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Re:Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @01:39PM (#45029789)
Yes it's a fair amount of data:

pdfs/ 12.5 GiB

pages/ 91.96 GiB (Each page as a .png)

text/ 365.03 MiB (Each page as text)

byte_files/ 55.98 GiB (The 1024x1024 tiles as .jpeg)

I had not heard of https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify-rs before, that's really cool!

Re:Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @01:32PM (#45029704)
Oh interesting, thank you! I live in Cambridge an often walk past the Sinclair building but I had not heard of Lynx or Ace which are also based in familiar places! https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198301-050

Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

Posted by chromy on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:34AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://byte.tsundoku.io

A while ago I was looking for information on a obscure and short lived British computer. I found an article[1] in the archives of BYTE magazine[2] - and was captivated immediately by the tech adverts of bygone eras. This led to a long side project to be able to see all 100k pages of BYTE in a single searchable place.[1]: https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198502-381 [2]:...

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Re:Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, ap... on Thursday May 08, 2025 @04:19PM (#43930874)
heh, I worked on that one so I didn't feel like I should put it. I'm happy you thought of it though.
Re:Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, ap... on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:43AM (#43926527)
I think intuitiveness and density are orthogonal properties (although often both desirable).

Regarding Blender specifically:

Do you have a background in 3D modeling?

I am genuinely curious.

I don't come from an digital art background and I bounced off Blenders UI several times but after doing a tutorial or two now I find I can use it for simple things. I have always wondered how much it was 3D modeling in general vs. Blender specifically.

In a similar case I have used both Inkscape and Illustrator as an amateur and, much as I love open source, there is no comparison. Illustrator was significantly easier to use and worked better.

Re:Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, ap... on Thursday May 08, 2025 @10:03AM (#43926195)
Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs:

- https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor...

- https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

- https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

3D modeling / CAD software:

- Blender/Rhino etc

- Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' (https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/)

Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software.

Not on the data side but can be useful just for contrast from todays software:

- https://www.zachtronics.com/wmp-skins/

- https://cari.institute/aesthetics

Re:Show HN: I made a puzzle game & it gently introduces my favorite ma... on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:31PM (#40740545)
The Republic of Ireland (the west most region on the first page) isn't part of the United Kingdom. The term for the group of regions shown is 'the British Isles'. See https://qntm.org/uk While it seems like a trivial distinction the whole thing is somewhat fraught (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles).
Re:Examples of games developed by a single developer? on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:49PM (#25409516)
Transcendence: https://transcendence.kronosaur.com/
Re:Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict Success 35 ... on Saturday December 07, 2019 @03:51PM (#21732468)
pdf: https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/smpy/2019-bernstein.pdf