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Show HN: Asciidots – a 2d esoteric language based on ASCII art

https://ajanse.me/asciidots/
3•aaronjanse•1h ago

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aaronjanse•1h ago
I wrote a 2d esolang called asciidots inspired by ascii art and circuits, where “dots” follow ascii art paths and undergo operations. I posted it to Show HN a while back (2017!), where it ended up getting attention on HN and elsewhere.

Since then, I used Pyodide to make a home page with an interactive demo of the language. This let me use the existing Python reference implementation of asciidots in the browser, allowing exact feature parity (bugs and all) to support existing code. As a fun trick, I used a CSS animation for the logo instead of a GIF so it wouldn’t freeze while Pyodide is loading.

Debian/Hurd shows microkernel Unix dream is alive

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/debian_hurd_13/
1•ahmedfromtunis•1m ago•0 comments

Blue Carbon potential in Germany: Status and future development

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027277142500232X
1•PaulHoule•2m ago•0 comments

Our first advanced nuclear reactor project with Kairos Power and Tennessee

https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-first-advanced-nuclear-reactor-project-with-kairos-power-and-tennessee-valley-authority/
1•xnx•3m ago•0 comments

I built an app to Calculate your MRR in Chipotle Burriots

https://chipotleburritocalculator.com/
1•nicconley•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch (a reply to Wilson Lin)

https://medium.com/@james.kachamila/building-a-web-search-engine-from-scratch-a-reply-to-wilson-lin-3b377814f58a
1•JamesKachamila•4m ago•0 comments

Android pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve SESIP Level 5

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/08/Android-pKVM-Certified-SESIP-Level-5.html
1•gjsman-1000•5m ago•0 comments

Atmos

https://github.com/atmos-lang/atmos
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

A book that is releasing itself in sync with the events of the story

https://www.jeffwofford.com/last-family
2•putzdown•5m ago•0 comments

Phishing training is pretty pointless, researchers find

https://www.scworld.com/news/phishing-training-is-pretty-pointless-researchers-find
1•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Promises of a US manufacturing Renaissance leave experts scratching their heads

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/trumps-tariffs-manufacturing-resurgence-jobs
3•rntn•9m ago•0 comments

95% of AI Pilots Failing

https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
4•amirkabbara•10m ago•1 comments

Webxdc: Web Apps Shared in a Chat

https://webxdc.org/
1•raphinou•10m ago•0 comments

Intel Outside: Hacking every Intel employee and various internal websites

https://eaton-works.com/2025/08/18/intel-outside-hack/
3•EatonZ•11m ago•0 comments

Einstein's famous "change the facts" quote is an insidious lie

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-change-the-facts-quote-lie/
2•elashri•12m ago•0 comments

The Open Internet Is Closed for Business

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/uk-online-safety-act-reddit-wikipedia-open-internet.html
3•ecliptik•12m ago•0 comments

Elesevier says "there is no consent needed from authors"

https://svpow.com/2025/08/13/rights-of-papers-are-owned-by-the-publishers-hence-there-is-no-consent-needed-from-authors/
3•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

Secria – Post-Quantum Secure and Private Email

https://secria.me
3•adrianmav•13m ago•1 comments

VHS-C: when a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWHeBhYbM
2•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

OpenAVMKit: A Free and Open Source real estate valuation library for Python

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/openavmkit-a-free-and-open-source
2•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

How Does a Blind Model See the Earth?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xwdRzJxyqFqgXTWbH/how-does-a-blind-model-see-the-earth
2•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Memori – Open-Source Memory Engine for AI Agents

https://github.com/GibsonAI/memori
7•Arindam1729•16m ago•3 comments

Repurpose.cc – Turn newsletters and blogs into 10 social posts in seconds

https://repurpose.cc/
1•ReinwatashiDev•17m ago•1 comments

Highly sensitive people more likely to experience mental health problems

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-people-sensitive-personalities-mental-health.html
1•merek•18m ago•1 comments

Nvidia AI-powered CobraJet drone killer takes out drone incursions at 300mph

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cobrajet-nvidia-ai-powered-drone-killer-takes-out-overwhelming-enemy-drone-incursions-at-up-to-300mph
1•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Social Media Algorithms Are Changing the Way People Talk

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-social-media-algorithms-are-changing-the-way-people-talk/
1•hacker_yacker•20m ago•0 comments

Nvidia B200 vs. H100 performance compared with GPT-OSS

https://www.clarifai.com/blog/nvidia-b200-vs-h100
1•RobSpectre•20m ago•0 comments

Behind the curtain of Anduril's product engineering machine

https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amusement-park-for-engineers/
2•bookofjoe•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/HackerNewsWatch
3•wiso•23m ago•0 comments

AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-jobs-layoffs
20•toomuchtodo•25m ago•2 comments

Statamic CMS Static Caching strategy: my notes to a fast website

https://jeroenpeters.dev/english/blog/my-statamic-static-caching-configuration
1•jeroenpeters•26m ago•0 comments