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A WASM version of (La)TeX plus a decent IDE would be amazing. I'm wondering if such a thing exists.


SwiftLatex, TexLyre and StellarLatex seem to be exactly this. Apparently this is something a lot of people want to see in the world, awesome stuff. I wonder what's the performance like between native XeLaTex and these wasm version and if it will be Overleaf's demise if these solutions can be easily self-hosted by organizations without worrying about the server getting bogged down by compile jobs.

https://www.swiftlatex.com/

https://arxtect.github.io/StellarLatexLanding

https://texlyre.github.io/


Isn't that Flutter, i.e. an exotic language plus skipping DOM and drawing into a canvas?


Flutter's authoring environment is a text editor. This is rebuilding the Flash authoring environment. They are not the same.

Nobody would author a kid's TV show in Flutter.


No, when people say they miss "Flash", they mostly mean the editor.


How will the A chip fare for LLM-based use cases, compared the M series?

And will we have software compatibility issues because of A versus M issues?


I don't think LLM use cases are the target audience's chief concern here


I saw this some time ago with Bing and OpenCode:

"If I search for "opencode GitHub" in Bing, a random fork is returned"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573286


Wouldn't it be much more useful if the request received raw input (i.e. before feature extraction), and not the feature vector?


You can do that with Onnx. You can graft the preprocessing layers to the actual model [1] and then serve that. Honestly, I already thought that ONNX (CPU at least) was already low level code and already very optimized.

@Author - if you see this is it possible to add comparisons (ie "vanilla" inference latencies vs timber)?

[1] https://gist.github.com/msteiner-google/5f03534b0df58d32abcc... <-- A gist I put together in the past that goes from PyTorch to ONNX and grafts the preprocessing layers to the model, so you can pass the raw input.


I'll check this out as soon as I am at my desk.


Good you are here. I was surprised you hadn't posted it here yet.


I did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667627

But it is okay!

I really appreciate you sharing it as well


I searched for "cronboard" before making the submission, and still cannot open the link you sent :/


That’s weird!

I don’t know. Anyone else have tested the link?

Anyways, I really appreciate you created the post. It’s pretty amazing that a project from a self-taught developer like me, who started in 2024, got so much attention.

Thanks again!


Slso in your own submissions page: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=antoniorodr

Very weird indeed:/


Yeah I know. I do not understand why this happened, but whatever!

Thanks again! :)


Claude the model or Claude (Code) the tool? I'm not sure what to think about an article that doesn't make it clear which one they are talking about...


They are talking about Claude Code, the terminal app, which uses Opus and Sonnet for models mainly.


Maybe referencing the reputation of IBM System/360?


Non-native speaker here. Can someone please be so nice to explain why do we use the word "Harness" here and not e.g. Orchestrate or Steer?

It took me some time to realise what people mean by it, originally confusing it with harvest.


What always came to mind for me is an “engine wiring harness”. It’s responsible for getting power and data to all the right places without having to manually route cables around the engine / car.

If you google an image of it, maybe it’ll make sense


As already mentioned, this is the noun use but also different connotations.

To my thinking, to orchestrate or steer suggests a conductor or driver, an outside entity providing direction. A master agent creating and directing subagents could reasonably be called an orchestrator.

A harness is what the horse wears to pull a cart, or what connects a pilot to a parachute and provides the controls to tug on and steer. It might provide guidance or capability, but not active direction. It's also a fairly common use in hardware ( a wire harness) and software (a testing harness) already.


Well, "Orchestrate" and "Steer" are verbs, while "Harness" is a noun. You need a noun here, not a verb, because the harness is not actively doing anything, it's just a set of constraints and a toolset.


That doesn't really answer the questions, because there's orchestrator and steering.


I'm pretty sure it's not just Americans.

Just like open source didn't destroy quality software, maybe there an alternative model for journalism lying somewhere?


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