Hacker News: xamde

New comment by xamde in ".name Termination"

xamde — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:45:42 +0000

Also, someone managed to run all this 20 years ago. Has technology gotten so much worse? Is RAM now THAT expensive?

New comment by xamde in "Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe"

xamde — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:43:03 +0000

And also an amazing page on Béziers https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/

New comment by xamde in "Markdown Database Pattern"

xamde — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:56:34 +0000

Or just embed structured data in any text file document, not limited to Markdown.

https://ddot.it

Disclaimer: My project

New comment by xamde in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

xamde — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:49:59 +0000

This is one a level that would be deemed too absurd for a sci-fi movie. But it's the reality. Putting also words like "climate mitigation" on the list can only imply the list makers are true climate change deniers. Not just "we want to make more money with oil".

New comment by xamde in "Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs"

xamde — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:15:42 +0000

Consider to let the user export the graph itself and convert/use it elsewhere.

New comment by xamde in "Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs"

xamde — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:12:52 +0000

I think you found a very good prompt/technique to extract mostly the high level stuff without making the diagrams too complicated. And then elk.js seems to do the layout.

Deepwiki.com also has some usable autogenerated architecture diagrams worth a look.

New comment by xamde in "Google proposes Open Knowledge Format based on Markdown"

xamde — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:08:23 +0000

Thanks, it is based on an unreleased 50-page complex syntax speec with over 40 different kind of arrows. Luckily, I simplified BEFORE release :-)

New comment by xamde in "Google proposes Open Knowledge Format based on Markdown"

xamde — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:42:29 +0000

OKF seems OK, but bound to Markdown. A Markdown document can be turned into an OKF document by adding a 'type' to the frontmatter YAML.

What about a knowledge graph language, which can be stated in Markdown prose, in Markdown code blocks, but also everywhere a text field is waiting for you? In the minimalistic language https://ddot.it you can link outside the Markdown world, to files, URLs or even just labels. Like OKF it's just a format.

Disclaimer: I wrote that (short) spec.

New comment by xamde in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

xamde — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:14:22 +0000

I am working on a simplistic syntax for mixing any text with structured knowledge (links, triples, property graph)

Syntax..has name..ddot.it

The spec is ready at https://ddot.it, now working on tool support.

New comment by xamde in "Google Releases CodeWiki"

xamde — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:14:13 +0000

Check out deepwiki.com, which is quite similar and works well

New comment by xamde in "Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network"

xamde — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:13:12 +0000

Looks like org mode for the masses

New comment by xamde in "Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text"

xamde — Sat, 24 May 2025 07:49:03 +0000

I believe it uses an cross compiled version of dot in js

New comment by xamde in "Show HN: Min.js style compression of tech docs for LLM context"

xamde — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:01:28 +0000

Reading all these comments, it seems we as a community don't yet have an idea how to write effectively for LLMs. E.g., I guess markdown tables are harder to process, since the row-column-value mapping first needs to be decoded. Or is this irrelevant?

New comment by xamde in "Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases"

xamde — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:18:20 +0000

There will be companies founded on executing this idea.

New comment by xamde in "Redditors Trying to Poison Google's AI to Keep Tourists Out of Good Restaurants"

xamde — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:29:19 +0000

I love how you make sure not to mention the city name, so that not too many people will suddenly show up

New comment by xamde in "Anatomy of an internet argument"

xamde — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:57:38 +0000

> it all comes down to whether you view the internet as the greek agora or the roman circus.

The best summary I've ever read about the internet

New comment by xamde in "Asciidoctor: A fast text processor and publishing toolchain"

xamde — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 17:29:18 +0000

A shout out to the intellij plugin developer. The Asciidoc plugin has so many nice little Features. E.g. consistent file renames, or paste as screenshot which auto creates a file and embeds it.

New comment by xamde in "Kids Should Be Taught to Think Logically"

xamde — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:19:23 +0000

Also, Basic statistical reasoning is required. And some core facts about our physical world. What about an open curriculum listing the most important things in a teachable order?

Show HN: JSON Namespaces

xamde — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:18:31 +0000

While working in the Open Canvas Working Group, I was introduced by members of the glTF working group to their current mechanism for managing extensions in a JSON-based format. Taken to its logical extreme, this can be seen as another step in the JSON-stack re-inventing tools from the XML-stack. In this regards, let’s define the concept for JSON clearly. Welcome to JSON Namespaces.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383819

Points: 2

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New comment by xamde in "FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)"

xamde — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 04:47:36 +0000

There is also the base band processor, which is completely locked away from user access. Running a wireless network would be much harder, if users could access it. So I guess freedom and working tech are trade-offs in this case.