Hacker News: markussss

New comment by markussss in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

markussss — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:42:34 +0000

The written price is the written price, and that's final. No tips.

New comment by markussss in "Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha”"

markussss — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:26:34 +0000

Thanks for the link and tl;dr, even though it's a quite short video (3:16). I found your explanation very interesting because I have intuitively felt like this is accurate, but never knew what the underlying process is. I have been following this for years already, first absorbing information about anything where I need to make a decision, and then just leave it to stew in the back of my mind. And after a while the answer just appears in my mind, without me really understanding where it comes from.

New comment by markussss in "Ask HN: Library that maps clock times to human terms ("early morning", etc.)?"

markussss — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:47:28 +0000

There are probably several libraries that offer this functionality, the question is just what your other requirements are. It is also built into most modern web browsers, just check out the MDN for Intl.DateTimeFormat with the dayPeriod option [1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

New comment by markussss in "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents"

markussss — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:49:21 +0000

This page has horrible scrolling. I really don't understand why anybody creates this kind of scroll. Are they not using what they create?

New comment by markussss in "On JavaScript's Weirdness"

markussss — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:57:13 +0000

You are right, these quirks are not something you struggle with very often. The only one that has been troublesome at some point during my now 8 years as a professional, mainly Javascript with Vue, web developer is the automatic semicolon insertion example.

The simplest fixes for it is to just insert semicolons yourself, always use const, and not start any lines with [ or (.

New comment by markussss in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

markussss — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:38:09 +0000

I recently switched jobs, and as I've become more comfortable in my new job, I realized that my old job completely sucked the creativity and fun out of programming for me. I did not have any energy for any projects in my spare time while working in my previous job, so the 1,5 months I've been focusing on taking small ideas and running with them.

This weekend I got an idea to create a 2D-pattern from a 1D initial pattern. I put it on https://ige.land/, and I find it very fun and satisfying to play around with. It's not so elegant and pretty, but it's fun for me, and that's all I was looking for! Click any cell to change that color in the pattern. Right click or long press to set the length of the 1D pattern. It's also fun to first create a pattern and then resize the browser window to see how it looks like.

So, what I'm working on is not really an interesting project or product. I'm working on my creativity, playing with code, and in general having more fun with programming. Making it magical for myself again.

I'm not sure if it's 100% in line with the spirit of the thread, but it's what I'm most excited to be working on! :-)

New comment by markussss in "Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook"

markussss — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:14:46 +0000

I clicked around a little and I think that the correct page for me is this one, perhaps it is the correct one for you too? The script doesn't work, but it looks like it could work with some tweaking. https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings/?section=...

New comment by markussss in "Show HN: My first programming project – userscripts to change forum UIs"

markussss — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:04:49 +0000

I love userscripts, and I'm so happy to see and hear that other are using them and developing them. Well done, Will! I hope you keep making userscripts!

New comment by markussss in "Code Verify: An open source browser extension for verifying code authenticity"

markussss — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:50:11 +0000

I think that that is supposed to prepare web apps for verification in the browser, in order to not allow them to run or connect to a remote server unless they are confirmed to be not tampered with, and that the main goal of this is to disallow usage of websites and related services unless ads are served. An adblock-blocker in the browser, sold as a security feature that protects against no real threats.

I refuse to believe that rouge browser extensions and userscripts are such a big problem that Meta decides to invest in security against those attack vectors.

New comment by markussss in "Making a PDF that's larger than Germany"

markussss — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:25:38 +0000

This was a fun read! Thank you

New comment by markussss in "Ripgrep 14 Released"

markussss — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:24:22 +0000

I use Ripgrep daily, and it helps me a lot when navigating codebases, and I even use it to search through my notes. A while ago, I made a script that looks for file paths in the output from Ripgrep in order to turn the paths into clickable links, as I couldn't get it to work properly back then. I'm so happy to hear that «the headlining feature in this release is hyperlink support»! I'm really looking forward to using the new update.

New comment by markussss in "Your brain on emoji"

markussss — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:21:42 +0000

I felt that it was on point to point out Microsoft, as it was the main area where I first started using emojis (before they were emojis, even though it was functionally the same). MSN Messenger came with a nice set of default smileys, and it was very simple to create your own smileys and use them in conversations with others. When other people sent a smiley to you, you could just right click it and add it to your own private repertoire of smileys.

New comment by markussss in "Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language"

markussss — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:06:01 +0000

> Almost the whole of Scandinavia speaks English as a second language, and yet English does not highlight any or the four countries. Most Scandinavian people might agree with this general observation that knowing little to no Nordic language can still get you by very comfortably in that region, although knowing the national language is a plus.

Another thing this website miss out on is that, with goodwill on both parts, Scandinavians can usually communicate with other Scandinavians in different languages. I am Norwegian, and if I meet a Swede, we can just talk with each other. I can't talk Swedish fluently, but I can understand Swedish to such a degree that it's no problem to speak with a Swede who is speaking Swedish.

However, this relationship of understanding languages can be asymmetric, and it's not always as easy for a Swede to understand a Norwegian as it is for a Norwegian to understand a Swede.

Check out this video on asymmetric language understanding from NativLang for more about this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E042GHlUgoQ

New comment by markussss in "Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git"

markussss — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:51:24 +0000

> git reflog (git usage or git cmdlog)

Oh my god, I just realized this is ref-log (a log of references), and not re-flog (I'm not even sure what "to flog" is). No wonder I've never really understood why it's called that, I simply realized that I can look up older references to everything there by using it. Thank you!

New comment by markussss in "Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain"

markussss — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:12:04 +0000

I tried to search for a song I found to be quite cool, Rotoscoping by PTRD. I got two matches, one "Discover Weekly Archive" made by Skiley.net on behalf of NomadicDaggy (you, the creator of this post and service). The second one was a "On Repeat"-playlist! Here, I realized that it's possible to look at other people's "On Repeat"-playlists, even though they are styled by the Spotify app to look like it's your own.

It's kind of weird that I only found this song in your playlists, and not in one of my playlists which also contains this song. For example: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0IntLgAqI2EysEvqwiivXQ?si=...

Anyway, I'm checking out your "On Repeat" playlist, however it might be better if your personally generated playlists are excluded? I'm not sure.

Really cool service!

New comment by markussss in "To download from Google Drive, you must enable third party cookies?"

markussss — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:46:55 +0000

I have not found any shortcomings in Firefox for web development, so I'm wondering if you could you elaborate on what features are missing, or what killer features for web development Chrome has that Firefox doesn't?

New comment by markussss in "Some tiny personal programs I've written"

markussss — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 19:50:17 +0000

I absolutely love this, and I do the same. Small programs and scripts to solve problems I encountered in my daily life. When I make them for my own use, and for myself to enjoy making something, I don't care about whether it's the best solution or the most elegant solution, as long as it's a solution! And I really, really enjoy that. I don't care if it's one or one hundred lines, as long as it's enjoyable!

A few of my examples are:

1. A PyQt GUI for redshift. I use this every day, and have been for a few years.

2. Userstyle for horizontally flipping a video. Sometimes a video or stream is mirrored, for some reason, and it's just nice to be able to fix it.

3. Userstyle for scaling videos that originally had an aspect ratio of 4:3, but have been stretched out into 16:9 back to the original 4:3 aspect ratio. It's surprising how often you come across those.

4. Userscript for improving the functionality of the investment portal of my bank.

5. Bookmarklet for opening all videos on the page in new tabs, but there are some problems with iframes yet.

6. Bookmarklet for setting playback speed of videos on the current page. I use this several times per day.

[1]: https://github.com/Markussss/redshift-gui

[2,3,4]: https://github.com/Markussss/userscripts

[5,6]: https://markussss.github.io/

New comment by markussss in "My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll"

markussss — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:37:17 +0000

GitLab's diff or Code Review has an extremely annoying feature for people who fidget with text, especially when dragging text.

In addition to highlighting and "painting" the text, I often click and drag the highlighted text around. If some text is dragged onto the code view in Firefox, the dropped text seems to be treated like URLs, and opened either in new tabs or in the current tab.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/uploads/666d09080e20ea8...

New comment by markussss in "Git Command Explorer"

markussss — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:27:10 +0000

The "typing" of the results are horrible. It just adds a few seconds where you just sit and wait for the answer to be finished for no apparent reason. Doesn't help that the default is the slow typing speed. I could never recommend this to a colleague to explain or help with git because of how frustrating I find the "typing".

New comment by markussss in "Duolingo S-1 IPO"

markussss — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:44:14 +0000

I've been practicing Russian on Duolingo almost every day since February 2020, and before that I had a few 30 to 100 days streaks over a few years (can't remember 100% for sure). Making you force yourself into learning a new language is what makes Duolingo stand out among all the other tools I've tried.

I think that the tool that is the most efficient in teaching you a new language is the tool that makes you force yourself into learning, at least a little, every day. I'm quite sure that consciously practicing 10 minutes every Monday-Saturday for a year [1] is more efficient compared to practicing two hours every day for one week every three months [2], even though it adds up to approximately the same amount of time spent yearly on learning the target language.

[1]: (10 minutes * (365 days - 52 Sundays)) / 60 minutes per hour ≈ 52 hours and 10 minutes [2]: 2 hours * 7 days * 4 quarters = 56 hours per year