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Gridpaper (scientific plotting tool) reaches 1.0

hnarayanan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:00:10 +0000

Article URL: https://gridpaper.org/examples/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552846

Points: 3

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Digg Is Gone Again

hnarayanan — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://digg.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427754

Points: 3

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New comment by hnarayanan in "Why Mathematica does not simplify sinh(arccosh(x))"

hnarayanan — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:30:11 +0000

This is a general pattern in CAS. For a more basic case, it’s not obvious sqrt(square(x)) will simplify to x without any further assumptions on x.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

hnarayanan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:05:07 +0000

Shock, gasp.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hnarayanan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:56:07 +0000

It has been so much fun. :)

New comment by hnarayanan in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hnarayanan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:20:41 +0000

I do understand this sentiment. But I wish these experts would see that they too are novices in literally every other field that they are not explicitly trained or experienced in. It is fun to explore curiosities even in spaces you don't know well.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

hnarayanan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:10:41 +0000

I feel this so, so much. It is a very exciting time. I have had a very specific goal in mind and I could work out large parts on my own. But there is a lot that I didn't have any basis or time to build expertise on. Using Claude Code to fill out those gaps and educate me along the way has meant I've gotten little sleep in the last two months. And I managed to make the thing I was envisioning: https://gridpaper.org/examples/ :)

New comment by hnarayanan in "10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)"

hnarayanan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:48:05 +0000

Hahaa

Show HN: Gridpaper: Scientific figures in the browser (gnuplot, WASM)

hnarayanan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://gridpaper.org/examples/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006962

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hnarayanan in "Show HN: Gridpaper: Scientific figures in the browser, built on gnuplot via WASM"

hnarayanan — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:45:59 +0000

Hi! I'm a computational scientist by training, and I've spent an unreasonable number of years wrangling gnuplot and matplotlib to make figures look right for papers and presentations. At some point I just wanted to try to build a tool to help.

Gridpaper is a figure editor that runs entirely in your browser. Under the hood, it's gnuplot 6 compiled to WebAssembly, which means you get all that rendering power without installing anything. No account, no server, your data never leaves your machine.

The core idea is that there are no chart types. Instead you compose layers from a small set of building blocks: 12 geometric marks (curves, bars, heatmaps, vectors, surfaces…) across 5 coordinate systems. A scatter plot with a fit line isn't a special widget — it's two layers. A grouped bar chart is three bar layers in a group set to dodge. It sounds abstract, but in practice it means you can build a lot from very few pieces.

Some things worth poking at:

* The example gallery has 50 figures you can click to open in the editor

* Try importing a CSV (drag it onto the canvas)

* Switch to polar or 3D coordinates and watch the available marks change

* The design page¹ explains the compositional grammar if that sort of thing interests you

I should be upfront: it's not open source yet. I'm a solo developer and I want to get the core solid first. The plan is to open the rendering engine (the gnuplot WASM bridge and compiler) first, then the full editor.

Happy to answer questions about any of it!

¹ gridpaper.org/design

Show HN: Gridpaper: Scientific figures in the browser, built on gnuplot via WASM

hnarayanan — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:39:28 +0000

Article URL: https://gridpaper.org/examples/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974813

Points: 4

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New comment by hnarayanan in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

hnarayanan — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:07:06 +0000

https://harishnarayanan.org/

New comment by hnarayanan in "Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon [video]"

hnarayanan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:31:11 +0000

Fascinating reverse-engineering tale.

New comment by hnarayanan in "How Markdown took over the world"

hnarayanan — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:31:54 +0000

Like the original Markdown. :)

New comment by hnarayanan in "How Markdown took over the world"

hnarayanan — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:28:35 +0000

I love it. Almost as much as I do org mode.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Anthropic Raising $10B at $350B Value"

hnarayanan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:19:57 +0000

Yes. I am generally a skeptic but there is enough there there to get them to realise such a valuation.

New comment by hnarayanan in "Anthropic Raising $10B at $350B Value"

hnarayanan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:08:52 +0000

Claude is very good and I believe they have enough to take them to profitability. Just over the last week or so, I’ve spent ~$30 beyond their monthly plan fee and I love it.

Show HN: I built a pipeline to extract UK visa timelines from Reddit comments

hnarayanan — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:03:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hnarayanan/processing-timelines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930583

Points: 2

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New comment by hnarayanan in "'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately"

hnarayanan — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:25:38 +0000

This. This was such a charming game series.

GitHub PR Graph Generator

hnarayanan — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 09:08:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hnarayanan/pr-graph-generator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45780264

Points: 2

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