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> "design me a sneaker and all the equipment to manufacture it autonomously" We already have sneaker designs and the equipment to manufacture them. Whatever it spits out is going t…

> Substack gives you a way to push content to your subscribers without an intermediary deciding what they get to read. How do we know they won't start limiting your reach in the fu…

The engineer could be fixing an emergency issue while on vacation. For financial data, that would hopefully be an auto-deny anyway until someone on-site whitelists their IP. And th…

Ilograph diagrams can be exported to standalone HTML files (like this example: [0]). Coincidentally, they also have slides (kind of) and clock in at around 560KB. [0] https://www.i…

Some might quibble with using AI for research, but this at least feels directionally correct. I'm not sure if ratings/MPAA is the right avenue to fix it, but the sheer laziness of …

> and i would say json/yaml is not a dsl But you can have DSLs that are json/yaml, is my point. > PlantUML is a real dsl. PlantUML is a DSL that isn't json/yaml. That doesn't make …

> the premise is that because of these few existing dsls (like PlantUML mentioned) my "new dsl" will be equally effective. PlantUML has millions of examples in the training data, m…

> I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture”! The short version: ad blockers work on browsers but not apps[0]. [0] https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-me…

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Hi, author here. The app itself (Ilograph[0]) is fairly old; its first ShowHN was in 2019. These particular yt-dlp diagrams were an experiment in getting meaningful sequence diagra…

Calculator / Rubik's cube / game of life apps should be very close to 100% identical, right? I don't see the point of asking an AI for one of these when there are dozens (hundreds?…

It's a bit like a (simplified) version of Ilograph[0]. Are these editable, or strictly LLM-generated? [0] https://www.ilograph.com

Consider trying to follow along with this app [0] without the transitions. Without them you'd experience much more cognitive load to staying oriented. [0] https://app.ilograph.com/…

5 years later... People who wanted to ask a specific question now won't have that option. Instead, they'll simply be shown whatever Google thinks is most relevant to them at that m…

Gotcha. So this is more for diagrams of new systems than existing ones. Our maybe a blend of new and old.

> I’ve found that Claude can make decent mermaid diagrams pretty reliably. When doing this, do you give it a codebase and ask for a diagram, or is it more of an iterative back-and-…

> "OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow with PKCE as a sequence diagram — user, browser, app server, auth server, API" If you do a Google image search for "OAuth 2.0 PKCE sequence dia…