Hacker news unofficial desktop app
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Hacker news unofficial desktop app
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Re: Hacker news unofficial desktop app
#2Note: This "desktop app" is a web app built on Electron, which is a JS library that runs chrome for you. So this app will clock in at roughly 200+ mb ram, in addition to what your system is already running.
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#3What is the benefit of this over using a browser?
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#4What is the benefit of this over using a browser?
None I guess. Unless the author adds features though. But then again. What features.
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#5What is the benefit of this over using a browser?
None, given that it essentially runs in a browser anyway (Electron). I suppose it's very useful if you have ~200MB of RAM and ~80MB disk space that you really want to get rid of.
I hate Electron. :-|
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#6What is the benefit of this over using a browser?
A browser is like a buggy mini-operating system that hogs resources, tries to replace native applications like PDF readers, word processors, and email clients, and uses JavaScript as its system language. Client applications circumvent the hell of modern web browsers. The benefit is not needing to use a web browser.
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#7What is the benefit of this over using a browser?
None, given that it essentially runs in a browser anyway (Electron). I suppose it's very useful if you have ~200MB of RAM and ~80MB disk space that you really want to get rid of. I hate Electron. :-|
None, given that it essentially runs in a browser anyway (Electron).
Oh, there goes that dream.
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#8If you select "Add to desktop..." under "More tools" in Chrome and check the "Open as window" option it will look the same as this :)
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#9What is the benefit of this over using a browser?
A browser is like a buggy mini-operating system that hogs resources, tries to replace native applications like PDF readers, word processors, and email clients, and uses JavaScript as its system language. Client applications circumvent the hell of modern web browsers. The benefit is not needing to use a web browser.
Wish there was some kind of a "Electron kitchen" where you could easily make your own app stating which website you want to use in this isolated way, without having to learn about Electron.