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Ryan: The style of your blog is easy to read except for the pixelated monospace font. Thanks for sharing this post!
Re:We rendered and embedded one million CAD files on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:30PM (#46982160)
When I search for "duck shaped trampoline", I see mostly fidget spinners…
I presume this has already been happening for some time
Re:Building a better online editor for TypeScript on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @04:32AM (#45357753)
The title doesn't make it clear that it's actually about TypeScript plus Deno-specific syntax — and Deno's LSP doesn't run in a worker [1].

[1]: https://github.com/denoland/vscode_deno/issues/515

Re:Aglet: A game about tying knots on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:27AM (#44898468)
The developer also posted a short video in which he explains how some of the game’s concepts were implemented: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NeXDCGQ77rI
Google’s past use of XMPP in an older iteration of its integrated Chat product (it was called Google Talk back then) is what first put this technology on my radar. In recent years I’ve been using Matrix instead — which has been covered often on HN [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=matrix.org

Re:Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:39AM (#44656323)
Is there a public API (or a plan for one)? I'd be interested to see each WOTD in my custom new tab page.
Re:Show HN: Counting Tap Toy on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @03:13PM (#42637980)
Consider adding a configurable setting that skips "14" when counting in order to memorialize the cited reason for your effort. It might also help others empathize with your child. :)
Re:The engineering behind Figma's vector networks (2019) on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:56PM (#39242891)
Paragraph five:

> This post can be thought of as an introduction to a really interesting problem space, and as a resource for people interesting in making use of some aspects of Vector Networks for future applications. I hope it succeeds in providing value to both developers being introduced to new concepts and ideas, and to designers interesting in learning more about the tool they know and love.

Re:Don't Use Discord as a Forum on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:04AM (#37508447)
> When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue.

You can customize your repository notifications in a granular way, including subscribing to issues (Watch > Custom > Issues), discussions, releases, etc.

This is the primary method I use to track OSS releases. More in the GitHub docs:

https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subs...

Re:Netflix Loses 1M Users in Spain over Password Policing on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @01:53PM (#35717570)
Image capture isn't the only fingerprinting technique: there are much simpler signals like patterns related to content navigation (just one example: tap vs swipe for advancing paginated content), and the combination of such signals can create a strong fingerprint
A blog might also simply be a contribution to readers — distilling insights which required considerably more time to acquire than might be spent consuming their documentation.
Re:Manage Like an Engineer on Thursday January 12, 2023 @02:35PM (#34359139)
Ben’s continuous mantra of observability has resonated strongly with me. I have learned so much more from researching and reflecting on the indexed artifacts of others’ public discourse than from any ephemeral meeting.
Re:A curated directory of 700 Mac menu bar apps on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:43AM (#33786329)
It's nice to see aggregation and curation efforts like this!

It would be useful if the site offered a more compact view and an option for more items per page or "infinite scrolling" (the loading of more results after scrolling past a threshold). Within experiences like these where browsing is the primary mechanism of discovery, it's a positive UX feature to decrease the need for repeatedly clicking/tapping/etc. in order to continue to browse.

Is Slack the only integration? How about support for other platforms? (e.g. Discord is more popular than Slack) Will you support standardized formats like oembed (https://oembed.com/) so that any platform/service which supports such a format can render the code?