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• Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply

  Curious to see whether more recent dithering approaches would produce better results. They don't even have to be more resource hungry than the classic Bayer or Floyd-Steinberg dithers! Interleaved Gradient Noise[0][1][2] comes to mind as an alternative to Bayer, and it can even be approximated quite well with just 8-bit operations! Basically, use the following function to determine your threshold based on pixel... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• I'm writing a new vector search SQLite Extension

  Could this be implemented in Rust? Does that project (sqlite-loadable-rs) support WASM? https://observablehq.com/@asg017/introducing-sqlite-loadable-rs. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• Show HN: An extension to track your Wikipedia adventures

  Have you tried out a tangled-tree visualization? [1] I've found it to be super useful when visualizing these sorts of relationships in a compact way. [1] https://observablehq.com/@nitaku/tangled-tree-visualization-ii. - Source: Hacker News / 21 days ago

• A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

  Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I always stop and play around with the nested tree example when I come across Sortable. It works so flawlessly, and feels very tuned to mobile dnd. It even works to arrange (and reflow) inline spans in a paragraph! I have yet to come across this functionality in a text editor.. [0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/sortable-playground. - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

• Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data

  Arrow JS is just ArrayBuffers underneath. You do want to amortize some operations to avoid unnecessary conversions. I.e. Arrow JS stores strings as UTF-8, but native JS strings are UTF-16 I believe. Arrow is especially powerful across the WASM <--> JS boundary! In fact, I wrote a library to interpret Arrow from Wasm memory into JS without any copies [0]. (Motivating blog post [1]) [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Superintendent.app mentions (19)

• Modern CSV version 2 is now available

  Desktop first made me think of Superintendant[0] which I’ve enjoyed using 0: https://superintendent.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• I don’t want to build websites in react for my whole career. Not sure where to learn other things.

  Project 3: Electron with typescripts. 15 paying users. Source: 11 months ago

• DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables

  That is exactly https://superintendent.app (disclaimer: I'm the creator). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier

  Well, shameless plug. https://superintendent.app (paid with free trial) enables you to load a bunch of CSVs and write SQL on those CSV files. It's a much faster to work with if you know SQL well. It can also handle millions of rows easily (e.g. Loading 1GB CSV file takes 10s on Macbook Pro). I initially built it because I had to identify the mismatched transactions between 2 giant CSVs using "full outer join". - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Using Commandline To Process CSV files

  I'd recommend https://superintendent.app which enables you to load CSVs and write SQL immediately. It can load GBS of CSV in <10 seconds. Disclaimer: I'm the creator, and it's not a free app; it's $40/year with 2 weeks of free trial. The app is completely offline. Source: over 1 year ago