Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | smusamashah's commentslogin

I made an only sorting algo visualizer which runs same algo on many randomly sorted arrays at the same time. The swap call which actually does the sorting also does the drawing. You could draw whole array or just one swap.

It looks very cool on large arrays.

https://xosh.org/VisualizingSorts/sorting.html

https://xosh.org/sorting-algorithms-visual-comparison/


They had funny ads about it being fast. One showed opening a tab vs peeling a potato. Another one was opening a tab vs starting a jet.

I loved gestures, built in IRC client, RSS reader, notes and the experimental website hosting from the browser. There were many cool plugins too. Did it have a torrent client too? I seem to remember as if it had everything :)


They use to send you a custom binary with your name on it in the title bar or something.

Opera was so fully packed with features. I started from Opera 2 or 3 from what I recall and stayed until they became Chrome. No other browser came close in features while being fast.

They had lots of cool featues built in:

IRC Client

Email Client

RSS Reader

Note taking (I used it a lot)

Gestures (those were awesome, I fondly remember holding left then right click and the other way around to move back and forward, but these proved to be a sign of Operas decline, some bugs with them were never fixed while we kept getting newe releases, (remember the potato ad?))

Sharing local files as a website right from your browser

They invented tabs

They might have had torrent support too, don't remember clearly.

It was fast even with all this.

Vivaldi's UI is built in JS, it feels slow, all my clicks are slow. I never got myself to using it more than a few minutes.


These are not improvements, its not even a good bait. I don't care about their stupid taskbar anymore. I 100% believe that any improvements they are promising will be so tiny it won't matter.

I am a Windows user since Windows 98. State of windows currently really hurts.

This article is so disconnected and uninterested in the actual needs of users who despise windows in its current form today.



I stop playing video games that force unskippable cut scenes. I definitely don't want the same on websites.

Can Karpathy's autoresearch be used on this to explore what works and what does not? That is supposed to automate research like this from what I understand.

There should be an "Examples" section in projects like this one to show what has actually been made using it. I scrolled to the end and was really expecting an example the way it's being advertised.

If it was game engine or new web framework for example there would be demos or example projects linked somewhere.


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: