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zakhar | 1 year ago | on: Hexsheets: Hexagonal Spreadsheets

I can see it being useful for exactly that sort of thing. I've approximated hexagonal grids in spreadsheets by making each cell a square and then merging adjacent squares, alternating by row:

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Useful for working on puzzles like https://puzzles.mit.edu/2021/puzzle/triangles/

zakhar | 1 year ago | on: A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic

Previous discussion (Nov 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719983

zakhar | 1 year ago | on: A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem

Hah, I did something similar at https://ari.blumenthal.dev/!/-2/-1/three-body after reading the book last year.

Source at https://github.com/zkhr/blog/blob/main/static/js/three.js

zakhar | 13 years ago | on: The total price of the Digg acquisition was around $16 million

IANAL, but wouldn't websites like bash.org be prior art for a “click a button to vote up a story” functionality? I'd be interested to see the exact wording, if anyone can find a link to the patent in question.

zakhar | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: A programming language that uses only parentheses

It could be an interesting problem to write a piece of code that performs one task when run as a Lisp program and another when run as Parenthetic. Or the same task even.

zakhar | 15 years ago | on: All officially released cables including content - WikiLeaks

This bugged me also. The title text doesn't match what the links actually are.