▲What’s mainly annoying is how this has broken HN layout. There’s some CSS for that.
reply▲blauditore22 minutes ago
[-] Seems okay on mobile, how does it look for you?
reply▲Jfyi the title has been edited now, it was the actual word previously which was not broken and just made the page super wide on mobile.
reply▲Especially not working on mobile because the long word pushes for wider column and therefore a more zoomed out view.
reply▲pankajdoharey3 hours ago
[-] 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.
reply▲I believe there are more descriptions of it other than rough depictions on coins
reply▲userbinator4 hours ago
[-] HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.
reply▲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.
reply▲I'm mostly, and pleasantly, surprised that Firefox's hyphenation algorithm handles this reasonably.
reply▲sapphicsnail50 minutes ago
[-] I wonder if this is in meter? I know Philoctetes' pain noises are.
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reply▲"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...
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.
reply▲> is the longest word ever to appear in literature
Thank goodness Joyce doesn't have the record with his invented words in Finnegans Wake.
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.
reply▲Dang, you should change it to "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon" via your admin superpowers!
reply▲bryanrasmussen2 hours ago
[-] 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.
This is why I quit linguistics, Too many syllables.
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austinallegro2 hours ago
[-] 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
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Just make sure you return interfrastically.
reply▲Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.
reply▲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.
reply▲RobotToaster34 minutes ago
[-] It automatically hyphenates on Firefox mobile, must be a safari issue.
reply▲This is an iOS 26 regression. There are a bunch of soft hyphens in there, which is why it works on other browsers and in previous versions of iOS.
reply▲compounding_it4 hours ago
[-] 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.
reply▲Have you checked out Harmonic? It's an amazing Hacker News android client!
reply▲Brain figured out this title being the culprit of horizontal scroll today. Brain predicted this being the top comment in this thread. Not disappointed.
reply▲Can someone fix this? I don’t believe it is the first time
reply▲Not on Chrome or Firefox for me. So I assume you are using Safari.
reply▲phendrenad22 hours ago
[-] The long words must continue until word wrap increases.
reply▲I thought this was a news site for tech, not a Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics repository
reply▲I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmostartupoventurecapitoopensourcolicensioprivacysecuritorustigogolokubernetocloudiosaasodistributedodatabasolatencyphoboshowhnaskhncommentopedantolongformoaillmopromptomancyethicoregulatiocontroversioburnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.
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