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hexo··on Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library
What vibe? Making people feel sick?
hexo··on OpenAI releases image generation in the API
Thank you for a great contribution to global warming.
hexo··on Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Good. Now it's time to learn from this important lesson.
hexo··on Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library
"Animated UI" is show stopper.
hexo··on ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
Whats up with these unscrollable websites? i dont get it. i scroll down a bit and it jumps up making it impossible to use.
hexo··on Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100M at Her Kid's Sports Day Event
It is m not M. As mega is not meter.
hexo··on Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
> it was generally BS. Now it's real.

Yes. Finally! Now it's real BS. I wouldn't touch it with 8 meter pole.

hexo··on Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999)
And yet, it is 1000 times more readable than any "modern" website.
hexo··on A year of Rust in ClickHouse
This web is impossible to scroll. Sadly, when I see that I don't think I need to read about any technical stuff they did anymore.
hexo··on We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
Last thing I want my pictures touching is some deep learning based thingy.
hexo··on We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing
Simple, as it is from Adobe, I wouldn't touch it as dev and rather make my own.
hexo··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
The animations are always a deal breaker. And then WASM.
hexo··on Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default
This is far from OK. Entire point is to have GPL not to run away from it. Again canonical shows they didn't get the point. Anyway Im staying on gnu coreutils as i see no benefit and zero reason for switch.
hexo··on I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
why bother with electron madness when you have 20 minute job for pyqt.
hexo··on I stopped everything and started writing C again
C# has disgusting code style. IWillNotReadCode where variable or (and thats even worse) function/method names LookLikeThis.
hexo··on Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
i never needed waterproof phone. i dont throw my devices into water. on contrary i've changed batteries many times when phones had replaceable ones. there were waterproof phones before this whole BS, so this "argument" disintegrated. seems more like you are happy being held hostage by corporation.
hexo··on Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light
hm, electromagnetic field is light. it was light all the time.
hexo··on A simple way to scale pixel art games
None of the blurred versions looks good to me. I've always preferred the crisp version too.
hexo··on Direct Sockets API in Chrome 131
Game over for security.
hexo··on Typeset: An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy
Web "typography" is so awful I had to disallow web fonts a long time ago. Now its time to write some greasemonkey lube to fix line heights and font weights, as thin fonts are nonreadable and finally somehow fix gray text low-contrast nonsense.
hexo··on Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
not really
hexo··on C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Why? Pls no. We've been told (in school!) that byte is byte. Its only sometimes 8bits long (ok, most of the time these days). Do not destroy the last bits of fun. Is network order little endian too?
hexo··on Goodbye API. Hello RSQL
So, we did full circle, again
hexo··on Reactive Relational Algebra
lol, no.
hexo··on Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
Interesting, obviously I must be in other EU country, or laws have changed, but here it was mandatory to pay taxes from vested RSUs.
hexo··on Europe to End "Salary Secrecy": Employee Salaries to Become Public by 2026
it is not of unknown value. in fact, they are valued as you have to pay taxes from it
hexo··on SAMA – open-source Chat server
Yea, and then you look at sources and see javascript. Thanks, I'll skip
hexo··on Florida's Biggest Insurer Says It Needs to Increase Rates by 93 Percent
hm "competitive market". the competition here means who can set the highest price?
hexo··on MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)
hmmmm

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hexo··on X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
I refuse to open twitter while its called x and contains toxic owner.
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