grounder (u/grounder)

grounder commented on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 nngroup.com/articles/liqu... · Posted by u/uxjw

bradgessler · 5 months ago

There's a picture floating around out there of the Apple design team putting actual physical pieces of glass over icons that they printed out. What's funny (not really) is how much more readable that paper would have been if they simply removed the glass.

grounder · 5 months ago

There's a whole video of the Apple team doing it. Absolutely bonkers. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-introduces-a-de...

grounder commented on Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF? · Posted by u/hhthrowaway1230

pabs3 · 6 months ago

Just print to PDF in a browser, or automate that using a browser automation tool. For a non-browser-based open source solution, WeasyPrint.

https://weasyprint.org/

For a proprietary solution, try Prince XML:

https://www.princexml.com/

grounder · 5 months ago

WeasyPrint works really well for me. It can support all of the languages and fonts I need. I run it on AWS Lambda and in Docker as a web service.

I previously used WKHTMLTOPDF, but it hasn't been supported for years and doesn't support the latest CSS, etc. It does support JS if you need it, but I'd probably look at headless Chromium or another solution for JS if needed.

Edit: Previous post with some good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578826

grounder commented on Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust) github.com/HelixDB/helix-... · Posted by u/GeorgeCurtis

GeorgeCurtis · 10 months ago

No, we are in the process of writing up some proper benchmarks. Our first user used us to build MuskMap and TrumpMap, which went viral on twitter. Not sure how it compared to other graph DBs at the time (bear in mind this was v1 and very bear bones), but it got latency of using Postgres >5s down to 50ms with us.

grounder · 10 months ago

What are MuskMap and TrumpMap (I'm kind of afraid to ask), and can you link to more info about how they used your database?

grounder commented on How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph memgraph.com/blog/nasa-me... · Posted by u/lexmo67

UltraSane · a year ago

My dream databases is Neo4j style relationships and MongoDB style documents.

grounder · a year ago

Check out SurrealDB. It might be exactly what you're looking for. https://surrealdb.com/

grounder commented on Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale · Posted by u/travisleestreet

grounder · a year ago

Do the terms of use on the websites you scraped allow scraping/copying their data?

grounder commented on Fauna Service Winding Down fauna.com/blog/the-future... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

grounder · a year ago

Hopefully a new company will form to pick up the open source pieces and go from there. I wonder if Fauna tried to find a buyer - it seems like they have some valuable software but weren't able to make it work. Shutting down in 2.5 months is pretty aggressive. Good luck to the former customers.

I was expecting the migration guide to recommend some other options. I don't know of other BaaS document databases like Fauna. I guess Mongo, CouchDB, Couchbase, and traditional Postgres would be the first open source options to look for. DocumentDB for closed source but offered by a big cloud vendor (AWS). If you want to roll the dice again, then maybe SurrealDB or RavenDB.

grounder commented on SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale rivet.gg/blog/2025-02-16-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

NathanFlurry · a year ago

The two tables are intended to be part of the same "chat" partition (ie SQLite database). You can join them with a native SQLite query. Seems I should make this more clear.

Cheers

grounder · a year ago

I understand the two tables in your chat example, I think. I'm wondering how you get the rest of the user profile data (name, for example). Is that table in a totally different SQLite database? If so, can you join on that, or do you need to query it separately? Thanks!

grounder commented on SQLite-on-the-server is misunderstood: Better at hyper-scale than micro-scale rivet.gg/blog/2025-02-16-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

NathanFlurry · a year ago

Author here, happy to answer questions!

grounder · a year ago

In your chat channel example, you have a table for messages, and a table for participants. How do you join the participants in this chat channel database with whichever database the participants are actually defined in, so the application would be able to show participant details (name, avatar, etc.)?

grounder commented on 2025 Hiring Pause hr.cornell.edu/2025-hirin... · Posted by u/MinimalAction

testfoobar · a year ago

Here is a 2024 article from the Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/13/behind-stanfords-double...

In 1996: 13,811 students, 1488 faculty, 5881 total staff.

In 2024: 17,529 students, 2323 faculty, 16,527 total staff.

In 28 years: 27% increase in students 56% increase in faculty 281% increase in total staff

The ratio of staff to students is nearly 1:1

This is insane.

grounder · a year ago

We might need to know the FTE values to understand what this means. Are staff positions full-time FTE? Are faculty positions full-time, tenure positions? Have they added part-time staff, adjunct faculty, etc.?

grounder commented on Five years of React Native at Shopify shopify.engineering/five-... · Posted by u/onnnon

justinko · a year ago

Two words: Hotwire Native

grounder · a year ago

I'll look this up later tonight. Is Hotwire using the same approach as Capacitor / Ionic?

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