Hacker News: HughParry

New comment by HughParry in "Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees"

HughParry — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:52:17 +0000

If you push me into a bush then you'll make me a pollinator as well

New comment by HughParry in "AI-generated ads should be exempt from EU transparency rules, retail assoc. says"

HughParry — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:22:19 +0000

> The regulation should not include AI-generated ads "not intended to mislead users, for example, generating an image of a living room to showcase a sofa, or enhancing product visuals for presentation purposes", the letter said.

While ads have always been misleading (think gluing burgers together) this just seems lazy to me. Put a real sofa in a room. If that's so hard to do then how am I going to put your sofa in my house!

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

HughParry — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:00:23 +0000

Building a map guessing game where you're given a map with the labels/axis redacted, and then you have to guess what it's a map of. e.g. the map would be average height by country, but you would just get a map where countries like The Netherlands were the darkest, and then you'd have to try and figure out that it's average height!

The hinting system for it is a bit work in progress (trying to tune the difficulty and feedback from hints)

https://figarooo.com/

New comment by HughParry in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

HughParry — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:07:07 +0000

I’d probably think it looked alright.

I think it’s the fact that my eyes have been blasted with a certain visual ‘vibe’, and I’ve come to associate it with apps that are, on average, a bit lazy

New comment by HughParry in "Multi-stroke text effect in CSS"

HughParry — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:16:06 +0000

I wonder why the firefox CSS rendering engine prefers to smooth out. Looks like a dramatically different implementation, but maybe that's just because it's an edge case of rendering

Everything Is a Superfood

HughParry — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:58:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hughparry.com/blog/everything-is-a-superfood/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022635

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to Leverage IPv6 Subnets for Infinite Proxy Rotation

HughParry — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:44:08 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.thewebscraping.club/p/use-ipv6-scraping-nyxproxy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932306

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

HughParry — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578572

Points: 408

# Comments: 234

Gail.com

HughParry — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:47:15 +0000

Article URL: https://gail.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545106

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by HughParry in "Digg is gone again"

HughParry — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:11:36 +0000

I’ve never seen people on the likes of blackhatworld selling hacker news accounts or services. The glass half full take on this is that hn is surprisingly robust in its ability to deal with vote manipulation.

New comment by HughParry in "Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found"

HughParry — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:30:48 +0000

Ah I mean others disliked the results.

Make up your own mind I suppose, I doubt you will find them rewarding: https://youtu.be/rQabMPpdQnk?si=Fm9Yqj7EwAjYp5np

New comment by HughParry in "Lost Doctor Who episodes found"

HughParry — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:07:01 +0000

Somebody spent a small fortune trying this a while ago with disliked results https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/entertainment/ailing-doctor-wh...

Epic Games Outage

HughParry — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:54:45 +0000

Article URL: https://status.epicgames.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061038

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by HughParry in "We built an AI that spots problems in your product data"

HughParry — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:40:04 +0000

Please don't capture my cursor on your homepage, and if you have to, please don't apply smoothing to is so that it doesn't go where I want it to! I appreciate that it's pretty, but making your site annoying to use can only increase churn

New comment by HughParry in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"

HughParry — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:30:29 +0000

RIP Danya <3

New comment by HughParry in "YouTube Is Down"

HughParry — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:46:47 +0000

The outage did make me realise I’d be happier watching episodes of House instead

New comment by HughParry in "YouTube Is Down"

HughParry — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:37:56 +0000

Most services appear to work, aside from actual video streaming for me

YouTube Is Down

HughParry — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:34:00 +0000

More interesting than YouTube being down is the fact that YouTube doesn’t appear to have an official status page that is exposed externally.

Reported by 3rd party sites for reference:

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/youtube

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/youtube/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599641

Points: 38

# Comments: 19

New comment by HughParry in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

HughParry — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:38:19 +0000

Posted on the other thread as I thought it was pretty interesting:

>Roughly 0.5% odds on him on polymarket before he was announced

New comment by HughParry in "Robert Francis Prevost Is Chosen as First Pope from U.S."

HughParry — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:23:42 +0000

Roughly 0.5% odds on him on polymarket before he was announced