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Re:Patrick Stewart has died
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:09PM (#50296039)
He was so influential and his performances truly changed my life for the better. He will be sorely missed.
Re:Muse Code by Meta is out of Beta
on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:02PM (#49514236)
Muse Code is now out of beta.
Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0
on Thursday April 23, 2026 @06:30AM (#47874077)
I found the same with Arabic as well.
OpenAI Codex Compaction Failing
Re:OpenAI Codex Compaction Failing
on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:42PM (#47768746)
Compaction is currently failing for users using Codex.
Re:Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:06PM (#47182886)
Kind of strange that it's only for npm?
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:58PM (#46619564)
Re:Meta Segment Anything Model Audio
on Saturday December 20, 2025 @12:26PM (#46337787)
I tried it with their examples, trying to isolate speech only or background music only, but it seems to produce audio that is near identical to the original.
Re:Control iPhone with the movement of your eyes Support (SG)
on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:24AM (#42146265)
I had a very bad experience with it, it’s almost trying to select the complete opposite of what I’m looking at. Tried on iPhone 15 Pro.
Re:All AI Coding Assistants
on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:22AM (#42039606)
Bolt (from bolt.new)
Replit
Re:Ask HN: How do you code when you're not feeling well?
on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:58PM (#38606674)
For me, I recently got into drinking Yerba Mate (unsmoked, traditional way) and it's made me able to stay productive even in bad days.
Not really a technique, but something that worked for me.
EDIT: This is for when I'm feeling unproductive/down, not when I am feeling ill. The best thing for illness is rest and the right meds and nutrition.
Re:Ask HN: Bidirectional Text Navigation
on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:52PM (#38006176)
Yeah browsers are much better at this but there's still a lot of places where it's problematic (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, etc.)
In terms of text editing no not really, most folks I know are either using Word, Pages, or Google Docs.
Usually the caret going the opposite direction is because of bidi characters. It would behave properly if you used Eastern Arabic / Indo-Arabic numerals, e.g. ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ because those count as RTL.
If you need to have on line that has both RTL, bidi, and LTR, that's when I find everything goes to hell no matter what software I am using.
Re:Ask HN: Bidirectional Text Navigation
on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:52PM (#37990666)
I'm bilingual and frequently use English and Arabic together.
What I'm used to is that the caret is unchanged.
The best setup I've seen out there is web browsers with dir set to auto and using properties like padding-start instead of padding-left.
If I start a block with an LTR character the content is automatically left-aligned and vice versa.
The annoying issue comes up when you have bidi characters in the middle of RTL (e.g. Comma or exclamation mark), all tools I've currently seen just break, I have no idea where the cursor is, or where it will move to when I press my arrow keys. I would prefer that bidi characters are treated the same way as the paragraph or block they're in.
I wrote an article a while back with some GIFs that showcases these difficulties:
https://blog.prototypr.io/the-case-of-the-jumping-dot-17f97a...
I've not found any software that gets it all right when it comes to mixed direction content, but for RTL-only then most of the popular word processors (e.g. Google Docs) are quite good with some tweaking.
Happy to chat more on this.
Re:Apple changed how reading books works in iOS 16, and I may never be...
on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:48AM (#34035768)
Some of the ones from Onyx Boox have customizable cold/warm temperature sliders.
Re:Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversa...
on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:35AM (#33690655)
Thanks for posting this, I was brought up the same way. It's very uncomfortable for me to have eye contact in a conversation, I usually just do it when greeting people.
Re:Meta Quest Pro
on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:41PM (#33170197)
I wonder if they managed to solve the text blurriness issues. On my Quest 2 I tried using Immersed, Virtual Desktop, and other software to create virtual monitors in VR.
Text was always very blurry no matter how much I played with resolution, monitor sizes, or distances. Images and video always looked great but for reading text it was completely unusable.
For $1500 coupled with them marketing it for work, I would hope they've solved this issue.
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:10PM (#30939069)
https://omar.engineer
Recently moved it to Notion using super.so
Bridgetown - progressive site generator and framework, powered by Ruby
Re:Suture: A Ruby gem that helps you refactor your legacy code
on Sunday September 05, 2021 @09:52AM (#28424351)
This looks really cool! It reminded me of another library I came across a while back, Scientist from GitHub:
https://github.com/github/scientist
Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:56AM (#25671743)
Where I live, everything is based around WhatsApp. If you want to receive a package from Amazon/FedEx/DHL/UPS, etc. The shipment will only be delivered to the location you share with the courier on WhatsApp, if you're not on WhatsApp you can't even receive packages. There are so many other things like this that are happening only on WhatsApp, and if you're not on it you won't even be able to use basic services.
I use Pragmata Pro because it supports monospaced Arabic text very well and I frequently have to work with Arabic. I've never seen a font that supports monospaced Arabic before.
Re:Go vs. Crystal Performance
on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:42PM (#23616399)
There are a couple but I think the most Rails-like are Amber or Lucky:
https://amberframework.org/
https://luckyframework.org/
There's also sidekiq.cr from the same person who made Sidekiq for Ruby: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq.cr
Re:Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey
on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:40PM (#23568359)
Hey already picked option 1. Their app was rejected after doing that. There is no way to purchase anything on the iOS version.
Re:Intermediate certificate used for issuance of Comodo certs has expired
on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:34AM (#23361462)
Anyone have any idea for a fix for this? Is the only solution to either upgrade the OS or recompile OpenSSL and anything that depends on it (e.g. interpreted languages)? Or is there a simpler fix I'm not seeing?
Ask HN: How do you manage multilingual Slack workspaces?
How do you manage a multilingual Slack workspace where some members only know a single language? In some cases it's straightforward to define a language per channel, but what do you do with channels like #general?To add some context on my personal pain points:I've been working mostly with Middle Eastern teams and usually there's a mix of Arabic and English (and sometimes other languages as...
GitHub Mobile Apps Generally Available Now
Re:Google acquires AppSheet
on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:09AM (#22053838)
Very interesting, this seems very related to them force-migrating everyone to the new Sheets API that has a number of missing features.
Re:How Smartphones Betray Democracy
on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:42AM (#21857056)
I see the same thing on the latest Chrome too.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite freelance developer websites?
on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @01:35PM (#21527663)
This is incredible!