Hacker News: mlok

New comment by mlok in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

mlok — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:24:08 +0000

"Written in ghost font" is the decoy message. Your filters got those words.

The real message is "only a human can read this" and your filters didn't get these words.

(But I think there should be a way to catch them)

New comment by mlok in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

mlok — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:26:27 +0000

I like this one, too : https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

New comment by mlok in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

mlok — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:22:37 +0000

I love the small web, and this is a nice project. But I won't remember to come back to it. It would be nice to have it pop up in my Mastodon or Lemmy (or Insta, or FB...) for each new addition.

Use the new web to bring people back to the old web :)

(Or a newsletter ? RSS ?)

Thank you for the "dark mode", like the old days. 2 annoyances though :

- the flashing bright yellow banner is painful to the eyes

- and the fonts are very small on a phone screen — although a 300x zoom "fixed" this.

New comment by mlok in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

mlok — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:11:37 +0000

I agree. Painful. (Especially on a "dark mode" website)

New comment by mlok in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"

mlok — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:42:56 +0000

I was wondering also. If it can help, there is an overview on Kitty's website : https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

New comment by mlok in "Building a Web Page That Edits Itself"

mlok — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:47:23 +0000

Some Javascript can generate this on such a local single-html file.

New comment by mlok in "Goodbye to Sora"

mlok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:37:25 +0000

On TV, content changes all the time. It is "always new". In your examples, content is the same over and over. They would not be fascinating for too long because the novelty would wear off. Very different.

New comment by mlok in "Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map"

mlok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:20:51 +0000

First impression : interesting concept, but half baked result.

Some Feedback :

- A few times, while using the automatic translation of Firefox (I don't speak portuguese) I ran into critical bug while hovering the map, that "deletes" the whole page and leaves me with an error message : "Erreur d'application: une application client a une exception lors du chargement de saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud (voir la console du navigateur pour plus d'informations)." in the console I get : "Uncaught DOMException: Node.removeChild: The node to be removed is not a child of this node > NextJS"

- I use Firefox with zoom on by default, and its not dealt with properly : the floating window on the map is right above what I am pointing at and hiding it. Really annoying.

- Clicking on "commençar gratis" I get to "Error Loading Deployments - HTTP 401: Unauthorized"

Good luck with this project. I like the idea of a micro-SaaS map, but it needs some more work, at this stage.

Goup-utils: Write HTML/Htmx once, deploy everywhere: Web, iOS, Android, Desktop

mlok — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:32:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/joeblew999/goup-util

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878955

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mlok in "How I estimate work"

mlok — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:17:12 +0000

Usually less than 2 days, with a 90% confidence.

New comment by mlok in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

mlok — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:41:51 +0000

Unfortunately, no. CORS will block this on Chrome and Firefox.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/COR...

The security risk : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-2...

You need a local webserver. Or bundle everything in one html file.

New comment by mlok in "How Markdown took over the world"

mlok — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:33:57 +0000

They are not reserved characters. They only express a special format when used in that way : a space on its left, and a character stuck to its right AND somewhere down the road : its twin with a character stuck to its left and a space on its right. I built an editor doing just that more than two decades ago, and it works fine.

So *this* and /that/ express formatting, but not 4 * 5 nor 4*5 nor 4/5 nor m/s.

New comment by mlok in "How Markdown took over the world"

mlok — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:47:06 +0000

A more intuitive norm, used in other formats, would have been :

*bold*

/italics/

_underline_

New comment by mlok in "There's no such thing as a fake feather [video]"

mlok — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:54:13 +0000

Maybe "juice" ? "Soy juice" and "Oat juice" sound pretty good to me.

On the "Soy milk" wikipedia page, it is said that Germany and Italy use names like "soy drink" or "soy beverage".

New comment by mlok in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

mlok — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:24:38 +0000

"While the assets in question were patched out, it still goes against the regulations we have in place. As a result, the IGAs nomination committee has agreed to officially retract both the Debut Game and Game of the Year awards"

Looks like "regulations nitpicking". In the end it doesn't represent the players best interests.

New comment by mlok in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

mlok — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:45:27 +0000

True. And that's also a reason why "Javascript" is more human friendly tbh.

New comment by mlok in "WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS"

mlok — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:00:05 +0000

About games compatibility made possible by Steam, check Proton DB : https://www.protondb.com/

New comment by mlok in "Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air"

mlok — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:01:49 +0000

I just love cycling in Paris (apart from winter...) the experience is amazing, and the city is beautiful. It's a joy to experience the city this way.

Both bicycles & free transports would be even better !

New comment by mlok in "Dark Mode Sucks"

mlok — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:57:12 +0000

Ok you don't like dark mode.

I love dark mode, and I don't like light mode. Everything is dark mode on my machines, day and night.

I find it stupid to have so much light beamed into my face, and I prefer to only light up the useful signal. The letters and numbers, and graphs. The 99% of background is of no interest and as such it doesn't need to send light to my face.

OVHcloud: Quantum random number generation SSL certificates for all customers

mlok — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:12:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en-webhosting-ssl-qrng/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799118

Points: 3

# Comments: 0