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soap-··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
And that would be great, if anyone used it.

LLMs are specifically good at a task like this because they can extract content from any webpage, regardless of it supports whatever standard that no one implements

soap-··on Itter.sh – Micro-Blogging via Terminal
IMO it makes for better content. I'm not logging in to a microblogging app so I can read thoughtful, longform content, actually it's exactly the opposite.

By enforcing a character limit you only allow a certain type of post to be made

soap-··on Uncut Currency
Coins are simply worse than bills. They're too thick for something you'd be keeping mainly in your wallet or pocket.
soap-··on Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/c6...
soap-··on Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms
Why would that kill it? Have you ever tried to compile a browser?
soap-··on Concrete.css
You can change your preferred color scheme temporarily in dev tools

I believe it's called concrete because of brutalist architecture and how it's almost always made with concrete

soap-··on Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
NSFW content is disabled by default and you can't ever see it unless you go out of your way to enable it.
soap-··on Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?
Public keys are completely meaningless to an average user. They mean nothing and thus there's no reason to keep them consistent. Not to mention it's impossible to type or say them
soap-··on Modeless Vim
I was using micro. I still love it, but the syntax highlighting for ruby is very messed up
soap-··on Modeless Vim
I started using this because my favorite editor (micro) has very poor syntax highlighting for ruby. It's a very specific use case but it's quite nice and I'm considering switching to modeless vim
soap-··on Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
atproto cannot have ads and Jack Dorsey hasn't been involved in months. he's off on nostr, it was never his platform
soap-··on Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage
> Connections from CloudFlare’s reverse proxy are dropped. Do not help one private company expand its control over all internet traffic.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231005165737/https://srht.site...

soap-··on Mario Maker 2 API
There's a dataset on huggingface[0] from this API that has the data, and a decoder on github[1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.c... [1] https://github.com/JiXiaomai/SMM2LevelViewer

soap-··on Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
But why specifically GitHub, instead of just git? Every git hosting provider could work with this model
soap-··on That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net
Does DoH not solve this?
soap-··on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
HP printers completely refuse to print when they can't phone home for a month or so. Conveniently, that's right after the return window expires.
soap-··on Issues with 1.1.1.1 public resolver and WARP
dns0 claims to have 12ms latency, cloudflare claims to have 13.6ms.
soap-··on Bluesky Exploits
He's been very vocal about disliking the average bluesky user. IIRC he's said they aren't accepting enough, there's more details somewehere on his nostr account.
soap-··on Bluesky Exploits
These aren't really "exploits" in the traditional sense, it's just misrepresenting a link card.
soap-··on Bluesky Exploits
He deleted his bluesky account sometime today