64 points | by casmalia 4 hours ago ago
13 comments
Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.
But the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
I usually don't leave this kind of comments, but I really can't read yellow text on dark red background for more than 20 seconds.
Oddly, I don't get the reader-mode option in Firefox for the site... one of these days I should probably figure out why that sometimes happens
It's an odd site design. Stories are loaded dynamically by script based on the URL fragment identifier; I'd imagine Reader Mode isn't geared toward that sort of thing.
I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
Interesting.
Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
This is a good one.
Thanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.
But the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
I usually don't leave this kind of comments, but I really can't read yellow text on dark red background for more than 20 seconds.
Oddly, I don't get the reader-mode option in Firefox for the site... one of these days I should probably figure out why that sometimes happens
It's an odd site design. Stories are loaded dynamically by script based on the URL fragment identifier; I'd imagine Reader Mode isn't geared toward that sort of thing.
I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
Save to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
Good read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.
And for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
Interesting.
Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
This reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
This is a good one.