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Have been in using greyscale on and off to reduce my screen time. Due the issues that the author reported I switched back and changed the icon colors to monocolor grey with black w…

The number of videos/podcasts I want to watch daily, exceeds the number of hours I could spend each day to consume them. So ADHD or not, this is a common demand.

After seeing a synthetic version that mimics the tone well enough, the real HN once back here felt slightly less distinct. When every information style gets a believable AI twin, o…

I think metro trains in countries like The Netherlands and Singapore use this approach where in you tap your cards and entry and exit and you are billed usually somewhere at the en…

I'm not well versed with CURL design, but curious - is your first connection handling TLS while second relying on the previously established handshake?

This why I love reddit. Oh wait!

Inspired by his work on buffer bloat like so many others. Rest in peace.

I like the way this being proposed in a decentralised manner. Kudos to the author for the effort and thought put in. However, I am curious what the incentive for publishers is to a…

This is also using OpenAI's GPT model. So the same hallucinations are probable here for PDFs.

As relaxing as this experience was, I thought of resolving the itch to write trivial code to control the emojis and creatures with left/right clicks. let clickCount = 0; document.a…

No lion in the code. Snake yes. https://drawing.garden/sketch.js

There are ample developers who can build but not sell. You want to look for SaaS in this list that you understand and can scale/extend and sell.

In my opinion, the author aims to introduce entropy as a metric to evaluate the stability of processes. Creating room for advocacy against process changes when new additions/change…

Interop compliance should be a thing. Enterprise customers are missing the plot here. Please ask your software vendors to support interoperability. Example - Outlook should support…

True. The Twitpic story comes to mind.

Funny how most websites between 2008-2012 where filled with bevel styling faking a sense of depth. Then 2012 onwards almost everyone started appreciating flat design. I wonder if t…

Excellent example of how colors have remained a tool for sales funnels. Red is used through out the site to make the user complete a purchase. 2002 was more about Nintendo expressi…

The solution here is PayPal ensuring that seller notes aren't misguiding. I wondered why PayPal hasn't blocked senders from mentioning "PayPal" or even "PayPal®" as mentioned in th…

While some may immediately run a comparison between Azure, AWS and GCP let it be noted that any cloud platform facing this and making it to headlines is not good for the cloud indu…