Show HN: Nerdulator – put something in, get everything out (no AI)
Nerdulator is a web-based tool that analyzes user input to identify its type and generate comprehensive data without using artificial intelligence. It employs deterministic parsers and lookup tables to calculate conversions, encodings, and mathematical properties for various data formats. The platform ensures consistent and verifiable results by computing all figures at request time rather than relying on machine learning models.
- ▪Nerdulator uses a deterministic parser with regular expressions and lookup tables to identify input types such as numbers, dates, and IP addresses.
- ▪The tool features 22 distinct engines that handle tasks ranging from unit conversions and color analysis to algebraic solving and chemical equation balancing.
- ▪All calculations are performed at request time using exact arithmetic, ensuring that the same input always produces the same output without AI intervention.
- ▪The platform supports a wide variety of data types including IPv4/IPv6 addresses, UUIDs, musical pitches, and geometric shapes.
- ▪Derived values from the analysis are linked to new pages, allowing users to explore related data such as color complements or date navigation with a single click.
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Record
| Original publisher | Nerdulator |
| Canonical URL | https://nerdulator.com |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:37:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T06:48:41.214Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T06:48:41.214Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 5XLQh-Z_bl2I · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
NerdulatorPut something in. Get everything out.What have you got? Paste or type anythingWhat have you got? Paste or type anything; Nerdulator works out what it is.NerdulateTry one of these47number-12number17 mileslength25 December 2000date#336699colourhellotext192.168.1.1IPv410kgmass3/4fraction£250money1066number / year37°Ctemperature192.168.1.0/24subnet0xFFhexadecimalcircle radius 5geometryspeed of lightconstantOr don’t decide: surprise me picks a page at random, and today’s page is the same one for everybody until midnight.How it works01It works out what you gave itA deterministic parser (regular expressions, lookup tables and range checks) decides whether you typed a number, a date, a measurement, a colour, an address or a word.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Nerdulator.
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