Hacker News: domoritz

New comment by domoritz in "Plotnine"

domoritz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:32:47 +0000

For another grammar-of-graphics-based visualization library (flexibly compose charts rather than simply pick a template), check out Altair https://altair-viz.github.io.

New comment by domoritz in "Typst 0.15.0"

domoritz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:37:09 +0000

You might already do this, but great opportunity to support them with a donation.

Zen Browser

domoritz — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:34:10 +0000

Article URL: https://zen-browser.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777145

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by domoritz in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

domoritz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:26:31 +0000

Arxiv can recompile latex to support accessibility and html. Going to pdf submissions would be a major step backward.

New comment by domoritz in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

domoritz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:59:37 +0000

The UX has many rough edges especially in the default element apps. UX was the primary reason my university department passed on switching to matrix from slack so far.

New comment by domoritz in "ClickHouse acquires Langfuse"

domoritz — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:54:02 +0000

I suspect most use of columnar databases is OLAP, which is different from what people usually mean when they say time series data.

New comment by domoritz in "Learning to Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Jax"

domoritz — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:49:55 +0000

Google produced a podcast introducing ML concepts with the same game a few years ago. https://pair.withgoogle.com/thehardway/

New comment by domoritz in "IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]"

domoritz — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:56:32 +0000

So many data probes would be solved if everyone looked at a few outputs instead of only metrics.

New comment by domoritz in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

domoritz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:04:56 +0000

Urg, the bar charts to not start at 0. It's making it impossible to compare across model sizes. That's a pretty basic chart design principle. I hope they can fix it. At least give me consistent y scales!

New comment by domoritz in "Nano Banana Pro"

domoritz — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:47:15 +0000

I don't understand why there isn't an obvious, visible watermark at all. Yes, one could remove it but let's assume 95% of people don't bother removing the visible watermark. It would really help with seeing instantly when an image was AI generated.

New comment by domoritz in "ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod"

domoritz — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:35:55 +0000

I like the idea of having types at runtime for parsing etc and generating validators in various languages. What stopped me from going there so far is that I already have TypeScript types provided for the various libraries I use. How good are the tools for importing TypeScript types into ArkType/Zod and working with types in various representations in parallel?

New comment by domoritz in "Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic"

domoritz — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:31:09 +0000

But they are heavier. Not saying it offsets the effect but it's just not straight forward to assume either way.

New comment by domoritz in "Visualizing a Million Time Series with the Density Line Chart"

domoritz — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:49:43 +0000

Author of this paper here. Cool to see this show up on HN. Little story about this paper: Danyel and I did this while I was on an internship at Microsoft Research. The algorithm was too simple to get it published at a conference, but the technique has been adopted in a few places now, including other papers. We did some follow-up work to more efficiently compute the density and also support interactive filtering. See https://www.domoritz.de/papers/2021-KDBox-VIS.pdf.

New comment by domoritz in "Smaller but Better: Unifying Layout Generation with Smaller LLMs"

domoritz — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:12:06 +0000

And also not UI layout generation.

New comment by domoritz in "Modern Polars – A side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas libraries"

domoritz — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:34:51 +0000

Altair works with Polars. The built-in plotting library for Polars is Altair actually. https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/misc/visualization/

New comment by domoritz in "Show HN: Check if your website's images have alt text"

domoritz — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:06:01 +0000

I really hope most people are not just trying to satisfy regulatory requirements but genuinely want to allow people using screen readers to understand what an image is about. Having said that, AI can definitely be useful when there is no alt text but it shouldn’t be an excuse not to add alt texts as a creator.

Workbrew 1.0 (Homebrew for Work)

domoritz — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://workbrew.com/blog/workbrew-1-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183215

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by domoritz in "20 years of Google Scholar"

domoritz — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 03:43:18 +0000

Semantic scholar is pretty good so I keep using it more and more.

New comment by domoritz in "The Prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL"

domoritz — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:50:41 +0000

I love the simplicity of this. Hurray for small models for small tasks.

New comment by domoritz in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

domoritz — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:44:20 +0000

I'd be scared to spell it with one M or two Ts.