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Show HN: Cobalt – a pixel-art painting studio for the Nintendo DS

https://benbridle.com/projects/cobalt.html
2•benbridle•1h ago
Hey everyone,

Cobalt is a program for painting textural and expressive pixel-art on Windows, Linux, Nintendo DS, and in-browser. The same 46KB core executable runs on all platforms, with a thin emulator layer sitting on top to handle differences in inputs and filesystem access (which makes it easy to port between systems). It's built on Bedrock[0], an 8-bit virtual computer system I posted about here in July.

I created Cobalt because I wanted to draw messy, gritty pixel art without smooth gradients, and the smaller colour palette helped with making bolder colour choices. Images can be moved back and forth between platforms, so you can copy works-in-progress to the DS to keep working away on the bus or train. It's like a 2004-era vision of the future.

There's a live demo on the linked page that runs in the browser, and there are downloadable demos for every platform here[1]. Let me know if you try it out or have any questions!

[0] https://benbridle.com/bedrock

[1] https://derelict-engineering.itch.io/cobalt

The SC prepared to lie to us, and what we can do about it

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-sc-prepared-to-lie-to-us-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-whistleblo...
1•kblissett•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CulinaryWiki, a Wiki for Culinary Knowledge

https://culinarywiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
1•fromwilliam•2m ago•0 comments

Beeper Should Become Link-Friendly

1•LucCogZest•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NanoModal – a tiny accessible modal library

https://muffinman.io/nano-modal/
1•stanko•7m ago•0 comments

Allheadline change the look of there website

https://allheadline.com/
1•fatbrother•8m ago•0 comments

Wealthfront S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1524566/000162828025043113/wealthfront-sx1.htm
1•mauriziocalo•8m ago•0 comments

LLM security agent finds vulnerability in LLM engineering platform

https://www.depthfirst.com/post/how-an-authorization-flaw-reveals-a-common-security-blind-spot-cv...
1•ponderwonder•10m ago•0 comments

Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen

https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerators-advertisements/
2•hippich•11m ago•1 comments

Prototype-First Software Design with Agents

https://serce.me/posts/2025-09-30-prototype-first-software-design-with-agents
1•SerCe•12m ago•0 comments

Claude AI Now Executes Code in Real-Time (Sandboxed Python/Node.js)

https://tolearn.blog/blog/claude-ai-now-executes-code
1•leoli123•15m ago•1 comments

Offset – Autonomous Financial Analyst

https://offset.app/
1•raj_khare•15m ago•1 comments

Dreamer 4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24527
1•theOGognf•19m ago•1 comments

Solid Knitting

https://textiles-lab.github.io/publications/2024-solid-knitting/
1•mathgenius•22m ago•0 comments

I was kicked out of the US by the government

https://twitter.com/itsericlay/status/1972703130279346236
4•pfexec•27m ago•0 comments

As of Q4 2025, video footage is no longer a real proof? (Sora 2)

1•Printerisreal•28m ago•1 comments

Evaluating AI Model Performance on Real-World Economically Valuable Tasks [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/d5eb7428-c4e9-4a33-bd86-86dd4bcf12ce/GDPval.pdf
2•Anon84•28m ago•1 comments

SmugMug accelerates business intelligence with Amazon QuickSight scenarios

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-intelligence/how-smugmug-accelerates-business-intelligence-...
2•kabell•29m ago•0 comments

Simple, free and efficient ad-blocker

https://zenprivacy.net/
1•orixilus•31m ago•0 comments

Pfizer's Drug Price Cuts Yield Three-Year Tariff Reprieve

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/pfizer-to-cut-medicaid-drug-prices-in-deal-wit...
2•petethomas•31m ago•1 comments

We Can Just Do Things (In ATProto)

https://underreacted.leaflet.pub/3m23gqakbqs2j
2•verdverm•37m ago•0 comments

FTC Sues Zillow and Redfin

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-sues-zillow-redfin-over-illegal-a...
6•itbeho•39m ago•1 comments

The Network Effect of Intelligence

https://rashidazarang.com/c/the-network-effect-of-intelligence
3•rashidae•41m ago•0 comments

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden
11•SLHamlet•41m ago•2 comments

Tile trackers are a stalker's dream, say Georgia Tech researchers

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/tile_trackers_unencrypted_info/
4•rntn•43m ago•0 comments

Nonprofits' use of flexible labor bad for outcomes, lacks long-term benefit

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nonprofits-flexible-labor-negatively-affects.html
2•PaulHoule•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: InfiniteGpu, An open-source platform enabling AI compute power exchange

https://github.com/Scalerize/Scalerize.InfiniteGpu
1•frank_lbt•44m ago•0 comments

Television and the Public Interest (1961)

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/newtonminow.htm
2•panic•45m ago•0 comments

Australia offers to sell shares in critical minerals reserve to allies

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/australia-offers-sell-shares-critical-minerals-reserve-allies...
2•alephnerd•46m ago•0 comments

Bad Productivity Frameworks

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/bad-productivity-frameworks
1•crescit_eundo•47m ago•0 comments

Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading

https://9to5google.com/2025/09/30/amazon-fire-tv-android-vega-os-switch/
3•fidotron•48m ago•1 comments