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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by sourcepluck »

sourcepluck wrote: post #187

When are we getting a web engine written in SBCL? :) or how hard would it be, I wonder... One thing about Nyxt that's great is this idea of trying to push towards being renderer-agnostic. I'm not sure how achievable that is in reality, but when you hear the idea you think oh yeah, surely that would make sense if we want to have good things in the world. To all the people saying "I like my mouse! Why are these keyboar…

https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html

That's linked to from the ratpoison page, I enjoyed reading it a few years ago, it hasn't gotten any less funny in the meantime.

Why did I ever leave ratpoison...

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by ThinkBeat »

I have been interested in this project for a while now. That somebody has now added to the documentation:

"Nyxt is a browser with deeply integrated AI"

Made me entirely lose interest.

It sounds like it could be a privay problem

I did however dig deep to figure out what their EULA and whatnotstates. (or the code)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by nextos »

dotancohen wrote: post #29
nextos wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

OP here, running an i5-4250U. A 10-11 year old low-power CPU and a SATA SSD, definitely quite slow by current standards.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by Vegenoid »

hiatus wrote: post #141
ezequiel-garzon wrote: post #138

This is a timely coincidence for me. I started using yesterday Shortcat [1] for the Mac, and I'm very pleased. It gives you access to pretty much everything with the keyboard, not just the browser. To be fair, Nyxt provides other features such as scripting. [1] https://shortcat.app/

I really wish it was open-source. I loved the concept and the app worked in most applications (though not the best with Slack). But I have reservations when it comes to granting full screen access to an app made by some unknown developer.

I feel the same, so I simply block its network access (via LuLu), and it works just fine that way. I wish it was open source so I could hack on it and so development could continue - it's a really cool idea and works pretty well.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by Borg3 »

zeagle wrote: post #156
Borg3 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats interesting. Im using GUI Windows OS, but im very heavy keyboard user, utilizing shortcuts and alt+tab for windows switching. I barely even use start or desktop to start most common apps I use. I wrote myself QuickRun tool that is activated by Win+Q, and I type what I want to run. Usually its just 2-3 first letters of alias name, like bash and autocompletion kicks in. Mouse is used mostly to position windows so…

I'm curious what extras you can do with your tool. I use spotlight style search with Microsoft powertoys with good effect. Admitidly stuff like unit conversion doesn't come up often but very helpful for finding files and apps compared to Windows search.

Absolutly no extras. I used to use SlickRun with is much more heavier tool, but I never ever used those extras. And since I started to using Desktops 2.0, I had to write my own tool that was aware of virtual desktops. Everything else I handle from bash (Cygwin).

You can take a look at it here: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?quickrun

Be aware tho, it looks ugly in Win10 and onward.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by dang »

opan wrote: post #137
dang wrote: post #26

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 power…

It used to be called Next Browser, so older posts might call it that.

Ah thanks! Extending backward:

Next browser 1.3.2: Hooks, file manager and clipboard ring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21023816 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

Next browser 1.3.0: your Lisp daily driver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20613661 - Aug 2019 (3 comments)

Next browser – web browser in Common LISP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064589 - May 2019 (49 comments)

Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18608454 - Dec 2018 (114 comments)

Next browser campaign: last week of fundraising - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18308031 - Oct 2018 (2 comments)

Next Browser Feedback (Lisp) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038967 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)

Next – extensible keyboard-oriented web browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985119 - May 2018 (15 comments)

Show HN: NEXT Browser – A Lisp-based browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108081 - Jan 2018 (3 comments)

nEXT Browser: A nEXT Generation Extensible Lisp Browser – Alpha - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15797548 - Nov 2017 (12 comments)

Show HN: nEXT Browser – A Lisp-based browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418719 - Oct 2017 (44 comments)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by avodonosov »

yapyap wrote: post #160
avodonosov wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somebody should use the extrnsibility to integrate it with blockchain then, to make even more cool. (and more hot)

hahaha, you’re joking right? honestly I can’t tell over text

Joking. But there is some truth in every joke...

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by aterp »

derN3rd wrote: post #27
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

Homerow looks very cool. Is it actively being supported? Looks like it still uses App Center despite that being sunset, plus the change log shows the last update in June 2024, and before that in April 2023
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