Hacker News: 75th

New comment by 75th in "The 49MB web page"

75th — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:17:53 +0000

In the world we have now, limiting XMLHttpRequest and Fetch to the same host as the current page would be great. But if that had always been the limitation, I fear that the adware peddlers would have just gotten proficient at shipping PHP packages/extensions that you could run on the same server as your site, and we'd be in largely the same situation, except that blocking the stuff would be harder than it is for us today.

New comment by 75th in "Permutation City (1994)"

75th — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 04:59:04 +0000

The sex in that sex scene is supposed to be cringingly bad. Supposed to be uncomfortable to read. Did you think it was poorly done, or was it just too uncomfortable-on-purpose?

New comment by 75th in "Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger"

75th — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:31:40 +0000

The Affinity apps being slow to adopt improvements has nothing to do with “enshittification”. They’re not actively doing user-hostile stuff for the sake of their stock price, or anything in that ballpark.

The fact is that different things are “essential” to different users. Whenever they ship a new feature, some users are like “I wanted this!” while many are like “Still not shipping what we’re asking for!”

I do think Affinity should pick up the pace (and they maybe have, a tiny bit, since V2?) and address recurring forum topics more openly. But they’re not “enshittifying” their apps, they’re just not doing what some people wish.

New comment by 75th in "Reflecting on 18 Years at Google"

75th — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 01:41:51 +0000

> hold a candle next to, programmingor, worlf, alook, has been

I dare say we’ve all been in some rooms we didn’t really deserve to be in, wouldn’t you?