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Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare(ichi.do)
122 points by anthonyhn 4y ago|71 comments
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>I don't remember which software it was but one of them would show, in the footer, a count of MySQL queries run. It might have been Simple Machine Forum (SMF). The footer has the number of queries and number of seconds it took to ge
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>The python folks thought so little of CGI that they ripped it out of the standard library. IIRC, the issue was that they didn't have a maintainer for the cgi library anymore, and that is why they removed it.
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>Seems like Firefox would be better but more work(?). If you keep copy of your firefox profiles folder, its not too much work to maintain. Most of the work is an upfront cost of setting up the initial profile. There is also Librewolf, a
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
Search engines. In recent years its become increasingly difficult to navigate the popular search engines. Results have become too general, too much SEO spam, not enough tools for filtering results, a lot of page bloat. I'm currently wo
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>Palm didn't have a fully-featured browser but pre-rendered pages server-side iirc opera mini browser did something similar. The browser would tunnel all requests through their server and render and optimize the page before sending
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
I have an old Nokia N900 phone that runs a custom alpine linux-based rom (postmarketOS). Given the limited hardware resources, small screen size, and sliding keyboard, you'll be mostly running terminal applications on this phone (some
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
The colors are just for style and a bit of usability. The color is determined by the first letter of the domain, for example here is the CSS for domains starting with 'w': .comhead>a[href^="from?site=w"] { col
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
Nice blog! Do you have a link to that XFCE mac os theme in the screenshot? Would love to try it out
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Hacker News stylized as a retro 90s macOS desktop(hackertosh.org)
282 points by anthonyhn 4y ago|52 comments
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
I'm trying to improve my search results by building my own Search Engine. Over the past couple of years, the popular search engines haven't given me great results, and I've had to use a series of different engines, search ope
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
I have a Nokia N900 running PostmarketOS [0]. The Nokia N900 is a great device, it has a sliding keyboard, touch screen, pen stylus, removable battery and micro sd card. PostmarketOS is an Alpine Linux-based OS using i3 as the window manage
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
Nice, always refreshing to see these small web pages projects. Shameless plug, but I had recently started a search engine [0] with the goal of generating search result pages that are only a few KB in size, backward compatible (HTML 4), and
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>I was able to use the non-pro pinephone as a daily driver for a bit, and it worked, but not well which distro were you running on the pinephone? If you haven't tried out PureOS yet, I'd recommend giving it a shot. The Phosh UI
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>I think third place these days is Tizen which is in a worse place than the two big ones for apps, iirc third place is KaiOS, a proprietary fork of the discontinued FirefoxOS [0]. It's primarily used on feature phones though. As for
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
There is also LuneOS [0], its sort of a successor that is built using a combination of Open webOS components and android components, and uses a web rendering engine (Qt WebEngine) for UI and app development. It's available on a few dev
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Show HN: Simple Search – a simple, minimal, usable search engine(simplesearch.org)
2 points by anthonyhn 4y ago|0 comments
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>Nokia had Linux on their smartphone until Microsoft bought them and stopped everything, they even shut down the app store. The OS was called MeeGo. There is a fork called Maemo Leste [0][1] that is actually still around and updated. I h
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
fixed, thanks
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Show HN: Hackertosh.css – Make Hacker News look like macOS 8(github.com)
3 points by anthonyhn 4y ago|2 comments
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
Netscape's news portal page [0]. Loads fast, basic HTML, and uses official Netscape branding! [0] https://isp.netscape.com/news/
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
Jekyll [1] for static site generation. It's not really a library, more of a framework, but works very well for static sites and has a large ecosystem of plugins. [1] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
Most of my notes are in the form of bulleted lists that either: 1) Describe some task that needs to be completed. 2) Describe a set of steps needed to complete some task. 3) Summarize a topic at a higher level. If I need to write something
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by anthonyhn 4y ago
>what makes you stick to Outlook? Not that poster, but in my experience there are often plugins that make it difficult to switch from Outlook to other clients. In many cases you can find a replacement plugin, but it takes time and resour