Beaker
Dev tools
peer-to-peer browser
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
5 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Tabs design looks better than Chrome
From 2 comments
I know looks are not the point of this browser but the tabs look great! Much better than the Chrome tabs!
starquake on HNI was actually having the same thought while watching the video. I'm glad to see other people pay attention to these small details. (:
plainOldText on HN
Exciting step toward decentralized web and removing tracking
From 2 comments
> Beaker is built on Electron, which is a temporary solution. Electron breaks Chromium's process-level sandbox, which needs to be restored. Electron also has API limitations,…
kodablah on HN@pfraze: This browser is a great idea! I'm getting more and more into decentralized web stuff, and this browser is exactly the kind of thing for decentra-newbies like me to keep…
mxuribe on HN
Objections
Electron breaks the process-level sandbox
From 2 comments
> Beaker is built on Electron, which is a temporary solution. Electron breaks Chromium's process-level sandbox, which needs to be restored. Electron also has API limitations,…
kodablah on HN> Can you explain how the process-level sandbox is broken using webviews? Sure thing. It's the node integration that's an issue. To let the render processes import node's APIs,…
pfraze on HN
Go implementation portability concerns
From 2 comments
This introduced me to IPFS. I was already aware of Matrix, which had a lot of very cool work done on it, which very much sold it to many of us as "what XMPP should have been."…
qwertyuiop924 on HN"Golang is Trash" (http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/) is now the classic bashing of Go's implementation, it doesn't talk about issues encountered…
qwertyuiop924 on HN
Requests
Integrate into an existing browser like Firefox or Vivaldi
From 1 comment
Please consider integrating into an existing browser with userbase instead of making your own. This is the only way IMO to get IPFS used by real people. I mean to make sense…
ComodoHacker on HN
Human-readable IPFS addresses
From 1 comment
really looking forward to the next generation of distributed internet. I think those IPFS addresses need to be a bit more human readable though :)
dharma1 on HN
Questions
How IPFS daemon is shipped with the Electron app
From 1 comment
How are you shipping IPFS with your electron app? I was under the impression only the GO implementation of IPFS is complete. Are you simply running IPFS Go as another process?…
zbyte64 on HN
How this differs from a browser extension mapping ipfs.io links
From 1 comment
How is that different from using a browser extension to browse https://ipfs.io/ipfs/ links that get translated to localhost?
fiatjaf on HN
Alternatives named
Patchwork (decentralized social network over Scuttlebot)
From 2 comments
@pfraze: This browser is a great idea! I'm getting more and more into decentralized web stuff, and this browser is exactly the kind of thing for decentra-newbies like me to keep…
mxuribe on HNPatchwork seems interesting. How I'm picturing it is a kind of anonymous decentralized Facebook. Is that about right?
brokenmachine on HN
Freenet
From 1 comment
This introduced me to IPFS. I was already aware of Matrix, which had a lot of very cool work done on it, which very much sold it to many of us as "what XMPP should have been."…
qwertyuiop924 on HN