Hacker News: hantusk

New comment by hantusk in "Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer"

hantusk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:31:32 +0000

yeah, also reminded me of wifi sd-cards: https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...

New comment by hantusk in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

hantusk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:41:08 +0000

I can recommend Pixi for this. https://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/

pixi init && pixi add wget

And youre ready to go, everything confined to the venv within the directory

New comment by hantusk in "The browser is the sandbox"

hantusk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:22:39 +0000

Good opportunities arise for those who stick their neck out. Here's some inspiration for what to blog about: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/

It seems he started his blog in 2003: https://simonwillison.net/2003/Jun/12/oneYearOfBlogging/

New comment by hantusk in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

hantusk — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:48:08 +0000

you're joking because of the other frontpage story with Gemini 3 hallucinating hacker news 10 years in the future, but still lets keep the hallucinations to that page.

New comment by hantusk in "µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D"

hantusk — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:10:27 +0000

Lego brick in build123d: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial_lego.htm...

Gear in build123d: https://github.com/GarryBGoode/gggears

New comment by hantusk in "Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI"

hantusk — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:25:20 +0000

CTEs go a long way towards left to right readability while keeping everything standard SQL.

New comment by hantusk in "XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal"

hantusk — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:36:49 +0000

Reading CSV into a duckdb table will give you that, along with a table for the errors and reason for error: https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/data/csv/reading_faulty_csv_f...

Could definitely be done as a small little bash script

New comment by hantusk in "SpiceNice – An open source spice database"

hantusk — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:47:54 +0000

cumin and persian cumin (caraway) is one such example

New comment by hantusk in "Building Databases over a Weekend"

hantusk — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:12:03 +0000

I agree. So many disparate solutions. The streaming sql primitives are by themselves good enough (e.g. `tumble`, `hop` or `session` windows), but the infrastructural components are always rough in real life use cases.

crossing fingers for solutions like `https://github.com/feldera/feldera` to be wrapped in a nice database, `https://materialize.com/` to solve their memory issues, or `https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/materialized-view` to solve reliable streaming consumption.

Various streaming processing frameworks often have domain specific languages with a lot of limitations of how to express aggregations and transformations.

New comment by hantusk in "SlateDB – An embedded database built on object storage"

hantusk — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:01:30 +0000

Since writes to object storage are going to be slow anyway, why not double down on read optimized B-trees rather than write optimized LSM's?

New comment by hantusk in "Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)"

hantusk — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:16:22 +0000

I think https://github.com/uwdata/mosaic is really promising here. See the example https://idl.uw.edu/mosaic/examples/linear-regression.html where the user can recalculate a linear regression based on their selection.

You'd still need to implement any custom selection widgets, data transformations (like other statistical tests) etc. still missing, but i like the technical design to build on top off. It uses https://github.com/observablehq/plot under the hood, which aims to have just as flexible a grammar as ggplot (already quite capable) but with interactive features (built by the creator of d3 and uses it under its hood).

New comment by hantusk in "The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out"

hantusk — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 06:25:40 +0000

Check out build123d, which has a nicer api for cadquery. I draw sketches in svg if the sketch shapes become too unmanagable to express in code

New comment by hantusk in "Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur"

hantusk — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:40:27 +0000

https://rclone.org/ works great

New comment by hantusk in "D3 in Depth"

hantusk — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:42:52 +0000

I don't think it was for the technical fit or performance reasons, but more a philosophy about everything starts with data, and graphics are just visualizations anchored to the data points (or a functionally derived property of the data points).

That also means the d3-* libraries compose really well, since the data is the common binding, and not some conceptual class or custom element.

New comment by hantusk in "D3 in Depth"

hantusk — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:36:59 +0000

I also have written a lot d3, between versions 2 and 7, and the refactoring that has happened meant a lot of examples online that were hard to comprehend were even harder to update.

I feel like its more stable now though. Something clicks for me since ive started writing it in more imperative style with svelte+d3 rather than d3 alone. The generated elements are easier for me to reason about, rather than otherwise relying on inspecting the generated elements with dev-tools after the generation.

This site was helpful to me, to combine d3 and svelte: https://svelte.recipes/

New comment by hantusk in "Printing Music with CSS Grid"

hantusk — Wed, 01 May 2024 09:59:49 +0000

For a shortcut, Musescore has a plugin called colornotes that does this, installable from the GUI. You can alter the color scheme by editing the .js plugin code: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/master/share/ext...

It can also print note names inside of each head.

New comment by hantusk in "Mario meets Pareto"

hantusk — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:33:17 +0000

more specifically it's using the svelte wrapper of three.js called Threlte: https://threlte.xyz/

New comment by hantusk in "Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor"

hantusk — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:25:13 +0000

Check out Descript. It's been awesome when I used it in the past

New comment by hantusk in "Show HN: WhatTheDuck – open-source, in-browser SQL on CSV files"

hantusk — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:45:53 +0000

I liked SQL workbench (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39537794) which has the same core ideas but more usable features at this point (query history, parquet support and charts) - if you hadn't seen it maybe some of its features will inspire you.

New comment by hantusk in "Transpile Any SQL to PostgreSQL Dialect"

hantusk — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:59:20 +0000

you could consider hosting an empty postgresql database, compile your code as a postgresql foreign data wrapper and expose it as a view. Nothing is more compatible with the postgres wire protocol than postgresql itself ;)

turbot compiles their steampipe plugins in this way. Example: https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-net