Hacker News: 65

New comment by 65 in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

65 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:42:02 +0000

Or read magazines and newspapers from reputable publications. My grammar and writing have improved tremendously from reading quality magazine articles, e.g. stuff from The Atlantic or The NY Book Review or whatever.

Both magazines and books are valid forms of information consumption and books are not the only way to improve your writing, reading, and understanding of the world.

New comment by 65 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

65 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:53:20 +0000

Now this is the type of comment to farm upvotes on Hacker News!

New comment by 65 in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

65 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:47:46 +0000

Clicking buttons is easier than writing a prompt.

New comment by 65 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

65 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:17:19 +0000

Maybe PC manufacturers will finally get a wake up call to stop making plastic shitboxes. Maybe Microsoft will get a wake up call too. Though, I kind of doubt it as the incompetence in PC land is comical.

New comment by 65 in "AirPods Max 2"

65 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:09:25 +0000

Even though my Focal Bathys headphones are more expensive and have worse noise cancellation, I'm still sticking with them because the Airpods Max are so damn uncomfortable.

New comment by 65 in "AirPods Max 2"

65 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:07:42 +0000

Yup, my Airpods Max don't hold a charge anymore. Right on time for me to buy the shiny new one!

New comment by 65 in "The 49MB web page"

65 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:37:49 +0000

I worked at big newspapers as a software engineer. Please do not blame the engineers for this mess. As the article says news is in a predicament because of the ads business model. Subscriptions alone usually cannot cover all costs and ads will invariably make their way in.

For every 1 engineer it seems like there are 5 PMs who need to improve KPIs somehow and thus decide auto playing video will improve metrics. It does. It also makes people hate using your website.

I would constantly try to push back against the bullshit they'd put on the page but no one really cares what a random engineer thinks.

I don't think there's any real way to solve this unless we either get less intrusive ad tech or news gets a better business model. Many sites don't even try with new business models, like local classifieds or local job boards. And good luck getting PMs to listen to an engineer talking about these things.

For now, the bloat remains.

New comment by 65 in "MacBook Neo"

65 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:22:07 +0000

To make a different point, a regular consumer does not care about tech specs. They want a laptop that can browse the web, stream Netflix, and maybe open a Word doc. They will be more sensitive to hardware problems in my opinion. A janky touchpad is going to be annoying no matter what computer task you're doing. A wobbly keyboard will be the same. To me an average consumer is more interested in the "feel" of the computer rather than what it can do.

New comment by 65 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

65 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:15:32 +0000

Not always. That's assuming you have a full viewport modal. There are plenty of instances where you'll have a modal inside of another container somewhere on the page.

You also generally don't want to use position: fixed as it can allow the user to scroll behind the modal.

New comment by 65 in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

65 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:14:11 +0000

The first example of not using absolute positioning isn't a good example because sometimes you do need to absolutely position things, like a modal.

Also you can just use display: flex with justify-content: center and align-items: center for non absolutely positioned elements.

Just because it uses CSS grid does not make it more "correct" than flexbox.

I also only see one usage of custom @property properties here, which has been one of the most useful things to happen to CSS in years. They have many different use cases, particularly for complex animations.

New comment by 65 in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

65 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:43:06 +0000

You can also just use Tamper Monkey (though you need to add a script called Trusted Type Helper in order to inject CSS into YouTube).

I used to use Stylebot but I switched everything over to Tamper Monkey so all my CSS and non CSS related scripts would be in one place.

Tamper Monkey/Grease Monkey scripts are very portable too, I use my scripts in Safari on iOS via the UserScripts extension.

New comment by 65 in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

65 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:31:25 +0000

I mean are we really arguing over milliseconds here? I have never in my life had the thought "NPM search is too slow, I need a faster solution"

I have had the thought "NPM search sorted by downloads this week is giving me irrelevant packages" - but I'm not sure this tool solves that.

New comment by 65 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

65 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:14:43 +0000

I'm working on a sewing pattern software to make patterns with code. It has a bunch of useful features like chopping up the pattern into a PDF for printing. But the thing that really made this software nice to use is the timeline I implemented, where you can go back and see how the pattern is constructed with each segment. It makes debugging so much easier. I have it so you can put different curves into groups, so you can see how just the sleeve is constructed, for example.

I will definitely consider adding timelines to future software I make, it's an awesome feature.

New comment by 65 in "Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code"

65 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:03:29 +0000

This app idea has been made a million times and never works. It's also not hard to make a few divs and copy and paste styles from Figma.

I wish you luck with your project.

New comment by 65 in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

65 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:38:35 +0000

I read the Design of Everyday Things and most of it was painfully obvious examples and was overly philosophical.

Design is solving problems so they're intuitive for the user. Obviously a door with a handle shouldn't be a push door, I don't really think you need to write a book about it. And the types of people creating bad design are generally constrained by cost, time, or practicality, not necessarily by education.

New comment by 65 in "I'm addicted to being useful"

65 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:22:39 +0000

Seems like a torturous way to spend 8 hours a day if you only enjoy it for the money. Do you at least _like_ you job?

New comment by 65 in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

65 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:09:09 +0000

And I would argue speadsheets still created more developers. Analytics teams need developers to put that data somewhere, to transform it for certain formats, to load that data from a source so they can create spreadsheets from it.

So now instead of one developer lost and one analyst created, you've actually just created an analyst and kept a developer.

New comment by 65 in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

65 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:19:01 +0000

Eh, selvedge denim these days is just a fashion trend. It's fine, yeah. But there are other clothes one has to wear besides denim.

New comment by 65 in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

65 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:16:14 +0000

Snow Peak has high quality clothing that isn't absurdly expensive. It's very nice and fits well. If you want something higher end I also like Norse Projects. If you want lower end look at Champion - specifically Reverse Weave.

New comment by 65 in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

65 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:14:33 +0000

Just a tip if you want to prevent shrinkage is to not dry clothes you don't want shrinking. I air dry my pants and any shirts I don't want to shrink.