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zimmund commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? · Posted by u/ofalkaed

electroglyph · 2 months ago

Google G Suite offered a free option after initially saying it was ending. just logged into my Workspace account: https://ibb.co/99jBLJnD

still have many domains on there, all with gmail

zimmund · 2 months ago

They've been crippling the free tier for a long time. And a few years ago they were about to restrict it completely (they've backed out last moment), to a point where many of us migrated to other platforms and never looked back.

zimmund commented on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 nngroup.com/articles/liqu... · Posted by u/uxjw

randyrand · 2 months ago

And what about online tutorials, marketing, user manuals, customer support? You probably want your app to look consistent with that too, right? Do you really expect or even want to sift through multiple different versions of tutorials and guides?

As long as an app is easy to use, people prefer a single look. No one cares about "looking like the OS", except maybe 0.1% of users.

zimmund · 2 months ago

> As long as an app is easy to use, people prefer a single look

No, people are used to an UI language, which in the case of iOS is quite consistent across applications. You expect certain things to work (e.g. flicking in from the left edge means "go back"). There are platform-specific patterns and I'd rather have the app behave accordingly rather than being consistent with other OS' version. The real 0.1% here are probably the users of your app with active devices in both Android and iOS!

zimmund commented on The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch positiveblue.substack.com... · Posted by u/positiveblue

Voultapher · 4 months ago

> Well, if you have a better way to solve this that’s open I’m all ears.

Regulation.

Make it illegal to request the content of a webpage by crawler if a website operator doesn't explicitly allows it via robots.txt. Institute a government agency that is tasked with enforcement. If you as a website operator can show that traffic came from bots, you can open a complaint with the government agency and they take care of shaking painful fines out of the offending companies. Force cloud hosts to keep books on who was using what IP addresses. Will it be a 100% fix, no, will it have a massive chilling effect if done well, absolutely.

zimmund · 4 months ago

> Institute a government agency that is tasked with enforcement.

You're forgetting about the first W in WWW...

zimmund commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

zimmund · 4 months ago

I hope GitHub keeps autonomy somehow and stays away from the dumpster fire that is Azure.

zimmund commented on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) smallandroidphone.com/... · Posted by u/asimops

theendisney · 5 months ago

That would be a different idea i also like. Something like calls over wifi but use ethernet in stead. No more radiation

zimmund · 5 months ago

so... VoIP?

zimmund commented on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" · Posted by u/bookofjoe

owebmaster · 5 months ago

human-written filtering systems don't brag about having a solution for a problem in 2 minutes and fail.

zimmund · 5 months ago

It got 80% of the problem solved for OP, and the remaining 20% can be fixed by humans afterwards. Prompt early, prompt often (?)

zimmund commented on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV cnn.com/world/live-news/n... · Posted by u/saikatsg

macspoofing · 7 months ago

>to my fellow local USsians.

I think you illustrated why the concept exists. USA actually has "America" in its name, unlike others - hence 'Americans' and not 'USsians'.

zimmund · 7 months ago

Well, in that case could we call them Statians or Unitians?

zimmund commented on Ghost artists on Spotify harpers.org/archive/2025/... · Posted by u/greenie_beans

Animats · a year ago

This business model goes way back, to long before streaming. The Seeburg 1000 [1] was a background music player sold to restaurants and stores. Like Musak, it was a service, but used a local player. New sets of disks were delivered once a month or so. 1000 songs in a set, hence the name.

The music was recorded by Seeburg's own orchestra, using songs either in the public domain or for which they had purchased unlimited rights. Just like the modern "ghost artists". So this business model goes back to the 1950s.

The records had a form of copy protection - nonstandard RPM, nonstandard size, nonstandard hole size, nonstandard groove width. So they didn't file copyrights on all this material. As a result, there are sites on the web streaming old Seeburg 1000 content.

Seeburg made jukeboxes with random access, but the background player was simpler - it just played a big stack of records over and over. It's rather low-fi, because the records were 16 2/3 RPM, which limits frequency response.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Y6OKy4AMc

zimmund · a year ago

And before this: self-playing pianos using perforated rolls, reducing the cost of hiring live pianists in saloons.

zimmund commented on Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch github.com/Bananymous/ban... · Posted by u/Bananymous

Bananymous · a year ago

Yeah I am a student at an university. I have managed to "skip" some courses like operating systems and concurrency just by showing my project to the professor. Otherwise my project is not integrated to my studies in any way. I also got a part time job in my university's embedded side because of my project.

How much time I put to this really depends on what else is happening in my life at the moment. There has been months where I've put total of 5 hours into this and some weeks alone I may reach close to 40 hours.

zimmund · a year ago

Joining these courses may be enriching for everyone though. You may learn something new or a different approach to a problem you've solved. Other students will appreciate your actual experience with the subject. And the professor may learn a thing or two (and appreciate your contributions) if you can add to the subject. That said, I'm not good managing my time and I don't have the guts to code an OS from scratch, so what do I know?

zimmund commented on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS? rentry.co/GPT2... · Posted by u/atemerev

peheje · 2 years ago

Opening this page caused my RAM usage of Chrome to skyrocket. Amount of processes doubled.

When looking at Chrome task manager (Windows shortcut Shift+Esc) list, sub-frames popped up I didn't recognize such as:

https://adnxs.com/https://adsrvr.org/https://btloader.com/https://doubleclick.net/https://gumgum.com/https://openx.net/https://smartadserver.com/

And many more. Each taking up RAM.

In incognito mode / without extensions.

Can anyone enlighten me, what's happening?

zimmund · 2 years ago

The site seems to use gradio (which from what I've experienced in the past is quite slow).

All those domains can be avoided just using an ad blocker, I suggest ublock origin.