Has anyone tried to make some sort of algorithm to find cool stuff on HN or sort by upvotes etc? I know it's cool and intended that such things don't exist, but has anyone tried?
Cool! I want to suggest something, Imagine I want to got to a specific date where some topic was hot, I can read it from your website and then go to that date. But it would be better if I could click on some sort of button, or on the points on the graph to go to that date. It would be easy to implement, you just need links like this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-24
The point about careers was really something I didn't think about, thank you for pointing that out! Science looks fun too. thank you for your help. I still have to think about the 'why' you mentioned, but you cleared some of the picture for me!
I wrote this once, power went out. I write it shorter this time.
1. JS, Python, PHP, C#, C++, Rust, Java. The ones after PHP, I only have worked with for a short time, like a hello world and solving some basic CS questions. I don't really know them. I know frameworks, but I forgot most if them. React, Svelte for frontend. Laravel, Django for backend. I know more Laravel than Django. Pytorch and sklearn for AI. Not sure what I'm good at. I mostly experience flow in theoretical things like math. But I also experience flow in solving weird DevOps bugs that you have no clue where they come from, no error message or error message isn't helpful, the ones AI can't solve and you find out with thinking an lot of experimenting and trying to find the root. I have completed advanced math courses for AI, but not for algorithms and such things. I learned some design patterns and tried to be loyal to OOP or functional programming, never felt it helped me. Also I get bored adn I'm bad at algorithms.
2. lol, all of it. But the most possible and logical one that I'm sure I like is just making stuff that I and other people find cool. Its fine even if only I would like it. Things like interactive games or cool tools and websites. Most satisfying thing was two things I did recently, related to solving two small language/typography problem and and bidirectional text.
3. I want to have a lot of cool projects people can interact with and play with and see. Made useful stuff for myself, that help me in hard and important things like studying. I'd also like to fit in the university, maybe find some new friends and doing projects with my old + new friends, and that would be a huge victory as I haven't done much team work. My financial goals would be having a job. Perfectly I'd have passive income. I really have many interests, and I feel I might fail because of being a "jack of all trades". I did some graphics design before. I even sometimes want to get to art like 2D art, that I'm normal in and even music composing which I know nothing about. But I'm behind others in these and I can't get accepted to a good university at those, least not this year. Also I'm only consistent in programming, not these. The motivation I have for them is occasional and temporary. About Robotics, before programming I liked that, but I hate the fact you have to buy stuff to experiment etc. It's hard to have the playground to learn in does hardware professions in my opinion. Also by experience I'm bad at handiwork.
Hmm. by kashida do you mean something like 'ایـــــــــــــن'?
I don't think you mean this, because I don't know how would you do it in CSS. Looks more like a problem to be solved with different types of character than styling.
I looked at Arabizi and the numbers are really annoying for formal text etc. Finglish is better in my opinion, however it causes problems like being able to read the same text in two ways. like "dar". The a can be like 'a' in 'dad' or it can be 'a' like in 'car'. with different pronunciation it means 'door' and 'gallow' which can be very annoying in Arabic languages that unlike Persian write _ُ_ِ_ٌ_ً_ٍ_ّ_. Instead of numbers it uses combinations like 'kh' for 'خ', 'gh' for 'ق' and 'غ'. In some methods they use 'aa' for 'a' sound like 'bar' and single 'a' for 'a' sound like 'lad'.
Yeah, but the difficulty isn't in rendering the fonts, it's for the font creator. So once the font is ready with all the combinations it rendering and using a Nastaliq font doesn't differ with rendering a Naskh. Nastaliq fonts are available in Persian, not sure if true for other languages, but it's just more complexity on making the font. For using a ready font the only thing needed is permission to change the font.
If you think Arabic horrible because it has connected letters, so is cursive. But I like both cursive and Arabic. You can easily distinguish separate words as the words' letters are connected, and you don't have to put less space to show that some letters are making a word. It's not optimized for printing and digital fonts I agree. But you can't say it's not useful for daily use. It's so much easier on paper.
Not only writing and printing is hard, so is selection and moving your cursor. Because in most tools, the right and left arrow keys don't mean right and left in Arabic, Persian etc. It's reversed in RTL languages, so right arrow moves the cursor to end direction (left in LTR, right in RTL) and left arrow moves you towards start direction (right in LTR, left in RTL). So in bidirectional text, for example when majority of the text is English and you have a short RTL phrase, you are holding right arrow and then then when you reach the RTL part the cursor suddenly jumps to the start of RTL text, then it goes to left and it SEEMS like you are going backward to the start, not forward. That is until you reach the end of RTL phrase and you teleport to start of next LTR part.
I think approving the comment is also doing something, so if we won't allow it to do that too it will be useless. But I think you mean we shouldn't allow AI to do potentially harmful actions like removing/rejecting comments. But approving a bad comment also means people see it so it's a debate about which one being more harmful in practice. But I agree with you!
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