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throwaway519··on Ask HN: What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web?
Herzberg hygiene and motivation.
throwaway519··on Ask HN: What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web?
Yet in mobile HN wins on line length and margins. It's impossible to have one without the other.

On desktop HN outperforms even an analogy with email where the trend seems to throw the user's functionality to the side where margins and padding result in only 5-6 emails appearing in an inbox list. No wonder people need AI to sort their mail if they can't even see it.

throwaway519··on 'In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead'
This is what you voted for.

This is what your FAANG employer made, and make, campaign contributions to.

throwaway519··on Pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard
Please give me a pocket sized PC like the Asus EEE at a $200 or less.
throwaway519··on The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2
Given 5his is a thing even in browser plugins, and that so very few people analyse their firewalls, I'd not discount it at all. Much of the world's users hve no clue and app stores are notoriously bad at reacting even with publicsed malware e.g. 'free' VPNs in iOS Store.
throwaway519··on Ask HN: why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?
In addition to the answer from curious, you can't be in theposition of commissioning freelance work to yourself.

You can create and grow a dept as a salaried employee, but as soon as you start commissioning yourself you could be creating work to pay for the mortgage oft the bigger house you can suddenly afford.

Like approving your own expenses, or having a colleague friend do so and returning the favour. Stinks of fraud.

throwaway519··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
Truth.
throwaway519··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
To the non-technical founder, this is doing something.

They will not move to ~~mocking up~~ sketching a wireframe of something.

throwaway519··on Ask HN: What tool, technology or process in front-end dev would you improve?
Replace Javascript with a programming language.
throwaway519··on Claude as a Better Grammarly?
It spams less at least.

But for a grammarly replacement, there seems little reason not to use a local smaller LLM that is guaranteed to respec5 privacy.

throwaway519··on Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind
It's simply not secure. Whover controls my email now controls everything.

So I avoid any service where this is an option.

throwaway519··on How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
Pretty flawed also really.

Basically, anyone that paints knows that the more colours are mixed, the more they tend to brown. Yet because of that misunderstanding in the 1960s in Caltech, in CS more colors = white.

Crazy stuff. A great example of technical debt in systems design where we have all this jazz like sRGB, HSL, HSV, etc, trying to reset that basic mistake in physics from 60 years ago.

throwaway519··on When Microsoft retired Clippy
Copilot, Clippy's far more sinister cousin.
throwaway519··on .so .sh TLD for startups – pros and cons?
> discord users vs facebook group users

Which of thesevis savvier? Serious question. Given a tech worker subset that's analogous to Discord, I'd go for the 40s+ Facebook.

throwaway519··on Ship Software That Does Nothing
That's why I wrote blueprints to a cathedral, not a cathedral. Your post still reads as highly opinionated on assertion of how to work.
throwaway519··on Ask HN: Has Google Search's index shrunk?
Why bother giving you good results? Discerning users, power users, have already given up with Google's search.

By going back they just use you like the more gullible wallet to bleed that you show them you are. You may think you're not, but to Google all you are is a likelihood to keep coming back to be siphoned of financial blood.

throwaway519··on Ship Software That Does Nothing
Sounds like extensive efforts writing blueprints for a cathedral.

While it'd already be siesta time in the bazaar having earlier eaten your lunch.

throwaway519··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
This comment implies you've not used Go. It really isn't equivalent to the NPM and dependency hell that's node. Or picking the number of workers in Gunicorn. Or.. C#?
throwaway519··on Google is winning on every AI front
It isn't when considering Google's brand has (long) lost trust in how it hanles data. This is especially true with larger companies, F500 type brands, who tend to avoid Google for infra as do governments.
throwaway519··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
Can't beat physics but can write better copy.
throwaway519··on Datastar: Web Framework for the Future?
Robust performance, error handling that's not stuck in 1982, and cross platform would be my guesses, but agree the OP could be more spicific as there are more benefits.
throwaway519··on Live Map of the London Underground
It's not a tube, it's an overground line. As evidenced by this Network Southeast livery.. on a tube train that's an overground train that goes entirely underground https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhUDyX4DKXQ
throwaway519··on Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660
Username checks out.
throwaway519··on What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested
It would have been a first for an *ist.
throwaway519··on Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
Ethereum.
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throwaway519··on Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados
Or nazis and fondue.
throwaway519··on Is Skipping a Good Workout?
Boxers skip. Skipping is exhausting.
throwaway519··on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water
Exactly the opposite.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-care-b...

> We believe that water fluoridation is the single most effective public health measure there is for reducing oral health inequalities and tooth decay rates, especially amongst children. We welcome these proposals and believe they represent an opportunity to take a big step forward in not only improving this generation’s oral health, but those for decades to come.

throwaway519··on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?
Thanks
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