Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests

Simon Willison Blog
Generative AI

Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch HTTP range requests Here's a little prototype I built this morning from my as an experiment in HTTP range requests, and a general example of using LLMs to satisfy curiosity. I've been collecting HTTP range tricks for a while now, and I decided it would be fun to build something with them myself that used binary search against a large file to do something useful. So I brainstormed with Claude. The challenge was coming up with a use case for binary search where the data could be naturally sorted in a way that would benefit from binary search.