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Possibly grist https://www.getgrist.com/blog/grist-v-airtable/ ?

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 some…

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, …

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 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 …

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 netw…

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…

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 approxima…

> 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…

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 th…

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]: https://www.england.n…

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/O…

> 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 d…

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 o…

> - 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 c…

> 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 dr…

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 build…

The Oxford Clarion has had several posts about the proposed Abingdon damn: https://oxfordclarion.uk/water-why-abingdons-mega-reservoir-... https://oxfordclarion.uk/abingdon-reservo…

I think they mean Octofriend ( https://github.com/synthetic-lab/octofriend ) from Syntethci Lab ( https://synthetic.new/landing/home ).