Hacker News: mattsouth

New comment by mattsouth in "CQL: Categorical Databases"

mattsouth — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:21:28 +0000

Not to be confused with https://cql.hl7.org/ which is the CQL I know of.

New comment by mattsouth in "Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table"

mattsouth — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:51:52 +0000

Nice. Its interesting to me that searching and filtering isnt something that http://csvbase.com has.

New comment by mattsouth in "Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025]"

mattsouth — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:20:00 +0000

Honestly I cant really imagine a world with unlimited time and money - it would be so different from the present world that has shaped us all. But that aside, I would work on assembling a team that could build and support a widely available tricorder.

New comment by mattsouth in "Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news"

mattsouth — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:02:22 +0000

It looks great - nice work. I tried the french example and found it challenging and useful - a great addition to my duo lingo practice. So much so that I signed up. But in doing so I lost the credits that Id apparently acquired by completing the example which was a little disappointing. I hadnt seen the Easy French videos before - they look nice too.

New comment by mattsouth in "What I've learned about writing AI apps so far"

mattsouth — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:04:45 +0000

I cant explain the similarity of my comment to others around the same time. My reaction was a quick yay! to what I thought was a sane take on the capabilities and limitations of LLMS.

New comment by mattsouth in "What I've learned about writing AI apps so far"

mattsouth — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:51:04 +0000

Great article that contains some pithy aphorisms that I expect to see again and again.

New comment by mattsouth in "Show HN: Scipress.io – a Markdown writing platform like Notion Medium MkDocs"

mattsouth — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:08:14 +0000

hackmd but branded for science and with a monetisation angle - that's cool. You are missing terms and privacy - I need to know who Im trusting and where Im operating before I sign up to something like this. These are the most concise I know of: https://simplenote.com/terms/

New comment by mattsouth in "Ask HN: Why do people use password managers?"

mattsouth — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:37:00 +0000

Your strategy was proposed by joel spolsky some time ago: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/11/password-managemen...

New comment by mattsouth in "Finding services companies via their TXT records"

mattsouth — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 08:57:44 +0000

Is it good hygiene to delete these records once they've served their purpose (i.e. validating control of the domain in question)? Or do these records server more than that use?

New comment by mattsouth in "The Algorithm for Precision Medicine, talk by Matthew Might [video]"

mattsouth — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:01:26 +0000

Its a talk at a programming languages conference by a programming languages professor who moved into medicine to help diagnose and treat his son with a genetic condition. Its a great talk which simultaneously provides an introduction to biomedical research and knowledge based systems and provides some compelling cases for the benefit of combining the two. It also takes you through a journey that includes starting a company, working with the white house and being recruited to be the director of a university research institute.

New comment by mattsouth in "Realistic computer-generated handwriting"

mattsouth — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 21:30:11 +0000

Good find. Im loving that the README of this project includes a Rick Roll

New comment by mattsouth in "The Maintenance Race"

mattsouth — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 18:45:09 +0000

Great read. Its one of those articles I wish I could "double star" on HN.

New comment by mattsouth in "We need a flowchart editor that doesn't give you carpal tunnel"

mattsouth — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:45:24 +0000

tiny thing: typo in one of the Example's title: algroithm -> algorithm

New comment by mattsouth in "Sunsetting Atom"

mattsouth — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:39:51 +0000

This makes me sad as I very much prefer the atom approach to the git and github panels than the vscode approach. vscode is much faster for typescript development though.

New comment by mattsouth in "Science needs more research software engineers"

mattsouth — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:21:59 +0000

in the uk, https://www.jobs.ac.uk/search/?keywords=RSE&location= gets you five hits today and I expect you would find more similar posts that werent currently branded research software engineer if you looked - the term is still quite new for many academic depts. One thing you'll need is patience if you want one of these positions - I remember being offerred an academic post three months after interviewing for the position and when I queried how on earth it could have taken so long to offer the post I was met with incredulity that there was an issue at all.

New comment by mattsouth in "Songdata"

mattsouth — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:13:42 +0000

I hadnt heard of the camelot song feature before. Seems its a code to indicate the compatible key: https://www.quora.com/What-does-Camelot-mean-in-musical-term...

New comment by mattsouth in "The King William’s College quiz 2021"

mattsouth — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:26:33 +0000

Thanks for the correction.

New comment by mattsouth in "The King William’s College quiz 2021"

mattsouth — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:55:32 +0000

The King William's College quiz is set by a particular fee paying English school for its pupils every Christmas and published by the Guardian. Its full of English cultural references and designed to be hard. I assume the idea is that the pupils take it home for the holidays and work on it with their families. Each section has a theme that connects the answers in that section. My partner's family love wrangling out the odd answer or three between christmas and new year.

New comment by mattsouth in "Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app"

mattsouth — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:23:51 +0000

Ah, I hadnt looked at the issues. Saw this in ubuntu firefox and android chrome.

New comment by mattsouth in "Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app"

mattsouth — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:31:46 +0000

Really nice app. So much finesse. Similar but seemingly simpler than the excellent https://excalidraw.com/. Tiny thing: I think it would be clearer if the alt tags and menu items showed keyboard shortcuts as "[ctrl][G]" instead of "c t r l G".