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SHOW HN2015

26points
10comments
#1,018of 2,565 in 2015
Top 40%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Design: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Commenters find the diagrams awesome and nice

    From 1 comment
    • It's awesome. That's really nice. One thing, when I pick a number with an annoyingly large prime factor (e.g. 1655=5*331), it seems to drop the large factor. At some point that…
      mcnamaratw on HN

Objections

  • Large prime factors render as tiny dots that look like circles, hard to read

    From 2 comments
    • It's awesome. That's really nice. One thing, when I pick a number with an annoyingly large prime factor (e.g. 1655=5*331), it seems to drop the large factor. At some point that…
      mcnamaratw on HN
    • Ohhhh, so when I do 1655 I'm not just getting a pentagon, I'm getting five circles, each made out of 311 little tiny dots? (Or however many dots it is :P)
      mcnamaratw on HN
  • Large inputs make the UI unresponsive due to slow factorization or drawing

    From 2 comments
    • Slightly offtopic: if I type "123456" the UI becomes unresponsive (cannot type backspace for instance). It may be that the language Purescript is "lazy", but somehow this does…
      amelius on HN
    • I added a hard limit of 10,000 (in the input field and the code), because the prime factorization will be too slow otherwise. Maybe your browser takes a long time to draw the…
      sharkdp on HN
  • Colors differ for primes 13 and 19 without clear reason

    From 1 comment

Requests

  • Better scaling so large prime factors are visible

    From 1 comment
    • Huge prime factors are indeed a problem (in the sense that the simply look like circles). I think I can work a little bit on the scaling of the diagrams (there is still some free…
      sharkdp on HN
  • Indicate when a factor is not displayed

    From 1 comment
    • It's awesome. That's really nice. One thing, when I pick a number with an annoyingly large prime factor (e.g. 1655=5*331), it seems to drop the large factor. At some point that…
      mcnamaratw on HN

Questions

  • Why 13 and 19 are colored differently

    From 1 comment

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