Hacker News: vymague

New comment by vymague in "Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)"

vymague — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:24:47 +0000

> I'm well aware you might think I'm proving your point with this response.

You are correct. Your comment was mean. Not even sure why you responded aggressively.

Hostile is perfectly correct word to describe some online communities. Do you think the word "hostile" only applies when you meet people physically?

New comment by vymague in "Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)"

vymague — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:29:20 +0000

It's complaining for the sake of complaining. Sometimes you need to test the water first. Some online communities are rather hostile after all. As shown by this silly website.

New comment by vymague in "SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file"

vymague — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 15:38:17 +0000

Thank you for the extension. It works well enough for my bookmarks. Just open the bookmarks on my browser and use the "Save all tabs" feature.

I think I'm not the only one who wants an alternative to pocket. A bookmark manager that can archive the links to prevent linkrot.

New comment by vymague in "SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file"

vymague — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:43:47 +0000

Thank you. I'll give multiple profiles a try. As mentioned by some of the comments. It's a good tool for managing bookmarks. ArchiveBox supposedly does something similar but I couldn't make it work.

New comment by vymague in "Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?"

vymague — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:48:55 +0000

I thought you'd say Infiniminer by Zachtronics.

New comment by vymague in "SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file"

vymague — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:36:37 +0000

How to toggle reader mode/readability? It doesn't seem to be able to save pages when I toggled chromium's reader mode on.

I followed the other advice on this thread. In the options:

- Annotation editor > default mode > format the page

- Annotation editor > annotate the page before saving

It automatically format the page into reader mode then I can click "Save the page" icon to save it. But sometimes I want to download the page as is. Like this thread for example. "Restore all removed elements" button doesn't seem to work to revert the changes.

For now I just set default as mode as normal and enable "annotate the page before saving", and then click "Format the page for better readability" when needed.

New comment by vymague in "Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines"

vymague — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:18:27 +0000

Looks really similar to https://sumi.news/.

I wonder why these aggregators don't do a weekly version. I don't want to read the news every day.

New comment by vymague in "Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date"

vymague — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:26:39 +0000

More for read it later services like pocket, but I like https://medium.com/life-hacks/fighting-information-overload-...

Basically delete everything every week.

New comment by vymague in "Show HN: Keep your bookmarks clean and up-to-date"

vymague — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:00:09 +0000

> 2. Shiori: Save bookmarks, archive them or use it like pocket.

Thanks for the rec. I've been looking for a pocket alternative. Just a simple bookmark manager that can archive articles. Ideally a desktop app and work offline too. None of that self-hosting stuffs.

I will give Shiori a try.

edit: Never mind. This is not what I'm looking for.

New comment by vymague in "Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please?"

vymague — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:21:59 +0000

> Twitter won't let you see the content without logging in anymore.

I don't know why people don't make a bigger deal out of it. I guess everyone has twitter now.

New comment by vymague in "I have no capslock and I must scream"

vymague — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 23:34:48 +0000

It reminds me every time I asked why a website does a weird thing, the answer was always be "we have done A/B testing".

New comment by vymague in "Ask HN: Quit caffeine? Before and after anecdotes"

vymague — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:18:13 +0000

I didn't quit caffeine. I still drink tea. But I mostly stopped drinking coffee a while back.

A few weeks ago, I tried drinking a cup because I needed to be alert/less sleepy, and I felt like shit. Not sure why, headache, some anxiety, and nausea.

New comment by vymague in "Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?"

vymague — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:08:22 +0000

Google told me Wunderlist had natural language support. Microsoft To Do doesn't.

New comment by vymague in "Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?"

vymague — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 22:07:30 +0000

I just checked it. Kinda surprised that Microsoft To Do doesn't have natural language support like Wunderlist.

New comment by vymague in "Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux"

vymague — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 05:27:09 +0000

Just some misleading chart. "Misleading" is probably too mild.

New comment by vymague in "Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?"

vymague — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 22:08:04 +0000

I guess the Wunderlist team is more competent than their Teams one.

New comment by vymague in "The Elements of Cache Programming Style (2000)"

vymague — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:23:41 +0000

I don't know who started the trend. I personally first heard about the term from Mike Acton's CppCon 2004 talk.

But as pointed out by another comment, I don't think it's that mainstream. Outside HPC and game development. At least that's what came up when you google the relevant terms like cache, locality, etc.

New comment by vymague in "Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats"

vymague — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:12:19 +0000

Any good database for creative commons/free textbooks or technical books?

New comment by vymague in "Building an iPod for 2022"

vymague — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:46:25 +0000

There is regularly-updated comparison chart of modern mp3 players/digital audio players (DAP). https://azalush5.hatenablog.com/entry/2022/01/dap-comparison...

I personally find them too expensive and bulky. With not so great software.

New comment by vymague in "Pocket migration to Firefox accounts"

vymague — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 21:15:36 +0000

Same. I miss pocket's chrome app. Worked great when offline too.

I don't really care about web service. Any desktop tool that can capture websites like pocket? As in download the stripped-down article. They call it "reader view" sometimes.

There's some extensions/scripts like Markdownload that uses Mozilla's Readibility.js to download stripped-down articles. But it's a bit manual for my taste.