Hacker News: nodoodles

New comment by nodoodles in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

nodoodles — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:28:14 +0000

If the lift is geometrically full of the (perhaps blended) mass of people, and race-dependent density is roughly similar, does it matter?

New comment by nodoodles in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

nodoodles — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:13 +0000

Agreed, the negativity here is quite wild.

There are new power tools for our craft. People are experimenting and having fun with said power tools, and have interesting results that may be transferrable to $YOUR_PROJECT.

Doing things just because we can is a great reason for hacking around.

Kudos for the author for answering questions and keeping up resilience - HN crowd is not what it used to be (shakes fist at a different cloud).

New comment by nodoodles in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

nodoodles — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:25:10 +0000

Of which calendar system?

New comment by nodoodles in "Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs"

nodoodles — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:06:30 +0000

Curious but offtopic - are others also immediately suspicious of the content and quality because the readme is so obviously AI-written? What are ways you distinguish genuinely useful contributions on the sea of slop?

New comment by nodoodles in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

nodoodles — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:23:33 +0000

Only a 100 years — the whole history before that was working in the vicinity of a home, it does feel natural to return to that. Instead of anvils, we hit keyboards and instead of swords produce alignment, but either way it brings food to the table and allows flexibility in work-life?

New comment by nodoodles in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

nodoodles — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:15:16 +0000

Yet another browser-based screen/video recorder and editor but with multiple inputs, full privacy and scriptable effects - a slow weekend project

New comment by nodoodles in "How to make sense of any mess"

nodoodles — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:33:20 +0000

Here's a bookmarklet:

  javascript:document.querySelectorAll('a').forEach(el => el.style.backgroundColor = 'transparent')

New comment by nodoodles in "BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets"

nodoodles — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:05:18 +0000

On 2/ there is a safety point in having the grounding pin on all plugs, and it being longer than the live/neutral: in the socket side, the grounding pin opens up latches that block live/neutral, so kids can’t stick things into them..

I generally would agree it is the best plug standard for safety, but clunky and painful to step on..

New comment by nodoodles in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

nodoodles — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 02:37:16 +0000

A little page that tries to keep up with Flickr uploads in real time.. built ca 13 years ago, amazingly still running. http://ekke.si/flickr/?render=random

New comment by nodoodles in "Many small queries are efficient in SQLite"

nodoodles — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:19:08 +0000

I have thought of that as ‘n’ being the manageable threshold and the (uncontrolled) ‘+1’ the overflow creates the problems. Typically in terms of additional layers or iterations.. but i like your point and perhaps’n+1’ and ‘1+n’ mean different problem shapes

New comment by nodoodles in "ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic"

nodoodles — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:47:17 +0000

One fun mechanism I've been using for reducing html size is diffing (with some leniency) pages from same domain to exclude common parts (ie headers/footers). That preprocessing can be useful for any parsing mechanism..

New comment by nodoodles in "ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic"

nodoodles — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:45:32 +0000

Thanks, will look into it, looks promising

New comment by nodoodles in "ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic"

nodoodles — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:40:03 +0000

Awesome to hear! Looking forward to a launch -- the Waitlist form was too long to complete, need to take another LLM to fill that :)

New comment by nodoodles in "ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic"

nodoodles — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:28:12 +0000

Agreed there are several complexities but not sure which ‘this’ you mean - specifically updating selectors is one of the areas I had in mind earlier..

New comment by nodoodles in "ScrapeGraphAI: Web scraping using LLM and direct graph logic"

nodoodles — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:59:17 +0000

What I'd love to see is scraper builder that uses LLMs/'magic' to generate optimised scraping rules for any page, ie css selectors and processing rules mapped to output keys. So you can run scraping itself at low cost and high performance..

New comment by nodoodles in "1.18k drawings of plant root systems"

nodoodles — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:40:00 +0000

It's "R.I.P.", not "RIP".

New comment by nodoodles in "OWASP Data Breach Notification"

nodoodles — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:13:36 +0000

Checks calendar… good one! I hope..

Good reminder why not to collect and keep personal data you don’t need

New comment by nodoodles in "Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover"

nodoodles — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:29:02 +0000

and folding plastic bags into triangles for storage

New comment by nodoodles in "The window for great-grandmothers is closing"

nodoodles — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:56:32 +0000

Can’t imagine that much less unwanted children is anything but net positive though..

New comment by nodoodles in "Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th"

nodoodles — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:31:36 +0000

Why do we need to meet YC partners to start a startup?