system to integrate anything.

The few times there wasn't a plugin to do what I needed, I've managed to roll a custom one pretty easily.

When Vite breaks you're completely screwed though. Find a different way to do it or wait until a patch comes out. Vite internals are nigh impossible to fix on your own.

I tried it and firefox came up with a prompt confirming I wanted to open 'internet' in 'Dictionary'

There's a newish CSS feature to fix just this: scrollbar-gutter (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scrollbar-g...). Unfortunately, Safari doesn't support it.

Can also lead to an ugly gap in your navbar depending on which container you're making scroll.

The linked website says "Backed by Y Combinator" lol

Do you have any info on how your system stacks up to msgpack? (https://msgpack.org/index.html)

Asking because we use msgpack in production at work and it can sometimes be a bit slower to encode/decode than is ideal when dealing with real-time data.

Shout out to the classic "Cool URIs don't change": https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

the good old hn hug of death

Hey, not if you run it on a mac running Asahi

Kind of like what BlueJ does with Java?

I'm impressed with how well they've enforced that as well. I tried spoofing my UA to be safari (which I fully expected to not work), but it also didn't accept when I set my UA to Chrome.

What's especially odd is that Apple acknowledges Firefox's existence in their WWDC videos about web features, when they mention browser compatibility or who they're working with.

Hasn't Kagi been using this for their maps offering for a while now?

Kagi displays what portion of results are from their own index - I almost always see 50% or higher on this. I think they also use a mix of several external indexes rather than solely bing.

Kagi also has the advantage of letting you customise rankings to your preferences: I've got mine set to always pin a relevant wikipedia article to the very top, and to bubble MDN pages up and w3schools pages down.

It would let you paste a lot of existing markdown into google docs

Caniuse (https://caniuse.com/) aggregates data from MDN with their own data and has reasonably good search. I see browser and standards people linking to it from time-to-time.

To quote the immortal words of every drama teacher and English teacher ever: "Capitalism bad."

probably because it's a pdf on dropbox, which can't really be trusted to be legit

Hey I'm sure you're right, but as someone with less low-level networking expertise, I was wondering if you could explain why you'd want datagrams for these use-cases?