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Show HN: Playful orbit trap fractal explorer (desktop)

https://labs.repper.app
2•thereallex•1h ago
Hey HN! I've been working on a new render engine for our company for a while now, and I wanted to see if I can create an easy to use, playful interface for exploring orbit trap fractals.

There are a lot of things happening under the hood: I wrote a runtime type system in TS that generates both shader code and a UI, allowing me to quickly iterate on new features and experiment easily. The renderer is based on regl (https://regl-project.github.io/). I've adapted regl to support WebGL2. I tried to use a functional, declarative approach, where input data is transformed into draw calls. I'm using my own custom cache system that smartly tries to cache assets (like images and geometry data) between draw calls.

I'm curious what you think of it! Let me know in the comments if you have ideas for more features, fractals, etc. I'd also love to know if you encounter any bugs!

Here is a blog post that I made, describing the features and underlaying math in layman terms: https://blog.repper.app/introducing-repper-labs/

Oh, and no vibe coding in this project! All code was artisanally crafted.

Show HN: JN – A filebased CLI notetaker by me (written in Nim)

https://github.com/joereynolds/jn
1•professorlamp•57s ago•0 comments

Hellenistic War-Elephants and the Use of Alcohol Before Battle

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/hellenistic-warelephants-and-...
1•perihelions•3m ago•0 comments

CHERIoT RTOS: An OS for Fine-Grained Memory-Safe Compartments

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731569.3764844
1•blakepelton•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ask your repos what shipped in plain English

1•inferno22•5m ago•0 comments

Anecdote Origin: Knowing Where to Tap

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/06/tap/
1•mhb•6m ago•0 comments

Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?

https://www.ft.com/content/b4d2c7a3-587d-440f-a7a9-7e5e85b93a88
2•alephnerd•7m ago•0 comments

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r44zpprg7o
5•6LLvveMx2koXfwn•9m ago•0 comments

We got a new Linux distro in 2026 and it's incredible [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmgvSdEIK8c
2•owenpalmer•12m ago•0 comments

Trade wind regimes during the Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching season

https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/7/109/2026/
1•PaulHoule•13m ago•0 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
2•bpierre•13m ago•0 comments

Zero Training One-Shot Neural Networks

https://github.com/117l11/Bilinear-Neural-Transform
1•117l11•13m ago•0 comments

AgentHub – the only SDK you need to connect to LLMs

https://github.com/Prism-Shadow/AgentHub
1•PrismShadow•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Commet, a billing engine and MoR for usage-based SaaS and AI products

https://sandbox.commet.co
1•TeamCommet1•15m ago•1 comments

Artemis II

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/Artemis_II
1•slowcooked12_•15m ago•0 comments

CLI for the New Commodore C64 Ultimate

https://github.com/cybersorcerer/c64u
1•austinallegro•15m ago•0 comments

Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns AI boom could falter without wider adoption

https://www.ft.com/content/2a29cbc9-7183-4f68-a1d2-bc88189672e6
4•internet_points•15m ago•1 comments

The Great Divergence

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-great-divergence
1•garbawarb•18m ago•0 comments

Exploring 7 remote development platforms to code without downloading anything

https://diploi.com/blog/remote_development_platforms
1•javierpresnsr•19m ago•0 comments

Claude Code is everywhere at Microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/tech/865689/microsoft-claude-code-anthropic-partnership-notepad
2•Maven911•21m ago•0 comments

What Oscar Wilde Told Melanie Trump

https://zoneofsulphur.substack.com/p/what-oscar-wilde-told-melania-trump
1•Zone_of_Sulphur•21m ago•0 comments

Can AI Pass Cornell CS2112?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HJQm5nb0U
1•logicprog•21m ago•0 comments

Exposing Privileged Ports with Podman (2024)

https://blog.jdboyd.net/2024/05/exposing-privileged-ports-with-podman/
1•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

Why my Rust benchmarks were wrong, or how to use std:hint:black_box? (2022)

https://gendignoux.com/blog/2022/01/31/rust-benchmarks.html
1•aw1621107•22m ago•1 comments

Who's Your Daddy?

https://zoneofsulphur.substack.com/p/whos-your-daddy
1•Zone_of_Sulphur•23m ago•0 comments

TrustTunnel: Open-source VPN protocol by AdGuard

https://trusttunnel.org/
2•jrnkntl•24m ago•1 comments

Ralph Disruption

https://www.julianmwagner.com/articles/ralph-loop-manifesto
1•jwpapi•25m ago•0 comments

149M Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

https://www.wired.com/story/149-million-stolen-usernames-passwords/
3•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

Still Rising

https://demozoo.org/productions/314658/
1•jruohonen•27m ago•0 comments

RSS Swipr: Find Blogs Like You Find Your Dates

https://philippdubach.com/posts/rss-swipr-find-your-blogs-like-you-find-your-dates/
2•7777777phil•28m ago•0 comments

An entrepreneur's 13 hours in Davos jail: 'The food was phenomenal'

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/22/2026/an-entrepreneurs-13-hours-in-davos-jail-the-food-was-p...
2•mellosouls•28m ago•0 comments