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Is there a way to keep up with this story? Looks like Orpheusdroid is not on Twitter.

I am not sure who is right and who is wrong here. But I have the feeling that it is too easy for big companies to threaten small companies.

I wonder if there should be some institution where small companies and individuals can go to when threatened by big companies. And if the threat seems unreasonable, the institution would take up the fight on behalf of the small company or individual.

The article talks about processing the CSV file in memory, not about loading it.

What am I missing?

This probably adds a significant number of data bits for tracking people without cookies.

First of all it tells the page if you run the dev version of Chrome with a certain version.

Secondly, I would be surprised if memory behavior does not differ between certain setups.

I think UTF-8 was a mistake.

It is a pain in the ass to have a variable number of bytes per char.

In Ascii, you could easily know every character personally. No strange surprises.

Also no surprises while reading black on white text and suddenly being confronted with clors [1].

[1] Also no surprises when writing a comment on HN like this one and having some characters stripped. I put in a smiley as the firs "o" in colors, but it was stripped out. Looks like the makers of HN don't like UTF-8 either.

All you can do on that page is sign up. Sign-up pages are explicitely listed as a type of page that can't be a Show HN.

This sign-up page especially rubs me the wrong way as it uses a dark pattern: It grabs your email address first and then tells you that you cannot proceed without entering your credit card details.

Yes, the reason is that most sites these days serve a content security policy which only allows code from whitelisted origins.

Then every time you want to make a change to your code, you have to go to your original codebase, make the change, start the compiler, copy the output and paste it into your dev tools ...

Is the only reason for the iframe so that it is possible to keep a state in the top frame while loading different pages?

Because otherwise - since you use the dev tools to inject the iframe - you don't really need the iframe. You can just run it as a "snippet" in Chromium or from the multi-line-code-editor in Firefox.

Both have the problem that it all has to be a single file. It would be much nicer if one could import modules.

No word on where the search results come from?

Can't find anything about it on the about page.

Doing a few test searches, the results seem similar to those of Bing.