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Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by Nemi »

btown wrote: post #296
alnwlsn wrote: post #162

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Maybe, but I never seem to have trouble searching for even further incomprehensible part numbers on other items. Give me a DigiKey part number like "WM7610CT-ND" and google finds it first thing. Digikey is also the first result for the manufacturer part number "0533980671". For my McMaster example, google gives 9 results, none of which are the McMaster site. That not specific enough? To be fair, I believe McMaster to…

There's an interesting dynamic here: if McMaster part numbers are searchable on Google, people are going to use Google to search for McMaster part numbers, rather than the McMaster site itself. Which gives all its competitors a chance to bid on those long-tail keywords, or optimize for them. On the other hand, if you train people that if you want to use McMaster part numbers, you have to use the McMaster site... once…

This… is brilliant. Google and Facebook are highly lucrative because they designed a system where your profit margins (as a business) are largely sucked up by Google and Facebook by making you bid against your competitors at higher and higher values until someone is willing to give up almost all of their margins to be the top bidder for the favored “top spot”.

Hypothetically, if you make $1 in profit on your product, theory says that some competitor will bid up to $0.99 to secure that sale and if you don’t bid this amount also, your sales will suffer.

The end result is that Google and Facebook end up consuming all the profits for a large number of businesses online that have to survive by advertising, which explains Google’s immense profit margins.

Assuming what you say is true, this is truly a ballsy move by McMaster. Betting that their website is unassailable by their competition and thus such a value-add that they can forgo playing the losing game that Google and Facebook has setup is brilliant. I have such respect for that.

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by paddy_m »

mring33621 wrote: post #369
paddy_m wrote: post #273

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Thank you. I'm putting the finishing touches on auto cleaning which integrates with the low code UI. Should be out today

Can Buckaroo be used outside of a jupyter notebook?

It works in Marimo, Colab, VSCode. The js library that wraps community AG-Grid is also a seaparate package, though not on NPM because there isn't interest yet.

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Post by sn9 »

WillAdams wrote: post #337
ashwinsundar wrote: post #332

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Are the classes still offered? I was looking to take it a few years ago, but couldn't figure out how to sign up. It seems like only video lectures are available now. Still seems worth it, just wondering

Good question. Now that I think on it, I haven't seen an ad for them since before the pandemic, so I guess not (in person).

I guess it was inevitable given his age.

You still get all his books included in the price of taking the course: https://www.edwardtufte.com/online-course/

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by jfvinueza »

mbo wrote: post #287

Rate Your Music has a famously divisive UI which would send the userbase into open revolt if ever changed. Primary examples: An artist page: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/stereolab An album page: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stereolab/dots-and-l... I personally adore it - RYM is permanently open on my 3rd monitor throughout the work day as I churn through new music.

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Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by ristomatti »

postalcoder wrote: post #145

I'm working on a Hacker News front page with the idea of UI density as a foundational concept. https://hcker.news I haven't did a Show HN yet but I'd love to get some feedback on it first. It's got a lot of configurable views and can be made extremely dense (dense mode on + columns: auto). The aesthetic itself was made to deviate as little from the HN frontpage as possible. It's got a lot of filtering knick knacks li…

Late to comment but this is awesome! I've been a long time user if hckrnews.com. What I'd like to see is it's option to open the links in HackerWeb. It makes reading the discussions much easier on mobile/tablet in my opinion. Another feature request would be font size adjustment. Two columns look great on a tablet but the font size is slightly too small. Keep up the great work!

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by _kb »

nathanmcrae wrote: post #143

Aeronautical charts have incredible information density. https://skyvector.com/ for zoomable charts

Nautical charts too: https://www.admiralty.co.uk/charts.

There’s an astonishing good balance of density and clarity of information needed to make these useful. This then also has to translate across both physical and screen forms.

Chart 5011 has a great breakdown on the depth of symbology too.

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Post by therealdrag0 »

chromy wrote: post #17

Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs: - https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor... - https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' ( https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/ ) Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software. Not on the data side but can be usefu…

Great idea. From Java there is Java VisualVM and “JDK Mission Control”.
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