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thecaio··on Orkut.com
I was a big fan and heavy user at the time (Brazilian here!) but how does bringing Orkut back solve anything? Like or not people moved from mostly-text, friend-activity social media long ago
thecaio··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Temu Sans cracked me up
thecaio··on Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library
having some screenshots or screen recordings is always nice for... UI libraries
thecaio··on Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
the framing of this headline - "scientists stunned" while conveying pollution hurts lung recovery is a gem
thecaio··on The DISTINCT in Your COUNT
Hard to make a case to engange with an AI written article even if not fully slop
thecaio··on Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years
I learned SQL when I was 13 or 14 (I'm 37 now). Fully agree with the article, but it's a shame some choices behind the syntax make it so clumsy. Some choices (minimal), like allowing "," (commas) after columns in the SELECT clause even on the last column declared would be minor in terms of compilation and a GREAT improvement in ergonomics (and composability). Some more recent SQL idioms do allow for tweaks/improvements on these, but it's far from a standard - still niche. Long live SQL.
thecaio··on CSS-Native Parallax Effect
there is a special place in hell for pages like these that don't show examples
thecaio··on Floats Don't Agree with Themselves
Same. I now tend to simply abandon writing when I see those tell tale signs
thecaio··on Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
wow. this is insane. never new such mechanic was ever remotely considered or possible. pretty neat
thecaio··on Some people can't see mental images
I was thinking the same! At first, I thought I was firmly in the “can clearly visualize” camp, but the more I read and hear people describe how they form (or don't) mental images, the less sure I am.
thecaio··on I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)
Never easy to pull these off, so congrats! App might be modern in the sense that you coded it in 2025, but looks straight out of Windows 98
thecaio··on Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
I get it and don’t disagree but isn’t this being too literal? At the limit, isn’t this expecting author to be overly precious with the title? I mean, I could as well ask author to state a precise statistic like “93.76% of business books are entertainment”
thecaio··on RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports
fair!
thecaio··on RT64: N64 graphics renderer in emulators and native ports
thank you! so needed. there is a special place in hell for folks that don't attach screenshots to fundamentally graphic projects.
thecaio··on Which country consumes the most coffee?
Is this article correct?

> Interestingly, the list also includes non-traditional coffee-consuming countries such as Lebanon and Brazil, which could be attributed to the global spread of coffee-related business and culture

Really? Both Brazil and Lebanon are traditional coffee consuming countries. Brazil in particular is the largest producer of coffee in the world and coffee is everywhere, since pretty much forever.

thecaio··on The Ipe extensible drawing editor
I’m yet to understand how a tool to create graphic drawings does not provide any trace of a screenshot of example outputs in their website; and upon reading this very comment section, I learned it has a GUI, of which of course there is not a screenshot either in their page. Go figure
thecaio··on RPG Engine for the Nintendo 64
so frustrating to not have screenshots or video recordings on projects like this – game engines are naturally a visual beast
thecaio··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
Dude from Sao Paulo here. I found this law a blessing. The picture in the articles make it look like the city is scattered with abandoned billboards but that's not the case. You won't see any one from SP complaining from this piece of law. City looks better, with intrusive, cheap-looking street advertising (mostly) gone. Businesses survided.
thecaio··on Windy.com
Any kite surfers? How have you found Windy for spotting decent places to surf? I’m a fan of Windy but sometimes find it a bit “lowres” in the sense that it does a good job on translating wind direction/force in broader, more general areas while it’s hit and miss for specific spots (eg beaches or nooks). POVs?
thecaio··on The Psychology of Colour
This s pseudoscience. Working with large consumer brands in the last 10 years, I’ve never seen any of this applied to real life. This has no value and I’m surprise it was voted to HN frontpage.