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75w··on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
This is a great idea and satisfying is the correct word to describe the homepage. Have you written about your process at all? I’ve been trying to use the golden ratio in iOS apps for a while and any insight might help
75w··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
If it’s an iPhone app the new on device transcription api in ios26 works well and is very fast. You could also use the ondevice llm to clean up the transcription. Cheaper and more privacy friendly
75w··on How much energy does it take to think?
Could you describe the effects of methylene blue?of your experience or ibruprofen?
75w··on DOOM CAPTCHA
See also rudecaptcha.xyz
75w··on BYD is automaker with the most R&D staff
Do names matter that much? Are ford, audi and Chrysler great names or are they just familiar?
75w··on For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful
This is fascinating.

Before the voice did you have an inner monologue.

If so how did it differ? How does the current voice differ from the inner monologue?

75w··on A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry
https://www.howtopronounce.com/seoighe
75w··on Show HN: Built a self hosted clean status page and batteries
What does ‘batteries’ mean in this instance?
75w··on Guanxi
This is simply not true
75w··on Monsters of the Road: What Should the UK Do About SUVs?
My meaning is the people who seem so angry about this tend to be ‘well educated’ middle class people jealous of working class people having a flashy lifestyle.
75w··on Monsters of the Road: What Should the UK Do About SUVs?
Is this motivated by environmentalism or is this about class?
75w··on There's a mechanical watch feature called a “hack”
Doesn't the word hackney (for a horse) come from the place Hackney (for a hipster)?

so it would be Hackney -> Hack -> Hackney -> Hack

75w··on Xiaomi has been in violation of GPL for years
No. China is a society where information is hoarded and only shared if there is a direct benefit.
75w··on Saudi Arabia's wealth fund raises Nintendo stake to 6%
Are you referring to the mushroom kingdom?
75w··on A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying
It is always a temptation for a reach and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:-- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

75w··on Crypto CEO behind $2.5B 'rug pull' arrested
With good behaviour he should be out by the time he’s 20,578 years old
75w··on Pounce: A multiplayer stealth game about hunting / tracking
This is a lot of fun. Maybe have the option to play the same opponent again and say ‘gg’