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Sherlock
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neilgupta / Sherlock

Sherlock

Natural-language event parser for Javascript

2Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
561GitHub stars
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Natural-language event parser for Javascript

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-05-14 17:28:29 UTC to 2021-09-18 20:56:42 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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OP, this is a gorgeous date picker with some clever ideas. Great work! As others have noted, clever ideas do mean there’s a learning curve which is not ideal for something like a date picker. However, if this were in an app I use very regularly, I personally wouldn’t mind the initial learning curve for a more efficient input. I see a lot of requests in this thread for just typing the date. I agree that natural language input like Fantastical is the best experience. I built an open-source NLP date parsing library[1] so I have a lot of interest in this, but even I’ll admit the reason it’s not more common is that internationalization is extremely difficult when dealing with user input. There are 100 ways an English speaker might enter a date, and 20000 ways an international user might. Depending on your user base, it’s often easier to just u
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se a fixed input space. 1: https://github.com/neilgupta/Sherlock
In MDatePickerView – Quick and Easy iOS Date Picker

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