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Re:65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:15AM (#46986543)
This! It feels like most of these markdown files floating around can bear the label _“stuff you struggled to have a sloppy coworker understand”_.
Re:Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:20PM (#25246844)
This is nice! And reminds me of this other very cool MySpace rebuild by artist/hacker Jankenpopp:

https://myspace.windows93.net/

Re:Collapse OS – Why Forth? on Sunday June 07, 2020 @05:04PM (#23450811)
Collapse OS was initially written in assembly for the Z80, a microprocessor first launched in 1976. The fact that Forth is 6 years older than the Z80 seems interesting enough of a step further back in time to be hightlighted.
Re:Show HN: SHA-256 Animation on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:44AM (#23165524)
Very nice!

This also has potential for landing in many movies where a hacker at work is involved.

Re:Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:34AM (#22935270)
Judging by the comments so far, the name change backlash is of unseen-since-Qwikster proportions…
Re:Input Mono – A Typeface for Code, from Font Bureau on Saturday April 01, 2017 @06:28AM (#14011468)
This font is beautiful and has really nice options.

But it lets me with a bitter feeling: as a potential user, I won't even consider using it because non-ASCII latin letters are not treated first-class: it's nice that the letter `i` has all these form variants, but they're not applied as soon as a diacritic comes into play (`ï`, `î`, etc.).

The same letter with and without a diacritic (eg. `e` and `é`) don't even look the same, letting the user with the feeling that this potential need has not even been considered.

EDIT: According to http://input.fontbureau.com/info/ maybe I'm missing something and my criticism only applies to the online demo.

Re:Ask HN: Best conferences in Europe 2017? on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:32AM (#13652230)
dotConferences has a great series throughout the year in Paris, France — https://www.dotconferences.com/

- dotSwift (Jan 27, 2017)

- dotSecurity (Apr 21, 2017)

- dotScale (Apr 24, 2017)

- dotAI (Apr 25, 2017)

- dotGo (Nov 6, 2017)

- dotCSS (Nov 30, 2017)

- dotJS (Dec 1, 2017)

(EDIT: formatting)

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