Hacker News: vicapow

New comment by vicapow in "Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold"

vicapow — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:24:06 +0000

Is there a lot more work to be done?

New comment by vicapow in "DOOM Over DNS"

vicapow — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:35:29 +0000

that SVG wow how?!

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:52:08 +0000

thanks for hosting us on the pod!

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:27:04 +0000

Hope you like it :D I'm here if you have questions, too

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:26:29 +0000

I'm not against typst. I think it's integration would be a lot easier and more straightforward I just don't know if it's really that popular yet in academia.

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:21:32 +0000

Yes, but there's a really large number of users who don't want to have to setup vscode, git, texlive, latex workshop, just to collaborate on a paper. You shouldn't have to become a full stack software engineer to be able to write a research paper in LaTeX.

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:20:21 +0000

Users have full control over whether their data is used to help improve our models

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:18:19 +0000

I could see it seeming likely that because the UI is quite minimalist, but the AI capabilities are very extensive, imo, if you really play with it.

You're right that something like Cursor can work if you're familiar with all the requisite tooling (git, installing cursor, installing latex workshop, knowing how it all works) that most researchers don't want to and really shouldn't have to figure out how to work for their specific workflows.

New comment by vicapow in "Prism"

vicapow — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:15:33 +0000

The deeper I got, the more I realized really supporting the entire LaTeX toolchain in WASM would mean simulating an entire linux distribution :( We wanted to support Beamer, LuaLaTeX, mobile (wasn't working with WASM because of resource limits), etc.

Anyone else seeing data disappear on y-sweet from Jamsocket / Modal

vicapow — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:49:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/vicapow/status/1969502262452978110

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317376

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Use your voice to create research papers

vicapow — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/s/NfgdmYxhow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291749

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vicapow in "I just want to code (2023)"

vicapow — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:41:09 +0000

Just a suggestion: The github permissions your comment login thing requests is a bit too aggressive.

> This application will be able to read and write all public repository data.

Show HN: AI Latex editor built with emscripten

vicapow — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:39:04 +0000

Like Cursor for Latex that can run in your browser making it more accessible to less technical users by compiling pdflatex/syctex to emscripten.

The demo only works in Chrome desktop so here's a video if you're on your phone: https://x.com/vicapow/status/1852041482397716925

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42009254

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by vicapow in "Show HN: A better alternative to Google Saved Places"

vicapow — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:53:05 +0000

We have a few different ideas but hoping to get signal from the folks here on what people would like to see.

Some sort term ideas:

* Auto-categorization. We're seeing most people just have "starred" places, and that's really it, so having some way to suggest a better breakdown of places should locations.

* Adding the ability to sort results by various criteria (distance, recently viewed, rating, alphabetical)

Some longer term ideas:

* Making the experience more social, but more like "iMessage" social not "Facebook" social, if that makes sense.

New comment by vicapow in "Show HN: A better alternative to Google Saved Places"

vicapow — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:02:32 +0000

Once you start importing your saved places, it may take a bit of time for them to show up but once they’re there, you can add notes, add to lists, search through your saved places by note, category, list, visited / not-visited or star rating.

I built this for my fiancée who wanted these features but I’m looking for feedback on how intuitive it is for others as well to see if there are any other features folks would like to see.

Thank you for checking out the App

Show HN: A better alternative to Google Saved Places

vicapow — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 20:01:36 +0000

Here's the testflight link if you're put off by the $2 cost: https://testflight.apple.com/join/9tOXoMnf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39868384

Points: 7

# Comments: 5

New comment by vicapow in "Show HN: Better search and management of your saved places"

vicapow — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:05:04 +0000

If you use Google Saved Places a lot but feel it’s lacking some features I’d love to connect with you.

If you’d also like to try out an alternative, here’s the TestFlight download link for an app I’m working on before it gets released to the App Store

Some features: * Import your saved / starred places from Google * Search your place notes * Filter by list to find places you’ve saved again. * Search by your personal star rating or if you’ve visited the location. * [Your future feature request here]

for giving it a try

Show HN: Better search and management of your saved places

vicapow — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://testflight.apple.com/join/9tOXoMnf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692109

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Perceptron – An Interactive Explanation

vicapow — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://vicapow.github.io/perceptron/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38028264

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by vicapow in "Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches"

vicapow — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 05:22:42 +0000

I like it. It means if someone breaks into the car they can’t get into the glove box. Also, with a Tesla, the car is never off so you don’t need to turn the car on again to get access to it.