I want to nitpick the point here : "And Office suite wise, it took Google about 15 years of pouring money into Google Docs to be almost as good as the MS offering"

From my point of view, it's more : "Google screwed up their online, instantaneous multi-user tool so bad that Microsoft had the time to pour billions into Office-Online-365-whatever-name and now you have Word & Excel in the browser and Google lost their edge".

Without any knowledge of the matter, just looking from outside, Google had the money and the talent to get there but not the focus and the drive.

Silly example : Coloring a text in "Google Docs": the icon is black and white. You can't make that up. Impossible to find it every time I need it and I am using it for 2 months now. Every little detail is like that, showing lack of care for the users.

please rework your color gradient text on the landing page of Wanderfugl. On dark mode it is rendered as a rectangle of gradient. My dark mode is handled by Dark Reader the firefox addon. It breaks the flow of presentation.

Also, at the bottom, the beta is opened but it closes the November 15th, so it's close and open at the same time :) (else it's November 2026?)

I agree How can the previous comment be on hacker news ? Every one here has followed the llama release saga. The famous cheeky PR on their GitHub with the torrent link was genius comedy.

Does Gemini really does a good job at detecting promotional video ? For example, that one video discussed in this post is one huge promotion for his friend product but it is actually built in a way that clearly appeals to nerdy audience. The video boasts the rigorous testing, provides scientific explanations, nerdy jokes, etc. What Gemini says about that ?

I don't directly ask it if the video is promotional, but you can usually get a sense from the way the summary is written.

Half the ideas have a solution or a WIP solution :

- first bullet point is litteraly what made Instagram back in 2010s

- calorie tracking is done by taking a picture

- Lifting coach : I 100% bet most lifting app teams are already on it

- Recommandation engine : there is probably 0 money to make here to link random web pages. Where there is money, it's already done brillantly (for the companies) : Tiktok, Youtube algorithms have made huge progress since I see a lot of comments by people saying "I don't know why YouTube recommanded me that video but I am glad I watched it", GOogle News, and probably many more.

- calorie tracking is done by taking a picture

- everything "minimalist" => any good tool focused on 1 main feature and get success will add more feature to cater to specific needs that current users have or that future users are thought to have.

I stop reading the list at that point :/

As always it's probably because maths still is too hard for most people and keeping the rule simple won over fairness.

Ironman just switched to age-grading, which is just as simple and already used by many runner training plans and race calculators.

https://www.ironman.com/news/age-group-qualification-system

> Bartosz, if you are reading this, contact me and I'll send you the final casting. This project would never have happened without your blog post.

I am impressed by the quality of your work on this side project and I love that final attention.

"Hello John, I notice your username on HN has not been updated. I will make that change for you in 2 hours, from a2128 to john2128. If you want to keep your current username, please follow steps in our help me discord channel"

Troubling that these eminent great leaders does not cite climate change among societal-scale risks, a bigger and more certain societal-scale risk than a pandemy.

Would be a shame to have energy consumption by datacenters regulated, am I right ?

Maybe global warming should be up there.

Perhaps they were trying to avoid any possible misunderstanding/misconstrual (there are misinformed people who don't believe in global warming).

In terms of avoiding all nitpicking, I think everyone that's not criminally insane believes in pandemics and nuclear bombs.

Here is my feedback.

Steps are not clear enough. It looks to me it's a step by step guide but it missed at least 2 points :

- the search engine must be Google I think ? Mine is duckduckgo and it doesnot work

- I still dont know if my device is supposed to be in airplane mode or no for the test. In airplane mode, even with Google set as the search engine, it does not work. Pixel phone. If I am connected to internet, I do have the single result from the google search.

I guess we are expected to be pleasantly surprised by something, but since I don't know what to look for and it does not work, it's a miss for me.

Personally I prefer to have the explanation alongside the steps that way I know what I am doing and can correctly interpret the instructions. For me, learning the technical trick does not diminish my contentness.

Thanks for the detailed feedback — really appreciate it!

You're right that the demo relies on Google Search specifically (not DuckDuckGo), and that should probably be made even clearer in the instructions. I do mention “search Google” in step 3, but I’ll look into making that more explicit up front.

As for airplane mode: the idea is to go offline after Google has had time to prefetch the page. That’s why the instructions say to start with a stable internet connection — and the page does show a warning if you go offline too early. But I totally get how that could still be confusing, especially if it didn’t work the first time.

A tip: once you're on the "You're offline" page, wait at least 3 seconds and observe the dinosaur. Something may happen.

And good point about wanting to know what’s going on. I tried to keep the experience surprising for some users, but I see how having the technical context up front can enhance it for others. I’ll consider adding an “explain first” option in the future.

Thanks again for giving it a go!