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Seems very similar to how maps work on the web these days, in particular protomap files [0]. I wonder if you could view the medical images in leaflet or another frontend map librar…

Quick summary for those confused: In 1970 a massive project crowdsourced thousands of photographs of everywhere in Paris (nearly every single grid square on each letter sized page,…

Cool site, I especially appreciate the detailed about page [1] including the libraries used for the graphics (paperjs + GSAP) and the bloopers section [2], covering interesting gli…

Don't know if 2022 is needed since this seems to be an evergreen page for an actively developed tool (last update was 3 weeks ago). https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/releas…

He's also the person behind Practical Typography [0], a great reference/guide for essential typography and layout concepts and terms. It has opinionated recommendations covering ne…

Exactly, this letter refers to the "reconciliation bill" without mentioning the better known (and more notorious) monikers "Big Beautiful Bill" or "One Big Ugly Bill". There are so…

Note that this letter's requests DO NOT include voting against the reconciliation bill, just modifying it to add a carve-out to fix Section 174. While I agree that Section 174 desp…

I agree, yet at least you can kind of see where they're coming from. I guess a better example would be the automatic hardware detection Lenovo Support offers [0] by pinging a local…

Yep! Unfortunately its main method (as far as I remember from when I first read the proposal at least, it may do more) is adding preflight requests and headers to opt-in, which wor…

If I recall correctly Figma uses it to connect to the locally installed app, and Discord definitely uses it to check if its desktop app is installed by scanning ports (6463-6472). …

A comment I wrote in another HN thread [0] covering this issue: Web apps talking to LAN resources is an attack vector which is surprisingly still left wide open by browsers these d…

A comment I wrote in another HN thread [0] (though this one was the original): Web apps talking to LAN resources is an attack vector which is surprisingly still left wide open by b…

Since there're independent Lightness values set for each section (I'd say quadrant but there are 6 of them), I wonder if two bits can be shaved from the `L` value from the base col…