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Re:Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:33AM (#50204844)

Anecdotally, I've found I'm far less interested in adopting new products and rethinking my workflows amidst a sea of half-baked and short-lived products / services.

Instead, I'm stripping back to basics, building small tools to solve specific problems, and find myself vastly preferring established software with a track record of keeping feature-bloat down and the problem-space focused.

Re:CS Professor: To My Students on Monday April 27, 2026 @11:46PM (#47930247)

Absolutely wild to see this take downvoted. While it's abundantly clear that Hacker News has long since become a mouthpiece for the AI investment machine, I really hadn't felt the loss of strong engineering ethos until recently.

Re:Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store on Friday March 17, 2023 @05:00PM (#35202844)

I wonder if they patch a base installation of some kind (think: a core project selector / launcher) and then individual projects contain a copy of the engine at time of creation?

Re:Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:58PM (#35202824)

I truly cannot describe the amount of confusion that courses through me each time I open the Epic Launcher. I know that Epic decided to create it using the Unreal Engine UMG technology, but it truly shines as one of the most sluggish applications on my entire PC.

At this point, I would _gladly_ accept an Electron application in it's place. Just wild to me that UX teams at Epic seem happy to deliver this to users.

Re:Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:54PM (#35202772)

Happy to see Godot continuing it's climb as a viable engine. What a journey it's been for the creators!

Re:Framer's Magic Motion on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @04:06AM (#33877331)

Love this explainer.

One thing I noticed that often isn't caught due to platform differences is when "Hide types" is pressed, a scrollbar will appear on most browsers on Windows 10. This draws the eye so harshly that most - if not all - of the magic of the animation is ruined.

I wish that Windows 10 had an option to "hide scrollbars until necessary" like macOS does, but sadly this continues to be a bit of an edge case for FE work.

Ask HN: OS-level tool to sync input across applications / processes?

Posted by smolgumball on Monday August 29, 2022 @05:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is there a tool or workflow that can sync an arbitrary block of text from a text field / text area in one app to an arbitrary text field / text area in another app, in real time?I've had this on my application wish list for workflow / productivity / tools / programming for years, and have never been able to find something like this.An example use-case might be: - User types "Hello" in...

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Re:Netlify expands minutes, bandwidth, but charges some teams more on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:11PM (#31209454)

Huge bummer for us at work today. Agency setting, lots of devs coming and going, external collaborators. Equating "active users" with Git commit logs is hugely disingenuous and feels like a dirty cash grab from Netlify execs. VC funding strikes again, I suppose...

Re:Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:46PM (#28750035)

I've started using Account Surfer on Windows to avoid this issue, as well as the general workflow issue of "I want to open any link I click in one of many browsers." The developer has also been very responsive to emails, bug reports and feature requests.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/account-surfer/9phvp9rjr7r...