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New comment by sings in "Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)"

sings — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:34:23 +0000

Being unscientific, societies veil deficient idiocies, reifying their weird, counterfeit policies.

New comment by sings in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

sings — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:50:00 +0000

I agree. I occasionally turn to them to see if they work in a new setting, but find they never expose the features of a grid I would find useful. Everything must be manually placed, rather than allowing content to intelligently snap to multiple axes. Possibly I never have grasped some fundamental concept, possibly they are not suited to the sorts of layouts I usually work on. But more and more I feel they are designed to fulfil some purpose orthogonal to what I would need them to do.

New comment by sings in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

sings — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:48:42 +0000

I was looking at Marko a few years ago because of the concise syntax. I have always thought highly of Pug and would have loved a framework that integrated that sort of elegant, minimal syntax. Unfortunately, Marko doesn’t even get the syntax highlighting right in its own docs for this style.

The example on that page with leading commas to separate tag attributes, and a number of other choices across the framework are also a turn off for me personally.

I’ve mostly been using Svelte for the past half-decade instead but still hope for something more elegant to come along.

New comment by sings in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

sings — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:36:32 +0000

What is remarkable is the frequency with which I’ve heard so-called subject matter experts do this on podcasts. It seems to me a very effective way to communicate your lack of any such expertise.

New comment by sings in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

sings — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:32:02 +0000

Preview is genuinely very good, but it doesn’t handle annotations made in Acrobat very well. When navigating between annotations, they can become stuck open in Preview, and it is not possible to view insertions.

Whether that is the fault of Acrobat or Preview, I’m not sure. Unfortunately, though, it means I frequently need to move across to Acrobat when addressing edits that someone has marked up in that software. And that acts as a constant reminder of how sluggish, awkward and nagging Acrobat can be. Even quitting the app is slow!

Which country is the most influential partner in Southeast Asia?

sings — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:20:42 +0000

Article URL: https://influence.lowyinstitute.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367129

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sings in "You Had No Taste Before AI"

sings — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:54:51 +0000

This thread also makes me think of Susan Sontag’s essay On Style.

New comment by sings in "This map is not upside down"

sings — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:29:48 +0000

I suppose that would make those employing Boustrophedon ambidextrous?

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

New comment by sings in "Netlify: New credit-based pricing for today's AI development"

sings — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:50:54 +0000

Agree that it seems like a pretty steep jump for my use cases too.

Makes it clear how generous their free tier has been. Comparing the current free plan to the incoming one, as an example: - Unlimited deploys vs 10-15? - 100GB bandwidth vs 1? - Unlimited requests vs 100K?

I have a mixture of paid and personal use, but will be looking around for something with fewer features and a simpler cost structure. Static hosting is the only real feature that's required for a lot of my projects, and the other niceties are completely non-essential.

I have found Netlify to be a great product so far, though.

New comment by sings in "Where's Firefox going next?"

sings — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:01:44 +0000

Not to mention the two-em-dash (U+2E3A) and three-em-dash (U+2E3B).

New comment by sings in "GUIs are built at least 2.5 times"

sings — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 22:16:55 +0000

Another category, searchable interfaces, may fit into one of these or may be it’s own separate category. But tools like MacOS Spotlight or the command palette in some editors are very useful for power users. Having every command available through a minimal set of fuzzy keyboard strokes is a significant productivity boost, while also allowing some degree of discoverability.

As an aside, if anyone at Adobe is reading this, this sort of tool would be an excellent addition to Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. InDesign already has something like it, although that implementation leaves a little to be desired.

New comment by sings in "Square Theory"

sings — Wed, 28 May 2025 08:50:43 +0000

Love the idea but today’s was not a good one.

Generative Art Sketches by Grgrdvrt

sings — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:26:47 +0000

Article URL: https://grgrdvrt.com/sketches/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933783

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sings in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

sings — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:52:39 +0000

As a metric user, this is an interesting point that I haven’t heard before, and I think the other responses don’t really engage with it. Yes, familiarity means this isn’t much of a daily problem – you just use divisions of the unit that are most appropriate. But the size of the base units for volume, mass and length don’t really match up well from a human day-to-day perspective.

Wouldn’t it be nicer if a litre, a gram and a cubic metre of water were equal, rather than 1 cubic metre, 1000 litres, 1,000,000 grams?

Side note that in Europe drinking products are often labelled in centilitres whereas Australians use millilitres. I wonder whether this indicates some difference in the way the two groups think about volume, or maybe it is just the fallout of some other constraint, like translations limiting the space available.

Still, the ergonomics seem to be on the side of Metric, taking into account the ease of conversion between units when all are base ten.

New comment by sings in "Show HN: Txtl – Fast static website of text utilities"

sings — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:18:24 +0000

Without meaning to high-jack this thread, you can do Base64 decoding here. Also no ads, 100% client-side, and no AI. But no string auto-detection either! https://www.takeymakey.com/convert/code/decode-base64/

Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan

sings — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/one-china-contest-to-define-taiwan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157381

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Beampipe: Simple, free, privacy-focussed analytics

sings — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:20:57 +0000

Article URL: https://beampipe.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088042

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sings in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

sings — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:13:20 +0000

I suppose there is no hard requirement for consistent saturation between hues, but that seems a bit inconsistent to my tastes. Darker yellow and orange colours seem a little too washed out.

Overall I like the total palette though. Especially the avoidance of “red” red, which is a colour I think many designers dislike. I would love to see a study on colour preferences in relation to eye colour.

In the same vein, but with more hues… https://www.s-ings.com/scratchpad/oklch-smooth/

Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan

sings — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://interactives.lowyinstitute.org/features/one-china-contest-to-define-taiwan/

Hacker News: sings

New comment by sings in "Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)"

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New comment by sings in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

New comment by sings in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

New comment by sings in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

Which country is the most influential partner in Southeast Asia?

New comment by sings in "You Had No Taste Before AI"

New comment by sings in "This map is not upside down"

New comment by sings in "Netlify: New credit-based pricing for today's AI development"

New comment by sings in "Where's Firefox going next?"

New comment by sings in "GUIs are built at least 2.5 times"

New comment by sings in "Square Theory"

Generative Art Sketches by Grgrdvrt

New comment by sings in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

New comment by sings in "Show HN: Txtl – Fast static website of text utilities"

Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan

Beampipe: Simple, free, privacy-focussed analytics

New comment by sings in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"

Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan

Mixbox: Natural color mixing based on real pigments