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It just takes me to the pricing page after signup and I can't access anything.

Pretty sure this is against the Show Hn guidelines.


I appreciate you bringing up this issue about the Cloudflare challenges making it hard to browse. I had a similar experience where I couldn't access jsfiddle even without using a VPN. As a result, I switched to a different platform for my coding experiments.

JsFiddle used to be my favorite for quickly testing out code snippets. It's a shame that due to Cloudflare hurdles, I've stopped using it and don't plan on going back.

It may not be much but as more websites and businesses lose genuine web traffic like this, Cloudflare might eventually listen and fix this mess.


One concrete thing we can do is to stop seeing Cloudflare as an easy, unproblematic solution. Bring up issues like this when people suggest using it.


While I can't totally relate to this scenario I feel something like this playing video games. I'm happiest when I'm working towards the goal and once you defeat the big boss / get the best gems, etc you're just standing there wondering what now.

I think the most exhilarating part is before you are about to beat the big boss (which in this case would be the offer for acquisition i suppose).


Yes it's the only way to watch documentaries at 2x speed but the quality becomes crap


Have you tried RescueTime? It's a similar app that prompts you to log your activities every time you unlock your phone.

It's surprising to see how much time can slip by unnoticed each day. Using it can really make you more mindful of how you're spending it.


> Have you tried RescueTime? It's a similar app that prompts you to log your activities every time you unlock your phone.

I didn't know they had such a feature. I'm going to check this out.

> It's surprising to see how much time can slip by unnoticed each day. Using it can really make you more mindful of how you're spending it.

Exactly. I have so many unnecessary phone pickups during the day. Without such apps that would slip unnoticed. Also, it's worth mentioning that when you notice those moments at least in my case it makes you feel guilty a bit that you picking it up unconsciously, but maybe that's my individual behaviour.


Does it do this on iOS? I just cancelled RT because it crashed on my work computer all the time but if the phone app weren’t useless that might be different.


Here is some feedback. Your landing page needs samples. After spending 30s I do have some idea about what you're trying to do but some real life samples of input and output will show me exactly what to expect and how good the quality is and eventually if it's worth my time to sign up for it.


Very good input, thanks! We'll add some examples on the page.


Keep Your Identity Small (1)

This essay has saved me from wasting away so much time in general.

(1) https://paulgraham.com/identity.html


I remember there was something called readability for chrome which is just what browsers have incorporated as reader view. And mozilla even had a stand-alone version of it (1). Might be of interest to you.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability


You're right and I think it would make sense to have a feature that allows you to do a 3d recording.

If I could watch my daughter's first step in full 3d, I would be happy to pay the $3k and more.

I know you can do it right now with insta360 or whatever but I think there is a bit of a learning curve and it just isn't it that seamless.

Being able to record directly from the headset and play it back exactly how you saw it would make things much simpler and WYSIWYG and may be the reason for mass adoption


If I could watch my daughter's first step in full 3d, I would be happy to pay the $3k and more.

Don't you want to experience the authentic event rather than peering through a camera so that you can relive it later in 3D?

I'm always flabbergasted that people watch concerts through a camera, rather than just enjoying the experience. The facsimile is often poor compared to the experience itself. Also, reliving the same experience over and over can devalue it. Our memory is very good at making rose-tinted representations of past experiences.

I do understand the grandparent's travel example much better, especially for people who can't easily travel due to disabilities, etc.


> I'm always flabbergasted that people watch concerts through a camera, rather than just enjoying the experience.

And can easily substitute concerts for all types of things here. Travel experiences, museums, art, the mona lisa room where I am pretty sure I was the only one looking-at/facing the actual painting...etc. For many, getting IG likes or emoji comments is more gratifying than the actual experience. I don't get it either.


You can already record in 3D both from the headset, from iPhone 15 Pro and higher and with Canon’s new upcoming lense:

https://www.usa.canon.com/newsroom/2024/20240610-lens

It’s uncanny to record something with the Vision Pro and then play it back while you’re sitting in the same location…feels like a glitch in the matrix.


It’s not upcoming. I just bought it last night.


You can do that. There are only two buttons on the device and one of them is “record this experience as a memory in the iCloud photos app exactly as how I experienced it”.

Since the cameras are small the ISO is at cell phone level, not great indoors.

So I just spent $5800 on the Canon R5 C + Stereo VR Lens kit, to record my baby boy’s moments in 8K for future VisonPro (2,3,4…) devices.


This will also disable a lot of caching I guess.


There is ZERO caching of YT content. Every single vidoe/audio source link your client receives is individually cryptographically signed for you (IP) and for this particular time (timestamp, expires in couple hours). Refresh the page and you receive brand new list of different links to same files.


No. The cached files will remain intact, since the "video chunks" playlist will add new items, but not change or remove the existing ones like that:

    video_part0076.ts
    video_part0077.ts
    video_part0078.ts
    ad_part0001.ts
    ad_part0002.ts
    video_part0079.ts
    video_part0080.ts


Wouldn't this be trivial to defeat by pulling the playlist multiple times (maybe via a proxy to get a different IP), and only showing the chunks which did not change?

I guess they could prevent that if they randomize the part names (with some m:1 mapping on the server side). As long as you have control of your CDN, this would even not mess with caching.


> Wouldn't this be trivial to defeat by pulling the playlist multiple times (maybe via a proxy to get a different IP), and only showing the chunks which did not change?

Since the YouTube marks ads, I guess pulling the playlist twice won't really be needed. YouTube's player should somehow know when the ad starts and when it ends after all.


Good point. One could probably patch the javascript on the fly to go from unskippable ad to auto-skip....


Regarding autoskip, I have an interesting experience with it in the past.

My friend asked me to write a userscript that simulates pressing the "Skip ad" button, so he won't stain his mouse with grease while eating.

Checking if there is a "Skip ad" button every quarter of a second and invoking its click() method eliminated the video ads completely. As it turns out, the button existed alongside the 5 second countdown, just wasn't visible.

I don't know if it still works the same way today, but it felt good to accidentally make an effective adblock with five lines of code.


Not really! The main live video technologies work by having a playlist file which is a list of URLs that updates frequently and a bunch of short video files. So the caching of the short video files would be unaffected.


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