skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, we cannot directly know views or engagement from the APIs, at same time, I think consistency can be an equally valid metric of analysis.
I want to know how many posts and how many reply I published per day and whether I did it sufficiently consecutively.
This tells me whether I am maximizing the chances of visiblity according to the goal I have given myself.

In addition to Followers there are also metrics on Likes, Replies, Reposts and Quotes that can still give you a good proxy of the engagement you are receiving.
It allows for filtering, but in a less powerful way.

It'll still block some ads, but anti-ad-blocker tech will have an easier time.
"But I don't want to use a browser from a company which gives themselves a broad license to do whatever they want with whatever data I enter into the browser"

As this discussion made abundantly clear, that's not what it says at all.
In a native single-threaded UI, you can type ahead too. But it doesn't work on the web unless the page effectively reimplements an input queue.
Well it works for RC4
First imagine paying a subscription fee which actually makes the company profitable and gives investors ROI, then I think you can also imagine not paying that amount at all.
Hasn't SEO been dead for like 10 years? It's not as if there's a search engine you can get to the first page on without paying, so why waste ad dollars on stuffing SEO garbage in your page and chasing the algorithm when you can just buy ads, if that's what you need? And does anyone find anything anymore by doing generic web searches anyway?
The coin is still baked into the browser, but it's disabled by default and doesn't really nag you about it.

At least, that's how it was when I used Brave around 2021-2022.

I've long-since moved to Librewolf, but it's my 'plan C' browser if SHTF with firefox and its downstream forks ('plan B' being Ungoogled Chromium)
> When I open Slack, to which servers am I explicitly requesting a connection?

Debian only supplies open source software. Proprietary apps that only support the vendor's service aren't included as it is. Open source apps using standard protocols like Matrix or similar do allow the user to choose the server.

> A middle ground might be to create a distro that uses something like SELinux to prevent all network access to non-system processes.

We're talking about open source software in the official repositories. You're not putting it in a jail to thwart it from defecting on you, you're modifying the code so that it doesn't even try.

> How do updates work?

When you install Debian it asks you which mirror you want to use for updates. Several of them are provided by universities etc. You can also make your own and some large organizations do that.
Here's my question: in light of what Mozilla is doing, why don't other forks like Waterfox or Librewolf write a manifesto/contract saying they'll never sell your user data and won't turn "evil" (until they do, of course), and then decide to offer a paid version of their browser.

Two possible outcomes:

1. No one cares. No one pays for it. Nothing changes and nobody loses anything.

2. Enough people pay for it to keep the product healthy and the user-centric promise alive. The Internet is saved.

So why isn't anyone trying to replace Mozilla yet, with a more sane business model than living on the back of Google's fear of antitrust investigation? What's the worse that can happen?

Just sell a bonafide paid version alongside the free one, don't just rely on donations. There is a massive difference between offering a paid product and begging passers-by to spare some change.
This is the truth of it: if people chose Firefox, or another alternative, over Chrome then Google would have less power to impose its will on the web. This would be a good thing.

Google’s power on the web doesn’t simply come from having lots of money and resources - see, as examples, any of the multitude of Google’s failures and shuttered products - but mostly comes from its reach.

“Everybody” uses Chrome. If that were no longer true, progress on the web could return to a more open an collaborative model.

Anyone can help that happen simply by switching to Firefox, as I did four or five years ago.
One good reason is that it's not always obvious who has the rights. Even if the copyright holder is clear it can be hazy whether there might be outstanding NDAs and licensing deals that would cause problems.

So it's usually safer and (importantly) cheaper not to bother. You need either an insider keen on their own initiative to open it up, or a powerful PR reason to do so.

It's a shame, but probably unavoidable. I think we ought as a society to at least dramatically shorten the copyright period for software (it's obvious that something like the patent system's 20 years would be more than sufficient) but I can't see much chance of it changing.

> Will these sources die somewhere and never be revealed? :-)

Sadly, yes, mostly. :'(
Payday from hell as several UK banks report major outages
Multiple UK banks are simultaneously reporting outages on their online banking sites and apps. Interestingly, they all seem to have the exact same message of their websites about this.

None of the reporting on this seems to report a cause for what might be behind this. A concerted DDoS campaign? Failure of some shared common facility? Nation-state-level hacking?
…and yet we still do not have the streamlined authoring experience we had with Flash. The stuff you show is just a crappier way to write boring GUIs with some other language for which you need to download the runtime. Flash let many more people create far more fun stuff than any Web standard ever did.

People forget that Flash also brought C/C++ to the web at some point, but besides some flashy demos, nobody really cared.

The problem is that all this choice creates fragmentation, you have dozens of platforms within a platform on top of another platform. Web APIs and Javascript may suck in many ways, but at least the are a common denominator.
WebShield – A new wide-spectrum content blocker for Safari
You can actually play YouTube in the background with Firefox on Android. There is two ways,
1. Put the video in full screen mode and then press the system home button, this enabled PiP.
2. Start the video, click onto another tab in Firefox (this will pause the video) but then with that second tab active, open the tab switcher and press the play button beside the other tab with the video. Then it will play in the background until you interact with the tab again.
I agree that it's an odd difference. Thanks for setting me straight on the cultural difference. I've also had worse starts to my Friday. Thanks again.
They still seem to have something, from this page: https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/accessibility-and-internationali...

* Inspect the HTML tree containing the ARIA attributes generated by Flutter.

Wouldn't that help with SEO as well?
I should do a lot more with Alfred, but apart from using it as a launcher my most used feature is the clipboard search. After invoking it by typing 'clip' into the box, I get an incremental search on all clipboard contents it has tracked, and can re-copy any of those items to the current clipboard by pressing enter. Very useful and efficient when it's part of your workflow.
Earlier submission of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204149
Microsoft don't really invest the right kind of resources into Edge to make that happen. There are sound technical reasons (aside from the obvious financial reason) why Google wants to make this change, I suspect this'll unblock the Chromium team making a very substantial refactor of the networking layer which Microsoft can't feasibly maintain a fork of.
Big corporations are usually super slow and clumsy in implementing anything new or doing any quick changes.
Graphic designers I think are safe, at least within organizations that require a cohesive brand strategy. Getting the AI to respect all of the previous art will be a challenge at a certain scale.

Fiverr graphic designers on the other hand…
I am just curious how Dune 3D "feels" to a person accustomed to Shapr3D --- the former is notable among opensource applications for having a touch/trackpad-friendly UI, which is a defining characteristic of the latter.
I have no idea why they bothered releasing it, but, as we saw with the other models, they will eventually release a 4.5-turbo (or a 4.5o) of sorts that is in line with current pricing
I don't get the complaint in the comment. Asserts for invariants/pre-/postconditions are absolutely compatible with not crashing: don't violate those properties.
No one cares for specifically V2, it's just V3 is intentionally crippled. Just allow functionality required for more feature-rich extensions like uBO and everyone will forget V2 very fast. V3 does allow extensions to monitor and sell network data (no privacy improvements), but blocks modifications (no cutting out ads)
Many users don't notice any difference after switching to a Manifest v3 ad blocker. I'll reserve judgment until it actually happens.
This is getting niche enough that I'd doxx myself :^)

Check out everything recommended elsewhere in this thread though! And strive to compile your own fork based on whatever.
I absolutely see the nefarious, selfish, profit-driven side to Apple locking their phones down.

But proponents of opening it up need to realise that the status quo is a real, practical benefit to a portion of society as well.

By all means, let’s talk about ways it can work for everyone, monopolies are bad too. But while we’re doing it, let’s try not to blame or exclude people who aren’t computer-security savvy, or make their world worse.
Well that ship has sailed.
"Smart" Punctuation and the Principle of Least Astonishment
The insidious intrusion of so-called Smart Punctuation into note-taking apps, unformatted text editors, and message compositors to silently and invisibly alter your text input is bad UI and horrible UX.
Guess they have to pay the CEO's seven million dollar salary somehow ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
> and yet we still do not have the streamlined authoring experience we had with Flash.

Uno for example has a visual designer: https://platform.uno/hot-design/

> The problem is that all this choice creates fragmentation

That's not a problem. Build things the way you want in the language you want.
Good point instead of deleting, treat it like an invalid https cert. Lots of warnings and are you sures before you get to clone or fork.
According to the Register, it's Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB, Nationwide, First Direct, Bank of Scotland, and Barclays.

Interestingly, all the banks seem to have the exact same notice on their websites about this. (See https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/28/payday_from_hell_as_s... )

None of the reporting on this seems to report a cause for what might be behind this. A concerted DDoS campaign? Failure of some shared common facility? Nation-state-level hacking?
Former Xiaomi and Flipkart Veterans Introduce Lumio to Shake Up Smart TV Market
Finally somebody can fix the mismatch errors in the game and make it actually playable again!
Microsoft could fix their broken HWID activation scheme, but...
that's a troll
Yes, I'm working on cutting every addiction, that's a big part of being a practicing Orthodox Christian. My biggest weaknesses are video games but I have wasted plenty of time on shows as well and I haven't done either as much in the past month or so.

But sexuality is a big part of our lives and while wasting time on any addiction like doomscrolling and binge watching is not good for us, porn can taint our relationship with the opposite sex and that's worst in my opinion
mad-max-tom-hardy-nuh-uh-thats-bait.webm
I did mean median yes, my bad. Alright, that makes sense indeed.
Ooh, nice - Learn OTP with Gleam [1] – I was looking for something like that when I first looked at Gleam some time back

Edit: My (forgotten) comment when this was posted 10 months ago [2]: "So pleased to see this. Had fun playing with the language but at the time learning OTP seemed a big ask"

[1] https://github.com/bcpeinhardt/learn_otp_with_gleam

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143559
Have you tested the waters with a request for the devs to remove whatever you consider suspicious in that list?

I believe the current issue regarding Firefox is it's new terms of use, which are not presently in Zen browser. Other than that is a pretty close copy of Firefox, which is the point, and why I suggested it to parent as an option.
>So why isn't anyone trying to replace Mozilla yet,

Because writing manifestos is easy and making a browser is proper hard work ?
Fun fact: if you come across one of these discord webhooks you can delete them.

Just curl -X DELETE https://discord.com/api/webhooks/[...]
Uh, no, uploaded MP3s couldn't even be deduplicated across different users, because of lawyers. I know because I was there. The team had to ensure having maaaany petabytes of storage on launch day. Maybe the label or whoever owns the rights to the track today uploaded whatever they could find online? One way to verify that is checking if the same issue occurs on Spotify or Apple Music.
I suppose I could manually copy paste things, but it's not a great user experience. I'm fine with using beta software, but pre-alpha even is a bit too hard for me to swallow.
> Can anyone do anything about it?

Yes, Donald Trump can, because these are all American companies. If he pushes the rest of the world hard enough, the amount of will and the amount of resource that will be mobilized to get out from under the thumb of U.S. tech domination will be something none of us has ever seen in their lifetimes.
The first online store/cart I wrote (in php 3 or 4, around 2001), I didn't know sql so I worked backwards into inventing a database from scratch using text files. This was great for a couple years until someone put an asterisk into the name of a product. Asterisk was my row delimiter. lol.
> can be done quite easily

The first and last time I tried Brave, it was injecting links (with a pretty golden picture) in each post of reddit (and I'm not talking about changing the referrals). To turn that off I had to look deep into the settings.
That's almost exactly describing Librewolf, though it adds a ton of privacy 'hardening' features out-of-the-box, which can be a positive or negative depending on who you ask.

I personally use Librewolf with the Lepton (Photon style) UI[0], which replicates the previous UI style Firefox used a couple years ago, with small square tabs and condensed menus, before the current pseudo-tabletified abomination.

Of course, if you like the current UI—you'd literally be the first person I've met to like it—you can just use librewolf stock and it doesn't apply any changes to the standard Firefix UI.

[0] https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
> I appreciate the constant existential wobble Firefox faces

The wobble seems to somewhat artificial. I'm having trouble believing Firefox could ever not be able to afford to continue browser development — there are way too many interests at stake. Google alone would have no choice but to bail Firefox out because Chrome can't be the only browser without being regulated to hell and back.
> Renting second-hand means 'subletting'? Or something else?

Renting second-hand means renting outside of the rent-controlled system. Either from someone who owns the apartment (or rather a stake in the HOA corporation) or someone who has a first-hand (rent-controlled) contract.

The HOA corporation thing is actually really nice most of the time, the two big downsides is that you can't do major renovations or renting your apartment without asking permission.

The paperwork to buy/sell real estate is really minimal if you buy through a HOA, also makes mortgages paperwork a lot easier. HOAs are regulated by the government so banks only need minimal information to authorize loans for HOA-property. Also the banks won't loan to buy property in mismanaged HOAs (HOAs with too much loans) so you don't need to do a lot of due diligence yourself.

So for real state ownership the government kinda handed over control to HOAs and decided to regulate the HOAs instead of doing it all themselves.

Note that HOA is the equivalent term in english, in Sweden the name is BRF (bostadsrättsförening) which means the same thing.
Now please, could somebody path C&C generals so we can play multi-player without every other game having a mismatch?
I think people are missing that distribution without a license is the issue not where they got the stuff.

If Killa Tay is fine with them distributing a dodgy version...
You are replying to someone who says they are transgender.

MAGA does not love trans people. Anti-trans rhetoric was thick during the campaign. Trans members of the military are being forced out. If you attempt to enter the US with a passport that indicates a different gender than you were assigned at birth, you might be banned from ever entering the US again. Significant effort has been taken to erase the concept of trans people from government websites and media.

A couple tokens does not change this. The actions speak for themselves.
There are also "upstream" options, like PiHole or NextDNS which block requests to ad/tracking/malicious domains at the network (local machine, router, etc.) level.
Haha. Yes. Though that might be quicker :)
> searching for files

Erm, what ?

I use Mac, Windows, Linux and BSD daily.

Of all four, searching for files on a Mac is a dream.

Apple Spotlight is and always has been lightyears ahead of whatever garbage Microsoft use on Windows.

And don't get me started on the inconvenience of searching for files on Linux or BSD, I mean, for starters you have to download a non-default tool like `fd` if you want to search at any reasonable speed.
Is it really a good UI if they need to write a talmud to explain it?
Sad, still dependent on the same horrible c++ (or similar). It would have been more appropriate with using a lean C99+ dialect which you can compile with small C compiler alternatives (that is impossible to do with c++ and similar due to abysmal syntax complexity).

There is no independence at being dependent on the same ultra complex SDK.
Because these aren't really independent browsers but reskins.

Being independent of google requires actually doing the work and not just copying google.
You've gotten a couple of other answers, here already. I'll just add that unfortunately I don't have link but there's a podcast interview with Andreas out there where they go into more detail about this. He said that they tried write some features in Rust and the development team just didn't like working in the language, I think the overall reason was that object-orientated programming was not a first-class citizen in Rust.

One other interesting tidbit is that the development team was excited to try Rust, but in practice disliked it, and the reverse was true for Swift.
My take would be starting with WAI-ARIA, or create a new standard with similar goal and keep the standard minimal and single-purpose. We are heading into the era of AI driven UI anyway.
Wine was far from useless for gaming ing 2010.
To your point, ads are brain malware.
At this point my trust in Mozilla is so low that I could almost believe they intent to run the text I download and upload through an LLM nanny that can scold or ban me if anything offends its Californian sensibilities.

> Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will not use Firefox to infringe anyone’s rights or violate any applicable laws or regulations.

> You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to [...] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/
Does that in multiple places. Maybe they wanted a way to quickly revert it? Or enable on countries where they think they can get away with it?
> 9 years ago

> This is still coming. The work is being completed now and we will be able to expose it in a few months.

I'm glad the official response has no date associated, so you won't know whether they published that yesterday of 8 years ago.
Oh, that will be hard for my grandparents and some overseas family members. Someone managed to teach them Skype at great effort some years ago and it's still the main they use for video calling to see their grandkids. Probably will need to try teach them Google Meet or something instead, but they're not the most receptive to new tech.
I just use syncthing, with https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth... on Android and the official packages on desktop. On Android, I've been using the organice build from https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice/issues/932# but have also installed https://orgro.org/ which is nicer for reading and simple edits. I've heard https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/synctrain/id6553985316?platfor... is nice for ios
Oh thanks! Although really the key thing is the search engine, for which it seems clearthis fails?

http://fweet.org/pages/fw_srch.php
I promise, I will never die.
It's nice to throw around ideas like this sometimes, but the reality is if a new browser is not compatible with 99.9% of existing web content, nobody will use it.
Slack is part of Salesforce now. Do I need to say anything else?
There's a lot of websites that break for me on Firefox. Most examples are things like small businesses contact forms... I also had trouble with a kitchen design website. I can't remember what it was, but one just showed me a blank page unless I was on a Chrome-based browser.
I can hear the Skype ringtone clear in my head despite not hearing it in years. But I can’t remember the Microsoft teams one despite hearing it multiple times today.
Is the complete version 5:08 long, while the bad encoding is 4:28/4:29? Deezer and Apple Music have the latter, too.
The infrastructure to help get antibiotics to people is being shut down. This is absolutely an instance of someone tearing down Chesterton’s fence.

If TB poses no risk because antibiotics are widely available would it not follow that reducing their availability would increase the risk TB poses?
I assume this means they've added AI to better tie together the profile you use for work and the one you use for sh*t posting.

Working title: Copilot for Tracking.
great, now let's cure type 2, which gets much less attention
Anecdote about MS and Skype.

Knew a developer who worked there.

Day 1 of aquisition - there were 4 layers of managers between him and Steve Ballmer.

A year later there were 8. Tjis is how much bureaucracy and managers MS added in only one year
Maybe, but somehow it didn't matter very much back then. I remember using private chats mostly as an addition to calls, i.e. when I wanted to send someone a link or a file I was talking about. If I wanted to just send a message to someone regardless of whether they were online, Skype wasn't really an option I considered, it was ICQ, later VKontakte, and now Telegram.

Group chats in Skype though, those were popular. Nothing else had good group chats at the time, but then again, after VK introduced them, everyone I know quickly moved there. I don't know how message delivery worked there, but you could receive messages that were sent while you were offline just fine. Maybe you got them from any one online participant, or maybe the "supernodes" did some sort of store-and-forward thing, or maybe a bit of both.
Gravity storage: pumped hydropower for flatlanders
Global democracy score hits historic low
This is less of a problem for multiplayer games usually because they will already need need to deal with these issues for syncing between clients.
Yeah, I'd say discord taking skype's lunch in the gaming market was something that happened "rapidly" and "in 2016".

EDIT: Oh, this subthread is about slack.

I do think Slack's permissions model is better suited to business use than Discord's.