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Show HN: One pixel for every food in the USDA database

by joshelgar on 2/8/24, 10:38 AM with 1 comments

Hey, just sharing a weekend project I worked on. The USDA has a lot more than ~300,000 foods, but this is a cleaner dataset without duplicates.

AMA - happy to share how I made it & how I kept it performant (rendering 300k foods can be slow)