Hacker News: elasticdog

Faster Than Ninja

elasticdog — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://build2.org/blog/faster-than-ninja.xhtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182685

Points: 83

# Comments: 30

Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design

elasticdog — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:36:23 +0000

Article URL: https://whatchord.earthmanmuons.com/articles/chord-ranking-performance.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762301

Points: 25

# Comments: 4

New comment by elasticdog in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

elasticdog — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:05:37 +0000

I also don't love the conventional handwritten aesthetic you often see for jazz fonts. For a project I've been working on, I ended up pulling the handful of chord symbol glyphs out of MuseScore's Leland Text font and adjusting them for use in the UI since I couldn't find a suitable option out there.

New comment by elasticdog in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

elasticdog — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:48:01 +0000

For just chord analysis, there's "Harte notation", which is meant to be unambiguous representation of the notes (https://ismir2005.ismir.net/proceedings/1080.pdf). That obviously doesn't get you all of the additional information necessary for engraving and full representation of the music, but there are research datasets available using it like https://github.com/smashub/choco. I've also used the https://github.com/MarkGotham/When-in-Rome dataset for some analysis work, but again that's not 100% what you're looking for.

You might like the "iReal Pro" app for the replacement and transposition of jazz standards on your tablet. It's pretty great for that use case versus camera scans.

Building a Real-Time Chord Recognizer

elasticdog — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://whatchord.earthmanmuons.com/articles/under-the-hood

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221783

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Learning by Writing

elasticdog — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cold-takes.com/learning-by-writing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40897666

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by elasticdog in "Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way"

elasticdog — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:11:27 +0000

I had attempted to create a pass for my local library in the past, but never got a working barcode, and this post helped me to understand the issues I was hitting.

I was able to adapt the OP's shell script to generate a working Codabar image (after I figured out that my local library used "A" and "T" as beginning and end markers) that matched the physical card exactly, and there was enough useful metadata for me to piece together a working pass using that barcode as a store card's background image. I ended up using the Pass2U Wallet iOS app directly, rather than hacking around signing keys, but found the documented process helpful.

Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way

elasticdog — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:53:56 +0000

Article URL: https://iliana.fyi/blog/ios-wallet-library-card/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628338

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by elasticdog in "Nitrokey"

elasticdog — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 22:49:21 +0000

That's essentially what https://krypt.co/ is...I've used Yubikeys in the past, but have been on Krypton for maybe the past year or so. No problems with it at all, aside from GitHub recently (within the past couple of weeks) not recognizing the authorization despite it working just fine elsewhere. I haven't had a chance to dive deeper into why.

Approval Workflows with GitHub Actions

elasticdog — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:38:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2020-03-23-approval-workflows-with-github-actions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23037051

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Pulumi 2.0 Roadmap

elasticdog — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/pulumi-2-0-roadmap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21756280

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by elasticdog in "Zettelkästen?"

elasticdog — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:20:21 +0000

Tiddlywiki is what I use to manage my own personal Zettelkasten as well; it's pretty well suited for the task. There's a bit of ugliness when renaming Tiddlers, but for a lot of inter-related topics, I add an automatically-generated list of backlinks like this:

  !!!! Backlinks
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What makes code unreadable (2018)

elasticdog — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 21:35:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/software-engineering-problems/what-makes-code-unreadable-to-human-45fa30544386

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097251

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by elasticdog in "What is 1e100.net?"

elasticdog — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:15:03 +0000

I prefer using the [United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations](http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html) (UN/LOCODE) value based on the address of the host's data center. It covers more specific locations than something like the IATA airport codes, and is still a well defined standard.

Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (2011)

elasticdog — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:47:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-coins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16567783

Points: 67

# Comments: 5

New comment by elasticdog in "Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI"

elasticdog — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:43:44 +0000

The workaround for 1) was already posted, but for 2), you can use Vimium's "insert mode" by pressing `i` to do the same thing. I use it regularly for Reddit with the enhancement suite.

Systemd for (Impatient) Sysadmins

elasticdog — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:16:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tjll.net/systemd-for-impatient-sysadmins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14788667

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

More Comment-Preserving Configuration Parsers

elasticdog — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/more-comment-preserving-configuration-parsers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13437380

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Elasticsearch Based Image Search Using RGB Signatures

elasticdog — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:24:46 +0000

Article URL: http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2016/05/elasticsearch-based-image-search-using.html

Hacker News: elasticdog

Faster Than Ninja

Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design

New comment by elasticdog in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

New comment by elasticdog in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

Building a Real-Time Chord Recognizer

Learning by Writing

New comment by elasticdog in "Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way"

Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way

New comment by elasticdog in "Nitrokey"

Approval Workflows with GitHub Actions

Pulumi 2.0 Roadmap

New comment by elasticdog in "Zettelkästen?"

What makes code unreadable (2018)

New comment by elasticdog in "What is 1e100.net?"

Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (2011)

New comment by elasticdog in "Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI"

Systemd for (Impatient) Sysadmins

More Comment-Preserving Configuration Parsers

Elasticsearch Based Image Search Using RGB Signatures

The Friedlander Secrets Pit (FriSP)