flutter-demo VS hn-search

There's a sample Flutter Desktop app repository here.

I keep hearing good things about Flutter, it's seems like a bit of a quiet hit. We've added support for Flutter Desktop in the next release of Hydraulic Conveyor so it'll get a lot easier to distribute Flutter apps outside the browser soon. There's a demo of how to package Flutter apps built using Github Actions here:

https://github.com/hydraulic-software/flutter-demo/

(see the conveyor.conf file, it's a normal Flutter Desktop app other than that). That won't work with the current release but we should get the next one out this week or next.

This should be great for people who want to bring their cross-platform mobile app to laptops and other form factors without exploding costs by needing to write/maintain an HTML version too. That duplication really isn't ideal for a lot of reasons e.g. some users will end up trying to use the web version from mobile so you end up with actually 4x frontend dev costs (iOS, Android, web desktop, web mobile) and for smaller projects it's just hard to justify.

Traditionally desktop deployment was a huge pain and that pushes people towards trying to use Chrome for everything, because it handles updates and uploading a few files to a web server is easy. With Conveyor and easily available multi-platform CI for compiles that's fixed now, the hardest part is buying the signing certificates which is just a bit of paperwork and money. The problem with trying to do everything with WebAssembly and canvas is that you're paying a big perf hit and due to cache partitioning you can't really reduce the size hit of an alternative language and graphics stack by amortizing it across different sites like was once possible. And browsers aren't interested in making it easy for people to do that, they want to control the whole experience, so there's lots of paper cuts and apps written with Flutter are ultimately going to be best experienced outside the browser.

[1] https://hydraulic.software/

I first heard of Solarpunk from the Imaginary Worlds podcast:

https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/solarpunk-th...

Which I prompted me to post the Wikipedia link 4 years ago, several others posted similar links prior to that, and others have posted interesting links hear too:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=3&prefix=false&qu...

I will deeply deeply having someone so well connected to such incredibly complex contemporary digital rights issues in a place of power. Patrick Breyer's work in advocating & sharing what's going on has been such an incredibly high form of service, has illuminated such a dark & scary part of governance, and it's hard to imagine who else in the world is going to step up & be the light in Patrick's absence.

Patrick, thank you for the many years of incredible service. Your writing online about what's happening is without peer. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=patrick%20breyer&sort=byDate

Anything this common becomes noise, since it doesn't add any new information.

Heres' another way to look at it: since the idea of HN is to be intellectually interesting (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), repetition is the most important thing to avoid (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

At least as far as Hacker News is concerned, I'd call htmx way more marketed. It has hundreds of HN submissions in the past year alone [0] including one that broke 1000 points, compared to Hotwire which is sitting at about 40 submissions in the past year [1], the most popular of which is this one.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&prefix=true&query...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&prefix=true&query...

See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Authorities compel tech companies to hand over data and place backdoors. They typically abuse secrecy laws to avoid public backlash, but their public demands have gotten bolder since the Snowden disclosures.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments...

https://www.techdirt.com/2016/02/16/no-judge-did-not-just-or...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-02/juniper-m...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1241YV/

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130614/02110223467/micros...

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=encryption%20ban

They even also do it without the companies' knowledge too.

https://archive.is/2023.10.31-203648/https://www.washingtonp...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/its-no-secret-governme...

Have you been living under a rock this past decade?

This is some droll trash. And it's being reposted every couple hours. Frag this. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20End%20of%20Software

Yes but please try to avoid repetition on HN. The GP's response was rude and broke the site guidelines but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... does look excessive to me.