Hacker News: charlesrice

New comment by charlesrice in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

charlesrice — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:38:00 +0000

My favorite is the knobs where some of them you can grab and rotate like they are physical but other ones only react to the vertical position of the cursor so you feel like a crazy person trying to use them

New comment by charlesrice in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

charlesrice — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:21:26 +0000

Yeah it seems like if they wanted to make it appeal to Apple people they would make it more consistent and subtle. It's all so clean and then the numbers look like they came off a special calculator for people with failing eyesight.

New comment by charlesrice in "Old Icons"

charlesrice — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:47:20 +0000

Each paragraph on this page uses the body style from style.css.

body { font-family: Georgia, Serif; font-size: 100%; background: #898; margin-top: .5em; margin-bottom: .5em; }

Font size is 100%, so it will respect your font sizing. You might be doing something weird on your end.

New comment by charlesrice in "Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives"

charlesrice — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:20:22 +0000

https://www.codingfont.com/ is a fun way to compare fonts side by side and see just how similar some of them really are. Also kind of fun to see if your favorite font makes it through a blind comparison bracket.

New comment by charlesrice in "A 1976 university experiment spun up the U.S. wind industry"

charlesrice — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:27:54 +0000

They are less efficient and require larger/more robust bearings than standard horizontal turbines. They look neat, but a "standard" turbine will produce more power in the same footprint and require less material to produce. One advantage of the vertical axis turbines is that the "business end" is at the bottom, making it easier to maintain without climbing up a tower. They just stink at the one thing they are supposed to do.

New comment by charlesrice in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

charlesrice — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:46:49 +0000

This is the dumbest post I've seen on this website. Do you also go into cafes and knock the tip jar off the counter? Or do you just ignore it if you don't want to tip?

New comment by charlesrice in "Squares in Squares"

charlesrice — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:39:43 +0000

Do you want the graphs with 300 squares to be bigger than your screen, or do you want the graph with 1 square to be 30x30 px for no reason? They're just zoomed.

New comment by charlesrice in "Dials"

charlesrice — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:30:29 +0000

If you set it to custom curve and then set the numbers or ticks to the outside, they go outside of the usable area and get clipped off.