Hacker News: idbehold

New comment by idbehold in "Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake"

idbehold — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:35:37 +0000

For me it's #353841 on #ffffff which meets WCAG AAA standards for accessible text.

New comment by idbehold in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

idbehold — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:58:04 +0000

The amount of punctuation and terrible sentence structure make this nearly incomprehensible.

New comment by idbehold in "3M's PFAS exit killed the supply chain for two-phase immersion cooling in DCs"

idbehold — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:51:45 +0000

I guess the first ten upvotes are people who just read the headline as the link is currently incorrect and doesn't actually show the article with this headline. Link should be update to https://thecoolingreport.com/intel/pfas-two-phase-immersion-...

New comment by idbehold in "Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs"

idbehold — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:30:08 +0000

I guess you didn't see https://claude.com/blog/how-ai-helps-break-cost-barrier-cobo...

New comment by idbehold in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

idbehold — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:39:43 +0000

Manufacturers know people do this. The TV will attempt to connect to any open network (neighbors) and I'd be shocked if they haven't at least considered packaging them with 4G/5G antennas. You're gonna need a Faraday Cage.

New comment by idbehold in "Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS"

idbehold — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:47:13 +0000

If you try to render tables with millions of cells the browser does a really poor job and the performance is abysmal. The only solution when you need to render that many cells is to virtualize the table and only have the visible cells (plus some buffer) actually in the DOM at a time. That plus weird restrictions browsers put on certain table elements (looking at you thead) that prevent them from being "sticky" headers means that the developer is left with absolutely positioned divs as the only solution. Blame browser vendors for not providing a native way to present tabular data with more than a few hundred thousand rows without causing performance issues.

New comment by idbehold in "The HTTP Query Method"

idbehold — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:05:56 +0000

You also miss out on standardized HTTP caching mechanisms since those don't work with POST requests.

New comment by idbehold in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

idbehold — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:22:22 +0000

Range (noun): a large box-shaped device that is used to cook and heat food, either by putting the food inside or by putting it on the top https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/range#ca...

New comment by idbehold in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

idbehold — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:15:19 +0000

"Products" would have had no such ambiguity.

New comment by idbehold in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

idbehold — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:04:12 +0000

The term "range" (in the context of a "home") typically describes a multi-function cooking appliance that features a rangetop for heating pots and an oven directly beneath it. Why is this page about lightbulbs? The subtitle even has the word they should've used instead of "range": "products".

New comment by idbehold in "Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system"

idbehold — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:16:58 +0000

Counter point: yes they are.

New comment by idbehold in "AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund"

idbehold — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:40:07 +0000

Would be funny if individuals could do the same. "Sorry IRS, even though my income is $100k, the cost of living took all of that revenue."

New comment by idbehold in "Infinite Pixels"

idbehold — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:02:51 +0000

>But this does fall apart for very very large grids, as you get close to the height limit described in this article.

This was solved by a now unmaintained virtualization library that predates both of these libraries: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized

The react-virtualized library works around this issue by scaling the the scroll position it sets for a row based on the ratio of "max CSS height allowed by browser" to "computed height of all rows" if the latter is greater than the former: https://github.com/bvaughn/react-virtualized/blob/master/sou...

New comment by idbehold in "The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious"

idbehold — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:11:19 +0000

I can and do assume a monospaced font when using spaces to align code. Folks using variable width fonts will get what they deserve.

New comment by idbehold in "Use Your Type System"

idbehold — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:49:07 +0000

>But it takes a while

*Checks watch*

We're going on 45 years now.

New comment by idbehold in "SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed"

idbehold — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:25:16 +0000

You can still read it for free according to the author: https://qntm.org/scp

New comment by idbehold in "Effectiveness of trees in reducing temperature, outdoor heat exposure in Vegas"

idbehold — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:27:42 +0000

Swamp coolers can't generally provide shade.

New comment by idbehold in "Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates"

idbehold — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:32:36 +0000

It's quite astonishing how complicated it is to draw lines in 3D graphics. As a novice it was a little unbelievable that the primitives for drawing lines was effectively limited to a solid screen-space pixel wide line. Want to draw a 2 pixel wide line? Do it yourself with triangles.

New comment by idbehold in "Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle"

idbehold — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:13:32 +0000

How could the authority determine what rate to charge? How could they know your net-worth? What if you're rich but someone not rich is driving (a chauffeur)?

I support not wanting a regressive tax, but there are just so many complications in trying to do that.

New comment by idbehold in "PlasticList's Advice for Food Companies"

idbehold — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:23:39 +0000

You may be disturbed to find out how much plastic is in contact with boiling hot water in your typical automatic drip coffee brewer.

I was recently trying to find one without plastic to replace the $25 all black plastic one I've had for years. The only one I could find without any plastic was one of those all metal Bunn ones you see at diners. It was more than $400! And even that still required you to purchase a separate all metal basket as the one that comes with it was plastic. And that coffee maker doesn't really make "good tasting" coffee. Any premium "good tasting" drip coffee maker will have plastic, and probably black plastic at that.