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there is a counrty list settings in the right panel, which you can select any country and add it to map
thanks for the ux feedback, will ship a better version soon. by the way, there is a fullscreen model which the drag-and-drop experience might feel better
just updated a new version to seperate them, you can have a try :)

Show HN: Drag-and-drop playground to compare the true sizes of countries

https://github.com/ObservedObserver/world-map-reality

I built a drag-and-drop map playground to compare the true sizes of countries and visualize Mercator distortion, just for fun and sharing. Open source + easy to replace the GeoJSON with your own data.Demo: https://www.runcell.dev/tool/true-size-mapSource: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/world-map-reality

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Re:Show HN: Picknplace.js, an Alternative to Drag and Drop on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:07PM (#46293707)
how does it work with more complex layout not just vertical list of items, like those drag-and-drop for visualization UI: https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker

you can see that there are different areas of draggable and droppable, on different directions.

Re:SQLite JSON at Full Index Speed Using Generated Columns on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:03PM (#46247469)
duckdb is super fast for analytic tasks, especially when u use it with visual eda tool like pygwalker. it allows u handles millions of data visuals and eda in seconds.

but i would say, comparing duckdb and sqlite is a little bit unfair, i would still use sqlite to build system in most of cases, but duckdb only for analytic. you can hardly make a smooth deployment if you apps contains duckdb on a lot of platform

Re:GPT-5.2 on Friday December 12, 2025 @01:58PM (#46247420)
does the model really improve? i tried several tasks today, and most of them failed, which are super easy ones.

maybe it's just because the gpt5.2 in cursor is super stupid?

it would be great if it can integrate a graphic walker compoennt for those tablaur data visualzation on-flight

https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker

Ask HN: How should new programmers learn in the AI era?

My younger brother just started learning programming. When I was learning, I spent weeks building small demos and exercises — calculators, todo apps, little games — but now, most of those can be built in seconds with AI assistants.I’m wondering: should new programmers still learn the same way we did — building everything by hand — or are there better ways to learn with AI tools around?Have you...

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Show HN: AI Agent in Jupyter – Runcell

https://www.runcell.dev

I build runcell, an AI Agent in Jupyter Lab. It can understand context (data, charts, code, etc) in your jupyterlab and write code for you.Runcell has built-in tools that can edit or execute cells, read/write files, search web, etc.Comparing with AI IDE like cursor, runcell focus on building context for code agent in jupyter environment, which means the agent can understand different types of...

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Show HN: GUI for Claude Code – parallel tasks supported

https://github.com/ObservedObserver/async-code

Use Claude Code / CodeX CLI to perform multiple tasks in parallel with a Codex-style UI.A code agent task management system that provides parallel execution of AI-powered coding tasks. Users can run multiple Claude Code agents simultaneously through a Codex-style web interface, with support for different agents for comparison and evaluation.

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Show HN: Open-source codex UI can use Claude code and codex for parallel tasks

https://github.com/ObservedObserver/async-code

Use Claude Code / CodeX CLI to perform multiple tasks in parallel with a Codex-style UI.async-code gives you a web dashboard to:Run Claude Code/Codex CLI on multiple repos simultaneouslyManage all tasks from one interfaceDeploy to cloud for team access or run locallyParallel tasks and check progress remotelyBasically turns Claude Code into a manageable background service instead of terminal...

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Re:Cursor 1.0 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:47PM (#44193349)
I am building a jupyter native code agent that interact with jupyter kernel better and can understand data, charts, etc. Not just read/edit jupyter files.

video demo here, https://x.com/ob12er/status/1930439669130637482?s=46&t=2jNrj...

Re:Big Book of R on Friday April 11, 2025 @03:45AM (#43651407)
I hope gwalkr can be added to this book, it's pretty intereting updates for visualizations in R recent years.

repo: https://github.com/Kanaries/GWalkR site: https://kanaries.net/gwalkr

Re:The DuckDB Local UI on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:12AM (#43387231)
For further visual EDA, pygwalker provides advanced features for interactive data visualization, which is also built based on duckdb.

src: https://kanaries.net/pygwalker

github: https://github.com/Kanaries/pygwalker

Re:The DuckDB Local UI on Monday March 17, 2025 @07:07AM (#43387196)
pygwalker also have a kernel compuataion mode which allows you to use duckdb to handle all queries from pygwalker UI.
Re:GPT-4.5 on Friday February 28, 2025 @01:20AM (#43202330)
You got 10x price but not 10x quality
Wow, it looks really easy to use.

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