Hacker News: sphars

New comment by sphars in "CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development"

sphars — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:08:41 +0000

Reminds me of this website for checking classless stylesheets.

https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/

New comment by sphars in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

sphars — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:47:16 +0000

> The Blacktongue Thief

I just started this last week after wrapping up DCC series and seeing it recommended in a reddit thread. I'm surprised that I'm enjoying it, it's not my usual genre

New comment by sphars in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

sphars — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:37:14 +0000

All the Sinners Bleed was a great novel, I've enjoyed all of Crosby's books. Subject matter is tough (especially this one), but a good thriller nonetheless.

New comment by sphars in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

sphars — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:34:01 +0000

I just finished book 8 of DCC, and while I wasn't blown away with the series like others, it was entertaining enough to keep me reading.

I just started reading The Blacktongue Thief (hardback) and The Name of the Wind (ebook). I've heard very good things about the latter, and although I'm aware that the series may never complete, I'm trying to not let that dissuade me.

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman"

sphars — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:33:04 +0000

Looks like a vibe-coded clone of a project posted about 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719443

New comment by sphars in "Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"

sphars — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:26:47 +0000

Friends don't let friends use those shady streaming boxes

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-your-android-tv-strea...

New comment by sphars in "Page Rage: turn any page into a destructible playground"

sphars — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:27:06 +0000

Installed the Firefox extension, this is pretty great! Reminds me so much of that desktop game from Windows 98. Think it was this https://gamia-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Desktop_Destroyer_Game

New comment by sphars in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

sphars — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:15:56 +0000

I'm a fan of PocketCasts as my podcast app on Android. It was bought by Automattic in 2021.

New comment by sphars in "Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)"

sphars — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:06:13 +0000

Along with all the other wonderfully, nonsense, single-purpose sites we've lost over the years. Some documented here: https://theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost/

New comment by sphars in "A note on subscription prices from LWN"

sphars — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:49:06 +0000

Now we need the HN mods to come in and edit the title of this thread, I had the same thought as OP when I first saw it lol

New comment by sphars in "We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng"

sphars — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:49:46 +0000

I came in and thought it had something to do with Angular since `ng` is a popular pre/post-fix for Angular libraries.

New comment by sphars in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

sphars — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:54:38 +0000

"Drink verification can to continue"

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-...