Hacker News: cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cantSpellSoberHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:37:49 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"]]>Sounds like you need to attend the next NYC Mechanical Keyboard Meetup

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:46:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726418cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726418<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"]]>This ensures meetings will begin at 10 minutes past

]]>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:51:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566692cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566692https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566692<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties""]]>and the name of the function we use to access them is var()! Not customProperty().

]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:20:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049591cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049591https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049591<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)"]]>> a high dose (22 or 30 mg/70 kg) of psilocybin

What is this compared to a recreational dose? Are these patients getting high as part of their treatment?

]]>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:40:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606772cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606772<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "The death of partying in the USA"]]>The number of first-time home owners has plummeted though

https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-rep...

]]>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:51:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521086cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521086<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Cursor hits $9B valuation"]]>easier sell/setup

]]>Mon, 05 May 2025 19:22:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898495cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898495https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898495<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "The Death of Daydreaming"]]>> moments used to be given over to silent reflection or conversation with whoever is around

Noticeable on pubic transit particularly

]]>Mon, 05 May 2025 15:10:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43895935cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43895935https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43895935<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"]]>That's why I joked about flamebait, it's hypertext though, aren't anchors essentially a goToURL() click handler in some ways? Template partials seem like a basic part of this system.

> considered to be server-side

Good point! Wouldn't fetching a template partial happen the same way (like fetching an image?)

]]>Sat, 03 May 2025 15:33:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879739cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879739https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879739<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"]]>Well said this is many students' intro to PHP. Why not `` though?

Some content is already loaded asynchronously such as images, content below the fold etc.

> HTML is really just a markup syntax, not a programming language

flamebait detected :) It's a declarative language, interpreted by each browser engine separately.

]]>Sat, 03 May 2025 15:26:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879684cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879684<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Better typography with text-wrap pretty"]]>`text-align: justify` solves a different problem, it justifies your text; both the left and right edges of each line are aligned with the margins.

> Should one use both together in the main text of your average blog

Optimize for legibility; the properties are compatible.

]]>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:30:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631317cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631317https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631317<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Better typography with text-wrap pretty"]]>Ironically the paragraph about orphans ("avoid leaving a single word by itself") puts "large" on a line by itself (at the largest viewport).

Applying `text-wrap:pretty` solves that!

]]>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:21:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631254cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631254https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631254<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]"]]>The live experience is something to be seen, it's not just the two Jons playing Birdhouse in Your Soul.

They have a very large band including a lot of wind instruments, and they really have fun with it. (Spoiler alert) they've taken to playing Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love in reverse, filming it live, then playing that recording in reverse for the audience (post-intermission).

]]>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:18:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493310cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493310<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"]]>* What are a few features you offer over Browserstack? (re: x-browser testing).

* Do you offer GenAI integrations? (Copilot, Claude, etc)

(Help me sell this to my manager)

]]>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:00:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472854cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472854https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43472854<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users"]]>The big difference:

> The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE

> While Apple’s proprietary iMessage system already supported E2EE, this wasn’t extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn’t provide cross-platform support

]]>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:21:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362403cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362403https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43362403<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise"]]>Yes

> cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash

]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:41:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291043cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291043https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43291043<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise"]]>Satoshi claimed a lot. For the purpose of the title the Promise was peer-to-peer permissionless transactions, with a weakness:

> public ledger cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash except one thing: Untraceability

The author argues Monero fills a missing case:

> untraceable cryptocurrency while keeping all of cash’s characteristics

]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:56:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290673cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290673https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290673<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"]]>> I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000

Cool, can you say what titles? Just curious. (congrats! they clearly laid off the wrong person :)

]]>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:34:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197638cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197638https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197638<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA"]]>Sure, maybe the teenage hacker was acting in good faith.

> Based off of this reporting it's not conclusive.

The (linked in article) Krebs article is pretty damning, including screenshots of why he was fired.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...

]]>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:30:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113921cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113921https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113921<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA"]]>Yes unfortunately this is much more specific than "cyber researchers interacting with cybercriminals"

> Coristine was fired from a company after leaking internal firm secrets to a competitor

...and now has physical access to building facilities at CISA

]]>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:21:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110727cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110727https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110727<![CDATA[New comment by cantSpellSober in "Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department"]]>It's more nuanced than "let DOGE in and review that"

> Gioeli [told the court], however, that Elez may have "occasionally" taken screen shots of payment system data or records to share with a second DOGE employee working with him at Treasury

]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:44:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037959cantSpellSoberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037959