New comment by semolino in "Olo (Color)"

semolino — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:09:16 +0000

Having read this comment from today detailing variance in the default Windows 95 background (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329282), I'm imagining Olo would be your wallpaper if "257 colors" could be supported.

New comment by semolino in "CSS: The bomb inside your inbox"

semolino — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:08:37 +0000

Most webpages that function as simple documents can be built without JS. If you build webpages, you probably have an intuition for what kind of functionality necessitates JS. When a webpage requires that users enable JS, then, when it doesn't seem like it should need it, that's a signal of either developer laziness or nefarious behind-the-scenes activity (tracking, etc.).

New comment by semolino in "LLM Honeypot"

semolino — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:09:00 +0000

Upon inspecting with developer tools, I was pleased to find that supports GPU acceleration. I vaguely recall reading lore of someone refactoring it up to modern standards in chromium a few years back.

New comment by semolino in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)"

semolino — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:00:48 +0000

I didn't intend to sound so sure :)

New comment by semolino in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)"

semolino — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:09:12 +0000

Yes, perception of entities during psychedelic experience is unhinged paredolia: psychedelic substances obliterate the squelch for our pattern recognition systems, of which paredolia is one. Deepdream slugdogs are sort of a synthetic analogue to this.

New comment by semolino in "1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis"

semolino — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:39:22 +0000

The page would benefit from
image-rendering: pixelated;
in the CSS which would probably(?) prevent the headache-inducing effect, which I'm guessing comes from the hard edges of the background image tiling contrasted with the bilinear upscale blur.
The site looks like it was abandoned in 2023, however.

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.

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

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

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