pratnala
Re:"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:48AM (#49966439)
Here in India, some restaurants now make you send a WhatsApp message to the restaurant to get their menu. Very annoying.
Re:Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:17AM (#48425877)
Which model are you running?
Re:Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines
on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:56AM (#45024852)
I feel this so much. Despite telling her umpteen times till date, my mom will stretch photos only along one dimension to "fill the space" when writing docs or making slides. It drives me absolutely insane. She doesn't even realize till I tell her that the faces (and people) are stretched or squished too much.
Re:Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:21AM (#44444848)
Layoffs are planned in India too.
Re:More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:55AM (#44413661)
What is the answer to 2?
Re:Updates to H-1B
on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @02:49PM (#42454275)
> I've yet to see one with a competitive salary.
Nonsense.
Re:YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours
on Saturday December 14, 2024 @08:18AM (#42416920)
That's a terrible suggestion.
Re:Google are deliberately breaking YouTube when it detects you're run...
on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:48AM (#42389719)
Less than 10k and all aren't engineers
Re:Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an off...
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @03:11PM (#41571511)
They are also scrapping hot desking.
Re:Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby
on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:14PM (#40190529)
Just use 4-digit years. Done.
Re:Meta outage
on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:40AM (#39604803)
The password reset flow was broken too. And I got logged out on every device. My friend who works there said they can't login either.
Re:Meta outage
on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:40AM (#39604797)
don't bother. fb's forgot password flow is broken too.
Re:My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing
on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:30AM (#39249731)
Minorities get PIPped too in Amazon.
Re:My husband went through the Amazon Pivot process. It was crushing
on Sunday February 04, 2024 @07:29AM (#39249728)
Which one?
Re:John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:17AM (#39067300)
I was joking, yes :)
Re:An Ugly Single-Page Website Makes $5k a Month with Affiliate Marketing
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @08:16AM (#39067293)
Why do I not see the 990 Pro on this?
Re:The 37signals Employee Handbook
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @07:09AM (#39066853)
Lol this is ridiculous
Re:Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamen...
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:06AM (#39028680)
What makes you think that the C-level is not packed with work?
Re:US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still colle...
on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @02:16AM (#39024344)
I agree that Apple should take some cut but 30% is predatory and excessive.
Re:Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @02:30AM (#38988296)
It is called Discourse and it is far better.
Re:John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @02:24AM (#38988266)
It is black holes all the way down
Re:YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:45AM (#38988107)
Premium+SponsorBlock is the answer.
Re:AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable
on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:49AM (#35597501)
Netflix blocks datacenter VPNs but you can use residential VPNs (which tbf are more expensive) to circumvent this.
Re:Amazon reportedly freezing AWS hiring
on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:58AM (#33330534)
Previous freeze was only in retail, not across Amazon
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:00AM (#30190299)
Idk if it is just me but I find VR headsets just tiring after a point.
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:58AM (#30190293)
WhatsApp already does payments in India (and few other countries?) [1]
Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:04PM (#30079383)
Yeah no, I wish we don't go back to that. It doesn't scale at all.
Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:57PM (#28350837)
I think too many technical people have too much of a distrust of the cloud. I, for one, am happy to offload as much as possible to the cloud (except latency-sensitive things like games) and not carry around drives and drives at home.
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What are your favorite serif fonts that have a clean and modern look? Some of my favorite fonts are Dubai (sans serif) and Cascadia Code (monospaced) but never found a good serif fonts. What is your pick, HN? Highly prefer free but open to good premium suggestions.