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The chaos in the US is affecting open source software and its developers

https://www.osnews.com/story/144348/the-chaos-in-the-us-is-affecting-open-source-software-and-its...
1•sanqui•1m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•3m ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

https://www.twz.com/air/watch-ukraines-minigun-firing-drone-hunting-turboprop-in-action
1•breve•4m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•4m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
2•randycupertino•5m ago•0 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
1•janandonly•8m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•8m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•17m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
7•karakoram•17m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•17m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•17m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•20m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•20m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•25m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
1•SirLJ•26m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
3•randycupertino•27m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
3•breve•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•33m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•33m ago•0 comments

Was going to share my work

1•hiddenarchitect•37m ago•0 comments

Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers

https://pitchfork.jdx.dev/
1•ahamez•37m ago•0 comments

You Are Here

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
3•mltvc•41m ago•1 comments

Why social apps need to become proactive, not reactive

https://www.heyflare.app/blog/from-reactive-to-proactive-how-ai-agents-will-reshape-social-apps
1•JoanMDuarte•42m ago•1 comments

How patient are AI scrapers, anyway? – Random Thoughts

https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/07/how-patient-are-ai-scrapers-anyway/
1•samtrack2019•42m ago•0 comments

Vouch: A contributor trust management system

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
3•SchwKatze•42m ago•0 comments

I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a clock with Claude

https://duggan.ie/posts/i-built-a-terminal-monitoring-app-and-custom-firmware-for-a-desktop-clock...
1•duggan•43m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Benchmark: snapDOM vs html2canvas

https://zumerlab.github.io/snapdom/
47•jmm77•7mo ago

Comments

ajyotirmay•7mo ago
Good job! This is very promising
jmm77•7mo ago
Thank you!
allan_s•7mo ago
For the 1st example, snapdom is not only faster, but actually correct, while html2canvas has some artifacts (on Linux/Firefox)
jmm77•7mo ago
Thank you for mentionig this. There are still some caveats I hope fix soon. And I working on a plugin system to allow user modify all aspects of the capture
arecsu•7mo ago
Second this. Congratulations for snapDOM by the way. It performs great!
kreetx•7mo ago
SnapDOM can capture HTML elements as SVG - what are use cases for this?
jmm77•7mo ago
Yes, the default capture output is a svg dataurl. But there many other export options. This lib was made as an internal tool for another project called Zumly that is zoomable engine and the svg format was the faster output I found. But then I realized that could be an independent tool like html2canvas
postepowanieadm•7mo ago
Zumly seems to be really interesting idea - are there any real world examples?
jmm77•7mo ago
I really hope there will be, but it's still experimental. If it works well, I think there could be use cases such as dashboards, home automation UIs, charts, or even industrial line control.

Zumly is actually a spinoff of ZircleUI, the first project I ever worked on. Zircle eventually split into Zumly (which is still a work in progress) and Orbit, a CSS tool that makes it easy to create any kind of radial design.

JimDabell•7mo ago
It seems like it would be a lot more efficient to use SVG for screenshot testing design system components rather than raster images.
nine_k•7mo ago
The SVG in question contains HTML elements as <foreignObject> nodes and thus still depends on the browser to render them. A bitmap has zero dependencies, and can be processed and compared fully outside a browser.
JimDabell•7mo ago
Oh wow, I didn’t realise that. That means SVG output is way less useful than I expected.
djxfade•7mo ago
Very cool! How does this work from a technical standpoint? Do you have to implement a full HTML/CSS renderer in JS, or is there an official browser API to capture the elements as image data?
jmm77•7mo ago
I'm using several functions to clone the DOM and insert it into an SVG <foreignObject>. This approach is now well supported across modern browsers, although <foreignObject> is still a rather primitive way to handle HTML and styles within SVG, which can sometimes lead to results that aren't fully precise in certain cases. To reduce the size, I created internal CSS classes to avoid repeating CSS properties, and I'm also using several caches to prevent re-cloning styles that have already been processed. There's still a long journey ahead, but I hope a plugin system will allow for more fine-grained control over all capture stages
XCSme•7mo ago
Congrats!

If a render is 13ms (under 16ms), it means it could, in theory, also record page video capture at 60fps or 30fps?

jmm77•7mo ago
Yes, I'm afraid it depends a lot on what elements you are capturing. But maybe with a plugin designed to perform a capture burst and collect them in an array, it would be possible to generate an animation as output.