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Sandstorm.io mentions (27)

• Website Impersonating a Desktop Environment

  Sandstorm really had this kind of feeling. Not that it presented as a desktop environment visually - but it offered a much more integrated “computer” of documents versus silod web site apps where you need to open each site to see the files in the app. https://sandstorm.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: Experience using your user's Google Drive instead of a database?

  RemoteStorage https://remotestorage.io/ seems to be trying to do this too I also really like the https://sandstorm.io approach which goes a little farther beyond. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Tech Independence

  They tried, it was called sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask?

  I did read from somewhere, that with Wordpress SEO plugins etc some website got to top of search results. Those that did website with other tech did not get same results, and thinked how to compete or survive. For security, I use Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io fork of WordPress that generates static websites. But that does not work with some interactive plugins. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Plunder and Urbit

  Urbit made the choice to use a bunch of silly new words for familiar concepts, not because they were inventing something so new that there were no words to describe it, but because they wanted to fool people into thinking that's what they were doing. Actually they just spent 10 years trying to do https://sandstorm.io/, but made it 10 times harder than it needed to be by coming up with a wacky new set of... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

Medium mentions (2264)

• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

  Since this is effecting end users of websites directly. So instead of waiting for developer to fix it, this could help you stay protected until then https://medium.com/@wrongsahil/protecting-yourself-from-polyfill-io-malware-as-a-user-7be300ff8b94. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault

  If you're looking for an intellectual critique of Foucault, one of the best is Jean Baudrillard's book Forget Foucault from 1977. Baudrillard both admired the depth of Foucault's historically informed philosophical analysis but questioned its objectivity especially given Foucault had little to say about how power evolved with mass media & technology - and was in a sense always fighting the last war: > "If Foucault... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Show HN: A new social giving platform

  Picture this: you’re scrolling through your social media feed, feeling the usual blend of amusement and boredom until suddenly, a video catches your eye. It’s not just entertaining; it’s transformative. It inspires you, educates you, or maybe just brings a smile to your face when you needed it most. You’re filled with gratitude for the creator behind this masterpiece, but a simple “like” or “share” feels... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Show HN: We increased profits +42% for ecommerce with OSS data pipelines

  Long story short: Facebook Ads optimizes ad delivery based on ROAS (return on ad spent) but return is sales and not profits. I open sourced the data pipeline to do just that and explained it all here: https://medium.com/@theo_dot/how-we-increased-shopify-business-profits-by-42-in-3-months-using-data-d91de3add629. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Novel prompting approach for Alice in Wonderland problem

  Https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061v1 research paper shows the reasoning breakdown in SOTA LLMs by asking a simple question, “Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?” I investigated performance of different prompts on this question, and show that 'Expand-then solve' prompt significantly outperforms standard and chain-of-thought prompts. Article link -... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago