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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.

New comment by xamde in "What if null was an Object in Java?"

xamde — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 16:25:10 +0000

There is also the "Void" type.

> The {@code Void} class is an uninstantiable placeholder class to hold a reference to the {@code Class} object representing the Java keyword void.

When Java introduced Generics they re-used "Void" type. Method calls need to use "null" when "Void" is the type. So in a way, "type of null" is "Void".

New comment by xamde in "Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M"

xamde — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:00:32 +0000

Wasm might make that a reality rather soon

New comment by xamde in "JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data"

xamde — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:33:21 +0000

From my Analysis, GraphML, although specified in XML, seems to be one of the most widely used exchange formats, especially with the yWorks extensions for yEd.

New comment by xamde in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

xamde — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:24:07 +0000

I am a Netlify Pro customer. I was not aware of this unlimited spending concept. This is simply unacceptable from a risk-perspective.

New comment by xamde in "Should toggle button show its current state or the state to which it'll change? (2010)"

xamde — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:08:11 +0000

Unless there is an issue with either the light source or the power source. Muted/unmuted is also a pair where unmuted often does not equal "we can hear you"

New comment by xamde in "W3C Invites Implementations of RDF Dataset Canonicalization"

xamde — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:04:32 +0000

> The document is primarily intended for the following audiences:

    Software developers that want to implement an RDF dataset canonicalization algorithm.
    Masochists.

Pick your side.

New comment by xamde in "Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts"

xamde — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:07:56 +0000

The IntelliJ AsciiDoc plugin is a little juwel with all bells and whistles, Syntax highlight, Preview, structure view, even refactoring of references. We use it together with Antora.

New comment by xamde in "MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems"

xamde — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 06:17:22 +0000

This ist really a succint description: "Sometimes it seems to me that AI people have begun hallucinating as much as the models they’re training."