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Same. I've been a lurker since 2008. Been hitting this site practically every day since. I've learned so much in the process. Thanks for everything hn, happy new year!


Ditto!

I’m a long time lurker (under old defunct alts) and occasional poster but I’ve opened HN almost every day since I discovered the site in 2008.

This community has an outsized impact on my career and life and I’m eternally grateful for it. Thank you!

Happy new year and eine Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.


Aah. Same class I see :) Hope everything has gone well for you since. Happy new year!


Long time lurker here, too. It has become a central part of my daily routine. Happy new year, HN!


With iOS 17.4 they allow other rendering engines for users in the EU.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-chang...


Pinokio is a browser that lets you locally install, run, and automate any AI on your computer. Everything you can run in your command line can be automated with Pinokio script, with a user-friendly UI.


The random dismembered paw in the puppy sandwich makes me sad.


People keep mentioning that one.. he's just nestled snugly back in the toppings! I'll probably remove it.


I get it but there's a seeming irrationality. A puppy sandwich conceptually doesn't exactly bode well for the still-living puppies in the sandwich. I guess the "tall" concept sort of divorces the pictures from depictions of edible things.


I wasn't expecting this level of critique, but dammit you're right. I removed the puppy one. I'm keeping Biden though: tallsandwiches.com/biden


No! It wasn't my intention to get the puppy sandwich removed. Isn't this the whole point of art? To invoke an emotional reaction? I vote to bring back the puppy sandwich, and add in a kitten sandwich for balance ;)


I was wondering how they could traverse rough terrain like gravel. That video explains how the overlapping wheels makes that possible. Why not go with a "tank tread" type design? Maybe in a future hiking version.


I'm assuming different wheels are accelerating at slightly different speeds so you aren't hitting the pavement with a tread going at full speed. It needs to adjust to the different speed of your gait at different points of your step.

That's why the "tank tread" likely wouldn't work here.


This. I've been using privacy.com for all my online subscriptions. I just cancel the card I used to sign up and call it a day.


> Its main purpose is to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.

How does it reduce bandwidth exactly? It still has to grab all the html/css/js for the site being rendered.


I think the use-case is that the user is running their headless browser on a remote server with a good internet connection. Then they open an SSH tunnel to that server from their local machine which has low bandwidth--and the only thing that needs to be received by the local machine is the browsh rendering of the webpage.


Exactly.

As well SSH/Mosh access there's a HTTP service, that currently only outputs static, noninteractive HTML and basic graphics. For example: https://html.brow.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17...


This sounds like your ticket to making money then. Have a hosted option.


I'd be wary to use a hosted option because a browser in a remote server will then contain my credentials and browsing history.

So if OP goes down this road then I think he should allow users to access machines.


What do you mean by access to machines? Like SSH access?

Do you think such a service would be significantly different to an email service in terms of privacy concerns?


Yes, I do think it’s pretty different.

If you weren’t the fine upstanding person you are, you’d have all the web traffic of users at your disposal: banking, secure interactions with healthcare providers, credentials to Hacker News, the whole nine yards.

With access to my email, you could probably reset a handful of my passwords to various services that don’t support dual factor auth, and you could probably discover what services I subscribe to.

I mean, I wouldn’t want you to have access to my email, but I would much rather that than a permanent man-in-the-middle web client.


It should be quite doable to spin up a container/VM on demand. I'd probably look at lxd/lxc or bsd jails for this (both with zfs for storage) - or if there now are any real ways to run containers under hw virtualization - maybe that.

Maybe something like:

https://github.com/rkt/rkt/blob/master/Documentation/running...

for VM backed containers - but I'm not sure if it's considered stable and/or secure.


Thanks for the suggestion. I'm already using Kubernetes/Docker for the `ssh brow.sh` service. What advantages would your approach have?


I don't think I'd look too hard at lxd or freebsd as you already have a docker setup.

But hw isolation might be worth investigating - as others are saying - hostile access to a web browser, including webmail etc - is pretty dangerous. And plain docker never had a good story wrt secure isolation.

Apparently there was "hypernetes", now stackube - for combining VM runtime and kubernetes:

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2016/05/hypernetes-security-and-m...

https://github.com/openstack/stackube

As far as I can tell, this allows the mix of k8 style pod/container management and VM level isolation:

https://stackube.readthedocs.io/en/latest/stackube_scope_cla...

As for lxd/freebsd jails and zfs - both offer very nice and easy to grasp environment for isolated services - and both should end a little more isolated than a typicaldocker setup (some services running as root in container, no additional lxc restrictions).

But all things considered, if you already have k8/docker set up to give every user a separate, possibly ephemeral container... Infrastructure is probably not where I'd devote most time. It should work well enough as is.


Now that you describe it, yes indeed I can see the problems. I can't think of any other precedent, as most other proxies are least protected by HTTPS, wheres a Browsh service is literally reading every character on a page in plain text! So there's need to be a great deal of trust. I wonder if it's just too much to ask of people, especially where money is involved.


Ah, that makes sense. Cool project!


does it fetch images? if it does not, there you go..


Dude. Just delete it already. Once it's gone you'll quickly realize how much it doesn't even matter.


This. Killed mine 7 years ago. Nobody died. Still fully employed. Still getting invited to more-than-enough social events. And my family appreciate getting hand-written Christmas cards once a year.


I took the less drastic step of limiting to one day a week. I visit on Tuesdays only, usually just once or twice.


To be fair, Mailgun is in the practice of sending email. It just happens to be that email is one of the main conduits of spam.


No, that's just correlation. Email can be spam, but not all email is spam.


Also a "git blame" type view that shows which files use which lines of css/js.


It does this. Just click the file: http://imgur.com/g4jg6lu


It does do that, doesn't it?


I meant, of the lines that are green, what line in what html file is causing that line to be green.


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