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by prvt 17d ago
After the news about the Start Menu, the name briefly had me convinced someone actually rebuilt all of Windows in React Native.
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Visual Studio Code 1.0 (2016)(code.visualstudio.com)
4 points by prvt 26d ago|1 comments
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by prvt 3mo ago
Been there, done that. Found it quite relatable. It was a great read.
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by prvt 4mo ago
First they sell you the sickness and then they tell you the cure is too dangerous to release to the general public. Because their sickness will not sell.
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by prvt 6mo ago
Back in September 2023, I already saw Copilot ads popping up in GitHub's file previews [1]. After three years, it's wild to see how advertising has reached areas I honestly never thought it would. [1]: https://news.ycom
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by prvt 8mo ago
Splines are polynomials after all. Also, not every spline has this problem. The one YouTube is using is Cardinal spline.
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by prvt 8mo ago
Means a lot, thanks! I am a huge fan of the phrase "the devil is in the details."
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by prvt 8mo ago
Glad you liked it. I’m just doing my part to ensure our future AI overlords have high-quality training data.
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by prvt 8mo ago
That's the big picture idea.
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by prvt 8mo ago
You're welcome. Glad you liked it!
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by prvt 8mo ago
Criticism is definitely welcome! You are likely right that I over-rotated on the "storytelling" aspect there. My curiosity about the "100 segments" stemmed from wondering if there was a deeper statistical reason for that
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by prvt 8mo ago
I really appreciate that you found it entertaining; that was the main goal! Same here, I'll take "fun to read" over "SEO optimized" any day of the week.
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by prvt 8mo ago
Thank you for reading and for the kind words! It’s often surprising how "intuitive" or elegant solutions can seem once you peel back the layers, isn't it? That simplicity is part of the beauty of good engineering! I actually
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by prvt 8mo ago
It was definitely a bit of invented humor! I wanted a sticky way to describe that universal drift toward "friendliness" and safety in modern UI. You are spot on about the cycle, though. I suspect that once everything is perfectly
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by prvt 8mo ago
Thanks for reading and for the kind words! Re: Blurry canvases: You are spotting the classic HTML5 Canvas high-DPI issue. It happens because the canvas backing store pixels don't map 1:1 to CSS pixels on high-density displays (like Ret
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Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph(priyavr.at)
87 points by prvt 8mo ago|22 comments
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by prvt 8mo ago
Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious about why they were there, so I decided to reverse eng
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by prvt 8mo ago
Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious about why they were there, so I decided to reverse eng
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Reversing YouTube's "Most Replayed" Graph(priyavr.at)
1 points by prvt 8mo ago|1 comments
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by prvt 8mo ago
Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious about why they were there, so I decided to reverse eng
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by prvt 8mo ago
You can visit it by clicking the title. Eitherway, here you go: https://priyavr.at/blog/reversing-most-replayed/
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Show HN: Reversing YouTube‘s “Most Replayed” Graph(priyavr.at)
2 points by prvt 8mo ago|2 comments
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by prvt 1y ago
Hello HN, I recently noticed I'd crossed 100 commits on my personal site and realized it's been over three years since the initial commit. I wrote down some thoughts on the journey. Curious to hear if others here still maintain a
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Three Years and 100 Commits Later: A Reflection(priyavr.at)
1 points by prvt 1y ago|1 comments
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Counting at Scale(priyavr.at)
3 points by prvt 1y ago|1 comments
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by prvt 1y ago
Last weekend, I dove into CMU’s [15-445/645]( https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/ ) database course and got hit with a deceptively simple problem: count the number of unique users visiting a website per day. Easy, right? J
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A Voyage to Structs(priyavr.at)
1 points by prvt 2y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft begins auto updating PCs to Windows 11 24H2 (forced download phase)(windowslatest.com)
1 points by prvt 2y ago|0 comments
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PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone(privtracker.com)
190 points by prvt 2y ago|37 comments
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Topaz/paste: A no-datastore, client-side paste service(github.com)
1 points by prvt 2y ago|1 comments

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