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mattlyonon Ask HN: Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health?

try Incosolata at 18pt, it's gorgeous, and you can read it from a full arms-length away (how far from the screen you're supposed to be)

mattlyonon Ask HN: Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health?

i've found that black text on a white background is much easier on my eyes than the opposite, at least on the newer, brighter LED LCDs, especially the glossy ones like what ship on current macbooks.

mattlyonon Honda Insight's immersive ad on Vimeo

I love how this is entirely against Vimeo's TOS: http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:11585

except for the special cases they make.

mattlyonon Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something

right, i'll go ahead and remove digg and reddit from my /etc/hosts blackhole then

mattlyonon Why Hacker News Thinks PHP Won Something

from talking to Giles (I work with him), I think his problem with hacker news is that it's basically turning into another digg/reddit/slashdot type of thing. It's basically a pool of links outlining what's popular with whoever the users of the site are at the moment, and that group of people is likely to change over time.

I think what would work better is a pool of links that shows you stuff you might find interesting based on past usage (voting up/down, friending others, etc). Don't show me what's interesting to everybody who reads the site, show me what's interesting to _me_. As Giles has said in the past, I have a need for better filtering mechanisms.