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Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•3m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•5m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
1•Anon84•9m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•10m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•12m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•19m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•20m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•25m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
6•mooreds•25m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

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Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•28m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•32m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•34m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•34m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•35m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•37m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•37m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
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Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
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Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•45m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•46m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•47m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•48m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
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Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•51m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
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The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•52m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

How did Bresenham represented pixel grids to derive his line drawing algorithm?

3•shivajikobardan•5mo ago
I am seeking for a succinct source regarding how did Bresenham's imagined the pixel grids. Because different APIs have different implementations of pixel grid. Without the fundamental understanding of a pixel grid, it is impossible to understand the derivation of line drawing algorithm and circle drawing algorithm. I hope to get some valuable input from hackers.

Comments

dfranks•5mo ago
It was apparently developed for drawing lines on pen plotters. Pen plotters use either stepper motors or servo motors with encoders. In the simplest case, stepper motors, one of the steppers is the major axis and is instructed to step for each new "pixel". The other motor is the minor axis and only steps when the fractional add overflows into the integer portion of the coordinate.

So, pen plotters effectively have "pixels" as defined by the stepper or encoder positions of the motors.

Someone•5mo ago
Bresenham’s paper is online at https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/280811.280913.

It has 6 pages. Is that succinct enough?

Also, as dfranks says, it was developed for plotters, so he didn’t think of pixels.

shivajikobardan•5mo ago
Thank you. One question, what is it we are trying to plot? The entire square? Or just the small circle?
Someone•5mo ago
Hm, I guess you aren’t old enough to know what a pen plotter is. They’re drawing a line with a pen. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter:

“Pen plotters print by moving a pen or other instrument across the surface of a piece of paper. This means that plotters are vector graphics devices, rather than raster graphics as with other printers. Pen plotters can draw complex line art, including text, but do so slowly because of the mechanical movement of the pens. They are often incapable of efficiently creating a solid region of color, but can hatch an area by drawing a number of close, regular lines.”