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Re:Show HN: ZeGrapher v4: modern math plotter on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:28PM (#50189078)
Fun fact: the website has absolutely no javascript.

Show HN: ZeGrapher v4: modern math plotter

https://zegrapher.com/en/

ZeGrapher is a free an open-source math plotter, first release in 2011 (I thought there were no such app on Linux at the time), that I kept sporadically updating ever since. Last version was 6 years ago but a lot of work went into it.v4 is a near complete rewrite to a modern interface and approach, inspired by desmos.Interesting differenciating features:- Computing and plotting recursive...

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Re:Simple Is Not Small on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:03PM (#49600492)
"In Clojure this is fairly straightforward"

Somehow when things get complex, I could never find fully functional style to be more understandable than imperative

Re:Simple Is Not Small on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:01PM (#49600458)
"In Clojure this is straightforward"
Re:Taste Is All That's Left on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:32AM (#49211060)
Very nice article. I agree with it, call it taste, call it judgment, call it quality, I want things done the way I see as satisfactory, and it requires me to make LLMs do things differently several times. Like exploring a tree with a heuristic they don't have and need to rely on us humans to give.
Re:- -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev on Saturday May 23, 2026 @08:57PM (#48253219)
"A sufficiently precise spec is code". I've read somewhere here before.

So guardrails, i.e. sufficiently precise spec and tests, will need to be as strict as the LLM is bad at getting the right context and asking back the right questions. I suppose at that point not much difference between a human engineer and it.

I know this tool was meant for AI, but I am more interested in using it myself when exploring new code bases or even my own, when I want to refactor something and want an overview of where to change stuff. LSPs do that, but this tool sounds like it can go one step further.
My current understanding is that regular consumer GPUs are very much capable if they had enough VRAM, and buying like 2 isn't out of this world.

A 64GB consumer GPU not existing has no technical nor financial (buyer side) reason to it, other than market segregation. If a 24GB one costs 1000 bucks, people are ready to pay quadruple that for a 32GB GPU. And VRAM is the main bottleneck for running larger LLMs, not performance. And some resort to offloading to RAM etc...

Segregation between pro and consumer hardware are in a big part artificial I think, for fatter margins.

Otherwise, yeah Hyperscalers have deep pockets, but they can only have it by getting back money from their users/customers, and we're gonna give them that by using their products and paying for it (indirectly or directly).

I don't think it's a good thing that only select companies gatekeep AI and it feels to me like it's going that way with chip prices.

Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later

This may sound alarming, but it appears as simple math to me1. Chip price increase applies to everyone, including hyperscalers 2. I assume most of consumers refuse to pay for such ridiculous prices. 3. Hyperscalers pay the price because they expect return on investment 2. We, consumers, are actually the end-users of the chips they boughtIt appears then that Hyperscalers are outbidding us at...

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How about simply making the website an app and have it load your makedown file with a button and file browser. Just like e.g. https://app.diagrams.net/

And I believe you can then tell the browser that you need no network communication at that point. And a user can double check that.

Re:Why the heck are we still using Markdown? on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:21AM (#47638838)
There's another markdown spec that's better mystmd.org
Re:Sed, a powerfull mini-language from the 70s on Monday March 23, 2026 @12:15PM (#47491518)
Indeed.