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Ah, so the characters we’re seeing here are twice as wide as they would be when printed? Adding some CSS to compress the page horizontally looks a lot closer to the first image you shared:

  html {
    transform: scaleX(50%);
  }

uv is just a Python package manager. No idea why they thought it was relevant to mention that

This is cute, but please don’t. If you don’t have perfect vision or dexterity, whether due to permanent disability or temporary impediment, this is a nightmare to navigate.

I'm not sure. There could be a setting or maybe something in chrome://flags, but purely on principle I'm voting with my feet and switching to Firefox.

Why oh why do they have to be three letter acronymns? I’m sure it’s fine if you’re immersed in front-end web development and have memorised the nuances of each unit, but as a back-end developer with a good working knowledge of CSS but for whom it isn’t my focus, I just know I’m going to have to constantly look these up every time I come across them.

`document.all` can be used in this way:

  <div id="foo"></div>
  <script>
    const { foo } = document.all
    // do something with foo
  </script>

Don't use it though, it's deprecated as well[1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/al...

This is sad news, genius.com is still my go-to website for lyrics and interpretations.

I’ve been a fan of Genius since they were featured in an episode of Small Empires[1], a series by the Verge presented by Alexis Ohanian (an investor in then-named Rap Genius), eight years ago. While I’m glad they expanded beyond annotations for rap music into other genres, it doesn’t surprise me that they struggled to expand beyond music.

Reading the article, I wonder if layoffs mean they’ll stop producing their artist Lyrics & Meaning video series on YouTube[2]. I hope not because it’s a unique angle. Either way I’m sure the website will live on, I just hope the new owners don’t destroy it through monetization.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92-MTJYmFc [2]: https://www.youtube.com/rapgenius

It didn’t occur to me that Deno’s Typescript engine also brings with it JSX (as .tsx). That’s pretty neat.

Non-AMP link: https://theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2017/jun/28...

For months I thought my girlfriend was signing her emails with her initial. It wasn’t until I saw her typing an email to a friend that I realised what was going on.

The article is a PDF, here it is without the awful surrounding website: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=JjJ7TpQcry...

The New York Times ran an article[1] on this in 2009. Here are the last words they picked out -

---

Go ahead?

Nothing I can say can change the past.

I done lost my voice.

I would like to say goodbye.

My heart goes is going ba bump ba bump ba bump.

Is the mike on?

I don’t have anything to say. I am just sorry about what I did.

I am nervous and it is hard to put my thoughts together. Sometimes you don’t know what to say.

Man, there is a lot of people there.

I have come here today to die, not make speeches.

Where’s Mr. Marino’s mother? Did you get my letter?

I want to ask if it is in your heart to forgive me. You don’t have to.

I wish I could die more than once to tell you how sorry I am.

Could you please tell that lady right there — can I see her? She is not looking at me — I want you to understand something, hold no animosity toward me. I want you to understand. Please forgive me.

I don’t think the world will be a better or safer place without me.

I am sorry.

I want to tell my mom that I love her.

I caused her so much pain and my family and stuff. I hurt for the fact that they are going to be hurting.

I am taking it like a man.

Kick the tires and light the fire. I am going home.

They may execute me but they can’t punish me because they can’t execute an innocent man.

I couldn’t do a life sentence.

I said I was going to tell a joke. Death has set me free. That’s the biggest joke.

To my sweet Claudia, I love you.

Cathy, you know I never meant to hurt you.

I love you, Irene.

Let my son know I love him.

Tell everyone I got full on chicken and pork chops.

I appreciate the hospitality that you guys have shown me and the respect, and the last meal was really good.

The reason it took them so long is because they couldn’t find a vein. You know how I hate needles. ... Tell the guys on Death Row that I’m not wearing a diaper.

Lord, I lift your name on high.

From Allah we came and to Allah we shall return.

For everybody incarcerated, keep your heads up.

Death row is full of isolated hearts and suppressed minds.

Mistakes are made, but with God all things are possible.

I am responsible for them losing their mother, their father and their grandmother. I never meant for them to be taken. I am sorry for what I did.

I can’t take it back.

Lord Jesus forgive of my sins. Please forgive me for the sins that I can remember.

All my life I have been locked up.

Give me my rights. Give me my rights. Give me my rights. Give me my life back.

I am tired.

I deserve this.

A life for a life.

It’s my hour. It’s my hour.

I’m ready, Warden.

---

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20cameron.html?_r=...

I guess you could say…

All of Bach belong to us?

Can’t help being a pedant but the plural of synopsis is synopses. “Synopsis’s” refers to something belonging to a synopsis, e.g. “the synopsis’s true meaning”.

You could start your own. Call it “Hacker Hacker News: Hacker News for Hackers”

Elements of the Spotify desktop app (though not all of it) are built using web technologies. They use the Chromium Embedded Framework: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#App...

I love this idea and would find it a very useful tool, well done.

I think that textarea input box is key - you should invest time making it look good and easy to use. Could you make it an insert-mode text input that replaces hyphens as you type? Could it auto-expand in width when you get to the end?

Can’t wait to see this evolve

Maybe it’s been a sufficient amount of time since the last JS1K and the code-golfers are getting itchy?

Whatever the reason is, I don’t mind so long as the submissions are interesting and I can browse the source. The ray tracing one that’s #1 at the moment IS impressive but I had to read the HN comments to find the source article.

This was a slip up by Google and has now been taken down. Droid Life took a copy of the high-res photo for anyone interested:

http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/nexys-5...

And their article on the “leak”.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/10/17/nexus-5-appears-on-goog...

That sir is a very handy tip, especially on mobile where typing’s a premium.

Here’s a working version http://jsbin.com/ixUSEBE/3/ I copied the rainday.js into the HTML so it doesn’t rely on external resources.

My girlfriend does this and she's not programming or engineering-minded.

It's just a habit that people seem to have adopted lately – we see other people do it and pick it up because it's comforting.

This is excellent – I find this more useful than the parent article.

Wordpress has been more than a blogging platform for quite some years now.

Funny you should mention beer – I've noticed an increasing tendency for pint glasses to be marked "568ml". Milk also doesn't come in pints any more, but does come in 568ml and 1 litre varieties. Still, as a nation we ask for and think of our beer and milk in pints.

Oh, is this painting (painting) / An internal fraaaaame

It’s a good explanation of how hex colour codes work, but in this day and age it's so much simpler to use (and think in) rgb(n, n, n) notation. Not to mention the hsl(n, n%, n%) notation that is supported by modern browsers.

It isn't working for me either on my UK layout mac keyboard (Chrome, OSX Lion)

This jsfiddle demonstrates it a bit more clearly.

http://jsfiddle.net/liamnewmarch/GgUV2/

The top gradient is from transparent to red, the bottom is from rgba(255, 0, 0, 0) to red.

Notice how the top gradient fades through grey - this is because 'transparent' is a synonym for rgba(0, 0, 0, 0).

What the parent article picks up on, is how this is visible via Firefox's antialiasing.

I’m more concerned with the lack of DOCTYPE and old-school HTML.