chrisldgk (u/chrisldgk)

chrisldgk commented on DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitco... · Posted by u/pseudolus

chrisldgk · 2 months ago

For the German HN readers, there’s a really good podcast with some investigative journalism about this exact topic made by the public broadcast services: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:305aa362...

I don’t believe there’s an English translation sadly, but I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

chrisldgk commented on 'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/mitchbob

JumpCrisscross · 2 months ago

> someone needs to make a substack for music basically

Isn’t this Bandcamp?

chrisldgk · 2 months ago

It is. And it’s also the fairest platform for musicians pay-wise. Though Epic apparently acquired Bandcamp[1] recently (presumably to stuff its IP catalogue for Fortnite Festival, so who knows how long that will be true for.

[1] https://pitchfork.com/news/epic-games-sells-bandcamp-amid-la...

chrisldgk commented on Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar grumpygamer.com/git_json_... · Posted by u/speckx

mananaysiempre · 2 months ago

It’s an old convention that underline in a manuscript (handwritten or typewritten) directs the typesetter to use italics (as underlines are basically nonexistent in professional typesetting before the WWW). I expect that this is where the _italics_ thing (which predates Markdown) comes from. (There is precedent for /italics/ and I don’t think it’s unreasonable, but it is much rarer.)

chrisldgk · 2 months ago

To add to this, when I went to school for design a long time ago, our typography teacher basically told us to never use underlines if we can use italics instead. It tends to mess with the readability of a paragraph and shifts the visual center of gravity downward, making text more difficult to parse. I assume that’s also why italics and underline seem to be used interchangeably from time to time, since they generally achieve the same goal of emphasizing text in the same semantic manner.

chrisldgk commented on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests twitter.com/awesomekling/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

m-s-y · 2 months ago

such as? I consider myself a power user and I've never run into anything I couldn't handle or get around. Genuinely curious.

chrisldgk · 2 months ago

For me it’s a lot of layout and rendering bugs that I run into with somewhat normal CSS transforms. Anytime I build a site that has any kind of animation, there’s at least one weird rendering bug on iOS. Also that stupid playsInline prop that if you forget it makes any video in the viewport hijack the browser and go fullscreen.

chrisldgk commented on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests twitter.com/awesomekling/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

andrewl-hn · 2 months ago

How does it work for the likes of Google and Mozilla? Do they use their own engines for iOS versions in the EU and wrap WebKit for other areas?

chrisldgk · 2 months ago

AFAICT, Chrome and Firefox on iOS are still just WebKit wrappers. I’d love for that to change though, WebKit in iOS sucks in quite a few ways.

chrisldgk commented on AI-powered open-source code laundering github.com/SudoMaker/rEFu... · Posted by u/genkiuncle

charcircuit · 2 months ago

>Lack of giving back

I disagree. There is a ton of free AI generated text, code, images, and video available for completely free for people to learn from.

chrisldgk · 2 months ago

Which is just laundered from real material that real humans put work in to create, only to be regurgitated by a krass homonculous of 1s and 0s for free without any mention of the real work that has been put into creating that information.

I’m not a big fan of the copyright system we have myself, but there’s a reason it exists. AI companies illegally training their AI on copyrighted content to reap the spoils of the hard work of other people that never get recognition for their work is the opposite of „giving back“.

chrisldgk commented on Are touchscreens in cars dangerous? economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

BriggyDwiggs42 · 3 months ago

I mean I doubt the problem went from 0 to 100 in the last few months, so I’m just not sure your anecdote says much about the amount of distracted driving, just bad luck.

chrisldgk · 3 months ago

Yeah no, I agree. Still though, I do think people being distracted while driving is a big problem.

chrisldgk commented on Are touchscreens in cars dangerous? economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

chrisldgk · 3 months ago

Anecdotal evidence, but I’ve been driven into twice over the course of the last two weeks after driving every day for ten years and never having had a crash. Whether it’s touch screens mounted in the car or people being on their phone, something has to be done about people being distracted while driving.

I’m in Germany and using your phone while driving can lead to your license being revoked - the problem is that it’s not really enforced at all in my experience. Maybe it should be.

Rant over, I’m just honestly pissed about my car being wrecked TWICE and me being paranoid looking in the rear view mirror every time I’m stood still because people apparently can’t register a car standing at a signal.

chrisldgk commented on Hosting a website on a disposable vape bogdanthegeek.github.io/b... · Posted by u/BogdanTheGeek

patapong · 3 months ago

Another example: One-time covid tests with a microcontroller, optical sensor to read the result and bluetooth to connect to a phone to display the results. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29698887

chrisldgk · 3 months ago

Don’t forget the Tom7 video[1] where he made a „hard drive“ from disposable Covid test kits.

[1] https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio?t=1560

chrisldgk commented on Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG kube.io/blog/liquid-glass... · Posted by u/Sateeshm

conradfr · 3 months ago

What is funny is that for me the page on Chrome is slower and the scrolling jankier than on Firefox with the unsupported effects (macOS M1).

Besides that, very impressed by the article presentation.

chrisldgk · 3 months ago

I mean that makes sense though, right? Since it’s only available on Chrome, it’s the only one doing all the computations (GPU or otherwise) that other browsers won’t do, since they just ignore the rule.

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