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eshnil

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    Comment #37607209

    > eventually built in webcams will be cheap and good enough We've been waiting what, 15 years for this to happen?

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    Comment #37308703

    Last year, I started building a similar desktop tool in Flutter: https://github.com/PolyglotNetwork/devtoolbox I wanted to include offline CyberChef within this app in a webview bu…

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    Comment #36785558

    https://OpenLibrary.org is Internet Archive's initiative to solve this once and for all. Plus it lets you borrow e-books.

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    Comment #36539675

    Why not switch to Mojo lang for this? It's Python-compatible with Golang like performance from what I hear.

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    Comment #36350673

    They're transferring the user's assets, the domains, and killing the product (Google Domains).

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    Comment #36281890

    I'm reminded of Sachin Tendulkar being able to recall every single dismissal in his 20+ yrs of cricket career: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRofNOkZg0M No relation with this par…

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    Comment #36104487

    FF is my primary browser too, but with the user base down to 3%, it's not exactly relevant any more.

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    Comment #36101818

    I ran into the same problem while building https://learnawesome.org/ . Forget the broad class of "learning resources", even the "books" category doesn't have a usable unique ID. No…

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    Comment #35883207

    But technology can empower individuals to change the balance of political power. See printing press, cryptography/encryption, social media etc.

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    Comment #35728948

    > Only include reviews which came from users who had at least 10 reviews. Not sure if that's a good idea. It shrinks the set of genuine readers and overweights the set of professio…

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    Comment #35623965

    There's https://github.com/nat/openplayground and https://github.com/ztjhz/BetterChatGPT among others.

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    Comment #35531916

    There's an extension for this: https://github.com/darold/pgtt

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    Comment #35448605

    I built this puppeteer-based agent to do online tasks in browser, described in natural language: https://github.com/aicombinator/bot

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    Show HN: Aicombinator – ChatGPT-based bot to automate tasks in browser & APIs

    This tool uses GPT-3.5-Turbo to generate code that invokes recipes which are either puppeteer-based or use activepieces to invoke API actions for many popular sites and apps. Abili…

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    Comment #35374264

    Snap language by SAP (snap.berkeley.edu) would be a better stepping stone rather than directly going to industrial languages. It's got first-class functions, first-class lists, obj…

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    Comment #35352152

    More like the death of APIs. If bots can handle UI designed for humans, there's no reason to build and deploy APIs.

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    Comment #35344098

    Another great interactive explanation. I wish physics teachers start using geometric product of vectors, instead of the cross product. This allows forces and torques to be combined…

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    Comment #35169744

    I actually implemented it recently in one of my open-source apps. It's 6 lines of Javascript: Create an element, set the data in its href with: element.setAttribute("href","data:te…

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    Comment #35166012

    Saving a file is easily implementable without a Filesystem access API. See https://draw.io/ as an example.

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    Comment #35132827

    They don't need to do extra due diligence. Just buy insurance for the excess amount above the FDIC limit. After all, they do benefit from the upside like cheaper mortgages for exec…

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    Comment #35132782

    Every bank account holder was made to pay insurance premium for those with more than $250K in a couple of banks. And this was done AFTER the risky event the insurance covers has al…

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    Comment #35132762

    "KYB" now means "Know Your Bank". :-D More seriously, you don't need to do extra due diligence. Just buy insurance for your funds above $250K. Or use standard treasury methods like…

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    Comment #34799264

    It would be great to be able to navigate the page to a certain scroll location or a specific state if it's a single page app and THEN take a screenshot. I don't know how you would …