mediumdeviation's comments

On: A67z

[mediumdeviation]

Since it didn't gain traction the first time round, I'll just leave this here:

> Clad Labs launches Chad IDE, the first ever "brainrot IDE" https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OgV-chad-ide-the-first-...

[ChrisArchitect → mediumdeviation]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848390

[footy → mediumdeviation]

I might be too middle aged to understand. Is this a joke? It's absurd. How did this get funded?

On: Avería: The Average Font (2011)

[mediumdeviation]

It's because the website is using cufon, a very early attempt at supporting custom fonts on the web using HTML canvas - basically every word you see is rendered as an image rather than text. The end result does not look good on hi-dpi screens like modern Macbook displays, probably they did not exist back then. The site mentions Google Font has a hosted version of it now and you can look at how it is meant to be rendered https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Averia+Libre

[vessenes → mediumdeviation]

Wow, that looks completely different than how Safari rendered the site. Thanks for the link. I like the look of it hosted at Google.

[0_____0 → mediumdeviation]

Aaahhh, thank you.

It still looks a little funky but way more readable.

On: Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste

[mediumdeviation]

It's the scanline effect, here's three lines of JS to disable it from the developer console

    s=document.createElement('style');
    s.textContent='body::after{display: none !important}';
    document.body.appendChild(s)

On: US government shuts down after Senate fails to pass last-ditch funding plan

[mediumdeviation]

I think you mean congresswoman, Adelita Grijalva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelita_Grijalva

> On September 23, 2025, Grijalva was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election to succeed her father, defeating Republican nominee Daniel Butierez.

On: Targetting specific characters with CSS rules

[mediumdeviation]

Since the article doesn't mention this, the intended use for this property is to act as a hint to the browser about what characters are supported by the font, and if the page doesn't have those characters then the browser can choose to not download the font. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/%40font-fac...

This also mean you don't technically even need this property to achieve this, you can also recompile a font with limited glyphs, this property just makes it easier to do this with an existing font file, though of course the user would be downloading a lot of unused glyphs.

On: Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

[mediumdeviation]

The news cycle is moving fast enough that shockingly enough this news is already pushed off the frontpage of these news sites, but the article is there if you dig a little.

- BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go

- The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/16/israel-committ...

- NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/g-s1-89014/israel-gaza-genoci...

On: Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

[mediumdeviation]

There’s some discussion in the specs here https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-secure-contexts/#is-origin-t...

> In particular, the user agent SHOULD treat file URLs as potentially trustworthy.

> User agents which prioritize security over such niceties MAY choose to more strictly assign trust in a way which excludes file.

A potentially trustworthy URL is a secure context: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#secur...

So this is a matter of browsers not implementing it, probably because there’s just not a lot of demand for it.

On: What does Palantir actually do?

[mediumdeviation]

> The main concern about the numbers is that they are probably a massive undercount. Every hospital in Gaza has been bombed by the IDF, and the healthcare system is barely functioning at all any more. Beyond that, there is rubble everywhere, and nobody knows how many people lie dead underneath it.

Just to back this up - this study published in the Lancet estimates a 41% undercount for deaths up to June 30, 2024.

The study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The Guardian's summary: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/10/gaza-death-tol...

On: Show HN: Reactive: A React Book for the Reluctant (written by Claude)

[mediumdeviation]

Please for goodness sake just read React's docs.

https://react.dev/learn

The new docs are very good, they address common questions most devs have, up to fairly complex cases. The "book" unsurprisingly reads like a expert beginner's take, and there are a decent number of poor or missing explanations and code that's not really best practice. It's also really verbose for things that React's own docs do a better job of explaining.

[iammrpayments → mediumdeviation]

I find React docs really oversimplified and never tells you how it really works behind the scene to the point where it makes you feel like they are talking to a child, specially this section with all its illustrations: https://react.dev/learn/render-and-commit

This kind of documentation makes it really hard to solve problems that will soon arise after you move past hello world.

[andrewmcwatters → iammrpayments]

It's giving why the lucky stiff, but not in a good way.

On: The AI Tool Used by Doge to Review Veterans Affairs Contracts

[mediumdeviation]

The other part that's disconcerting is the person who did all this has decided to put his name on the public record in an interview with journalists. After reading through the article I had the feeling this would, in a few years, show up in software / AI ethics courses in university. Is this a form of atonement, whistleblower, or extremely misplaced pride?

[belter → mediumdeviation]

The person is the CEO of Gumroad and I sincerely hope it happens to Gumroad the same happening to Tesla. Life too short to give money and tolerate unethical self absorbed aholes