Hacker News: sphars

New comment by sphars in "Dithered QR Codes"

sphars — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:14:45 +0000

I'm now waiting for someone to post the Bad Apple meme but all in QR codes

New comment by sphars in "Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?"

sphars — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:27:48 +0000

I just added this as a search engine in Firefox, thanks for the heads-up. For reference, I added this URL:

  https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&noai

New comment by sphars in "98.css"

sphars — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:18:28 +0000

I don't have any way to prove it but this was no AI hallucination, a completely true story and human generated site (there is a link to the GitHub on there).

I do appreciate your thoughts and I too hope I'm not being fooled by an AI :)

New comment by sphars in "98.css"

sphars — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:46:00 +0000

To add to your list:

https://github.com/nielssp/classic-stylesheets

New comment by sphars in "98.css"

sphars — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:42:41 +0000

Another one to add to your list, which is another collection of vintage styles

https://nielssp.github.io/classic-stylesheets/

New comment by sphars in "98.css"

sphars — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:39:48 +0000

Thanks for creating this, it fit perfect for a tiny web site I made[0]. Hits just the right mix of usability and nostalgia and makes me want to use it for more projects.

[0]: https://www.mathsheets.net/

New comment by sphars in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

sphars — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:12:05 +0000

Are you also using HealthEquity for your HSA? I'm the same boat, they're forcing passkeys on me. I can still login using my employer's SSO but I've been putting off setting up the passkey until I have to.

New comment by sphars in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

sphars — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:35:06 +0000

Not yet, but it's coming to old.reddit.com globally soon: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-...

The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams

sphars — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:01:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/light-flip-is-the-modern-stylish-dumb-flip-phone-of-your-luddite-dreams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994108

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

I spent a week using the Trump phone – it sucks

sphars — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:52:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/963382/trump-mobile-t1-phone-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862405

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: RandoFont – A browser for Google Fonts"

sphars — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:03:37 +0000

I like this, I'm often browsing new fonts to load on my Kindle for reading, or different monospace fonts, so this might help.

Would be nice to filter out material icon fonts. Using only monospace filter, icons showed up like every third shuffle.

New comment by sphars in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

sphars — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:29:03 +0000

Posted in a sibling comment: https://github.com/openng-org/open-prime

New comment by sphars in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

sphars — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:31:14 +0000

I'm in the same boat. We've been using PrimeNG for several apps at my job, and until we find a suitable replacement, we'll be stuck on using Angular 21.

That being said, a group did fork PrimeNG, and plan on maintaining it (new name pending)

https://github.com/openng-org/open-prime

New comment by sphars in "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"

sphars — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:03:44 +0000

According to this[0], yes it's available

[0]: https://support.pluto.tv/s/article/PTV-On-which-devices-can-...

New comment by sphars in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

sphars — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:47:07 +0000

Saved you a click: Tom Bombadil is who they're referring to

New comment by sphars in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

sphars — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:19:01 +0000

There's likely a way to do with via Tasker/MacroDroid but you'll likely need to use Shizuku (or possibly root) to change these system settings.

New comment by sphars in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

sphars — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:29:01 +0000

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I had an orange tabby also named Kiki for most of my childhood through early adulthood, 16 years. He suffered from kidney failure and it was a sad day when we had to put him down.

May you have peace during this time.

New comment by sphars in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

sphars — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:12:08 +0000

I'm curious about your Android method, just to see if it's something I want to explore as a solution.

New comment by sphars in "Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

sphars — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:45:02 +0000

I don't think @ tags have any effect on HN, you'll want to email the mods directly: hn@ycombinator.com

New comment by sphars in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

sphars — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:14:02 +0000

To be fair, that's a direct quote from Vercel themselves introducing Geist Pixel: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel