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shockon Show HN: GenAI-powered OCR API for PDF receipts/invoices with smart extraction

astroturfing in the cmnts

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

Right-click on the panel, choose "Configure panel", in the resulting overlay there's a "Move tabs to this panel", click "Manage rules".

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

Look into the Panels feature, it has auto-move by URL regex.

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

The easiest way I've found to move a bunch of tabs between windows is with Sidebery. It also lets you organize tabs into panels.

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

That's because of the Javascript running on them. If I have a dozen youtube tabs that are not suspended my FF becomes very janky and if I look in FF task manager, sure enough, they're consuming lots of CPU. I suspend them and FF becomes snappier again.

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

I don't want to keep any tabs open, but I haven't found a better way for my workflow and I've tried quite a few.

My tabs fall into the following categories:

- unfinished/long running projects/topics/research: for these I use a version of the Tabs Aside! extension that I've modified, which converts them to bookmarks.

- tabs I will want to look at someday and further categorize and/or take action: for these I implemented a babashka script that when I click on an URL it fetches the page, extracts the title and displays it and asks me if I want to open it now, or save it for later in an org-file. This doesn't work, unfortunately, for URLs that I open from another FF page. For these, my long term plan involves archiving the text and doing RAG on them, as they relate to my long term interests/projects/curiosities.

- tabs I need for the actively running projects/tasks

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

Lol, I have 15000+ tabs across 13 windows.

shockon Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

You can do that with Sidebery, at least partially.

shockon New Beeper Android app – Open beta test

Anyone have a referral code? TIA

shockon Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system

Are all your scans straight or do you also get skewed scans regularly? It's one of my disappointments with the ADS-1700W, a Xerox MFD scanner outputs all straight scans.

shockon HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21

According to Eurostat⁰, Romania has a slightly higher(13000€) average annual full-time adjusted salary per employee than Hungary (12600€).

⓪ - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

shockon HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21

So we're not talking about the country, then, we're talking about the populace.

shockon HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21

Would you say that the US(76k per capita) is poorer than Lichtenstein(184k)?

shockon HMD Global Starts Manufacturing in Europe with the ‘Made in Hungary’ Nokia XR21

Romania has almost twice Hungary's GDP.

shockon Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

It does for me.

shockon Facebook inches closer to European blackout

The risk of what?

shockon The Surprising Reason for the Decline in Cancer Mortality

I wonder about this, lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmxUsAI29fw

shockon Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

What's his loss, exactly?

shockon Tell HN: Stripe.network

I suggest you repost this as an Ask HN.

shockon Ask HN: Any weird but healthy tips for weight gain?

> in order to physically move protein molecules into your muscle cells where they can be used to repair said tissue, you need carbohydrates

This is correct (kind of). Insulin is an anabolic hormone (makes cells build bigger things out of smaller ones) so you need to eat protein and carbs to have high enough insulin levels to build muscle. If you only want to get fat, eat lots of carbs/glucose. There are glucose bars like chocolate. For a while I used to eat a protein rich lunch and then 1kg of bananas until 6pm. I got most gains in that period.

Not a MD.

shockon How Cloudflare verifies the code WhatsApp Web serves to users

> We urgently need better ways to demonstrate that Element Web hasn’t been tampered with in transit.

Serving the content with HTTPS ought to ensure that. What Cloudflare does with WhatsApp is to prove to facebook the user hasn't modified the code locally. This is dis-empowering the user, not protecting the user.

shockon Tell HN: Voting on HN Fails Silently

I think I know when it happened to me: I vouched for a comment that I thought made a good logical argument, by a user who is perpetually shadow-banned (redis-something). That's a good lesson to not vouch anymore.

shockon Tell HN: Voting on HN Fails Silently

Same in my case. At the end of the day, it's just another form of censorship. It broke the illusion I had of HN being something special and I'm glad it did. Better spend that energy elsewhere.

shockon Mozilla and Meta (FB) are working together on “privacy” ads

I don't understand why Mozilla would do this. Clearly the image I have of Mozilla and the real Mozilla are very divergent. I guess I have stuff to figure out, like my next browser...

shockon Mozilla and Meta (FB) are working together on “privacy” ads

This is very bad news. I don't want Facebook, or anybody else for that matter, to be able to track ads conversions.

shockon Jailer: A tool for database subsetting, schema and data browsing

If you have Java installed, just download the zip, extract, and run ./jailerGUI.sh.

shockon Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

https://ethercalc.net/re2l1v220w1r

shockon Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://spotifyopenletter.word...

Let the list of names be part of the public record "forever".

shockon Backblaze restore for Personal Backup is awful

This entitled attitude irks me to no end. I'm curious, how much of your work do you donate to others?

I would like to benefit from some of your free work, for personal use.

shockon Do you ever avoid submitting something on HN so devs won't ruin it?

I think it's a side effect of Milton Friedman's Shareholder Primacy Theory, which people interpret in different ways, sometimes, resulting in very skewed incentives.