frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

https://moebio.com/research/sevensets/
87•bramadityaw•3d ago

Comments

adverbly•4h ago
Beautiful! I want to get this on a t-shirt!
anon291•4h ago
Nice! I wonder if there's a mathematical theorem to describe the possible shapes for a 2-d venn diagram of N sets or if there's an N for which it is no longer possible (or maybe it's possible for all N!?). Probably an application of graph theory and Euler's formula to determine feasibility and then something else to figure out the shape constraints. Never thought about it, but an interesting idea.
madcaptenor•3h ago
It is possible for arbitrary N; one construction is called the Edwards-Venn diagram. See https://happyruin.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/edwards-venn-diag...
vitalnodo•4h ago
I’m wondering what’s the proper way to draw Venn diagrams. I’ve seen that Graphviz has a “nice to have” mention about them, and there are a few simple JS libraries - mostly for two sets. Here’s also my own attempt using an LLM [1].

But maybe someone knows a more general or robust solution - or a better way to achieve this? In the future, I’d like to be able, for example, to find the intersection between two Venn diagrams of three sets each etc.

[1] https://vitalnodo.github.io/FSLE/

zem•4h ago
the comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742907 have some discussion about projects that take a "focused algorithm for various different diagram types" approach vs graphviz's one size fits all approach. worth checking to see if any of them do venn diagrams.
cubefox•4h ago
The website isn't working for me (Android Firefox/Chrome).
akdor1154•4h ago
Nor Firefox Android, even in Desktop mode.
JoBrad•3h ago
Same for iOS.
keeeba•3h ago
Please don’t actually use these 5,6,7-way Venn diagrams for anything practical, they’re virtually useless and communicate nothing.
paulddraper•3h ago
Thanks, I was just about to do that!
roadside_picnic•2h ago
Technically a Venn diagram's entire point is to visualize all possible set relations between N sets. Their "practical" use is explicitly visualizing this.

In popular terminology they are very often confused with Euler Diagrams [0] which represent meaningful relations in sets but not all possible. You shouldn't create Euler Diagrams this complex, but the raison d'etre of Venn diagrams is to visualize the complex nature of set relations.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram

kugestu•3h ago
Really nice theoretical exercise! For practical visualization, an UpSet plot is a great option: https://upset.app/
flobosg•2h ago
Related: the 6-set banana Venn diagram – https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11241/figures/4
Amorymeltzer•1h ago
Still my favorite Venn.

I was in a genetics graduate program when this was published, and this spread like wildfire.

Why is Zig so Cool?

https://nilostolte.github.io/tech/articles/ZigCool.html
76•vitalnodo•1h ago•15 comments

Becoming a Compiler Engineer

https://rona.substack.com/p/becoming-a-compiler-engineer
67•lalitkale•2h ago•16 comments

Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages

https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna
185•birdculture•6h ago•73 comments

How did I get here?

https://how-did-i-get-here.net/
105•zachlatta•4h ago•30 comments

How a devboard works (and how to make your own)

https://kaipereira.com/journal/build-a-devboard
24•kaipereira•2h ago•2 comments

Ruby Solved My Problem

https://newsletter.masilotti.com/p/ruby-already-solved-my-problem
151•joemasilotti•5h ago•58 comments

Analysis of Hedy Lamarr's Contribution to Spread-Spectrum Communication

https://researchers.one/articles/24.01.00001v4
11•drmpeg•55m ago•0 comments

YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/
330•WaitWaitWha•3h ago•114 comments

Ribir: Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM

https://github.com/RibirX/Ribir
41•adamnemecek•4h ago•4 comments

FAA restricts commercial rocket launches indefinitely due to air traffic risks

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/faa-restricts-commercial-rocket-launc...
62•bookmtn•1h ago•10 comments

Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

https://moebio.com/research/sevensets/
87•bramadityaw•3d ago•14 comments

Transducer: Composition, Abstraction, Performance

https://funktionale-programmierung.de/en/2018/03/22/transducer.html
64•defmarco•3d ago•0 comments

VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251107-01.en.html
219•kirschner•4h ago•35 comments

Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content of brain activity

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw1464
8•Marshferm•1h ago•3 comments

Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit

https://blog.tomayac.com/2025/11/07/using-the-web-monetization-api-for-fun-and-profit/
17•tomayac•2h ago•1 comments

I Love OCaml

https://mccd.space/posts/ocaml-the-worlds-best/
288•art-w•10h ago•195 comments

James Watson has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/science/james-watson-dead.html
210•granzymes•5h ago•112 comments

Objective-C for Windows, including UIKit (public archive). From Microsoft

https://github.com/microsoft/WinObjC
18•zerr•5d ago•4 comments

Angel Investors, a Field Guide

https://www.jeanyang.com/posts/angel-investors-a-field-guide/
90•azhenley•7h ago•18 comments

FSF40 Hackathon

https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon
36•salutis•4d ago•0 comments

He Jiankui PhD Thesis: Spontaneous Emergence of Hierarchy in Biological Systems

https://repository.rice.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/85449216-b2ec-4519-87cf-83eafe4534e7/content
7•gradus_ad•2h ago•2 comments

Understanding traffic

https://dr2chase.wordpress.com/
30•kunley•4d ago•23 comments

Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-social-media-ban-children-7862d2a8cc590b4969c8931a01adc7f4
391•c420•8h ago•280 comments

I'm making a small RPG and I need feeback regarding performance

https://jslegenddev.substack.com/p/im-making-a-small-rpg-and-i-need
66•ibobev•10h ago•57 comments

Developers in C-Level Meetings

https://radekmie.dev/blog/on-developers-in-c-level-meetings/
15•keyle•6d ago•2 comments

Show HN: VoxConvo – "X but it's only voice messages"

https://voxconvo.com
6•siim•2h ago•9 comments

PyTorch Helion

https://pytorch.org/blog/helion/
129•jarbus•5d ago•41 comments

My Experience of building Bytebeat player in Zig

https://blog.karanjanthe.me/posts/zig-beat/
82•KMJ-007•3d ago•12 comments

Sweep (YC S23) is hiring to build autocomplete for JetBrains

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sweep/jobs/8dUn406-founding-engineer-intern
1•williamzeng0•12h ago

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams

https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-projected-10-of-2024-revenue-came-from-scams-and-banned-goods-reu...
632•donohoe•11h ago•472 comments