Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser • Hacker News Board

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by jpk » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 6:42 AM UTC

MrVandemar wrote: post #13

jpk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the spirit of promoting curious conversation, I'll ask: Can you identify the specific feature(s) you don't like?

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I'm well aware your take is a visceral reaction to the marketing copy in the FAQ (which to be honest, I can't blame you), but that's why I asked the question you didn't answer. :)

I'd just encourage anyone with a knee jerk feeling like this to actually take a peek at what the buzz word actually alludes to. Your heuristic may have a false positive.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by dang » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 6:44 AM UTC

MrVandemar wrote: post #2

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Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN.

You may not owe "deep AI integration" better, but the effect of comments like the one you posted here is toxic on the community regardless of how right you are. For the sake of having a decent community, we ask people not to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by patrickkidger » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 6:48 AM UTC

So why this over qutebrowser [1] ? (Which has been my go-to keyboard-first browser for a long time.) This isn't mentioned in the FAQ despite I think being the natural comparison.

[1] https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by shikck200 » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 6:51 AM UTC

brabel wrote: post #15

phplovesong wrote: post #9

Is this standalone or an emacs plugin? I rather use vim motions, so is this locked to emacs, or can i do vim style for things instead?

The only connection between this and emacs is that both use a Lisp language (Nyxt is written in Common Lisp)... and that Nyxt is inspired by how emacs works. Anyway, why did you assume it is an emacs plugin? It doesn't say that anywhere.

My first impression was the same. Mostly from the screenshots, each one had multiple places with an "emacs" text element. If this is not bound to emacs, what the hell is the emacs thing doing there?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by nelsonfigueroa » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 6:53 AM UTC

The tree based history feature is amazing

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by dang » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 6:55 AM UTC

Related. Others?

Nyxt – The Hacker's Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39183823 - Jan 2024 (2 comments)

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36006423 - May 2023 (252 comments)

Nyxt 3.0.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35869378 - May 2023 (30 comments)

Why Lisp? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852321 - May 2023 (327 comments)

Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097424 - July 2022 (66 comments)

Lisp in Production: an interview with the guys behind Nyxt Browser [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30271989 - Feb 2022 (15 comments)

Nyxt browser annotations beat pen and paper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30184792 - Feb 2022 (46 comments)

“Why should I use Nyxt if I can use Vimium?” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28632422 - Sept 2021 (10 comments)

Nyxt 2.2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28623720 - Sept 2021 (35 comments)

Nyxt – The Internet on Your Terms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28037300 - Aug 2021 (1 comment)

Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27219646 - May 2021 (121 comments)

Nyxt Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26509612 - March 2021 (125 comments)

Nyxt browser: mouseless copy/paste - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956152 - Jan 2021 (56 comments)

Dashboard for Nyxt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151976 - Nov 2020 (2 comments)

Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 Pre-release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353927 - Sept 2020 (11 comments)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by derN3rd » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 7:12 AM UTC

hassannawaz wrote: post #12

Anyone interested can also check out the Vimium browser extension.

There is also Homerow (homerow.app) for MacOS that does this on a system level

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by wongogue » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 7:15 AM UTC

ramenbytes wrote: post #20

The one thing holding me back from this is not being able to run UBlock origin on it yet. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll have the spare time to change that myself....

It already has an adblocker. Check the FAQ.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by dotancohen » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 7:16 AM UTC

nextos wrote: post #14

Curiositry wrote: post #5

A few years ago I doggedly tried to switch to Nyxt for everyday use. I really liked the concept, but at the time, it was too buggy, and constantly crashed on me. I'm going give it another shot.

Nyxt is very promising, and I hope it gains momentum. The obvious advantage of Nyxt is programmability and keyboard-driven workflows. However, I use old hardware, and it's a bit slow and laggy. Chromium behaves the same way, so I imagine this is due to WebKit and Blink being significantly heavier than Gecko. Firefox is really snappy on old hardware, at least when running Linux, and uses a modest amount of memory.

What's considered old nowadays? My current desktop had some ~3Ghz AMD processor from ~2020, I don't even remember what it is. Maybe 16 GiB of memory. Runs Firefox and Jetbrains good enough that I've not had to consider upgrading. I use a Debian based distro.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P » Sun, Dec 08, 2024, 7:23 AM UTC

> Instantly switch between your tabs [...] Easily find relevant tabs with a fuzzy search

I personally use virtual desktops for organizing windows of tabs, but if I was one of the masochists who had 100+ open tabs, I would be moving to this immediately