Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by reeddavid » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:03 AM UTC

kimonolabs – cloud-hosted web scraping, configured in a browser-based UI. It would let you make a GET request to your scraper, which would live-scrape the web and return structured data. They were acquired by Palantir, and kimonolabs shut down. http://www.kimonolabs.com/

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by ssaunier_ » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:03 AM UTC

andrewxhill wrote: post #96

tptacek wrote: post #76

Small iPhones.

Held on to my last SE until the cracks were too many and I had to put pressure on the cable to get it charging...

Did you try using a safety pin to remove dust from the USB port? Works everytime with a bunch of friends who had an SE but could not charge it properly.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by seltzered_ » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:04 AM UTC

krackers wrote: post #18

Palm/HP WebOS

I really miss the multi-tasking dynamic where you could have 'stacks' of documents within one app (e.g. browser tabs).

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by mikey_p » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:06 AM UTC

Eudora circa '96 or so. I loved that it had personality. If you started typing without any window open it would beep for the first several keystrokes and then a dialog would pop up after a bit that said something like "You can continue typing but no one is listening right now."

In later versions it was changed to some terse message like "No window open to receive input" and it popped up once for every keystroke, instead of waiting til the 5 keystroke or so.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by __warlord__ » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:07 AM UTC

firdaus wrote: post #53

- glitch (the game) - Ubuntu Linux with Unity - Posterous - Ducksboard

I'll miss unity too, allowing you to scale the resolution per monitor is something that gnome can't just do :(

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by bsagdiyev » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:08 AM UTC

samstave wrote: post #176

aerovistae wrote: post #83

Ensemble Studios, makers of Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2, and Age of Mythology, some of the best RTSs ever made. There are other great RTSs, but they're all great in different ways from the Age series, which nothing else resembles. Microsoft bought them, and shut them down not long after for insufficient profits. Sigh. Age of Empires IV is being made now since they noticed there's demand, but the studio they chos…

In a similar vein, i wish a remake of Knights and Merchants were available and good.

Maybe not exactly what you were looking for but: http://www.kamremake.com

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by seltzered_ » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:09 AM UTC

Lathie wrote: post #21

I really wanted a Pebble Time 2 ):

I still use a Pebble SE almost two years in. The original pebble was painful to wear due to it's bulkiness, but the SE was getting into the right dimensions and weight - paired with a light woven watchband I'm comfortable wearing it during day and sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by daledavies » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:09 AM UTC

Commodore Amiga

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by abhiminator » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:09 AM UTC

Safari browser for Windows.

I miss the option of having a well made browser from a trusted source as an alternative to IE, Firefox, and Chrome (which was then still a relatively new entrant into the browser market).

Apple stopped supporting Safari for Windows OS from v6.0 onward, back in 2012. [0]

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2012/07/28/safari-for-windows-discont...

Re: Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

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Post by __warlord__ » Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 5:10 AM UTC

fphhotchips wrote: post #6

Google Reader. Now I have a mix of HN, Reddit and GMail, and none of them work really how I like.

Honestly, ever since Reader was killed I have way more free time on my hands. Maybe it was my poor time management but it was a time hole for me, I'm actually glad that, at the time, nothing as good was around to make me stick on the endless RSS feeds I was subscribed.