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pttrn

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    Comment #49229004

    No this was in the UK.

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    Comment #49228998

    16pt is huge on this monitor, fits too few code lines on screen. 18 is almost headline sized. But anyway doing these acrobatics is not what a professional should be doing in 2026.

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    Comment #49228973

    No, just normal font sizes, macOS. 14pt looks huge, had to lower it to 12pt to look physically about the same as 14pt on a 4K/5K 27”, but at that physical size it’s a blurry mess d…

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    Comment #49228962

    Yeah I’m on macOS.

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    Comment #49225872

    Just started a new remote contracting gig and did a one-week on-site “getting to know each other” thing. I was shocked that everyone in the office had dual 27” 1080p monitors. Didn…

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    Comment #46942141

    https://archive.li/OAEU2 (archive.is seems down for me)

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    Comment #46527910

    vkQuake.app works great on Apple silicon Macs.

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    Comment #45448442

    Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... i…

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    Comment #45253505

    https://xkcd.com/2224/ But yeah, I agree with you.

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    Comment #44994140

    +1, shame people are downvoting this.

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    Comment #44137717

    Make triangles great again

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    Comment #43428088

    “I just fuck around til it works”

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    Comment #36381622

    https://archive.is/2023.06.18-160853/https://www.ft.com/cont...

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    Comment #35750879

    +1, although I didn’t read it. Close tab.

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    Comment #35399962

    Very ranty, I’m surprised it got this many upvotes.

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    Comment #35229956

    I thought it was about windows as well :D

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    Comment #35206628

    https://archive.is/2023.03.18-053710/https://www.washingtonp...

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    Comment #34859349

    “Let’s put a pun in the headline, to make it pop”

  21. story
    Show HN: Pomak – focus timer for Mac/Windows written in Rust+wgpu

    Let's make software weird again. Free to download until the end of the weekend (December 4th). Cheers!

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    Comment #33660127

    Can we stop upvoting these clumsily disguised adguard marketing posts? It’s annoying: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=adguard.com

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    Comment #32921253

    Note: this is from 2017.

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    Comment #32461517

    An experimental weather forecast visualization app: https://brutalism.rs/project/itinerant/

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    Comment #19643183

    Thank you, I appreciate it! :) There's https://kev.town/raymarching-toolkit/ but I haven't tried it. Looks promising!