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Re: Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

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Post by abeyer »

hardwarepirate wrote: post #291

https://www.kite.com for python i first learned about it when i was working in an university group and had the task to transform a windowing algorithm already working on matlab to python. it felt like a modern linter and lsp with additional support through machine learning. i don't quite know why it got comparative small recognition, but perhaps enough to remain an avantgarde pioneering both python and machine learni…

Perhaps because their repeated bad behavior as a company outweighed anything good they put out.

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Post by znpy »

v3ss0n wrote: post #132
evbogue wrote: post #34

Secure-Scuttlebot (the gossiped social network) died circa 2019 or 2024 depending who we ask. It died before it's time for various reasons including: 1. competing visions for how the entire system should work 2. dependence on early/experimental npm libraries 3. devs breaking existing features due to "innovation" 4. a lot of interpersonal drama because it was not just open source but also a social network the ideas ar…

So much drama there too, but it's designed to attract drmas

Drama has killed the technological progress in open source, if you ask me.

Having seen what goes on in the foss world and what goes on in the large faang-size corporate world, no wonder the corporate world is light-years ahead.

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Post by gmac »

kesor wrote: post #306

Geocities ; It was a "put your html here" Free web hosting back when people barely knew what html was. Today you have to be a rocket scientist to find a way to host a free static "simple" page online.

… or just use Cloudflare Pages and upload a folder or zip of your static site via a web UI?

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Post by archargelod »

Animats wrote: post #230

- Photon, the graphical interface for QNX. Oriented more towards real time (widgets included gauges) but good enough to support two different web browsers. No delays. This was a real time operating system. - MacOS 8. Not the Linux thing, but Copeland. This was a modernized version of the original MacOS, continuing the tradition of no command line. Not having a command line forces everyone to get their act together ab…

> Modula. Modula 2 and 3 were reasonably good languages. Oberon was a flop. DEC was into Modula, but Modula went down with DEC.

If you appreciate Modula's design, take a look at Nim[1].

I remember reading the Wikipedia page for Modula-3[2] and thinking "huh, that's just like Nim" in every other section.

[1] https://nim-lang.org

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

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Post by la_fayette »

coreyhn wrote: post #74

Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.

I can recommend Apache Camel (https://camel.apache.org) for similar data integration pipelines and even agentic workflows. There are even visual editors for Camel today, which IMHO make it extremely user friendly to build any kind of pipeline quickly.

Apache Karavan: https://karavan.space/ Kaoto (Red Hat): https://kaoto.io

Both are end 2 end usable within vscode.

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Post by piskov »

drnick1 wrote: post #122
piskov wrote: post #117

Microsoft Silverlight. Full C# instead of god forbidden js. Full vector dpi aware UI, with grid, complex animation, and all other stuff that html5/css didn’t have in 2018 but silverlight had even in 2010 (probable even earlier). MVVM pattern, two-way bindings. Expression Blend (basically figma) that allowed designers create UI that was XAML, had sample data, and could be used be devs as is with maybe some cleanup. Ex…

I am happy this one died. It was just another attempt by Microsoft to sidestep open web standards in favor of a proprietary platform. The other notorious example is Flash, and both should be considered malware.

What web standards? :-)

Stuff like angularjs was basically created for the same reason flash/silverlight went down — iphone

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Post by Havoc »

dlcarrier wrote: post #249
Gud wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1+ for 3dxpoint. The technology took decades to mature, but the business people didn’t have the patience to let the world catch up to this revolutionary technology.

The world had already caught up. By the time it was released, flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency, to the point that the difference want with the cost.

>flash memory was already nearing it's speed and latency

Kinda, but for small writes it's still nowhere near.

Samsung 990 Pro - IOPS 4KQD1 113 MBytes/Sec

P4800X optane - IOPS 4KQD1 206 MBytes/Sec

And that's a device 5 years newer and on a faster pcie generation.

It disappeared because the market that values above attribute is too small and its hard to market because at first glance they look about the same on a lot of metrics as you say

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Post by fodkodrasz »

Froedlich wrote: post #60
kurtis_reed wrote: post #48

Windows Phone

Windows Phone's UI is still with us, from Windows 8 onwards. Everything on 8, 10, and 11 is optimized for a touch interface on a small screen, which is ridiculous on a modern desktop with a 32" or so monitor and a trackball or mouse.

False. The Metro design was abandoned long ago. No live tiles, no typography-first minimal UIs in windows 10/11. I pin an email app to taskbar/start, I don't see the unread count.

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

hyperific wrote: post #195

RAM Disks. Basically extremely fast storage using RAM sticks slotted into a specially made board that fit in a PCIe slot. Not sure what happened to the project exactly but the website disappeared sometime in 2023. The idea that you could read and write data at RAM speeds was really exciting to me. At work it's very common to see microscope image sets anywhere from 20 to 200 GB and file transfer rates can be a big bot…

Not really needed anymore on Linux with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zram

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zram

for most purposes. (Assuming the host has enough RAM to spare, to begin with)

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