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New comment by pxx in "A font that reads what you wrote"

pxx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:48:12 +0000

other than the fact that the headline is misleading (this isn't what anybody would think of as a font), the concept misses the point of emphasis.

adding emphasis to words in unformatted text draws the reader's attention in ways that are not implied by the text itself.

you cannot figure out which word to highlight with the raw text "I didn't say he stole the money", but the semantics are completely different depending on if/where they exist.

you already have a mental model of surprise. adding visual noise to destroy what is already part of reading just makes things bad. the reason why syntax highlighting is successful is that the semantics are rigid. natural language is explicitly not that.

New comment by pxx in "List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games"

pxx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:55:59 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

> In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law

47/50 states also provide for this right in their constitutions. the remaining three don't have it in their constitution but still have legislation or rules supporting it

New comment by pxx in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

pxx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:13:48 +0000

Wait, what? Hasn't this been the case for more than a week? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432879

New comment by pxx in "A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation"

pxx — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:33:18 +0000

All of this text complaining about prices rising faster than other goods, but many of the listed ski resorts suffer from overcrowding.

If anything, ticket prices during peak times are too _low_. There's just too much demand.

New comment by pxx in "DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live"

pxx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:19:18 +0000

Yes, that's exactly the point of their post and how cheap DeepSeek used to be.

New comment by pxx in "Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries?"

pxx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:14:31 +0000

something is wrong with your first simulator. it always responds YNYY if your queries are RRKK or KKRR on four different cards. "vibe" slop?

New comment by pxx in "Why I joined Blacksmith to work on storage again"

pxx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:27:17 +0000

this AI voice is killing me. there might be something technically interesting in this blog post but it's so hard to read because the AI voice just completely distracts from the message

New comment by pxx in "Claude Opus 5"

pxx — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:36:43 +0000

it's a super exaggeration of a minor thing that happened

https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/facebook-artifici...

New comment by pxx in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

pxx — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:54:50 +0000

the target rp2350 is a sub-$1 chip. a 16x2 LCD module is over $1. but more importantly, you might have this much ram sitting around unused on whatever you're building anyway.

New comment by pxx in "Fake food delivery site for the dopamine"

pxx — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:12:39 +0000

Doesn't quite meet the fantasy threshold. I can't seem to filter by allergens or dietary restrictions.

New comment by pxx in "IBM is on pace for its worst day ever"

pxx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:23:04 +0000

Paying taxes isn't optional. Sure you can invest more in the stock with external funds but that's not a fair proposition. If you were to tell me there's a certain chance of a stock going up by 100% we could also just buy calls with those magic funds and make far more money.

New comment by pxx in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

pxx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:54:32 +0000

Do you have evidence for your claims?

Show HN: Entropic — information-driven variable-rate media playback

pxx — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/patrickxia/entropic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346255

Points: 4

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New comment by pxx in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

pxx — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:39:26 +0000

I agree with some of the sentiment here, but why is it presented in an AI slop format? It's really a self-defeating message.

New comment by pxx in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

pxx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:43:49 +0000

maybe. but somebody has to manually ban you if you do that. whereas banning everybody who charges back can easily be done in batch on the billing side

New comment by pxx in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

pxx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:26:41 +0000

There are grounded duckheads for this purpose, e.g. https://amzn.to/4cnzuef (note out of stock. I guess your best bet is to use a UK duckhead, but half of those have a dummy ground...)

if you take the plug part from the brick you'll note that there's only two pins but the button-like thing is a ground

as noted in a sibling, the power adapter extension cable does plumb the ground through (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...)

New comment by pxx in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

pxx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:48:01 +0000

I've never gotten motion sickness playing a video game before Return of the Obra Dinn. it's sad because I hear it's a good game but it's absolutely unplayable for me

New comment by pxx in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

pxx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:57:32 +0000

ugh the most annoying thing about the conversation clash latency is that the person causing the issue just thinks others are being weirdly rude.

wireless headphones externalize the cost of latency to other conference participants. if you think your airbuds are "perfectly fine" it's because you're not the one paying the cost.

New comment by pxx in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"

pxx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:46:09 +0000

what? this article is making a different point if you read past the title.

> Conventional leadership advice suggests looking at decisions as reversible or non-reversible. Many important, non-reversible, decisions are recoverable, though.

New comment by pxx in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

pxx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:18:01 +0000

reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose.