Hacker News: semolino

New comment by semolino in "Please, Use a Link"

semolino — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:02:11 +0000

You can style a link however you want, and nest a inside it if necessary.

EDIT: CSS also has appearance: button;

New comment by semolino in "1KB is all u need"

semolino — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:03:45 +0000

Awesome. Such clean abstractions are inspiring and make me wanna do something with canvas. I also like that the homepage animations are done with CSS.

Here for additional modern demoscene-style websites if anyone knows of any.

New comment by semolino in "CSS-Native Parallax Effect"

semolino — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:51:25 +0000

This method should still support GPU acceleration, as `transform` (or rotate/scale/etc.) is the only property being animated. The benefit of animation-timeline seems to be that it's much easier to set up than a CSS perspective context.

New comment by semolino in "Show HN: A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)"

semolino — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:51:46 +0000

You can have a dynamic camera with 3D CSS only and no JS. The trick is move the scene instead of the "camera". CSS Doom uses this technique (although unlike the project I'm working on, it relies heavily on JS for the interaction logic).

New comment by semolino in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

semolino — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:14:22 +0000

My read on HN comment sorting is that just like its frontpage, everyone sees the same comment page. New comments are added to the top, and quickly sink below others unless they are engaged with.

This is just a guess tho, as my account can't (yet?) see comment upvote counts.

New comment by semolino in "Flipper One – we need your help"

semolino — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:09:16 +0000

Could you clarify what you mean by saying it may be both unaffordable and surprisingly cheap? (Expensive but less than expensive than it could be? Expensive but of poor build quality?)

Also why would you want/need someone else to purchase it for you? Because of your country's import laws, or reasons related to privacy/anonymity?

New comment by semolino in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

semolino — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:17:58 +0000

The main difference is tweakability: With classical generative and algorithmic composition, the human can change parameters in real time and more closely guide the shape of the piece.

New comment by semolino in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

semolino — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:11:30 +0000

Design is delightful, great job.

The radial glyph wave animation is also really cool, but the novelty will wear off and the delay will become grating especially if one is using the app in a utilitarian manner. Consider skipping transitions/animations if the user signals a preference for reduced/removed motion. Alternatively, you could add an on-page toggle for animations.

New comment by semolino in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

semolino — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:40:15 +0000

Taking shortcuts with design tends to result in users trusting your project less.

New comment by semolino in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

semolino — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:05:47 +0000

How about the most depraved volume control design of all: the actual reddit web video player (at least the embedded player on old.reddit)?

The slider is hidden by default. Hovering the volume icon makes the slider appear. There is margin between the icon and slider, though, so you have to quickly "zip" your mouse across this gap/chasm before the slider disappears. If you make it over to the slider in time, your hover then preserves its visibility.

I know for sure the devs at Condé ain't dogfoodin' on that interface anymore!

New comment by semolino in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

semolino — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:21:32 +0000

Well, sure: a pre-unlocked bootloader and an offline-unlockable one are not fundamentally different in terms of freedom.

When the user decision to unlock (or "side"-load, for that matter) is required to be authorized by the vendor, though, is when I feel like I no longer have control over my own hardware.

New comment by semolino in "Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety"

semolino — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:58:33 +0000

Whether it's essential or not is up to the user, who should be able to load whatever operating system they want (enabling them to bypass the restriction) on their bootloader-unlockable device.

New comment by semolino in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

semolino — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:15:21 +0000

Being able to decide yourself the software that is allowed to run on the hardware you own.

New comment by semolino in "Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975"

semolino — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:00:40 +0000

I first found this site a few months back when researching the logo for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (it appears on a shipping container at a construction site in my area): https://www.modernillustration.org/archive/mol1969ryoheiyana...

Semi-relatedly to the OP, I dug deeper and found that M.O.L. continues to regularly update their site in honor of the logo's illustrator (including fresh monthly wallpapers and printable stationery): https://www.mol.co.jp/en/yanagihara/

I was pleasantly surprised by the ongoing reverence they have for their illustrator's legacy.

New comment by semolino in "Sprites on the Web"

semolino — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:34:14 +0000

Love Josh's work and usually always learn something new from his tutorials.

However, this time, I was really hoping the example implementations would use CSS transforms instead of properties that require repaints, especially since the rationale given here for using sprites is performance.

Maybe layer compositing warrants its own article and is beyond the scope here, but you can really tell when whoever built a frontend knows their stuff because all animations are hitting a consistent 60fps.

New comment by semolino in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

semolino — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:06:18 +0000

Your quote caused me to consider vibecoding through the analogy of an LLM-human system as a subtractive synthesizer: the LLM is the oscillator, and the human is the filter.

New comment by semolino in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

semolino — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:22:39 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by semolino in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

semolino — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:41:20 +0000

https://bnl.cx

New comment by semolino in "Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels"

semolino — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:15:09 +0000

Is this supposed to be the 'bridge facts' easter egg, or something else?

New comment by semolino in "Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS"

semolino — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:53:21 +0000

This is what Cascade Layers was designed to solve:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...

A lingering bit of weirdness is that all !important declarations, no matter the layer they appear on, are interpreted as being part of their own implicit layer.