It's not a "recreation of Windows XP that runs in the browser" but more like "JavaScript application that looks like Windows XP", before anyone becomes disappointed.
Looks neat (and despite trying to simulate a WinXP-like UI it relies enough on the native web stuff that Firefox can translate the Chinese to English without breaking much) but some more information would be great: how was it made? E.g. was it just some one-shot "make me a website that looks and functions like WinXP?" or was there more to it?
The link at the bottom right does mention that it was "user edited" but that could be some generic message and clicking on the "Kimi Agent" seems to just put me in an empty chatbot.
The "internet explorer" browser-in-browser on the website somewhat works, but it is connecting to websites from an Alibaba cloud datacenter in China, user-agent claims to be an Apple computer and it is using many different exit ip addresses.
Google, gmail, youtube, reddit, yahoo, archive.org etc don't work because they are blocked in China.
It appears that this orange hnn website does not work in China either.
Some websites are 403 forbidden as they seem to be blocking the exit ip addresses.
If you play with this, it may help the enter URLs including the https:// as it does not seem to always properly handle a website upgrading http to https. It may not update the address bar if you get redirected.
To get to HN I used a known HN proxy, and I was able to see the frontpage. Clicking on links caused error with 'Unknown'. I didn't try to troubleshoot it any further.
The first thing I did was make it load itself inside it's built-in "Internet Explorer". Then I did that in the child copy. Then I did that in the grand-child copy.. Then I got bored.
I'm surprised it doesn't use proper HTML by default. I wasn't able to tab focus on the Administrator button on the login screen, and it turns out it's because the entire UI is div spam.
Just yet another (not very well done) XP lookalike SPA...
Since Microsoft has become a proponent for open source and models, a truly impressive demo would now be to use Kimi K3 to reverse the real XP binaries and turn them back into readable and copyright-free source code.
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Sadly, it doesn't even get the iconic three icons right in the application bars (https://i.imgur.com/agDlohB.png)
The link at the bottom right does mention that it was "user edited" but that could be some generic message and clicking on the "Kimi Agent" seems to just put me in an empty chatbot.
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Google, gmail, youtube, reddit, yahoo, archive.org etc don't work because they are blocked in China.
It appears that this orange hnn website does not work in China either.
Some websites are 403 forbidden as they seem to be blocking the exit ip addresses.
If you play with this, it may help the enter URLs including the https:// as it does not seem to always properly handle a website upgrading http to https. It may not update the address bar if you get redirected.
YC website works though. https://ycombinator.com
To get to HN I used a known HN proxy, and I was able to see the frontpage. Clicking on links caused error with 'Unknown'. I didn't try to troubleshoot it any further.
I wonder if it's turtles all the way down?
What an alarmingly pathetic place we have reached.
Since Microsoft has become a proponent for open source and models, a truly impressive demo would now be to use Kimi K3 to reverse the real XP binaries and turn them back into readable and copyright-free source code.
I wonder if the result would be better or worse if prompted exactly the same in English.
literally just a visual representation of XP (with the stolen audio). Not bad, but also doesn't really do anything.