beakerbrowser/beaker on Hacker News

…the Beaker archive notice, Frazee outlined the practical limitations that led to discontinuation. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-... He explicitly noted that the project “never solved the hard problems”…

comment by danrobi · 2026-02-22 · in Be wary of Bluesky

Thanks! Probably won’t revive it, but it was a great experience. Wrote some notes on it here: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...

comment by pfraze · 2024-11-25 · in This website is hosted on Bluesky

…(static/generated) blog for ipfs or similar? Maybe that would make a nice starting point. [1] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker [2] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

comment by thrwwycbr · 2024-03-01 · in Can we get more decentralised than the Fediverse?

I wanted to mention Beaker Browser, but sadly, it's been archived: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...

comment by johnnyworker · 2023-07-17 · in Show HN: DiskerNet – Browse the Internet from Your Disk, Now Open Source

…is consciously avoiding P2P having been overextended on previous adventures with DAT/hypercore: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-... . Whereas we're playing the long game to slowly converge on P2P, even if that…

comment by Arathorn · 2023-05-10 · in The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit

…around taking sites and things other folks had built and using them as a basis for your new thing. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ If you're not familiar i'd recommend starting with some of the YouTube videos giving an overview.…

comment by masukomi · 2023-01-27 · in Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

…continued to grow for years: 100%." Everything that pfrazee wrote here about Beaker Browser at https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-... is true for ssb.

comment by Broue · 2023-01-23 · in Secure Scuttlebutt

…my suggestion, but I'm curious if your thinking is the same today, given how things played out: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/1444

comment by Mizza · 2022-12-28 · in Beaker Browser is now archived

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story by pfraze · 2022-12-27 · 25 comments

…beaker looked pretty good. - https://beakerbrowser.com/ Although their journey has stopped. - https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944

comment by black7375 · 2022-04-09 · in The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet

Totally! Unfortunately, last I heard, Beaker was dead: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/discussions/1944 https://atek.cloud/blog/hello-world This is a great idea, but the big problem with Beaker is the network effects: only Beaker…

comment by rwl · 2022-03-24 · in Mozilla’s Vision for the Evolution of the Web

…They subsequently dropped IPFS "because we prefer Dat's URL spec and its builtin version logs": https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/455

comment by T-A · 2021-01-19 · in Brave browser takes step towards enabling a decentralized web

As it happens, even Beaker dropped IPFS years ago: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/455

comment by JeremyBanks · 2020-12-22 · in Zhoreeq/ipfd: An imageboard, but images are stored in a peer-to-peer network

…I wouldn't consider "embedded". These are a few browsers affected off the top of my head: - Beaker https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/1749 - Min https://github.com/minbrowser/min/issues/868 - Agregore…

comment by smaddock · 2020-11-20 · in Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks

They are working on a new version, it's almost done. It's going to be a lot better! https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/pull/1435

comment by karissa · 2020-04-18 · in Dat: A P2P hypermedia protocol with public-key-addressed file archives

…to upload it. We're talking < 100mb of data. I believe they're still working on the issue [1]. [1] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/952

comment by deanclatworthy · 2019-06-12 · in On Dat

…on it, the whole client crashes. There is an open issue about it [1]. We have a long way to go. [1] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/952

comment by deanclatworthy · 2018-08-01 · in Introducing the Dweb

…and to freshen up our UIs. Would love to hear your thoughts on the beta if you have the time! https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/releases

comment by tbv · 2018-04-16 · in Time to rebuild the web?

…fact: Beaker used to support IPFS[0] and the IPFS creator used to work with the Dat project[1]. [0] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/480#issuecomm... [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/119#issuecomment-21827839...

comment by prophesi · 2018-03-05 · in Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher

…easy to integrate with browsers today. There is some logs about the discussion over at Github: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/2 There is a open feature request for (re)adding IPFS support to Beaker as well, if someone feels…

comment by diggan · 2018-02-21 · in Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

We're discussing that situation here: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/820 We have two different p2p social feed apps that are compatible, but as we plan for future development we're considering ActivityPub/ActivityStreams

comment by tbv · 2018-01-24 · in ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol

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story by macawfish · 2017-11-12 · 0 comments

…of feedback, esp from folks like @neauoire. Pre-release of 0.8 should happen by the new year. 1. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/wiki/App-Scheme EDIT: updated for clarity EDIT EDIT: and brevity

comment by pfraze · 2017-10-13 · in Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker

See the issue in BB issue queue around Windows build. That will help point you in the right direction https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/55

comment by staticvar · 2017-10-13 · in Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker

…datasets to be lost, and data living on a centralized server is particularly vulnerable to that. 1. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker

comment by tbv · 2017-09-27 · in Dat: non-profit, secure, and distributed package manager for data

…browser for the distributed web called Beaker (I am using it to write this now), and it is awesome. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker

comment by wesleytodd · 2017-04-06 · in An off-grid social network

See https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker :)

comment by cjbprime · 2017-01-19 · in Distributing NixOS with IPFS