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For anyone interested in implementing Hobby's algorithm in their own projects, I recommend the paper "Typographers, programmers and mathematicians, or the case of an aesthetically …

Hi Raph! I'm the author of the blog post. I actually read your PhD thesis when I was working on this project and trying to wrap my head around splines. It was a huge help to me in …

It depends on the definition of a “day” that you use, but due to Mercury’s elliptical orbit sunrises and sunsets are weird. [1] It takes 59 Earth days for the planet to revolve onc…

There are a number of rich text editors that model documents as a flat array of characters and a separate table of formatting modifiers (each with an offset and length). Medium's t…

Very cool that the author had a custom keyboard made with their keymap printed on it. Personally I like being able to type math symbols on occasion but don't do so often enough to …

I don't think it's generally possible. The FIPS code just identifies the county (the first two digits are the state, e.g. 06 for California) and the final three identify a county i…

This is phenomenal. I've been scraping the data from primary sources for just Washington state for the past week [0], in order to make this chart which I hacked together last weeke…

This is pretty neat. A week or so ago when "MathJax turns 3.0" was on the frontpage [0], I followed a link to this very thoughtful comment [1] from 2019 by svat about the landscape…

This looks like a great new introduction to D3. It uses Observable as an interactive playground for D3 example code, which I think is an ideal environment for teaching concepts lik…

The markup for the callout buttons/links on the example page [0] is just Button text (for outlined) and Button text (for filled). That's a pretty creative solution that I definitel…

Hi HN. I built this over the weekend to visualize the spread of COVID-19 infections in my home state of Washington. I was frustrated that the DOH data and SeattleTimes maps only sh…

This is a great paper! Thank you for sharing it. I'm not an expert by any means in color theory, but I found the paper both accessible (great diagrams!) and compelling.

Fascinating read. Nelson’s ideas of an open universal hypertext system is in many was incredibly prescient of our modern web. But one thing he (and others) got wrong(1) is the conc…

Not GP, but I suspect they’re referring to this terminal emulator: https://st.suckless.org/

I think what this is saying is that the area of the focus indicator needs to be 300 pixels, not that the longest side needs to be 300 pixels. So for your button, using a 150px by 2…

Folks who enjoyed this article may also be interested in this one [0] from The Atlantic, published in 1982, which chronicles the rise of the diamond industry during the 20th centur…

> I find that some lenses have a different look on-axis versus off-axis, either leading to ugly smearing, or pretty twirly bokeh. This is indeed pretty interesting. It seems like d…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901264

In case anyone reading this in the future cares, I learned that Chrome 49 was the last release to support Windows XP and Windows Vista [0]. Google dropped support for these operati…

According to https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-version-market-share (see the CSV for unabridged data), Chrome 49, 61, and 63 seem to be oddly popular today, given their age. - Chr…