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Ticking Timebomb in Mac OS [video]

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1 points·by vishnuharidas·2 maanden geleden·0 comments

Procrustes

en.wikipedia.org
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You Must Review AI-Generated Code

iamvishnu.com
2 points·by vishnuharidas·4 maanden geleden·0 comments

Degoogling

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2 points·by vishnuharidas·4 maanden geleden·0 comments

Degoogling

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2 points·by vishnuharidas·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Must update 2-step-verification Email separately in Bitwarden

twitter.com
1 points·by vishnuharidas·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Fictional Codebase for a Todo App in 2027

iamvishnu.com
1 points·by vishnuharidas·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Writing a To-Do App in 2027

iamvishnu.com
2 points·by vishnuharidas·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

Console JavaScript script to show thread level on HN

gist.github.com
7 points·by vishnuharidas·6 maanden geleden·1 comments

Success

snook.ca
1 points·by vishnuharidas·7 maanden geleden·0 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by vishnuharidas·7 maanden geleden·0 comments

"Maximum text contrast" requirement removed from WCAG 3.0 draft

w3.org
2 points·by vishnuharidas·7 maanden geleden·3 comments

My Two Predictions for AI in 2026 (and They're Bad)

iamvishnu.com
1 points·by vishnuharidas·7 maanden geleden·2 comments

Horizontal Volume Control in Apple Music – But Why?

iamvishnu.com
7 points·by vishnuharidas·8 maanden geleden·0 comments

Storing TOTP in Password Managers

iamvishnu.com
4 points·by vishnuharidas·9 maanden geleden·1 comments

UTF-8 is a brilliant design

iamvishnu.com
849 points·by vishnuharidas·10 maanden geleden·348 comments

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vishnuharidas
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
And here's a UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app
vishnuharidas
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
This took me down the nostalgic memory lane of the planet-source-code days. There were hundreds of such projects in Visual Basic, Delphi, C/C++/MFC etc., and text editors and paint clones were the most popular projects.
vishnuharidas
·3 maanden geleden·discuss
Also: UTF-8 Playground: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app
vishnuharidas
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Okay, I am NEVER letting an agent make payment autonomously. If there's a payment that has to be made, tell me, I will do that myself.
vishnuharidas
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
A screenshot is the bare minimum for such things.
vishnuharidas
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
Nothing can't be first-class as long as it is not *directly* replacing the existing first-class citizens.

If Wasm modules can be loaded like this:

    <wasm src="/module.wasm" start="main" data="..." />
...and if Wasm could access the DOM like this:

    import dom, json, re, html, urllib.parse
    from datetime import datetime
    
    params = urllib.parse.urlencode({"category": "news", "limit": 10})
    data = json.loads(await (await fetch(f"https://api.example.com/data?{params}")).string())
    container = js.document.getElementById("app")
    container.innerHTML = "".join(f"..." for i in data["items"])

...then developers would have jumped in right away.
vishnuharidas
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
“RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW”: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/237C
vishnuharidas
·4 maanden geleden·discuss
There were many study materials that were made in Flash that came back alive with the help of Ruffle. Here's my fav list: https://astro.unl.edu/animationsLinks.html
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
A screenshot is the bare minimum for things like this.
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
https://iamvishnu.com - my personal website/blog running on April⋅SSG, a simple SSG I made for this.
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I mistakenly mixed up the abbreviations - it is "Right Hand Traffic"/RHT (which is "Left Hand Driving"/LHD).

Like you said, I enjoy LHD more where I can use my right hand for everything like radio/AC/GPS etc. and most of them work with muscle memory without even taking eyes off the road. Doing the same with my left hand while driving in India (LHT/RHD) is very tough.
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
I've driven both. Drove LHD for more than a decade in India. Now driving in RHD country for 2y now. Personally, I enjoy RHD more because I am right-handed and I get to do things easily with my RH. Otherwise, I realized that safety benefits comes from the driving discipline and not driving on a particular side of the road. Driving on Aus/Japan is way safer than India, despite all of them being LHD.
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Coincidentally, I was vibe-coding a doom-scroller for Hacker News Top Stories today: https://vishnuharidas.github.io/hn-reels/
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Washing machines next. A total stupid idea to put capacitive touch on it. Just lean over the counter and it simply resets the wash program to re-run the past 3 hours of progress. Can't think of operating it with wet hands.
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
A tiny browser-console script for Hacker News that displays each comment's indentation level directly inside the comment cell.

Reason: I lost track of what I am reading on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473348

Screenshot is in the Gist.
vishnuharidas
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Sharing the UTF-8 Playground I built recently: https://utf8-playground.netlify.app/
vishnuharidas
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
"Maximum text contrast" requirement removed from WCAG 3.0 draft, leaving #FFF text on #000 background a valid contrast ratio, but not accessible for many users.

Previous draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-wcag-3.0-20241212/

Related discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762054
vishnuharidas
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
https://engineeringblogs.xyz/ is a good place listing more than 500 (and adding more) engineering blogs.
vishnuharidas
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
TL;DR: 1. People will be forced to add "human-generated content" disclaimer. 2. AI will be overused everywhere for no apparent reason (Further: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328109)
vishnuharidas
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
It was blockchain a few years ago. Everything was on blockchain for no apparent reason. I guess that 2026 will be like "Grab our AI-cooked sandwich with AI-picked ingredients, built on multi-model agentic toaster"