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A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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322 points cratermoon | 6 comments | 15 Nov 25 07:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.908s | source | bottom
1. boogheta ◴[17 Nov 25 23:21 UTC] No.45959609[source]▶
It's a bit too bad that the network visualisation relies on d3: it is really slow with big networks, and the force directed algorithm is far from the best. Have you tried using JS libraries built specifically to visualise graph networks such as Sigma.js, Vivagraph or Cytoscape?
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2. tootyskooty ◴[17 Nov 25 23:42 UTC] No.45959764[source]▶
Shameless plug: if OP is looking to stay on d3, he could also try slotting in my C++/WASM versions[1] of the main d3 many-body forces. Not the best, but I've found >3x speedup using these for periplus.app :)

[^1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/d3-manybody-wasm

3. marginalia_nu ◴[18 Nov 25 12:57 UTC] No.45965091[source]▶
What do you have to run to use this thing?

I have a 4090 and 32 GB of RAM and this thing is chugging at like 2 FPS, with the UI being completely unresponsive.

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4. ◴[19 Nov 25 21:59 UTC] No.45985872[source]▶
5. claiir ◴[19 Nov 25 22:00 UTC] No.45985891[source]▶
Javascript doesn’t generally execute on your GPU.
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6. marginalia_nu ◴[21 Nov 25 14:44 UTC] No.46005067{3}[source]▶
Website rendering does.