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by assemblylang 5y ago
IIRC the Zen Linux kernel[0] is designed to be more responsive for desktop usage than the mainline Linux kernel. I wonder what metrics these tools would provide on the same exact system except with the 2 different kernels. (also see Liquori
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by assemblylang 5y ago
SerenityOS is a fun project. The aesthetic and feel are very reminiscent of 90s era computing, the build process for getting it running is fairly easy, and there is a surprising number of applications already available for the system includ
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by assemblylang 5y ago
There is also alternative youtube front ends that don't have ads, notably Invidious[0], and work in cases where the browser doesn't have or can't support extensions such as ad blockers. For anyone interested I run my own inst
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Hey thanks, glad you like these projects! Yeah you're right I was only looking at uncompressed size, add in some gzip and actual size through the network is even smaller. Also glad you like humble, it's one of those side projects
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by assemblylang 5y ago
https://paint-xp.com/min.html It's MS Paint from Windows XP, ~700 KB in size in a single HTML file. Source code available here: https://github.com/assemblylanguage/xp-paint
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by assemblylang 5y ago
that's correct, just your basic VPS running nginx
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by assemblylang 5y ago
good points, yes I definitely should have implemented some caching logic, the 500s are due to rate limiting on the HN side I think. Wasn't expecting this much traffic! good lessons for next time and something to consider for future pro
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by assemblylang 5y ago
>I love the aesthetics of that era so much: Efficient usage of screen space, clear borders between different elements - brings back happy memories! the GUI design of this era was really something else, its hard to describe but the UIs fe
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by assemblylang 5y ago
haha yeah that's a good idea, something to add in the future for sure
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by assemblylang 5y ago
back up, but expect some 500 errors
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Working on getting the website back up now, got the so called "HN hug of death" from the traffic
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Show HN: Hacker XP – Hacker News styled as a Windows XP Outlook email client(hackerxp.com)
136 points by assemblylang 5y ago|52 comments
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Was going to mention Cue. Works great in cases where you want to add a touch of structure to your existing yaml configuration, such as types and bounds checking.
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by assemblylang 5y ago
This is a fun idea and useful in some cases where you want to add a bit of extra logic without too much additional syntax.
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Hello Hacker News, I was looking for a tool to save web pages for offline viewing, but couldn't find one with all of the features I wanted so decided to build my own. Should work on any platform that supports node.js.
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Show HN: Humble – Bundle webpages for offline viewing(github.com)
1 points by assemblylang 5y ago|1 comments
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by assemblylang 5y ago
>That's an... interesting optimization, and one that might make sense if you only care about byte size, but intuition (which might be wrong!) tells me that this will be more expensive (especially if it saves only one or two bytes).
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by assemblylang 5y ago
Very nice! Always great to see these new tools, especially if they can speed up build times.