ryanfox
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
You’re in luck, there’s new Connections as of 5 days ago!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/fans-of-connections-...
Comment · 3 years ago
Hey, I’ve been building that. It’s called A Personal Search Engine: https://apse.io
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve been working on exactly that! [0]
My info is in my hn profile, if you (or anyone reading) would like to chat about it.
[0] https://apse.io
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve been working on a very similar thing which runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://apse.io
Comment · 5 years ago
Founder here, I am happy to talk about it, my email is ryan at the submitted domain.
Comment · 5 years ago
I run a similar project: https://apse.io
It runs locally on your laptop/desktop, so you don’t need a server to host anything.
Also, it can index everything you do, not just web content.
It works really well for me!
Comment · 6 years ago
Any chance you’re thinking of APSE? I submitted a Show HN a while back.
Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve been working on an app that’s pretty much exactly “the latter”! [0]
The amount of disk space it takes up isn’t crazy. It has been very useful for me.
[0] https://apse.io
Comment · 6 years ago
> I want fonts to be made out of just a handful (at a minimum) of primitives -- e.g. here's a vertical stroke, a horizontal stroke, diagonal strokes, what various serif endings look like, here are what the bowls of letters look like, etc.
Tom7, who makes excellent videos about computers, has one about splitting letters up to create anagrams in this way.[0]
All of his videos are technically astounding, like the one where he frankensteined a raspberry pi into a game cartridge to play SNES games on a NES, or the one where he designed and built a computer using IEEE 754 NaN and infinity instead of 0 and 1.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks!
You could block it at the firewall - same as you would for any application.
Comment · 6 years ago
I built an application for exactly this. It's called A Personal Search Engine, APSE for short.[0]
It OCRs screenshots and stores the text in a search index, so you can query by keyword, date, boolean operators, the whole shebang.
It's all local. It is really useful for me - yesterday it saved me after Firefox wigged out and lost all my tabs. It's in a great place to try out, and I am actively developing it.
[0] https://apse.io
Comment · 6 years ago
How about a local app? I am working on almost exactly what you're describing.
Comment · 6 years ago
I made an application[0] that does capture your view. It's screenshot-based. It works outside of a browser too - anything on your screen. All local too, so no privacy concerns :)
[0] https://apse.io
Comment · 6 years ago
I’ve been building essentially that, but more than just websites: https://apse.io. I am really pleased with how it works - just released v2.0!
https://namogenmo.github.io/
I wanted to keep the anything-goes spirit, so “movie” is defined really loosely. Anyone is free to join me, there’s still time this month!