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Re:Show HN: Algotrek – Algorithms visualized, problem shape shifting a... on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:50PM (#48940045)
Yes, my hope is that it is helpful for many
Re:Show HN: Algotrek – Algorithms visualized, problem shape shifting a... on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:23PM (#48938238)
To create a more intuitive navigation experience. Did it feel intrusive? If so, at which point?

Show HN: Algotrek – Algorithms visualized, problem shape shifting and a tutor

Posted by nyggy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:33AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://app.algotrek.io

I created the kind of product that would actually help me pass the coding round. Never in my life have I ever advanced past the coding round. Couldn't do it to save my life. But now, I have a tutor who can explain and morph problems and explain them to me in a smooth brained way until I get it. Since the visuals also follow the tutors explanation, I can iterate until a DSA pattern sticks and...

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Re:Headless Chrome in Google Cloud Functions: Go Runtime on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:41AM (#21215042)
Just looking for suggestions on how to deploy headless chrome. I want to use go and I don't want it in the cluster. It will be mostly idle but very important once needed. I don't want to assign compute resource to it in my cluster and I don't want to use it un-sandboxed in the cluster. I have seen the seccomp option and the configurations here (https://github.com/Zenika/alpine-chrome/blob/master/chrome.j...). The config solves the no-sandboxing issue but like I said, it will mostly be an idle thing and I don't want to worry about whether its healthy in the cluster.

Headless Chrome in Google Cloud Functions: Go Runtime

Posted by nyggy on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @09:23PM
from the self-post dept.

I have seen articles about puppeteer with node 8 and headless chrome. Earlier examples talk about how chrome is now bundled in the base images when using the node 8 runtime. I use [chromedp](https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp) and I tried using it in a go runtime with cloud functions but it was unable to find chrome. Really trying to not have a micro-service running a un-sandboxed chrome in...

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