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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:47PM (#50321721)
That's not the source; that's an exercise for the reader.
Re:The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:07AM (#50205832)
Not if you need your html to adapt to the shape of a 3d object drawn in the canvas.

What you described is the CSS painting api (part of CSS Houdini)

Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:32AM (#50177251)
> Just do a google search for flexible divs side by side. Start with two. Then switch to five. Tell me the solutions that work well.

I did like you asked. The first search result on google is a question on stack overflow. And the first comment provides an example that looks very much like flexible divs, side by side, between two and four based on the width of the container.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60615826/two-divs-side-b...

What didn't you like about the solution in that comment?

Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:22AM (#50177185)
> without really knowing what you’re doing

Really knowing what you're doing is the implicit part of the right-hand side of the bell-curve meme :-)

Re:Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:58AM (#50017004)
What kind of non-abandonment would you want for a quake port?
Re:I said no and Apple said yes on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:10AM (#49801579)
> Call me a radical but I’ve chosen not to kowtow to billionaires.

I wonder when the author will be switching from his Mac.

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:24AM (#49655577)
If the argument, which seems to be "code is cheap; let's write implementations for multiple platforms", remains true, what do you think will continue turning the wheel?
Re:Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:35AM (#49460200)
Signal requires a mobile phone for an account; so it's not entirely web-friendly. Plus, can you read what's posted to signal without an account?
Re:Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M on Monday August 24, 2026 @10:03AM (#49419955)
Well, DHH managed to attract Dell, which are kinda sorta promising through a single representative that their new XPS laptops are fully tested with Omarchy:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bic2KjFFj6w?si=g0wyGBQi63NmhWr5...

So that's encouraging. But still, I don't see any acknowledgement on the Dell site (apart from a single blog post) about their stance on supporting and testing linux on their laptops.

Re:Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:53AM (#49419816)
> Then there's also Tuxedo (which I understand are only rebranded chinese OEMs but still...)

My understanding is that System76 is also a rebranded Chinese/Taiwanese OEM.

Re:Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:40AM (#49418954)
> given that developers are the one group of people today that don't generally have a problem running Linux on the desktop.

I am a developer; and I do have a problem: I don't have a choice of good laptops that are guaranteed to work with linux, and preferably come with linux preinstalled. I can go buy a macbook, or a windows laptop; but I can't walk into a store and buy a linux laptop.

I hate it when a comment tells me to see JIRA-1234. What if in a year's time we stop using Jira?
All that time spent programming those visuals. Which, I think, ironically, have made the article harder to read, not easier.
Re:I don't recommend Tailwind CSS on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:50AM (#49142805)
Do your sass customers know what javascript is or how it's different from java? Does this mean developers shouldn't care either?
Re:A big win for Android interoperability on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:25AM (#49142674)
> it's that small businesses cannot buy phones, install a patched version of Android without a restriction

Pardon my ignorance; but why would Android need to be patched? Is it because it wouldn't run on the phone hardware otherwise?

Re:Mozilla: The state of open source AI on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:01AM (#48948208)
> This new trend of content appearing while scrolling down is so terrible accessibility-wise, I do not understand how Mozilla of all institutions would do it.

Could you explain what is wrong with the accessibility of this page? All the content is included in the html payload, so it is accessible to screen readers and text-based browsers; and as for the "reveal" effect, it seems to respect user's choice of "prefers reduced motion" and is disabled when that is user's preference.

Re:Mozilla: The state of open source AI on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:53AM (#48948109)
From the title of a chart:

> The venture-funded open-source ecosystem: total disclosed funding, USD M

> Bars grow as you scroll.

The bars, in fact, don't grow as you scroll. And I don't even see why they should.

Re:The Lunduke Computer Operating System on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:27PM (#48910199)
Not OP; but I would define it as a cluster of specific and strongly held opinions on several topics, such as race/ethnicity, sex, migration, climate change. These opinions cluster together, and produce certain recognizable behaviors including speech patterns, speech taboos, and aggressiveness towards people who do not share these opinions.
I'd rather have something I can tinker with on my own machine, thank you very much
> And then please, please test for prompting with challenging assignments that would usually be beyond a student's skills

Does this mean you will requre all students to pay for a subscription to an llm provider?

Re:Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:09AM (#48608005)
> You can cheat on your homework all you like, but you'll completely fail the exams

This might sound principled, but we need to recognize that school administrators are incentivised to have as few kids as possible fail their exams; and consequently, so are the teachers. Either exams will change, or the teaching will change.

Well, at least the copy on the site reads like satire. I didn't notice it at first, looking at components; but then I started reading the text.

P.S.: The popover description is brilliant:

> The obtrusive newsletter modal every AI startup deploys. Takes over the entire viewport with a blurred backdrop. By design, neither the Escape key nor backdrop clicks close it; the visitor either submits the form inside or clicks the tiny dismissal link at the bottom. Pair with `timer` to auto-open after the visitor has skimmed a few paragraphs.

Re: on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:33AM (#48442323)
Thanks! Found it.
Re: on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:01AM (#48442107)
> Source available in Github through NoSuggest website.

Where? I couldn't find any link to the source on the website.

Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:14AM (#48433744)
> Submit a feature (our version of a pull request) that looks and behaves exactly the way I want

What happens after the submission? Who reviews the feature? How long? Are there any limits to the size of the diff? Do reviewers push back? How often are features submitted?

Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:58AM (#48424663)
Will there be developers at all then? What would they do? What would define their role? What skills/qualifications would they need?
Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? on Saturday June 06, 2026 @07:47AM (#48424000)
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand

Users don't. Question is, do developers, who are tasked to read, modify, and maintain the code?

Re:The desperation of NYTimes on Thursday June 04, 2026 @05:19PM (#48404772)
> I earn a small fraction of what NYTimes earns. If I'm not desperate, why are they?

He is an individual, and they are a company of about 6,000 people?

Re:Angular v22 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:03PM (#48401462)
> you need to subscribe to changes manually (use effect) to create computations

How do you mean? Since the render function reruns during every update to state/props, derived/computed values can be calculated from the updated state/props during rendering.

Re:VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:48AM (#48400402)
> a typical config & plugins stack for (webpack + eslint + prettier) is nearly impossible to reason about.

I think people just don't want to bother. They don't want to read the docs, or maybe watch a video or two (back when webpack was popular, Sean Larkin, webpack evangelist, made a number of popular courses about setting it up). Also, webpack config became easier compared to 2014/2015; I think they got to practically a zero-config by default.

I can understand that people don't want to care; but "impossible to reason about" is not it. It isn't rust, for crying out loud; nor lisp; nor haskell.

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