Stories by firexcy

US acquisition results in font license hikes for Japanese game studios

Brussels Effect

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

Finding a Successor to the FHS

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool

AI challenges – and hopefully deepens – our understanding of "self"

Six Days in the Dark

To think is to resist – something no machine does

How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility

How iOS Restricts Features by Region: A Look at MobileGestalt and Eligibility

Remote Book Scanning with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs

Remote Scanning Books with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs

"Paradigm shift" was not about "out of the box" thinking

New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

Show HN: A Simple Tool for Summarizing HN Discussions with GenAI Model of Choice

Is Gimp Forever Stuck in the Messy Middle?

Space Out – Meditative Space Spectacles in Time-Lapse with Soundtracks by NASA+