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New comment by qw in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

qw — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:50:54 +0000

Swipe to go back can be implemented in frontend.

It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I think the Ionic framework has this feature.

New comment by qw in "The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020)"

qw — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:10:54 +0000

And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter "å" is the last letter of the alphabet.

New comment by qw in "How RSS beat Microsoft"

qw — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:08:08 +0000

> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader?

Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity.

I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what I had made, so I thought it would be foolish to compete with Google and stopped working on it.

I wonder where RSS would be now if Google had not discouraged potential competitors.

New comment by qw in "How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"

qw — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:30:26 +0000

Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of compressed HTML for each page. I don't think we would notice much of a difference in the navigation from one page to another if they used content preloading

It's how we used to make websites before SPA, and it's refreshing to see that it still makes a noticeable difference even on today's powerful CPUs and high speed networks.

New comment by qw in "James Webb Space Telescope reveals its first direct image of an exoplanet"

qw — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:14:35 +0000

What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defend ourselves.

In sci-fi we see warp drives, worm hole travel, phasers, photon torpedos and energy shields around ships. But what if none of that is possible? In that case, we might even have the technology to defend ourselves today if we manage to detect the attack in time.

It's a huge risk for a civilization to attack us. Even if they have capabilities that are beyond our technology, there might still be limitations based on the laws of physics. And if they attack us, they risk a response.

New comment by qw in "Visual History of the Latin Alphabet"

qw — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:09:54 +0000

Originally, the "o" on top of the letter "Å" was a lower case "a", because the sound could be written as "AA". Over time it transformed into a circle.

Some names today still use the double a, like the Norwegian football player Martin Ødegaard. In that case it is pronounced the same as the "å" sound. (not too far from how an American might pronounce the "o" sound in "for")

New comment by qw in "Oxfordshire clock still keeping village on time after 500 years"

qw — Sat, 31 May 2025 20:11:44 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

> The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.

New comment by qw in "A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023)"

qw — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:08:40 +0000

Yes, it's #176 on his list of countries:

https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/journey

New comment by qw in "Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching"

qw — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:15:22 +0000

> The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not.

The initial prefix check would probably reduce the amount of lookups necessary, as it would only be necessary to do a deeper search if the prefix matches.

New comment by qw in "SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces"

qw — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:59:40 +0000

It is my recollection as well. Most applications used VB, Delphi, MFC etc. that all had the "native" OS look and feel. There were some exceptions like WinAmp and others, but from what I can remember most applications were more consistent than today.

New comment by qw in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

qw — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:53:22 +0000

It doesn't work for me either (Android+Chrome)

New comment by qw in "YAML: The Norway Problem (2022)"

qw — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:22:23 +0000

I often prefer enums over booleans for this. It seems more readable for most cases, and can be extended with new values.

This:

    isRegistered: true

could be replaced with

    accountStatus: "UNREGISTRED"

New comment by qw in "How to Make a Longbow"

qw — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:35:14 +0000

My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site

New comment by qw in "Default styles for h1 elements are changing"

qw — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 08:10:57 +0000

I would prefer to use a neutral tag, that was proposed in the xhtml2 specs. It always made more sense to let the browser infer the place in the hierarchy.

New comment by qw in "A love letter to the CSV format"

qw — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:46:55 +0000

It's related to how older versions of Windows/Office handled Unicode in general.

From what I have heard, it's still an issue with Excel, although I assume that Windows may handle plain text better these days (I haven't used it in a while)

You need to write an UTF-8 BOM at the beginning (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF), if you want to make sure it's recognized as UTF-8.

New comment by qw in "German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe"

qw — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:20:41 +0000

The same location (Andøya, Norway) has also launched over 1,200 sounding and sub-orbital rockets of various configurations since 1962.

As others have explained, the news here is a rocket reaching orbit

New comment by qw in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

qw — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:13:40 +0000

My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break.

It is probably easier to just close it down to avoid handling all the angry phone calls if it would happen to have an issue during the break.

New comment by qw in "Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty"

qw — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:56:50 +0000

I liked Settlers, but I was much more invested in the Caesar/Zeus/Pharaoh series of games. Maybe it was due to the historical context.

New comment by qw in "Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty"

qw — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:21:57 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215014709/https://simonschr...

Making Duotrigordle, Part 1: Feature Train

qw — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://thesilican.com/articles/making-duotrigordle-part-1-feature-train/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987130

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