0bit's comments

On: Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust

[0bit]

Counter-example: https://deephn.org/?q=embeddings Contrast with https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It is fast but, nowhere close to accurate or useful for this specific example. Could not find a way to force the plural form. Neither quotes nor plus worked.

On: What is Chess? What to think and for how long

[0bit]

Under https://lichess.org/training on the left side pane there is a "Puzzle Themes" link (takes you to https://lichess.org/training/themes).

On: Show HN: I am building a Safari Web Extension to switch tabs efficiently

[0bit]

I currently use the "Tabs Switcher" menu bar app which works quite well: https://alexdenk.eu/mywork/tabsswitcher.html

Have you looked at this app for inspiration? I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer.

[manibatra → 0bit]

Yup I have! I really wanted something that is native to the browser and not an app extension. And I wanted a design more to my preference :)

On: Graphviz 7

[0bit]

There is an offline version: https://www.diagrams.net (they had to change their name from draw.io recently). There is a download button right on the main page.

[yencabulator → 0bit]

Which looks to be an Electron app, so there's a browser engine doing the rendering. Can I save a diagrams.net/drawio-desktop drawing into a file, and convert that file into an SVG in a lightweight batch job?

[flarg → yencabulator]

Yes

[rad_gruchalski → 0bit]

That's awesome. Thank you.

On: Ask HN: What are the best iPad apps to learn coding for 7 y.o?

[0bit]

MIT Scratch seems to work well: https://scratch.mit.edu Works well on an iPad, even better on the desktop

On: YaCy – your own search engine

[0bit]

I would recommend using Apache Tika to extract the text from the PDFs and using Solr (or Elasticsearch) to index and search them.

On: Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

[0bit]

Go to Settings, scroll down to find the app, and select it. Then you get the "Allow <app> to access" and a list of entitlements, one of which is "Photos". Select "Photos" and you get three options "Selected Photos" (which is what you likely have), "All Photos", and "None". Push "None" and you should never see that dialog again.

On: Broken

[0bit]

I've seen it happen when the machine has both an ethernet and wi-fi connection.

On: Ask HN: How to help non-technical designers work with CSS?

[0bit]

“CSS In Depth” from Manning[0] is an excellent resource to learn how to go from unstyled pages to properly styled ones.

[0]: https://www.manning.com/books/css-in-depth

On: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

[0bit]

"The Long Chase", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192254

That discussion has links to books with similar stories. Enjoy.

[gojomo → 0bit]

Thank you! I've often wanted to point others at it in discussions on topics ranging from blockchain forks to 'friendly AI'. I even posed a question on Quora to try to find it – https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-scifi-short-story-name-autho... – now updated with your pointer.