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Dia – An Early Review

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Re: Dia – An Early Review

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Post by juliendorra »

Spartan-S63 wrote: post #2

With Chrome deprecating Manifest V3 and removing it, I'm still perplexed why BCNY chooses Blink/Chromium as their base for both Arc and Dia. Since they were Mac-first, it would make more sense to choose Webkit and it would play nicer with battery life. Additionally, a Webkit-based browser on Windows would be a breath of fresh air for the virtual-monopoly that is Chromium/Blink.

My guess is that it’s easier to build with (WebKit is old, after all) and maybe Apple’s pace on certain features is perceived as slow? A new WebKit browser on Windows might also seem risky for a startup, they probably want a known and safe build path.

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Post by guappa »

ipsum2 wrote: post #3

Thought this was Dia, an awesome open source conversational TTS model (similar to NotebookLM) that came out less than a month ago: https://github.com/nari-labs/dia . I have no affiliation with them, but an early review: it sounds really good and its Apache 2.0 licensed.

I thought it was about dia… you know… the thing I used to make diagrams in all my papers.

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Post by mdrzn »

Seems an interesting take on a browser. I personally don't like Arc and haven't tried it yet (but have seen a few colleagues try it), but I'd love to give Dia a spin if anyone has an invite.

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Post by aspenmayer »

jatins wrote: post #5

> BCNY gives up on building Dia and instead figures out how to continue with Arc They have already given up on Arc, haven't they? I believe Arc isn't under active development anymore. Always seemed weird to me that they decided to abandon existing browser to create a ... browser? Maybe there were some technical issues with Arc that they couldn't build on or maybe just marketing play

> Always seemed weird to me that they decided to abandon existing browser to create a ... browser? Maybe there were some technical issues with Arc that they couldn't build on or maybe just marketing play

This might be relevant.

Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597250 - September 2024 (513 comments)

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Post by aspenmayer »

gnabgib wrote: post #7

Related The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser (30 points, 6 months ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942007

Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41597250 - September 2024 (1469 points, 513 comments)

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Post by dbbk »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #17
joak wrote: post #16

I really enjoy ARC, too bad they are not working on it anymore. They should put the sources online to let others continue with the initiative.

You can just use the zen browser. Arc is dead because of manifest v3 anyway.

Normal people don't care about Manifest v3
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