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beacon
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imperviousinc / beacon

beacon

Beacon browser for desktop

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
142GitHub stars
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What it is

Beacon browser for desktop

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-04-26 01:45:17 UTC to 2022-11-08 01:14:01 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsApr 252022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 12022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 7

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Apr 252022-04-25 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC211
May 22022-05-02 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC000
May 92022-05-09 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC000
May 162022-05-16 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC000
May 232022-05-23 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC000
May 302022-05-30 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 62022-06-06 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 132022-06-13 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 202022-06-20 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 272022-06-27 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 42022-07-04 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 112022-07-11 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 182022-07-18 00:00:00 UTC2022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 252022-07-25 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 82022-08-08 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 152022-08-15 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 222022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC2022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 292022-08-29 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 52022-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 122022-09-12 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 192022-09-19 00:00:00 UTC2022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 262022-09-26 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 32022-10-03 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 102022-10-10 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 172022-10-17 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 242022-10-24 00:00:00 UTC2022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 312022-10-31 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 72022-11-07 00:00:00 UTC2022-11-14 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I readily admit that cooking the mozconfig is some holy hell, but they do have real-world examples in the repo; did you experience problems at that stage, or it literally wouldn't compile? And while I haven't tried Ungoogled-Chromium, for unrelated reasons I helped an OSS project build their Brave-derivative in a container, so that may interest you: https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/Dockerfile The only reason it's not already GitHub Actions for them is the chromium_src is 38GB and GHA cache is capped at 10G, but while digging up the link to that Dockerfile, I was reminded that there is a GHA for the macos build: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-mac...
In Early stages of Google Docs support in the Ladybird browser
Why are you swallowing "error" from invoking the "reall" tool? That seems like a great way to make contributors really frustrated: https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/... and again https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/... This trend of "I'm going to invent some build tool because there are not enough build tools in the world" is evidently leaking out of the node ecosystem For clarity, I did see that this was inspired by the brave-browser model, but of the ones to draw inspiration from, that's for sure not it given that their CI is closed source and they're trying to use npm in lieu of a more structured, comprehensible system I like trying out alternate browsers, so congratulations on the launch, and I'll for sure try to build it, but I wanted to draw these to your attention because my experie
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nce with software is that error handling is about 80% of the job
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