DominikPeters

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by DominikPeters 12d ago
To me it feels like an LLM would have suggested this as a safety measure. LLMs always follow official best practices, they might mistakenly believe that this is true for the wider internet as well.
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by DominikPeters 17d ago
IKEA now publishes disassembly instructions for some of their products. https://www.ikea.com/ie/en/product-guides/sustainable-produc...
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by DominikPeters 2mo ago
The CLI is open but the GUI is proprietary.
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Hi Henri, thanks for all your work on pgf, and congrats on the recent push on CI etc. The reason I think that GPL-3 would bite is that adding support would require more or less translating the pgfplots source to javascript, so that the app
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
If people are curious, I've worked on this project since February 2026, relatively consistently. In that time, through Codex, I've used around 700M tokens for this project (not counting cache reads), which at API rates would have
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
The first part I implemented was the basic parser -> SVG renderer (restricted to the simplest TikZ constructs) and then put in a basic drag-and-drop interface to validate whether the architecture was promising. Code structure was decided
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Attachment works for (text) nodes because they have anchors - you should see green attachment dots when drawing new lines or moving existing lines. When using draw.io I’d suggest exporting to PDF instead of PNG so you keep it as vector grap
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Thanks, this is good feedback. I think the difficulty lies not so much in code generation, but determining what a user would expect. If I click the "align bottom" button, I would be surprised if \begin{tikzpicture} \draw (
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
I don't use Typst myself and am not familiar with Cetz. From the docs it looks like it's in early stages of development, so it doesn't feel like the right time to do this to me (or at least should be a separate, perhaps forke
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Generally yes! It is permissively licensed. I originally considered writing this app as a VS Code extension (because most app ideas that include a source editor are more simply done as an extension) but then decided that I wanted to have mo
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Yeah that's odd, the grid should be square. Is the web version looking correct in the browser? Feel free to paste some screenshots into https://github.com/DominikPeters/tikz-editor/issues and I can look into
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
An explanation for the name from the TikZ docs: > TikZ’s name is intended to warn people that TikZ is not a program that you can use to draw graphics with your mouse or tablet. Rather, it is more like a “graphics language”. While making
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
It does support editing it if relative positioning is used in the code, i.e. if you drag the object it will continue being relatively positioned. But if you add new elements with the various tools, they will be absolutely positioned (not
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Yes, there are several editors for more specialized things. Other nice examples: https://tikzit.github.io/ and https://www.circuit2tikz.tf.fau.de/designer/ and https://tikzcd.yichuanshen.de&
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
I think pgfplots should in principle be possible. I've postponed it thus far because pgfplots is GPL licensed, while the editor is MIT licensed, so I would need to distribute pgfplots support as a separate add-on. But in due course, pu
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Schleswig-Holsteiners are everywhere :) Till Tantau also started the beamer package for making LaTeX presentations. Both beamer and tikz are very important contributions to science communication.
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Good idea. There is File > Open Example, but it could be extended for sure. On desktop you can even directly open an arXiv paper!
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Intriguing thought. Of course by writing code it can be done \foreach \i in {1,...,5} { \node[circle, draw] (n\i) at ({90 - 72*(\i-1)}:1cm) {$\i$}; } but I'm not sure how to expose that as a UI in a nice way (maybe: if som
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by DominikPeters 3mo ago
Exactly, I wanted to avoid that. In contrast, if you open an SVG in (for example) Inkscape and make a minimal change and save, the resulting file has little to do with the original.
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Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX(tikz.dev)
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by DominikPeters 4mo ago
The landing page (clearly to a large part written by LLM) does not mention that both KaTeX and mathjax can render to SVG in node. This wasm approach might still be lighter, but the advantage is not as clear as the page makes it seem. (It al
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by DominikPeters 5mo ago
This approach started with the “Ask a question about your code” feature, which is more comparable to single chat message with relatively predictable token usage. Now it’s an agent who might work for 30 minutes, read the whole codebase, and
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by DominikPeters 5mo ago
They mention in the announcement that it will be possible to pool usage across an organization.
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by DominikPeters 5mo ago
It's interesting that the API token cost of GPT-5.5 is double the cost of GPT-5.4, but Copilot charges a 7.5x multiplier and gates the model in premium plans. Clearly, they severely underpriced previous models like GPT-5.4 which they s
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by DominikPeters 5mo ago
In my Codex dashboard, I can buy 1000 extra credits for $40. The credit cost for GPT-5.4 is 375 credits / 1M output tokens which translates to $15 / 1M output tokens which exactly equals the API rate.
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by DominikPeters 6mo ago
Large cars impose heavy many negative externalities on people (take up more space, make it difficult to get through a narrow street when they park there, higher mortality when they drive into pedestrians or cyclists, reduce visibility for o
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by DominikPeters 8mo ago
Yeah I realized the parallel while I was writing my comment! I guess what I'm thinking is that a much better experience is available and there is no in-principle reason why overleaf and prism have to be so much worse, especially in the
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by DominikPeters 8mo ago
Are you using Opus 4.5? Sounds more like Sonnet.
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by DominikPeters 8mo ago
This seems like a very basic overleaf alternative with few of its features, plus a shallow ChatGPT wrapper. Certainly can’t compete with using VS Code or TeXstudio locally, collaborating through GitHub, and getting AI assistance from Claude
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by DominikPeters 8mo ago
If you inspect the Chain of Thought summaries, the LLM often knows full well what it is doing.

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