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Thanks! Funnily enough, I did start building it before but then decided not to merge as I came to quite like the finiteness of it without. Shall maybe reconsider!

This has been a play project for a little while, trying to build an interface that's comfortable to read on any device. It's a bit of a mashup of a Pocket-like interface, digital n…

I found this to be a common theme in web design a while back, and in part led to an experiment developing a newspaper/Pocket-like interface to reading HN. It's not perfect, but is …

This is great news. There's been a pilot study in which each retailer (voluntarily) hosted a JSON file containing their current prices ( https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-fuel-pri…

https://times.hntrends.net/story/44813397

I'm quite happy to read something in a paper that ChatGPT or equivalent has written, just as i'm happy to read something that has been written with the assistance of other tools su…

I'm not sure i'm unusual in using the GitHub feed to keep an eye on commit activity on watched repos, all of a sudden there's no option to see push activity in the feed. o.O

I've recently used this approach for generating Open Graph images for display when a link to the site is used on Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc [1]. I was pleasantly surprised at…

It's a static list ordered by the number of mentions of all time. I plan to make this dynamic in the future and allow ordering by total score and filtering by time range. Also, I'd…

Looking forward to GPU support for workers. Cloudflare announced they were working on it in 2021 [1], but it doesn't seem generally available yet; they still have a signup page for…

Cheers! Yes, I already have 'it's' and 'it’s', but that one escaped! Added now.

Thanks for the suggestion, yes a good idea! Aha, yes, I've spotted that with Reddit, and it is actually true as appose to a bug, as there's something like just one post back in 201…

Thanks for the heads up! Fixed

Thanks! Same; I've been coming to HN for books to read for years and finally got them in one place. I plan to extend the functionality there in the future :D

Also causing issues due to a change that's made release source tars change [1] (changing hash), so build systems are rejecting [2]. 1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues…

For others, esp. on mobile https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1906.07535/