Hacker News: piebro

New comment by piebro in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

piebro — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:18:40 +0000

If anyone is interested in where StreetComplete is used or which quests are the most popular, you can check out: https://piebro.github.io/openstreetmap-statistics/stats/04_s...

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)"

piebro — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:42:20 +0000

If people are interesting exploring artists from different countries, I built a tool a few month ago that uses wikidata und simple sql queries to get for example a random female artist from Germany: https://piebro.github.io/wikidata-extraction/random.html

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: Txt2plotter – True centerline vectors from Flux.2 for pen plotters"

piebro — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:36:31 +0000

Cool project! I tackled the same problem a few weeks ago to plot some nice Christmas cards. I will have a look at your skeletonization approach, because I was struggling with that.

In the end I just used potracer and was fine with having double lines for my cards: https://github.com/piebro/personal-plotting-util/blob/main/i...

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

piebro — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:42:53 +0000

My collection of open source projects I made and a small blog: https://piebro.github.io/

Show HN: Query Wikidata with DuckDB Instead of Sparql

piebro — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:46:20 +0000

I wanted to use DuckDB using SQL to query Wikidata locally on my laptop. So I converted Wikidata's N-Triples dump (~8 billion rows) into Parquet files.

The dataset includes the full truth triplets (~60GB) and some pre-extracted datasets for YouTube channels, Letterboxd films, GitHub users and more.

There's also a small website to explore random entities using DuckDB WASM: https://piebro.github.io/wikidata-extraction/random.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512155

Points: 2

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Harbor – a framework for evaluating and optimizing agents and language models

piebro — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:49:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/laude-institute/harbor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855773

Points: 3

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Do LLMs Have Good Music Taste?

piebro — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:31:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tylercosgrove.com/blog/llm-music-taste/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44949825

Points: 3

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Pyodide 0.28 Release

piebro — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 06:32:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pyodide.org/posts/0.28-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470536

Points: 3

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FEX 2506 Release Blog Post

piebro — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:57:39 +0000

Article URL: https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2506/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184836

Points: 1

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Show HN: Signal MCP Client

piebro — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:06:05 +0000

Hey, I'm playing around with MCP servers right now and I wanted to use them remotely and share them with friends. The easiest way for me was to create a Signal MCP client that I can message from anywhere and that I can share with friends. Maybe that's interesting for some people here too. I saw a lot of MCP servers here recently.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43847149

Points: 2

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New comment by piebro in "Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)"

piebro — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 19:03:43 +0000

Thanks for the post, I enjoyed reading it.

There is a small typo in this sentence: "As long as we’re willing to say that Carbon is is about reducing the reliance on the C++ Standard Committee ...". There are two "is".

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer"

piebro — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:16:41 +0000

Oh nice, I didn't know one could print Lithophanes. If you mount a pen in your 3D Printer and the right settings it should also work as a pen plotter. But I don't know how practical that is.

The map2stl tool is also cool. I created a similar tool [0] for pen plotters using OpenStreetMap Data a while ago, which is fun to play around with.

[0] https://piebro.github.io/plotting-maps

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer"

piebro — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:20:29 +0000

The python code was running in the browser using pyodide before. It took a while to load and was kind of messy to use. But it worked well once loaded which was pretty cool.

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer"

piebro — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:10:58 +0000

Not out of the box. The easiest way to add mod support is to fork the project and add the buildings from mods: https://github.com/piebro/factorio-blueprint-visualizer/blob...

The file is normally generated automatically with the get_items.py script and this data dump: https://gist.github.com/Bilka2/6b8a6a9e4a4ec779573ad703d03c1...

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer"

piebro — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:54:58 +0000

I actually printed a few designs and hung them up in frames in my home. Maybe I'll add the idea and some links to the readme. Can you recommend a printing service?

I think it's not possible to access the actual file upload using the galaxy hall of fame (https://www.factorio.com/galaxy) or I just can't find them. Otherwise it would be pretty cool.

Oh yeah, I like the mod idea. That should also be quite doable, thanks.

New comment by piebro in "Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer"

piebro — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:00:03 +0000

Thanks, pen plotting was my motivation for doing this as an SVG and not on a canvas. I never got around plotting an actual factory though, but I might do it this time.

Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

piebro — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:23:03 +0000

Hey there, I'm a big fan of the game Factorio and the beauty of factories in the game. That's why I created a website to artfully visualize Factorio blueprints a few years ago. With the new 2.0 update, a few things broke. I took the opportunity to rewrite everything from Python to JavaScript and support Factorio 2.0 and the Space Age DLC. It's now also possible to easily modify the style of the drawings. Let me know if you find any bugs or if you have ideas for features.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42644168

Points: 450

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New comment by piebro in "Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers"

piebro — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:45:33 +0000

https://github.com/R-O-C-K-E-T/Factorio-SAT is another codebase trying to tackle the same problem

China's Solar Producers Follow OPEC Playbook to Curb Overcapacity

piebro — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:36:57 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-solar-producers-opec-playbook-000000125.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387530

Points: 2

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Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here's what the data says

piebro — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:35:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/research/does-github-copilot-improve-code-quality-heres-what-the-data-says/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186054

Points: 1

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