<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: duckfruit</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=duckfruit</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:07:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=duckfruit" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by duckfruit in "Poison Fountain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, good on them but its like fighting a wildfire with a thimbleful of water.<p>Feel like the model trainers would be able to easily work around this.</p>
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<p>+1.<p>While the author's complaint is perfectly valid, in practice the advantages of even current OLEDs - for me - far outweigh any disadvantages due to subpixel layout fringing and everything else. Even for programming, the lack of backlight and resulting infinite contrast makes such a huge difference in my day to day life that I refuse to use a non-OLED monitor anymore for any purpose whatsoever. Heck it could be half the DPI and I'd still go for OLED anytime.<p>The only reason LCDs still exist is price, nothing else.</p>
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<p>But if all you want to do is render HTML then why use <canvas>?<p>I'm only speculating, but it doesn't seem surprising that regular DOM rendering logic - which has to handle approximately a bazillion different rules and special cases - is slower than a custom renderer written for a specific subset of HTML.</p>
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<p>Essentially a<p><pre><code>  throw new RuntimeException(e)
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for rockets?<p>As a fellow engineer, I sympathize.</p>
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<p>Great article. The Sphere is such a ridiculous, hilarious and fantastic project. We should be build one in every city.</p>
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<p>It’s a patently obvious money grab or scam or PR attempt because there’s no way in hell Wordpress will be around in 30 years let alone a hundred.<p>But that got me thinking. Will the web itself be around a century from now? ICANN? HTML? HTTP? A hundred years ago there were no transatlantic flights. The television hadn’t been invented yet. What will the next hundred years bring? Kind of thought provoking really. Good weekend musings.</p>
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<p>Certainly not at the FAANG I work at. We hire specialized engineers to work on device drivers and OS kernels and absolutely do not ask them questions on how to design distributed web services.<p>I encourage you to apply:
<a href="https://www.apple.com/careers/us/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.apple.com/careers/us/</a></p>
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<p>This makes me indescribably sad.<p>Apart from mourning the loss of a fantastic app by an awesome developer, to me it signals the end of a golden era of small indie client only apps. Since the APIs for the likes of reddit, twitter (RIP tweetbot) and others were available for free or a reasonable fee it spawned a whole cottage industry of developers who made a living selling alternate front ends for these services. These apps invented many of the conventions and designs that eventually percolated to the official clients. Sometimes these innovations even became platform wide conventions (pull to refresh anyone?). The writing was on the wall for a while, but now the door is firmly closed on that era - and we will all be poorer for it.</p>
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<p>Is there something remotely similar for the US market? I would love a small, cheap electric city car and it doesn't have to be solar or anything - though that would be a plus! It would be perfect for my Silicon Valley commute (<10 miles on urban streets) although I appreciate that it probably won't be quite as useful for the vast majority of my countrymen.<p>I have considered a used electric smart fortwo and a fiat 500e, but the combination of upfront cost and upkeep expenses owing to the need to register it as a car dulls their value proposition as a secondary commuter vehicle. I have looked into an Electrameccanica Solo, but as far as I can tell that company has folded after a series of recalls.</p>
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<p>On that vein, I recently joined home-barista, an old school web forum for coffee geeks.<p>That site is seemingly frozen in time from the early 2000s. There are no trackers - there's no need, since it is already filled with a self selected group. The ads are just simple banners. And best of all it filled with a group of passionate, kind and helpful folks. A simpler site from a simpler time. One of my favorite haunts on the web.</p>
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<p>Social media promotes a vicious callout culture where everything you say in the past is permanently used against you in the court of public opinion whenever you change your mind. While I did not share PG's opinion at the time I also don't think it was completely unreasonable to think that someone like Musk would be capable of running Twitter judiciously after the acquisition. I appreciate that instead of digging in his heels PG seems to have evolved his judgement after recent developments.</p>
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<p>I am agreeing with you, but I can see how my comment is unclear.</p>
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<p>I'm willing to bet on it! I live in the center of Silicon Valley and it would take me a 30 minute drive to the south or the east before I lose cell phone access.</p>
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<p>A rate hike that that was widely telegraphed and has been anticipated for years, to boot!</p>
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<p>I agree. We live in a golden age of gaming. Steam and all the game stores have a practically unlimited catalog (granted there's a lot of shovelware, but still plenty to chew on). Triple A games with budgets  that rival and even exceed tentpole Hollywood franchises. New art forms constantly furthering the boundaries of narrative driven entertainment. Hyper realistic graphics pushing the frontiers of CG and even AI research with DLSS and the like. Gaming can be entertainment, a social activity, a creative tool (There's Minecraft of course, but also check out some of the incredible stuff made in Dreams on the Playstation <a href="https://youtu.be/AXtNlgjPb80?t=288" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/AXtNlgjPb80?t=288</a>).<p>And on top of all that, there's <i>also</i> innovation in the underlying business models. F2P games that are morally dubious and depend on hapless whales that get addicted to your product and subsidize it for the rest of the playerbase? Sure! Single $60 or $70 purchase without DLCs? Contrary to the author's insinuation, there are plenty of games that still follow that model. Expansion packs! Monthly subscriptions! There's just no other kind of media that even comes close -- where else can you spend $50 and potentially get hundreds or even thousands of hours of entertainment?</p>
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<p>Worth bearing in mind that the author has himself admitted to and apologized for factual errors in his article that could change some of his conclusions.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1499465032547061767?s=21" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1499465032547061767?...</a></p>
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<p>Happy to see the Fall of Civs podcast on HN. An amazingly well produced, thought provoking podcast - highly recommended by this Internet Stranger!</p>
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<p><i>I would be surprised if it starts to show wear within the next 10 years.</i><p>I've been using mine daily for around 10 years, and yes, you are entirely correct. If I could somehow clean all the coffee stains and grime it has accumulated it could probably pass off as new! And while I personally love the feel of topre keys, I can see why people might not like them - to each his own.<p>I just wish the new wireless HHKBs weren't so dang ugly!</p>
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<p>I've been on HN long enough to realize that the majority of comments here are going to inevitably devolve into a discussion of the sheer complexity and breadth of tooling listed here.<p>However, bear in mind that the site is built by a popular JS influencer whose day job is popularizing frameworks and increasing demand for services of the sort he offers.</p>
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<p>This sounds fascinating. I'm interested to learn more. How does one go about paying for passage on a cargo ship?</p>
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