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I checked their whole site, it's all capitalised this way.

It's definitely... unique?


That's really cool, thanks for sharing!

This can't be real?

It was widely reported starting around August 3, 2026. I just Googled it.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran-war...


Have you seen San Francisco right now?


I haven’t been to the city in 12 years. What is it like right now?


Like every downtown in the US. In short: not good.


I don’t want to say you guys overstate things, but literally every downtown in the US? Might be time to move. I was regularly visiting San Francisco in the late 2010s when the tech bro community was really ginning this story up. Was it an ugly clash of both the promise and the failure of US economics? Yeah. Was their shit on the streets? Also yeah. Did I ever feel unsafe? Not really. Anecdata but I remain skeptical because of these Helen Lovejoy-level overstatements.


You're forgetting the part where he is a near majority shareholder in spacex, so half of the profit made on your dollar spend winds up benefiting him personally.


> so half of the profit made on your dollar spend winds up benefiting him personally

No, it doesn't. Aside from the face-slappingly obvious fact that SpaceX is losing a half a billion dollars a quarter, that's not how corporate revenue works. Unless the corporate profits are paid out in dividends, you don't just get to hoover them up as a shareholder.


akshully it does work like that. it sounds like you’re arm-chairing macro economics so ill try my hand too.

No one said anything about dollar-in revenue dollar-out dividend. only you.

if i have vested interest in a company and that company’s value is perceived to increase then i get to leverage that value into economic power. yes


Dan Luu is a bit famous around HN.

I think he might subscribe to the philosophy of everyone should style websites however they like and not be prescribed by the author.


Nah, he's just trying to be different. It's vanity.

He's had a usable website in the past. This one is explicitly made to be shitty. "Look at me, I'm such a geek" energy.


His site has always looked like this, i'm sure of it. This is what sites look like if you just write them as text. Not everybody knows how to use sql or css or java or whatever thing it is that lets you pick the font.


I'm almost certain he used to have a reasonably styled website. I just tried to look it up but it looks like he's excluded the website from WayBackMachine.

> Not everybody knows how to use sql or css or java or whatever thing it is that lets you pick the font.

lol at the idea that Dan Luu can't add css to his website by copypasting some links into his html. He could make the site readable in about 3 mins and never have to worry about it again.

    <!-- Google Fonts -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,300italic,700,700italic">

    <!-- CSS Reset -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/normalize/8.0.1/normalize.css">

    <!-- Milligram CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/milligram/1.4.1/milligram.css">

BTW this is just the first such library I found. There are lots of 'em, and all very well documented, requiring less knowledge to use than what it takes to publish a blog... which he's mastered.


Honestly I prefer the minimal style because I add my own to many pages as it is, or use the built-in reader or a reader extension. People have much different opinions on what's readable.


> People have much different opinions on what's readable.

Opinions are dime a dozen, but readability (and usability in general) is a well-studied field and having to move your head from side to side to read text that stretches the width of a screen is objectively bad for readability. That's just one example.

And making the website readable for the majority does not prevent one from using the built-in reader or an extension.


No it didn't. It used to be more readable and he changed it to look like this.


Like how opus 4.7 or so started talking about the 'seam' between different things.


They still haven't got native scrolling perfect for iOS. I used a big name app just today and I could instantly tell without looking it up that it was a flutter app, because the scrolling felt non-native.


This is fixed in the past few versions of Flutter, they likely haven't updated their SDK.


If that's the case I might reappraise flutter!


You definitely should, it's grown a lot and Dart 3.0+ in general is a much nicer language than before, due to adopting functional features as well as having a garbage collector.


Scrolling is like an Achilles' heel of Flutter. There's still no smooth scrolling with mouse for web.


I've hallucinated with fevers before, and they do feel surprising that you swear you are awake, but perhaps you're really in a twilight between awake and asleep and the dreams break through.


Yeah. To be clear I don't think anything mystical happened, it was just my brain doing very odd thing outside of its default state.


They also have to remember where roadwork is/was and what kind of traffic is best/worst at a given time.

There's a fantastic Tom Scott video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWREtcDVBE


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