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Re:Show HN: A Real-Time 4D Fractal Explorer in the Browser Using WebGPU on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:43AM (#46254157)
You can enable it in iOS 18 https://enablegpu.com/guides/ios/
Re:The Boring Part of Bell Labs on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:50AM (#46023567)
> I'd be surprised if the Bells lab offer didn't have similar clawbacks.

Bellcore inherited the year on campus program from Bell Labs. There were no clawbacks and no requirement to even return to work for Bellcore after graduation.

Re:FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:09AM (#44823017)
> I imagine this product would be used in just one eye at a time

The dosage instructions say to use it in both eyes

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2025/21...

Re:Presentation Slides with Markdown on Monday April 28, 2025 @07:24AM (#43820023)
I use a small patch [1] to revealjs [2] hosted on GitHub pages [3], just point it to a markdown gist

[1] https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/compare/master...rectal...

[2] https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

[3] https://gist-reveal.rectalogic.com/

Re:Show HN: SkySearch – realtime browser-based semantic search of Blue... on Thursday April 10, 2025 @08:25AM (#43643116)
Live demo https://rectalogic.com/skysearch/

Show HN: SkySearch – realtime browser-based semantic search of Bluesky jetstream

Posted by rectalogic on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @05:04PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/rectalogic/skysearch

Browser-based app that subscribes to the BlueSky Jetstream [1] and displays new posts that are semantically similar to a given query.It spawns a bunch of Web Workers to compute embeddings for every post using MediaPipe Text Embedder [2], then compares cosine similarity to the embedding computed for some query text. It displays any posts that are semantically similar enough to the query, based...

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Re:Stelvio: Serverless AWS for Python Devs on Thursday March 20, 2025 @07:41AM (#43421845)
CDK has high level constructs like aws_ecs_patterns.ApplicationLoadBalancedFargateService etc. It seems like the above could be implemented as high level CDK constructs. So you could make common things simpler, but have the full CDK to change details if needed.
Re:Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:20AM (#43185115)
Nice, Ted had a previous less complete version of this called LizardLadder [1] That inspired me to build something vaguely similar while learning Rust and Bevy - Terp [2]

[1] https://www.tedwiggin.com/LizardLadder/ [2] https://github.com/rectalogic/terp

Re:Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:20PM (#43107064)
I changed it to use Cow<str>, performance improved from 121.02 MB/s to 278.66 MB/s

https://github.com/rectalogic/jsonparser

Re:Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living on Monday February 03, 2025 @11:41AM (#42920053)
Interesting. Back in 2007 my company Motionbox partnered with flipclips.com to sell themed flipbooks very similar to these. Both companies are defunct now. Demo at a trade show: https://youtu.be/FIiLsyeAM_I?si=BQHt5Q4Q80y3Il5f
Re:Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails? on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:20PM (#42480887)
I use https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back for gmail
Re:Transforming Colors with Matrices on Monday October 14, 2024 @09:17AM (#41837254)
You can apply color matrices to HTML elements by referencing an SVG feColorMatrix [1] from the filter [2] CSS property.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/feC...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter

Re:Show HN: Vomitorium – all of your project in 1 text file on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @07:50AM (#41499812)
Similar https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt
Re:Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad? on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @04:57PM (#41450722)
Maybe a Raspberry Pi, and tailscale on the Pi and the iPad to connect. https://tailscale.com/download
Re:USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 u... on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @04:22PM (#39759866)
14.4 seems to be breaking Docker desktop for some uses too https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/7220
Re:Opt Out of Hulu's New Binding Arbitration Clause on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:34AM (#39227880)
Seems like something Permission Slip could do https://permissionslipcr.com/
Re:Can ultraviolet lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts? on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:00AM (#39041148)
That’s what I did a few years ago. Drill a hole in the side of the air handler and mount it in there. https://mrscrappy.com/products/uv-c-air-sanitizer
Re:Ask HN: Is Unlimited PTO a Scam on Sunday November 19, 2023 @12:37PM (#38335188)
I used it to implement a 4 day work week. Just took every Friday off, plus a week here and there for vacation.
Re:Polishing Cloth on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:04AM (#28916827)
Anyone figured out a way to hack this so it can be used on non-Apple hardware - hackincloth?
Re:A tool to create slides using Markdown easily for you on Thursday February 04, 2021 @07:33AM (#26024803)
You can create the entire presentation in markdown with reveal.js too https://github.com/rectalogic/gist-reveal
Re:Show HN: Pop.com – Video Calls, in 3D on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:45AM (#25505708)
I built something similar using Twilio’s video SDK https://github.com/rectalogic/spatia
Re:Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:02PM (#23094955)
Welcome to the Internet of Dicks (IoD)
Re:US House bill exempts employers with 500 employees from sick day re... on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:55AM (#22582925)
Where in the bill does it say that? https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriati...
Re:I did not know jitsi existed on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:48AM (#22556761)
Hmm, they say they don't support Firefox or Safari, only chrome - although it seems to basically work in both Firefox and Safari https://web-cdn.jitsi.net/meetjitsi_3875.548/static/recommen...
Re:Göttingen researchers identify existing drug with potential to trea... on Sunday March 08, 2020 @04:51PM (#22520531)
They tested this drug in mice with SARS/MERS in 2016 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635421...
Re:Capital One Says Breach Hit 100M Individuals in U.S on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @06:03PM (#20569655)
If it's an instance role and you are on the EC2 instance, then "curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credent... will return the credentials.

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