Using canary URLs in these and other sites may be interesting too.
beart 2 hours ago [-]
I love regex101.com, so really happy to see it breaks the mold here.
speedyapoc 2 hours ago [-]
Comment is a bit of an aside, but it's a shame what happened to JSONFormatter.org. The UI was preferable to alternatives for me, it ranked highly in Google so I could just search "JSON formatter" and access it, etc.
Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.
bmenrigh 3 hours ago [-]
Can we stop it with "and the results are terrifying", "and you won't believe what I found", "the <x> situation is insane", etc.? The over-hyping of low quality, low effort content is making it hard to find actually interesting or informative things.
SunshineTheCat 2 hours ago [-]
Yea I was thinking the same thing.
When you reach for the most exaggerated, over-the-top word possible when describing something relatively mundane, what will you use when you talk about something that actually is "terrifying?"
thfuran 2 hours ago [-]
“The most terrifying thing you’ve ever heard”. You can even stick with that one as long as your subjects are monotonically scary.
cheschire 2 hours ago [-]
Find a better and more accessible solution than clickbait.
Please, do it.
arcfour 2 hours ago [-]
"Privacy concerns found in audit of popular dev tools" (or something along those lines) would work without feeling sensationalized.
cheschire 46 minutes ago [-]
Yes this one time. I’m speaking generally in response to the general plea.
bmenrigh 2 hours ago [-]
"better", "more accessible"? What the hell are you talking about? Clickbait doesn't make anything better or more accessible.
Instead, it makes it impossible to pre-select for interesting information. Instead of telling you what something is about, it tells you how you should feel about it. That's not improving accessibility.
cheschire 46 minutes ago [-]
I meant from the author’s perspective. Clickbait is too easy, which is probably why it’s so popular.
bmenrigh 31 minutes ago [-]
Oh completely. But my perspective is that we all should individually punish clickbait by not clicking. More broadly, we should strive to keep HN full of quality tech content rather than clickbait.
dbacar 2 hours ago [-]
Glad that I am using Firefox with:
- uBlock Origin
- cookieAutodelete
- privacy badger
Any additions to my arsenal welcome!
ozlikethewizard 1 hours ago [-]
Ironfox/Librewolf with just uBlock. The more extensions you have the way easier you are to fingerprint.
iberator 3 hours ago [-]
That's why real programmers are those who can work offline without the Internet. (just the repositories)
:)
local first.
deafpolygon 2 hours ago [-]
what dev uses public websites to do any kind of work?
ramoz 3 hours ago [-]
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OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago [-]
Decent article. Painful to read the LLM output.
Rendered at 23:03:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
And test only online websites (」°ロ°)」
Now the site freezes 50% of the time when loading it on my Mac and when it doesn't freeze, there's a 5 second period of waiting before I can paste any input. Not to mention ads taking up 40% of the screen. The classic tech cycle of life.
When you reach for the most exaggerated, over-the-top word possible when describing something relatively mundane, what will you use when you talk about something that actually is "terrifying?"
Please, do it.
Instead, it makes it impossible to pre-select for interesting information. Instead of telling you what something is about, it tells you how you should feel about it. That's not improving accessibility.
- uBlock Origin
- cookieAutodelete
- privacy badger
Any additions to my arsenal welcome!
:)
local first.