Hacker News: iaadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iaadHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:47:23 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by iaad in "The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]"]]>They're making a comparison to AI, because it has similar qualities (rapid understanding and "perfect" memory). Will AI also be ephemeral or having a lasting impact on mathematics like von Neumann.

]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:20:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935297iaadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935297https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935297<![CDATA[New comment by iaad in "Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa)"]]>Worked on something very similar recently at work.

If you want to respect more of Excels formatting, like multi column cells, you can get the text/html from the paste event instead of the text/plain.

You can parse the HTML using DOMParser: parseFromString()

]]>Fri, 30 May 2025 21:55:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140222iaadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140222<![CDATA[New comment by iaad in "Show HN: turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)"]]>There's a version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" in ASCII art. Which means if you can access a .bashrc or something similar, you can rick roll them in their terminal on startup.

Found it: https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc

]]>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:24:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395945iaadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395945https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41395945