Hacker News: HughParry

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

New comment by HughParry in "Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?"

HughParry — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:29:13 +0000

Good shout. Can always block based on origin header though (when under the assumption that it's a legit browser) since it's a forbidden header name.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Or...

New comment by HughParry in "Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?"

HughParry — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:12:24 +0000

Just had a look - looks like pretty regular/reasonable cloudflare default stuff as far as I can tell. The headers relating to error reporting are the only thing that stand out a little, though it doesn't look unreasonable.

---

Headers

---

HTTP/2 301

date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:59:51 GMT

content-type: text/html

content-length: 167

location:

cache-control: max-age=3600

expires: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:59:51 GMT

report-to: {"endpoints":[{"url":"https:\/\/a.nel.cloudflare.com\/report\/v4?s=JZu4FOa%2ByynaFOXWYlxaePF9KdRQ0qGUJkfm1F1aK2m3VEx6idlvWlb5go%2B08hgSog1zm1zuMobXcVK2BkR4mQD0SEGU%2Bzp2oC6mXPgQs%2FUzvOH7LbqAG96jtf9KNqemV8Q%3D"}],"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}

nel: {"success_fraction":0,"report_to":"cf-nel","max_age":604800}

server: cloudflare

cf-ray: 90708be24810e8fe-LHR

alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400

server-timing: cfL4;desc="?proto=TCP&rtt=59748&min_rtt=41108&rtt_var=43898&sent=7&recv=8&lost=0&retrans=1&sent_bytes=3535&recv_bytes=789&delivery_rate=33797&cwnd=225&unsent_bytes=0&cid=e5052200af7e27a5&ts=145&x=0"

New comment by HughParry in "Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?"

HughParry — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:57:38 +0000

Just feels like such an odd play lol. If they could organically generate leads/traffic that I'd be willing to get extorted over, then surely they would also have the means to start a marketing agency that I'd be willing to pay far more for?

New comment by HughParry in "Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?"

HughParry — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:48:24 +0000

Presumably just throwing a 403 if they have this referrer is ok and won't have a weird SEO impact or something?