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Arcan Explained: A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
1•fanf2•1m ago•0 comments

What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-we-learned-2025
1•mrkO99•1m ago•0 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
1•bri3d•4m ago•0 comments

The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
2•ckardaris•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•7m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•8m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
1•ColinWright•11m ago•0 comments

Jim Fan calls pixels the ultimate motor controller

https://robotsandstartups.substack.com/p/humanoids-platform-urdf-kitchen-nvidias
1•robotlaunch•14m ago•0 comments

Exploring a Modern SMTPE 2110 Broadcast Truck with My Dad

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/exploring-a-modern-smpte-2110-broadcast-truck-with-my-dad/
1•HotGarbage•14m ago•0 comments

AI UX Playground: Real-world examples of AI interaction design

https://www.aiuxplayground.com/
1•javiercr•15m ago•0 comments

The Field Guide to Design Futures

https://designfutures.guide/
1•andyjohnson0•16m ago•0 comments

The Other Leverage in Software and AI

https://tomtunguz.com/the-other-leverage-in-software-and-ai/
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

AUR malware scanner written in Rust

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur
3•sohimaster•20m ago•1 comments

Free FFmpeg API [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuSVa4MLI
3•harshalone•20m ago•1 comments

Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-do...
2•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Watermark and Stego Scanner

https://ulrischa.github.io/AIWatermarkDetector/
1•ulrischa•25m ago•0 comments

Clarity vs. complexity: the invisible work of subtraction

https://www.alexscamp.com/p/clarity-vs-complexity-the-invisible
1•dovhyi•26m ago•0 comments

Solid-State Freezer Needs No Refrigerants

https://spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elastocaloric-cooling
2•Brajeshwar•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will LLMs/AI Decrease Human Intelligence and Make Expertise a Commodity?

1•mc-0•28m ago•1 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Brief Introduction to Spring Boot

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/writing/from-zero-to-hello-world-spring-boot
1•jcob_sikorski•28m ago•1 comments

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
12•c420•29m ago•2 comments

How to Fake a Robotics Result

https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/how-to-fake-a-robotics-result
1•ai_critic•29m ago•0 comments

It's time for the world to boycott the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/5/its-time-for-the-world-to-boycott-the-us
3•HotGarbage•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Semantic Search for terminal commands in the Browser (No Back end)

https://jslambda.github.io/tldr-vsearch/
1•jslambda•30m ago•1 comments

The AI CEO Experiment

https://yukicapital.com/blog/the-ai-ceo-experiment/
2•romainsimon•31m ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
5•surprisetalk•35m ago•1 comments

MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks

https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/game_cracks.php
4•TheCraiggers•36m ago•0 comments

Updates on GNU/Hurd progress [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_...
2•birdculture•37m ago•0 comments

Epstein took a photo of his 2015 dinner with Zuckerberg and Musk

https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=davenewworld_2%2Fstatus%2F2020128223850316274
14•doener•37m ago•2 comments

MyFlames: View MySQL execution plans as interactive FlameGraphs and BarCharts

https://github.com/vgrippa/myflames
1•tanelpoder•38m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Nexus.js - Fabric.js for 3D

https://punk.cam/lab/nexus
91•ges•7mo ago
I was looking for a tiny library to easily transform both 2D & 3D objects with simple mouse / touch controls and a fixed camera, in the browser.

Like a simple 3D editor but without requiring the user to be a Blender expert.

Couldn't find anything lightweight, so I’m building one. Think Fabric.js but for 3D. Built entirely with Three.js / R3F.

Borrowed some inspiration from VR/AR interaction systems for controls.

Feel free to play with it and let me know what you think!

Comments

kube-system•7mo ago
Interesting, what are some use cases for something like this?
superconduct123•7mo ago
Aerospace industry, watermelon industry
ges•7mo ago
And sanitary industry
ges•7mo ago
I’ve initially started building it for AR / face filters but figured out it could be nice to abstract the whole simple positioning / controls logic as a stand alone lib.
guigui•7mo ago
On the default white background, the control buttons (move, rotate, roll...) look disabled to me.
ges•7mo ago
Agreed. I’ve added the white background last minute because it looked better. But texts don’t look so good on it.
ges•7mo ago
Fixed!
hoppp•7mo ago
Cool. I put a poop on a rocket ship. Now what else can I do with it?
ges•7mo ago
Nothing else. You’ve reached the peak.
Eduard•7mo ago
two-finger input doesn't work on my Android Chrome: a previously placed banana just glitched around, then jumped out of viewport.
ges•7mo ago
Sorry for the banana. Yes two-finger gestures feel natural for zooming. I just didn’t implement them properly yet because i figured out there were cross browser issues with them on safari mobile. I’ll get something working.
WhitneyLand•7mo ago
It looks like the UX freaks out when you try to do something like pinch zoom.

If you don’t intend to support two finger gestures, you should probably at least hook in and disable them so they don’t disrupt the experience.

ges•7mo ago
Yes
Flux159•7mo ago
This is pretty interesting - how has your experience been with R3F? I've built a small game level with it before and I'm wondering if I want to go all the way and build something larger.

Also, are you planning on making this open source at some point? Fabric is nice in that it manages 2D canvas objects for you & you can build things like an editor on top, in this case as a library what would you consider the primitives on top of Three objects are? Could it be used to make an editor for a 3d level?

ges•7mo ago
I like the fact it allows you to write clean declarative code. Imperative becomes quickly messy imo.

I’d need to find a good api to make it open source. It’s a mini ecs system handling the object states atm.

I think the main advantage over vanilla threejs would be built-in user-friendly controls and opinionated common object types (think remote glb models, plane images, etc)

DecoySalamander•7mo ago
It's great for organizing your scenes, and at least for me, it's far more readable than raw Three.js code. Unfortunately, games, especially real-time ones, don't map well to idiomatic React code. You might find yourself putting bits of game logic into various awkward places. Still, I don't think there's a better alternative for the web, except maybe Threlte if you're fine with a smaller ecosystem.
echelon•7mo ago
> Feel free to play with it and let me know what you think!

This could be cool. The 2D interface for manipulating 3D is pretty interesting. 3D tends to be hard for folks and put a lot of folks off of trying to use it creatively.

Turn this into a bigger creative canvas. Drop the crypto stuff.

ges•7mo ago
Thx for the feedback. I agree.
socalgal2•7mo ago
> Tap the Add button below to get started

The only buttons are Objects, Stage, Camera, Get, Share

There is no "Add" button for me.

ges•7mo ago
Good catch. There was one before, just didn’t update this message yet!
fakedang•7mo ago
Click objects.
ges•7mo ago
Updated
kookamamie•7mo ago
It says it's "next gen" - how is that? Besides that, I think the UX could use some improvements - the landing page captions look glitched and the UI iconography looks "murky", for the lack of better word. Nice effort, though.
Bengalilol•7mo ago
I wasn't able to move the camera, am I missing something obvious?
lvncelot•7mo ago
Ha, that brings me back trying to make Fabric.js somehow usable for a 3D viewport at a startup I was working at a while ago. (We used esm.js instead of WASM for the 3d engine, to give you an idea)

It was a lot of wrangling and unexpected behavior, and we ultimately ended up implementing a more traditional 3d gizmo - though the application was also really only meant to be used at a desktop with a mouse instead of also supporting touch controls.

eblahm•7mo ago
Really impressive app! I'm not sure what I would use it for but definitely cool and impressive.

I built something similar a few years back. My thing doesn't do textures its essentially just icons, text or shapes that can be layered, colored or extruded in 3d space on a 2d design canvas. demo: https://sg.halbe.works/

I built it on Skia, three.js and my own layer algorithm.

popalchemist•7mo ago
Is there a react/vue wrapper?

Looks amazing.

ppyyss8•7mo ago
It'd be awesome to have undo and redo. I only tried it for a bit, but it was fun :)