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The actual Mermaid ASCII renderer is from another project [0]. This project transliterated it to typescript and added their own theming.

[0]: https://github.com/AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii


Meanwhile they could've just bundled mermaid-ascii and run it on wasm. But then again probably took Claude less than an hour to port this to TS. The main algorithms are 1:1 conversion.

https://github.com/AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii/blob/master...

https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid/blob/main/src/...


Thanks for the credits!



And its in Go, so no package management joke involved. I will integrate it into my debugger, thx for the link!


Just another AI copies the entire project and you get to put your name on it.


Yikes, good catch. I've changed the link above to the original project now. (Edit: actually, let's use the project home page and put the Github repo in the toptext.)

(Submitted link was https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid. mellosouls is a good HN contributor so I'm sure this was well-intentioned.)


I appreciate your comment, but I made mermaid-ascii OSS under MIT license so that everybody can use it in whatever fashion they like, be that in another OSS project or in your company. I’m just happy to contribute back to the ecosystem, and I’m excited seeing my projects being used by others.

Nothing but good vibes to these guys. Let’s all strive to keep making cool things, and leave things a little better than how you found it ;)


I'm going to take that as an implicit (and generous) request to put the submitted URL back at the top, so I've done this, and included the two links to your work in the toptext. Seems like a fair balance. Thank you!


Engines other than v8 exist. React Native uses Hermes or JavaScriptCore (Apple/Safari). [0]

Other engines include SpiderMonkey (Mozilla/Firefox) [1] and QuickJS [2]

[0]: https://reactnative.dev/docs/javascript-environment

[1]: https://spidermonkey.dev/

[2]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/


Have a look at the Steam Hardware [and software] Survey [0] results. Linux has been trending upwards whist Windows has been trending down for a wee while. And the population this looks at is primarily interested in gaming, which means that this is despite a compatibility layer being needed for a large amount of the software used. I imagine in other communities (software, old people) it's trending much faster.

E.g. I recently installed Linux Mint for my grandma so she could use email and an up-to-date web browser on her old laptop that can't run (secure) Windows anymore. The UI differences are marginal for her, and she can do everything she needs to much better than she could before (which was not at all).

[0]: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/


They're real bugs all right - have you ever tried to search a gmail account via apple mail?


I can report it works fine, needed it to pull up 13 year old emails for me a couple months ago.


So the protection is that debit cards take longer to pay out to merchants? An increased window to dispute charges doesn't strike me as innovative but more like an arbitrary variable from the CC company.


No, the protection is that when you pay with a credit card, no money has left any of your accounts, and you have plenty of time to dispute the charge before it does.

With a debit card, your money is out of your account, immediately, and you have to fight to get it back. For some banks, for some accounts, this isn't a big deal, and you might have it back in a few hours. But for others it might take weeks, and in the meantime you've failed to pay your rent or mortgage.


This varies a lot between countries and cultures.

For example in New Zealand, EFTPOS cards are very popular (similar to debit cards, but issued directly by our banks so no user fees ever - the merchant pays for the machine and that's it). People usually have all 3 - an EFTPOS card for most in-person purchase (although online EFTPOS is gaining adoption), a debit card for online or paywave-only places, and a credit card for large purchases/ emergencies. Credit cards here are highly unpopular among the under-25 age bracket; most young people just have EFTPOS and debit.

I think this might be a result of our stricter banking regulations compared to economies like the U.S.; it's difficult for banks to offer tempting enough rewards schemes to entice people to credit cards. Additionally, there is much less of a borrowing culture - most people will only ever properly borrow money once - buying a house. Paying cash for cars is the norm, and purchasing anything else on finance is seen as stupid compared to just saving the money (and earning the interest yourself).


TimeLine maintainer here. Their demo for live-streamed data [0] in a line plot is surprisingly bad given how slick the rest of it seems. For comparison, this [1] is a comparatively smooth demo of the same goal, but running entirely on the main thread and using the classic "2d" canvas rendering mode.

[0]: https://chartgpu.github.io/ChartGPU/examples/live-streaming/...

[1]: https://crisislab-timeline.pages.dev/examples/live-with-plug...


The entire library seems to be AI generated [1] [2]. Not sure how much of it was actually written by a human and how much of it was AI.

[1]: https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU/blob/main/.cursor/agent...

[2]: https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU/blob/main/.claude/agent...


Given that the author's post and comments all sound like they were run through an LLM, I'm not at all surprised.


That was obvious before even looking at the repo because the OP used "the core insight" in the intro. Other telltale signs of these type of AI projects:

- new account

- spamming the project to HN, reddit etc the moment the demo half works

- single contributor repo

- Huge commits minutes apart

- repo is less than a week old (sometimes literally hours)

- half the commits start with "Enhance"

- flashly demo that hides issues immediately obvious to experts in the field

- author has slop AI project(s)

OP uses more than one branch so he's more sophisticated than most.


The same website says that as of 2024, it is slowly being reconstructed: https://www.oskarjwhansen.org/news/2024-hoover-dam-star-map-...


Source for this stat?


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