Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.
A css fix would prevent this.
Also make the damn upvote buttons bigger on mobile.
Hckrnews.com is a far better frontent. Implemented the long line fix, and also preserves topics that were upvoted to the top and subsequently flagged to death by bot farms or the owners.
Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.
Anyone else old enough to remember the bygone days of the Internet when trolls would submit "page widening posts" to Slashdot? I recall the admins felt so strongly about free speech they refused to delete them—at least for a while.
It felt like the Old West compared to present day social media.
Have you checked out Harmonic? It's an amazing Hacker News android client!
Opera browser can render any page in word wrapping mode
Can someone fix this? I don’t believe it is the first time
I was wondering what’s wrong with the HN site on mobile today. I thought something from my other safari settings carried over thinking is this another macOS / iOS problem. Good to know this time Apple is not to blame. Interesting psychology here how easy it was for me to go there.
Not on Chrome or Firefox for me. So I assume you are using Safari.
The long words must continue until word wrap increases.
I think the ingredient Silphium described in this dish (Now considered extinct) could be Sea Holly (Eryngium spp). Its highly debated as many authors think it is some extinct variety of fennel, but from the images on the coins it doesnt look like a Fennel.
This should have been an April Fools clue on Wheel of Fortune with Vanna White just about to die at the end of having to turn over all the letters.
I thought it was German and had an awful time trying to parse it. Makes so much more sense once one knows it's Greek.
How to never have anyone play Hangman with you again
"Well actually..."
As the word-setter this might be an own-goal. As a word guesser, a random haphazard tactic might get you the word.
I'll Monte-Carlo my point but I have a warm bath tub waiting...
HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.
> is the longest word ever to appear in literature
Thank goodness Joyce doesn't have the record with his invented words in Finnegans Wake.
Legend has it that someone posted the recipe years ago, but the double-whammy of the long title and the HN need to remove "How to make …" broke the site.
Dang, you should change it to "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon" via your admin superpowers!
I doubt that can happen because that would go over the length limit, probably it should be "The Longest Word In Literature"
as for it screwing with mobile site width, on desktop FF putting width small seems to work fine as the word seems to have soft hyphens in it? Because it splits at the window edge with a hyphen in place.
Reminds me of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...
I thought this was a news site for tech, not a Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics repository
This is why I quit linguistics, Too many syllables.
antidisestablishmentarianism
supercalifragilisticexpialadocious
Well observed, sir. I’m felicitous, since, during the course of the penultimate solar sojourn, I terminated my uninterrupted categorisation of the vocabulary of our post-Norman tongue.
I hope you will not object if I also offer my most enthusiastic contrafribularities.
Thus, I’m anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.
May I offer you a pendigestatery interludicule? Anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous extramuralisation.
Just make sure you return interfrastically.
Is antidisestablishmentarianism supercalifragilisticexpialadocious?
Also this may be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack :) well back in the day
I want to taste it
how is this first
I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmostartupoventurecapitoopensourcolicensioprivacysecuritorustigogolokubernetocloudiosaasodistributedodatabasolatencyphoboshowhnaskhncommentopedantolongformoaillmopromptomancyethicoregulatiocontroversioburnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.