Numi – Calculator app for Mac • Hacker News Board

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by perryizgr8 » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 4:29 AM UTC

It's a very nice app. I have to ask though: why doesn't it quit when I close the window??

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by scastillo » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 4:54 AM UTC

Thanks. This is sooo pleasurable. Now add a wolfram and a GPT-3 plugin

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by villgax » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 4:56 AM UTC

What I wanted was the old calculator in the sidebar to be back in Big Sur. It was the one muscle memory that I loved to reach out for something small, no matter how indifferent it makes typing it in spotlight or finely clicking on the dock icon, it will never beat sheer speed/confidence of accessing it in the sidebar

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by ryanSrich » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

Hm. This looks cool, but doesn't solve my most common use case - percentage increases. Example - https://i.imgur.com/LrnUwnB.png

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by mehal » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:09 AM UTC

bilalq wrote: post #40

This is really neat. Google does a pretty good job at providing similar answers, but it doesn't support things like summing up past queries and needs copy/pasting for more advanced use-cases. I love the UX here. The simple interface and even the coloring go a long way in making it easy to use.

It actually does support summing up. I've discovered - it work in a groups. If you have set of queries divided by space, keyword 'total' or 'sum' would result in a sum of previous group

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by nomoreusernames » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:21 AM UTC

eh i use rstudio. overkill? idk but it makes math fun and i like it.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by noisy_boy » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:26 AM UTC

msravi wrote: post #125

There's also NaSC on Linux: https://parnold-x.github.io/nasc/ And CalcNote on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burton999....

I installed NaSC on Linux (Pop!_OS) but it was basically unreadable on a dark theme - units were dark grey on black and output was very light grey on white. No preferences button etc to switch styles etc.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by gilgoomesh » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:48 AM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #107

cprecioso wrote: post #66

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And! the parser and calculator engine is free to use for personal projects. It is an extremely pleasant SDK to use, and super powerful. https://github.com/soulverteam/SoulverCore

I love this model. Open source the library/SDK, then build your own paid application on top of it.

Soulver isn't open source. That repo is just a binary.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by ryanmccullagh » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:51 AM UTC

lordleft wrote: post #37

I find that calculators remain weirdly unergonomic on most Operating Systems. There are so many times where I want to do some quick math but feel hobbled by the insistence of calculator software writers to ape physical calculator design -- Numi seems like a cool step in the right direction

Excel is the secret calculator app that you’ve been dreaming about.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by kebman » Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 6:04 AM UTC

CyberDildonics wrote: post #127

monkeydust wrote: post #74

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Would love to see a web version

You want your calculator to be a web page?

Why not. I use Chrome to make quick calculations all the time. Just Ctrl+N and 1+1, and the answer is posted. Then Ctrl+W, and/or Alt+Tab to Sublime or whatever. Then I continue with my life :)