Hacker News: Kikobeats

New comment by Kikobeats in "WebGL Without a GPU"

Kikobeats — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:06:20 +0000

Our service is offered starting for free; the CPU server is much cheaper, and I wanted to see if it could be sufficient for most basic WebGL animations.

The GPU tier makes sense for paid users; that will be the next blog post!

WebGL Without a GPU

Kikobeats — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:01:15 +0000

Article URL: https://microlink.io/blog/webgl-without-a-gpu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720179

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

is-antibot: Detect bot protection challenges from +25 providers

Kikobeats — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:55:39 +0000

Article URL: https://antibot.microlink.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679749

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kikobeats in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)"

Kikobeats — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:47:47 +0000

I recently bought a Lotus Elise and have set up a small website to collect most of the things new owners need to know about the car - https://lotus-center.vercel.app/

New comment by Kikobeats in "Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?"

Kikobeats — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:49:40 +0000

You can use Microlink to turn PDF into HTML, and combine it with other service for processing the text data.

Here an example turning a arxiv paper into real text:

https://api.microlink.io/?data.html.selector=html&embed=html...

It looks like PDF, but it you open devtools you can see it's actually a very precise HTML representation.

New comment by Kikobeats in "Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown"

Kikobeats — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 22:40:11 +0000

For getting the HTML, you can use microlink, just passing the URL to https://html.microlink.io/{url}, like https://html.microlink.io/https://example.com

Microlink for Logo – Adding logos to any website

Kikobeats — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:34:10 +0000

Article URL: https://logo.microlink.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39560805

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kikobeats in "Show HN: IP Guide – Info on IP addresses, Networks, and ASNs"

Kikobeats — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:39:52 +0000

https://geolocation.microlink.io/

Keyv: Simple key-value storage with support for multi-back end support

Kikobeats — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 10:31:26 +0000

Article URL: https://keyvhq.js.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675036

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kikobeats in "Show HN: Use Slack Emoji on GitHub"

Kikobeats — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:29:56 +0000

It works like a charm, just :wow:

Tesla motors explained

Kikobeats — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:02:13 +0000

Article URL: https://kikobeats.com/tesla-motors-explained/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694691

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Unavatar.io – Get unified user avatar

Kikobeats — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 22:11:04 +0000

Article URL: https://unavatar.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27861808

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Browserless v9 – browser driver on top of puppeteer

Kikobeats — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:36:32 +0000

Article URL: https://browserless.js.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27615530

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by Kikobeats in "My Experience at Apple"

Kikobeats — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:23:07 +0000

"The author deleted this Medium story"

any mirror for reading the original content?

Show HN: Browserless, the headless Chrome driver for Node.js

Kikobeats — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 21:41:16 +0000

Article URL: https://browserless.js.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23753123

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Not all adblockers are born equal

Kikobeats — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:47:25 +0000

Article URL: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-20/not-all-adblockers-are-born-equal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21845913

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by Kikobeats in "Show HN: Microlink screenshot – Turn websites into snapshots"

Kikobeats — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:26:51 +0000

That's a thing I've working for a while after evaluating some similar services out there that don't fit all the things I needed.

Q: Yet another Screenshot as a service?

Yes! but you will find this one is completely different.

Q: Why is this different?

What makes it stand out from the rest is the server-side solution: the screenshot image will be served from a CDN, being available globally and you won’t have to worry about downloading or storing it.

Q: Why is this better?

This allows the service to provide some extra things there, like automagically refreshing the screenshot after a time: this means the screenshot always reflects the content behind the target URL .

Q: Will the screenshot be fancy?

So fancy.

Microlink screenshots support browser overlay (light and dark theme) and custom background color or gradient .

Q: How configurable is it?

You can hide, click, wait or scroll to elements. Also, you can emulate a list of 71 devices. The screenshot can be full page and the output can be PNG or JPEG.

Q: Can you block trackers, popups, etc?

Sure, this is done by default.

Q: Cookie banners as well?

Yes, specially cookie banners .

Q: Sounds good, but what about pricing?

It starts at $0. The API has a daily rate limit; If you reach it and you need more, you can jump to a pro plan, they are intentionally cheap.

Q: How can I be sure all this is true?

We did a comparison table of similar services and what kind of features they offer: http://bit.ly/saasforscreenshot

Product Hunt thread: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/microlink-screenshot