Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by pizza » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 1:32 AM UTC

srcreigh wrote: post #87

pizza wrote: post #52

first-class citizen vim splits in the browser. so annoying to have to scroll between the top part of a webpage and the bottom part of a webpage to mentally memcpy info into a form in the year of our lord 2022. i think my ideal browser would have a ui like tmux actually if we could go back to using web technologies to build browsers (reminiscent of xul) maybe we should try to build browsers using wasm - then everyone…

Any reason to do this instead of multiple windows in a tiling WM?

It should be faster to repaint the view in the browser as well as extensible/configurable and hotkeyable, and plus if it’s browser native then it could proportionally adjust the splits when the os wm resizes it as well

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by noobtiger » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 2:06 AM UTC

I developed a chrome extension for my personal use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-developer-comm...

Its really barebones right now, but planning to add more tools and polish it up a little bit.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by mellosouls » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:18 AM UTC

tomaskafka wrote: post #66

Search song by misunderstood lyrics. This is a blind spot of the native english speakers, but I need such thing often, usually trying to find one of the songs I heard some years ago.

Some examples here courtesy of Peter Kay:

https://youtu.be/7my5baoCVv8

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by adictator » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:24 AM UTC

maximp wrote: post #39

adictator wrote: post #7

I use mint.com to consolidate all my financial details. But it is so buggy. Every time I access it seems to generate all stats from scratch, which means that it has no idea about accounts I have closed, renamed, moved etc.

I think there are at least half a dozen Mint competitors whose primary selling point is "better UX than Mint".

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Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by greggman3 » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:31 AM UTC

hobr wrote: post #2

I find myself using Rubular ( https://rubular.com/ ) quite often for experimenting with regular expressions.

I prefer this one though no Ruby (but maybe Ruby is the same as one of their supported langs?)

https://regex101.com

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by dmitrygr » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:32 AM UTC

I would love a good web search engine. I’d pay for one. Something like Google circa 2010

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by pizza » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 5:15 AM UTC

knoebber wrote: post #98

pizza wrote: post #52

first-class citizen vim splits in the browser. so annoying to have to scroll between the top part of a webpage and the bottom part of a webpage to mentally memcpy info into a form in the year of our lord 2022. i think my ideal browser would have a ui like tmux actually if we could go back to using web technologies to build browsers (reminiscent of xul) maybe we should try to build browsers using wasm - then everyone…

Have you tried qutebrowser?

hmm no I haven't. looks kinda neat

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by prinzipiell » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 5:30 AM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #86

great question I can think of a few like that! - (an improvement) wormhole.app is nearly absolutely perfect but has trouble with very large files such as several gigabytes. Since it gives the link immediately I set a file to upload but it got stuck on the encryption stage, I only noticed when I checked it many hours later but I didn't get any indication it was stuck as opposed to just being slow. It probably uses an…

mightyapp.com

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by lugoues » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 7:20 AM UTC

hobr wrote: post #2

I find myself using Rubular ( https://rubular.com/ ) quite often for experimenting with regular expressions.

Regext is one that I find quite helpful at times as well.

https://regexr.com/

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by mariusor » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 8:20 AM UTC

Qem wrote: post #13

Bayesian filtering for news sites. Say I follow a news site, but I'm not interested in all published articles. Only in some topics not covered by existing categories, or hard to specify by keyword search. It would be helpful to have a filter, analogous to a spam filter, that I would train presenting examples of what I like or not, and it would eventually learn what interests me, saving me the effort of sifting throug…

The newsblur RSS aggregator service uses something like this. I don't think it has the full weight of a neural network to do the job, but it's pretty effective.