filipmandaric

Fair enough, but I really think the benefits of advanced regular expressions are underappreciated in non-production and even non-application contexts. Laypeople (and occasionally even developers) are impressed when you show them how to search through a document or file system using a really complicated pattern, where it would have taken several iterations of data manipulation to achieve the same result without using advanced regular expressions.

Most of the time I mention the topic of regular expressions to other developers, I usually hear self-critical commentary like "oh, I'm terrible at regex", and rarely anyone who loves them. I think they're great though, if you take the time to understand them. They're something like a Swiss Army knife for programming.

I actually have nothing to do with the project. I just thought I'd share since I've never seen OCR that is free, easy, and doesn't even require registration.

I actually contemplated posting this narrated version, which offers a great explanation of what is happening technically.

But I ultimately chose this one because there's something very inspiring about watching the raw footage in silence.

Yeah, definitely amazing.

Have to disagree about the coolest part though, because there's a massive amount of heat expelled at that point in the video! :)

Not your typical news, this video is 47 years old. But to witness for the first time such an amazing achievement in human history, at such an intimate level of detail... it certainly feels new.

You never know, people are going to have a lot of free time in cars pretty soon.

Seems like a good idea, it would be great if there was a demo available.

Best of luck, I'd like to receive an email when you have that up there. You also might start to get decent search traffic with all that content available to crawlers.

Feedback: Seems like a good idea, I subscribed and I'm looking forward to receiving the first email. In fact, it would be great to get the first one right when you sign up. Going further, why not just have this information on the site itself so you can view it right away, as well as receive email updates?

We have upvotes and utterly no discussion happening. Thank you HN for your unquestioning support!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441507

I visited Hacker News today on my phone and noticed that the site is not mobile friendly. There are some homespun mobile versions around the web, but they don't seem kosher. So I decided to take a break and entertain myself with the challenge of "mobilizing" Hacker News with its existing HTML!

To my front end developer brethren, paste this code at the end of news.css in Chrome, squish the viewport to a <768px width, and you should see the site mobile friendly. Feel free to edit this code and post your own version with any bugfixes or improvements I might have missed. Other comments, general discussion on mobile CSS, and any anecdotes about the pain of retroactively mobilizing websites are welcome too. ;-)

Also, the site HTML may not be perfect (tables...), but I think it'd be great to get some form of this code actually deployed on the site so we can browse on our phones, upvote please!