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Check out the last video on the page. It zooms in and you get a sense of just how much resolution there is.

Really, don't use LLM for polish; that's what wrecks it imho. People write idiosyncratically and that's a good thing. That's your voice.

Tells like "load-bearing" and "real", for example. "the heap's simplicity is load-bearing: once..." "It's a real thing" "It's a real trade-off" "The design buys real things" "it co…

And about Volume 5... > Syntactic Algorithms, in preparation. 9. Lexical scanning (includes also string search and data compression) 10. Parsing techniques

From Future Plans... > And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only …

"Ü programming language" brings up the Github docs with Google, as does "U programming language", although this HN post comes up second. On a Mac "Ü" is typed "option-u shift-u".

Some more resources from that post: > See examples ( https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/tree/master/s... ) to get a general idea what Ü is and how it looks like and fee…

There was a "Show HN: Ü Programming Language" from the author last October. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769161

That "Another angle" truly is spectacular.

Just fyi, the author is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Lefkowitz , creator of Twisted.

The parent reads more like "it works in practice but does it work in theory? " The innovations that have come out of the DuckDB team seem to always focus on "in practice" instead o…

Looking more carefully at the original image ( http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Emp... ) I can see the mapping of letterforms you made. Thanks for that!

Not understanding Greek, I ran that through Google Translate (Greek -> English) just to see what it might say. > AND THIS … THE MAJOR … BUT THE BOTH … ARE MEANING … PEUSIS PAN GAR …

Finally, a bracket I can enjoy (that doesn't involve basketball).

> I think Claude Shannon’s spirit is probably proud to know that his name is now being associated with such advances. Hats off to Claude! I didn't realize Claude was named after Cl…

I had not heard of Glyphs, the tool the author used. I used to use Fontographer long ago. https://glyphsapp.com/learn/recommendation:get-started It's a great article!

DuckDb has a new "DuckLake" catalog format that would be another candidate to test. https://ducklake.select/

Yesterday there was a somewhat similar DuckDB post, "Frozen DuckLakes for Multi-User, Serverless Data Access". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45702831

Looking up the etymology of "sargeable", I found this StackOverflow answer: https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/217983 And Google explains "The term 'sargable' is a portmanteau of "Sea…