Tried building with some other arguments/configs, went from 1,2M on X11 to 664K, which seems to place it under Lynx (text-only, 714k) but above OffByOne (full HTML 3.2, 409k). Of course, my experiment barely implements anything from a "real" browser, so unfair comparison really.
Neat collection of apps nonetheless, some really impressive stuff in there.
Fun fact, not until someone mentioned how small the binaries did I notice! Fun little side-effect from the various constraints and requirements I set in the REQUIREMENTS.md I suppose.
I have been in HN since many of the current users could even type on a keyboard, and allow me to chip in.
* They have the right to block by referral
* HN has the right to set up that attribute to the links
* I don't think they are arguing about HN doing it, but to do it silently or covertly by someone in the moderation staff
I wont argue about legality or morals. It looks like they have an issue with the current dynamics of comments in here, and it's an honest way of protesting about it.
If the moderation staff does edit the link, title or attributes it should be reflected at least. Like when they add a date to specify that it's from a few years ago.
Of course, HN users could always choose to protest by protesting and sharing and discussing about the articles anyway. But that doesn't make their point any less valid.
I know you're anon trolling, but the authors' names are:
Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, Saurabh Saxena†, Lala Li†, Jay Whang†, Emily Denton, Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Burcu Karagol Ayan, S. Sara Mahdavi, Rapha Gontijo Lopes, Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho†, David Fleet†, Mohammad Norouzi
Google AI researchers don't have the final say in what gets published and what doesn't. I think there was a huge controversy when people learned about it last year.
> The Mac App Store gives a hint at what would happen if there was any choice.
There's a choice of app store in Android and almost nobody uses Amazon App Store, F-Droid, Samsung App Store and so on. It's great that they can exist, but I don't think the Mac App Store (which has been neglected since day 1) offers any guidance.
People mostly use what they know or are giving by default. In desktop, be it Windows, Linux or macOS, people aren't used to app stores.
The Amazon store used to have a killer feature where they gave away "bullshit excised" versions of apps (the "Actually Free" program), but sadly that has been discontinued and now the Amazon Store is a completely pointless cut down version of the Play Store.
It's a shame because the old Fire tablets were pretty good for kids, but now the malignant ad and micropayment cancer has returned so it's no good anymore.
The problem with alternate app stores on Android is that before Android 12 (which is still only in beta), other stores couldn't update the apps they install, which is kind of fatal.
You also can't install the various alternate stores themselves through Google Play and Google purposely makes installing APKs a pain for regular people.
And then it's "see, nobody wants them" after they purposely put a wall in front of them which most people can't get past.
So developers still need to be in Google Play to get all the users who can't figure it out, but if everything is in Google Play then even the customers who could figure it out have no incentive to go through the trouble.
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