Hacker News Reader

I've been using it for years, just want to say thank you, given the occasion.

vertebrateon Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly

Your rendering issue sounds like the one described here: https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2021/12/31/more-consistent-f...

vertebrateon Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

As I understand it https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric provides an abstraction at least over the network divide.

vertebrateon Simply explained: How does GPT work?

> I base that on the fact that people seemed to spend quite a bit of time trying to find the phrase "the confetti has left the cannon" that GPT-4 phrased. It seems Google search has no records of it before then?

Could it be that the expression in some form has been used in languages other than English?

vertebrateon Programming with Categories

It looks like a fork of Luxi Mono with slashed zero, which is available in ttf. And there is a more modern version of it with better character coverage -- Go Mono.

vertebrateon Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?

There is a Reading List plugin for Calibre

vertebrateon My Top Free Font Superfamilies

Also worth mentioning:

  Computer Modern (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  DejaVu (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Fira (sans-serif/monospace)
  Inria (sans-serif/serif)
  Libertinus (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Luxi (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Merriweather (sans-serif/serif)
  Noto (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Overpass (sans-serif/monospace)
  Space (sans-serif/monospace)
  Ubuntu (sans-serif/monospace)

vertebrateon IBM Type

`r` is a little weird with its wide flat top, otherwise it's a great font. Would love to see Greek and Cyrillic support too.

vertebrateon Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

Here's mine (fx55): http://i.cubeupload.com/AvH2Cc.png profile1: 6 windows, ~900 tabs; profile2: 2 windows, ~300 tabs. cold start takes about 2 minutes (on nvme ssd), next are slightly better. Startup time improvements were supposed to be in 55, right?

vertebrateon Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain

vertebrateon Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

curious what fonts do you use and find acceptable?

vertebrateon Show HN: Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop

L’Histoire de l’art (History of art) lectures by Élie Faure

vertebrateon Linux utils that you might not know

Why does one use `font-weight: 200` for code?

vertebrateon Amazon Echo Show

preventing future crimes

vertebrateon Ask HN: How do I find an open source project to contribute to?

https://openhatch.org/

https://www.codetriage.com/

vertebrateon Elements of JavaScript Style

cargo-culting haskell

vertebrateon Why website body text should be bigger

check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/column-reader...

vertebrateon System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house

> Admittedly, mine is not Thinkpad

nuff said

vertebrateon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

You are not alone, but I just use bookmarks for that. Is using Pocket any different from that, e.g. does it save pages internally so if the original site goes down the page will still be available in Pocket?

vertebrateon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

There is an option in `about:config` for that -- `services.sync.sendTabToDevice.enabled`, disabled by default. Suggest you to enable it and try it out.

vertebrateon Forth: The Hacker’s Language

Why do you think some of the so-called hacker languages were pretty popular at a time (perl, lisp), and not the others (forth, apl?)

vertebrateon Container Tabs

try this, as simple as in chrome https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/

vertebrateon Many LASIK patients may wind up with glare, halos or other visual symptoms

Is anyone here using ortho-k lenses? I've replaced my usual soft contacts and been wearing them for half a year now and it's so much easier on the eyes. Although I still see slight halos and by the evening my vision is noticeably worse, I can't complain. And I have an option to undo all this, unlike some poor LASIK patients.

vertebrateon Go fonts

This is MacOS font rendering for you, in Linux normal weight looks normal

vertebrateon Space Mono

Have you tried Luxi Mono or Linux Libertine Mono?

vertebrateon React vs. Angular 2

What is this FRP thing JS developers talking about? What I should read to learn more about it?