Hacker News: ozaark

New comment by ozaark in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

ozaark — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:03:07 +0000

You'd be hesitant to trust a brand if it can't keep consistent styling. Branding helps users identify a brand and believe it or not the aesthetics of a brand make a great deal of impact on consumers.

As others have said, your point comes across as "let's remove design who cares" because design and human computer interaction roles stopped where your understanding ends. Everything looks the same to you after all (it doesn't, you just haven't noticed it affecting your decision making).

New comment by ozaark in "Ask HN: One-person SaaS apps that are profitable?"

ozaark — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:24:56 +0000

The common recommendation I've seen is to use your network. If it's something you're building then ideally you know what problem you're solving and who has that problem. Then getting those early users you know with that problem involved to test and give feedback, you can then optimize further for that audience and need. From there those users will likely share with those that they know within their own network having the same issue. There's a few books on it like Tribes by Godin (though not everyone agrees of course).

Other than that there are a few places that highlight product launches like product hunt, etc. to gain initial usage. Probably check for niche groups having the issue and reach out organically - no one likes spam.

This is just what I've gathered from others, I'm in the beginning phase of this myself :-)

New comment by ozaark in "How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website"

ozaark — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:43:10 +0000

I believe max-snippet removes suggested text from the SERPs but would still display the page meta description as per usual.

New comment by ozaark in "Show HN: Tetris in a PDF"

ozaark — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:57:30 +0000

Love the demo video and post but for some reason this doesn't seem to work for me. Running Chrome on Android 14

New comment by ozaark in "HTML Form Validation is underused"

ozaark — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:59:52 +0000

Not just you it's a required feature of accessible sites following ADA/WCAG.

New comment by ozaark in "Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy"

ozaark — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:08:26 +0000

This still sounds like a "Walmart" company town

New comment by ozaark in "Why Tesla's Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting"

ozaark — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:21:42 +0000

IIRC this was one of the reasons the Delorean manual recommended using gasoline to clean the steel panels

New comment by ozaark in "How to center a div in CSS"

ozaark — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:50:51 +0000

I can't tell if you're serious or not, but tables are an absolute mess to handle layout.

Email clients handle the CSS code to varying degree of support when wrapping responsively so even if you think your layout looks good with wrapping it's because CSS influenced the layout in whatever particular client you are using. If client doesn't support CSS or the CSS properties you've used: jank email. Email unfortunately requires you to code like 1999 in this regard.

Browsers having CSS as standard and relatively up to date is a very good thing. Tables that aren't representation of tabular data are a mess.

New comment by ozaark in "Kanye West Launches Yews News Platform"

ozaark — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:53:56 +0000

Same. I'm on mobile. Maybe iphone only or it's down already?

New comment by ozaark in "Vegas casinos are still reeling from a cyberattack"

ozaark — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 17:31:30 +0000

As far as reputation goes it looks like Caesars paid the $10m ransom after having the loyalty member db exposed with drivers licenses and social security numbers. They also have no real guarantee the data stolen will be deleted.

Still might be better for them being a "quiet" incident as opposed to disrupting operations like mgm.

New comment by ozaark in "A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops"

ozaark — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:05:43 +0000

Idk much about the situation but in a few of that guys posts he made prior to being raided he talked about sniping potusa from afar with time, place in mind, pictures of him with rifles, and threats to answer FBI with guns. Afaik obese scooter bound people can still aim a rifle from afar. He basically provoked a situation and was treated as credible threat based on his own actions.

New comment by ozaark in "New in Chrome 113"

ozaark — Wed, 03 May 2023 22:45:10 +0000

Doesn't part of this update also make fingerprinting users even more robust with webGPU? Aka you don't need cookies because we can see who you are without them based on your machines unique specs

New comment by ozaark in "All you may need is HTML"

ozaark — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 23:29:29 +0000

This doesn't add up. CSS grid, flex box, etc all do the "holy grail" layout with a couple lines. The tables mess that was early www was and remains an absolute mess of markdown to maintain for layout. Semantics and accessibility are practically out the window with table.

HCI dictates how humans use interfaces and with that comes many defacto reasons why a plain text page does not solve the problems users want to solve. Do you not think websites test into the optimal performing layouts and content distribution? If it worked better, we'd all be using it (it doesn't).

New comment by ozaark in "Function keys productivity trick"

ozaark — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:59:37 +0000

On Mac I just use CMD+space to pull up spotlight which very quickly opens anything matching what you type from there. Usually within a single keystroke after CMD+space pulls up the desired app and typically takes under a second. It does a lot of other neat things as well but I use that feature daily.

Windows is similar in just pressing the windows key allows you to type the name of an app or file but in my experience is much slower and inaccurate compared to OSX.

It's easier for me to remember the name of the app I want than that+the key binding with muscle memory I've then had to set.

New comment by ozaark in "Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM"

ozaark — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:08:54 +0000

I have a 2008 Mac Pro with 64GB ram installed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by ozaark in "Hate paywalls? 12ft.io is the answer"

ozaark — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 22:34:21 +0000

When this was first posted on HN it seemed to work without issue - however since then I have attempted to use it on numerous occasions and get a server error, or just a blank page with the window "is the paywall gone? Y/n".

New comment by ozaark in "Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity"

ozaark — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:29:58 +0000

That didn't take long to reverse: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Your account has been re-enabled"

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/127021326/google-has...

New comment by ozaark in "The 88x31 GIF Collection"

ozaark — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:10:45 +0000

I was surprised the list has a couple affiliates of sites I used to run as a kid. It was one of the first ways I would navigate within a network of sites without having to use an often clunky search browsing experience at the time.

Definitely nostalgia inducing.

New comment by ozaark in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

ozaark — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 17:18:48 +0000

FCC doesn't seem to be on consumer side - at least until Pai and his ilk are out unfortunately. They showed that with NN repeal despite mass public disapproval.

New comment by ozaark in "Ask HN: Anyone a social entrepreneur, i.e. placing social impact above profit?"

ozaark — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:39:46 +0000

I created Treets ( https://treets.org ), a basic shop that currently plants 5 trees in areas of need around the world for every item sold. The challenge was finding the right partners also focused on sustainability from the fabric to the continued maintenance and oversight of trees.

The issue I saw was many companies were claiming to be eco-conscious with planting trees but behind the scenes their product was harmful and their tree planting was merely donating ~$1 from $70+ items. Currently Treets continues to plant more trees than it costs to operate and I'll continue to run it so long as that holds true.