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This is a great idea and satisfying is the correct word to describe the homepage. Have you written about your process at all? I’ve been trying to use the golden ratio in iOS apps for a while and any insight might help
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:52AM (#45568348)
If it’s an iPhone app the new on device transcription api in ios26 works well and is very fast. You could also use the ondevice llm to clean up the transcription. Cheaper and more privacy friendly
Re:Neuroscience How Much Energy Does It Take to Think? on Friday June 06, 2025 @04:22AM (#44198828)
Could you describe the effects of methylene blue?of your experience or ibruprofen?
Re:DOOM CAPTCHA on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:44AM (#42574824)
See also rudecaptcha.xyz
Re:BYD is automaker with the most R&D staff in the world on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @01:07AM (#42556793)
Do names matter that much? Are ford, audi and Chrysler great names or are they just familiar?
Re:How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @06:00PM (#41439747)
This is fascinating.

Before the voice did you have an inner monologue.

If so how did it differ? How does the current voice differ from the inner monologue?

What does ‘batteries’ mean in this instance?
Re:Guanxi on Saturday November 18, 2023 @05:07PM (#38325089)
This is simply not true
Re:Monsters of the Road: What Should the UK Do About SUVs? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:37AM (#38149920)
My meaning is the people who seem so angry about this tend to be ‘well educated’ middle class people jealous of working class people having a flashy lifestyle.
Re:Monsters of the Road: What Should the UK Do About SUVs? on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:17AM (#38149811)
Is this motivated by environmentalism or is this about class?
Doesn't the word hackney (for a horse) come from the place Hackney (for a hipster)?

so it would be Hackney -> Hack -> Hackney -> Hack

Re:Xiaomi has been in violation of GPL for years on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:05PM (#35185781)
No. China is a society where information is hoarded and only shared if there is a direct benefit.
Re:Saudi Arabia's wealth fund raises Nintendo stake to 6% on Thursday January 12, 2023 @04:57PM (#34360823)
Are you referring to the mushroom kingdom?
Re:A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:25PM (#34074346)
It is always a temptation for a reach and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:-- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

Re:Crypto CEO behind $2.5B 'rug pull' arrested on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:35PM (#32679997)
With good behaviour he should be out by the time he’s 20,578 years old
This is a lot of fun. Maybe have the option to play the same opponent again and say ‘gg’