[Ciantic]

I started to listen to Bill Gates' interview [1], just to hear what he had in mind back then. Sounded almost topical in today's world. AI was mentioned, and predicting users' input in the distant future.

Side note, archive.org has two players. The first one doesn't have a timestamp where you currently are. The second player, the Winamp clone does have it, but I don't think one can link to specific parts.

[1] The Bill Gates interview starts at 10:10 https://archive.org/details/the-famous-computer-cafe-1984-11...

[a1o]

> The second player, the Winamp clone

Wait, what the Winamp clone?

Clicks link

This is beautiful, thank you for this!

[mananaysiempre]

A standalone project, incidentally: https://webamp.org/

[beardyw]

That's great. Can't see a keep screen on option?

[mananaysiempre]

I wanted to say that sounds like too much to make available to web apps at all, but nope, apparently it’s indeed a thing that a website can tell your computer to do[1]. I don’t see an option to do that here either, though. I guess your choices are to submit a pull request[2] adding that capability or to use a manual systemwide toggle (I use Keep Awake![3] on GNOME Shell and Coffee[4] on Android).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...

[2] https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1097/keep-awake/

[4] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.muellerma.coffee/

[beardyw]

Just a few lines of script and you are done. I think it was a reaction to sites playing a hidden video, which was just a waste. Even works on my Ubuntu laptop.

[samstave]

Wow!

And you can move and resize the widgets! https://i.imgur.com/PmXmpVO.png

I wonder if we can get an MPV skin of Winamp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277014

This is a great interview with Gates. The interviewer is great too, great commentary and questions.

"A machine on every desktop ad a machine in every home - and one of the things that will enable us to do that is graphics"

(and he mentions how great the Macintosh was doing in the graphics area)

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Crazy the things that have been going on with him lately - and what was said by Thiel about him on JRE, yet HN seems to want to not discuss any of it...

(This 1984 interview with gates deserves its own HN post. The commercials on it are great as well. And the fact that the interviewer brought up Aritficial Intelligence is great - and Gates' response was very cogent of the state of AI and the path forward. Where he says "people worry about AI taking over" - and says when "we can make software fully soft, we can get machines to help us"

Great piece of history, that.

[erickhill]

If you click the little icon in the upper-left corner of the UI, you can change 'skins' as well. Very cool