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Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
1•chartscout•1m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•4m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•6m ago•0 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
2•tablets•10m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•15m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•15m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•16m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•21m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•27m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•28m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now as AI slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•33m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•35m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
3•tosh•41m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•45m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•45m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
3•goranmoomin•49m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•50m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•52m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•54m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•57m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•57m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
5•1vuio0pswjnm7•59m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•1h ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
2•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Fncad: Cad editor, like openscad but sdf

https://fncad.github.io/
5•FeepingCreature•8mo ago

Comments

FeepingCreature•8mo ago
I (Sonnet 3.7 really) made a text-based CAD editor. It's like OpenSCAD but the backing abstraction is Signed Distance Fields, so that it can represent, for instance, smooth CSG.

The mesher is very simple; just "subdivide an octree using interval arithmetic, put a mesh around it, then fit it to the surface using the SDF gradient." The intended usecase is for 3D printing, where slight errors don't matter and you can just throw triangles at the problem.

Performance is okay, but not great. I blame JS. ;)

This project is AI coded, but it's not vibe-coded: I designed the core abstractions deliberately, so all design problems are my own. The website, however, is near entirely Sonnet's work.

Source is on Github: https://github.com/fnCAD/fnCAD

eternityforest•8mo ago
Looks pretty nice! I could see this being really nice for making customizable models, if it could import and alter step files, and had something like the customizer UI in FreeCAD.
FeepingCreature•8mo ago
Tbh I suspect step files would require more code than the entire project so far. It's really not designed to track objects in terms of objects, faces and edges.

The goal here was to avoid a lot of complexity from the bigger CAD tools like FreeCAD.

eternityforest•8mo ago
Ah, I don't know much about the actual algorithms involved in 3D work.

There seems to be a few libraries out there for converting a mesh to an approximate SDF though, so I assume the Rust lib for that could be compiled to WASM, but that might be an issue if simplicity is the priority.

FeepingCreature•8mo ago
Sure you could pull it in as a pure object, that wouldn't be too hard; as you say, grab a JS lib... though pure SDF isn't really enough, fncad needs interval SDF which might require some work.

But the problem is, you couldn't do anything with the model. You couldn't change the edge chamfering etc. It'd just be an insert.