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Re:Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence' on Thursday September 10, 2026 @03:57AM (#49639999)
Which is no longer in active development

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195093

doesnt VC money subsidise stuff all the time? Isnt that how Uber and AirBNB undercut competition?
Re:Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:29AM (#48477838)
UK government services guidance is to use progressive enhancement

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressi...

Re:Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier on Thursday May 21, 2026 @03:29AM (#48219098)
Using omlx on the M1 max I get about 15tps from 27b
Re:HTML Lists on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:23PM (#48182559)
If select counts as a list, then I'd include radio buttons too because for single selection they're often a better choice
You could play back multiplayer Halo 3 matches in 3D, with a free camera. Was really interesting to see how matches played out, how you got killed and so on, and for taking cool screenshots.
Re:An Update on Heroku on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:48AM (#46922824)
https://railway.com is another good one
Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:15PM (#45996458)
The regulation is only concerned with cookies that are not required to provide the service. It makes no differentiation between first party and third party - if you use cookies for anything optional (like analytics) you need consent. So you can have third party non-cookie analytics for example without a banner.
Re:Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:34AM (#45899937)
(I worked on this pattern) Our guidance is to accept both names and numbers in the back end so people can enter either. In our testing, text inputs (with a numeric keyboard on mobile) is better than selects. Some people struggle with using selects, we don't see those issues in text inputs. That guidance maybe be about people not knowing the order of the inputs (DD MM YY, MM DD YY) but our pattern is clearly labeled for each input so we don't get that issue.

We did continue our testing which resulted in the pattern in the design system which is linked.

Re:Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:31AM (#45897718)
For dates people know (say date of birth) just use text inputs

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/date-input/

might work out the opposite - 'ah I can do better than that, one more try'
Re:Show HN: Aha Domain Search on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:00AM (#44837822)
ai tab Generate button is disabled for me, regardless of input
Re:Don't use "click here" as link text – W3C on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:59AM (#44445329)
it's true, but these are more fragile than simply having clear link text, especially over time as a site is maintained
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:43PM (#42561248)
> if you run the code and get an error you know there's a problem.

well, sometimes - other times it'll be wrong with no error, or insecure, or inaccessible, and so on

Re:WP Engine Tracker on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:59AM (#42075574)
Note the downloadable csv of sites that presumably didn't consent to this
Re:HTML Form Validation is heavily underused on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:32AM (#41983214)
exactly. Silently refusing input is an anti-pattern
'transparent' in what sense?
Re:WordPress Accessibility Team Meetings Suspended on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:07AM (#41835308)
This is a long running pattern for Matt:

"To Matt Mullenweg I want to say: please take better care of your community, because WordPress is nothing without it. Cherish the people who dedicate their (own) time and who work very hard to make WordPress the best it can be. Don’t ignore or make fun of them, but talk to them, guide them, inform them. Don’t be disconnected from the community, be part of it."

https://rianrietveld.com/2018/10/i-have-resigned-the-wordpre...

I was referring to real podcasts
a few real harms:

- massively inefficient use of energy, water and other resources at a time we really need to address climate crisis

- ai 'slop' with myriad mistakes and biases performing a mass DDOS on people trying to learn things and know what's true

- moving resources away from actually producing factual and original content

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