17 comments

  • imwally 2 hours ago
    Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.
    • compounding_it 1 hour 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.
    • cubefox 47 minutes ago
      Not on Chrome or Firefox for me. So I assume you are using Safari.
    • sonu27 42 minutes ago
      Can someone fix this? I don’t believe it is the first time
    • NSPG911 2 hours ago
      Have you checked out Harmonic? It's an amazing Hacker News android client!
    • phendrenad2 14 minutes ago
      The long words must continue until word wrap increases.
  • curious_af 17 minutes ago
    How to never have anyone play Hangman with you again
  • pankajdoharey 38 minutes 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.
  • gsf_emergency_6 1 hour ago
  • vunderba 49 minutes ago
    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.
  • dvrp 1 hour ago
    Dang, you should change it to "Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon" via your admin superpowers!
    • bryanrasmussen 0 minutes 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.

  • cromulent 50 minutes ago
    > is the longest word ever to appear in literature

    Thank goodness Joyce doesn't have the record with his invented words in Finnegans Wake.

  • userbinator 1 hour ago
    HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.
  • treetalker 1 hour ago
    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.
  • aewens 2 hours ago
  • crm9125 1 hour ago
    This is why I quit linguistics, Too many syllables.
  • m463 2 hours ago
    antidisestablishmentarianism

    supercalifragilisticexpialadocious

    • austinallegro 16 minutes 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 interludicule? Anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous extramuralisation.

    • hahahahhaah 1 hour ago
      Is antidisestablishmentarianism supercalifragilisticexpialadocious?

      Also this may be a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack :) well back in the day

  • dartharva 1 hour ago
    I want to taste it
  • terminalg 2 hours ago
    how is this first
  • ttul 30 minutes ago
    I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmo­startupo­venturecapito­open­sourco­licensio­privacy­securito­rustigo­golo­kuberneto­cloudio­saaso­distributedo­databaso­latencyphobo­showhn­askhn­commento­pedanto­longformo­ai­llmo­promptomancy­ethico­regulatio­controversio­burnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.