I agree that the text is unpleasant to read. I also dislike the title ("What we learned when a user tried to load a massive GML file in a browser") - it's hard to imagine that someone who had tried to build a viewer for…
This one's website (and a dead comment replying to you) suggests that processing the PDF in the browser, rather than uploading to a server, is a point of differentiation. However, there are older tools that do this,…
It makes API requests to api.soot.com (and the rendered page includes a div with id "soot-publication"). The soot site is a bit vague about their product: https://spiral.soot.com/ I've previously encountered a similar…
I was about to link to the same "What's on the Menu" site, which I remembered being an impressive site for library digitization project years ago, but it was apparently retired in January 2025. Now [1] redirects to [2],…
I think this is a joke referencing Franz Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
> a new python plotting library Whilst it's still not yet at 1.0.0, it's not that new: the first (0.1.0) release was in 2017: https://pypi.org/project/plotnine/#history
Plotnine is heavily inspired by the ggplot2 library, which uses the + operator in the same way: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/#usage
A photo/video editor may include the ability to upload images to a sharing service/social media. PDF viewers (like GoodReader) can download a PDF from a URL, or read it from a network drive. Obsidian has functions that…
In such cases I generally prefer displaying counts of points in defined areas, rather than using clustering (e.g., when zoomed out, show counts per country, and when zoomed in more show counts for states or equivalent…
Similarly, the kite article [1] states that: > The angle of attack, α, is the angle between the kite’s sail and the incoming wind. As α increases from zero, C_L increases approximately linearly until a critical angle…
> it reads like Claude output Yep. From the site's about page: > This site is produced with substantial help from large language models: they assist with the literature search, the drafting, and the arithmetic.…
Rather than forking PyTorch (which has issues like continually needing updates), could you create a set of linter rules instead?
> Amplify (neé Desmos) It looks like "Amplify Education, Inc" and "Desmos Studio" (Public Benefit Corporation) are separate entities. The desmos website still shows that most of the Desmos "math tools" still exist under…
Deep Blue? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/
Yes, but I can currently only load the page about them via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20260430191621/https://ubuntu.co...
Apparently the "API Layer" is "competitive", with TanStack Query and FastAPI as the leading options [1]. These are not at all alternatives to each other. [1]:…
PMtiles is often used with MVT tiles, but it can encapsulate a variety of tile types: the current spec [1] has defined tile types for MVT, PNG, JPEG, WebP and AVIF (plus "Unknown/Other"). [1]:…
> I think this phrasing alone says a lot more about you than anything you typed. I'm not sure it says anything about them: "inferior court" is the term of art for any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher…
The blog post announcing the winners of the ISBN visualization bounty was posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168838 And a blog post describing the creation of this visualization was posted too:…
> - Skirts credit speculation and arbitrage > - Provides stable pricing in shorter term while accommodating price changes over longer term How? If you pre-pay $5, your account is credited by $5, and when you make an API…
> why when you're measuring really small things and want to be precise, you usually have a little glass/plastic cube around the entire thing too. These weighing instruments with draft shields are usually called…
The comments I've seen from police are normally specific suggestions that designs be amended to follow the Secured by Design [1] guidelines, rather than blanket objections to building something. [1]:…
The Oxford Clarion has had several posts about the proposed Abingdon damn: https://oxfordclarion.uk/water-why-abingdons-mega-reservoir-... https://oxfordclarion.uk/abingdon-reservoir-is-there-an-alte...…
I think they mean Octofriend (https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend) from Syntethci Lab (https://synthetic.new/landing/home).
> there is no blue food Have you eveer seen a blueberry? Or a Concord grape? Or a damson plum?
I agree that the text is unpleasant to read. I also dislike the title ("What we learned when a user tried to load a massive GML file in a browser") - it's hard to imagine that someone who had tried to build a viewer for…
This one's website (and a dead comment replying to you) suggests that processing the PDF in the browser, rather than uploading to a server, is a point of differentiation. However, there are older tools that do this,…
It makes API requests to api.soot.com (and the rendered page includes a div with id "soot-publication"). The soot site is a bit vague about their product: https://spiral.soot.com/ I've previously encountered a similar…
I was about to link to the same "What's on the Menu" site, which I remembered being an impressive site for library digitization project years ago, but it was apparently retired in January 2025. Now [1] redirects to [2],…
I think this is a joke referencing Franz Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
> a new python plotting library Whilst it's still not yet at 1.0.0, it's not that new: the first (0.1.0) release was in 2017: https://pypi.org/project/plotnine/#history
Plotnine is heavily inspired by the ggplot2 library, which uses the + operator in the same way: https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/#usage
A photo/video editor may include the ability to upload images to a sharing service/social media. PDF viewers (like GoodReader) can download a PDF from a URL, or read it from a network drive. Obsidian has functions that…
In such cases I generally prefer displaying counts of points in defined areas, rather than using clustering (e.g., when zoomed out, show counts per country, and when zoomed in more show counts for states or equivalent…
Similarly, the kite article [1] states that: > The angle of attack, α, is the angle between the kite’s sail and the incoming wind. As α increases from zero, C_L increases approximately linearly until a critical angle…
> it reads like Claude output Yep. From the site's about page: > This site is produced with substantial help from large language models: they assist with the literature search, the drafting, and the arithmetic.…
Rather than forking PyTorch (which has issues like continually needing updates), could you create a set of linter rules instead?
> Amplify (neé Desmos) It looks like "Amplify Education, Inc" and "Desmos Studio" (Public Benefit Corporation) are separate entities. The desmos website still shows that most of the Desmos "math tools" still exist under…
Deep Blue? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/
Yes, but I can currently only load the page about them via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20260430191621/https://ubuntu.co...
Apparently the "API Layer" is "competitive", with TanStack Query and FastAPI as the leading options [1]. These are not at all alternatives to each other. [1]:…
PMtiles is often used with MVT tiles, but it can encapsulate a variety of tile types: the current spec [1] has defined tile types for MVT, PNG, JPEG, WebP and AVIF (plus "Unknown/Other"). [1]:…
> I think this phrasing alone says a lot more about you than anything you typed. I'm not sure it says anything about them: "inferior court" is the term of art for any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher…
The blog post announcing the winners of the ISBN visualization bounty was posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168838 And a blog post describing the creation of this visualization was posted too:…
> - Skirts credit speculation and arbitrage > - Provides stable pricing in shorter term while accommodating price changes over longer term How? If you pre-pay $5, your account is credited by $5, and when you make an API…
> why when you're measuring really small things and want to be precise, you usually have a little glass/plastic cube around the entire thing too. These weighing instruments with draft shields are usually called…
The comments I've seen from police are normally specific suggestions that designs be amended to follow the Secured by Design [1] guidelines, rather than blanket objections to building something. [1]:…
The Oxford Clarion has had several posts about the proposed Abingdon damn: https://oxfordclarion.uk/water-why-abingdons-mega-reservoir-... https://oxfordclarion.uk/abingdon-reservoir-is-there-an-alte...…
I think they mean Octofriend (https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend) from Syntethci Lab (https://synthetic.new/landing/home).
> there is no blue food Have you eveer seen a blueberry? Or a Concord grape? Or a damson plum?