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I wrote a TTF-to-Texture function for SDL2

2•oldivygames•1h ago
For anyone interested in SDL2, who prefers textures to surfaces, but for text rendering is stuck with SDL2_ttf which only uses surfaces.

I made a video about it here (hope it's OK to share this here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-06L0e_2U

Blur any element on webpage for safer demos, screenshots, and screen sharing

https://github.com/KD-MM2/BlurShot
1•kaotd•1m ago•0 comments

Pretend to work: China's novel solution to youth unemployment

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/social-pressure-in-china-drives-the-jobless-to-fake-it-til...
1•Anon84•2m ago•1 comments

He Leaked Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. He Had to Get Out Alive

https://www.wired.com/story/he-leaked-the-secrets-southeast-asian-scam-compound-then-had-to-get-o...
1•YeGoblynQueenne•3m ago•0 comments

Writing a browser with half a developer and ELIZA in 1 hours, 76 lines of C

https://www.hgreer.com/QuoteBrowserUnquote/
1•QuadmasterXLII•5m ago•0 comments

Measuring US workers' capacity to adapt to AI-driven job displacement

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/measuring-us-workers-capacity-to-adapt-to-ai-driven-job-displa...
1•cebert•6m ago•0 comments

Alex Pretti broke rib in violent confrontation with ICE days before he was shot

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15502789/alex-pretti-federal-agents-shot-dead-minneapoli...
2•Bender•7m ago•1 comments

Nvidia's New Voice AI – low latency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_m0fqp8xwQ
1•mdani•7m ago•0 comments

Pope Leo makes plea for men to stop talking to fake online girlfriends

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15502247/Pope-Leo-affectionate-chatbots-AI.html
2•Bender•8m ago•0 comments

List of stories set in a future now in the past

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_in_the_past
1•Jugurtha•8m ago•0 comments

The official source for MDN Web Docs content

https://github.com/mdn/content
1•imwally•9m ago•0 comments

Coffee pods urgently recalled over health risk posed to 120M Americans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15502769/keurig-mccafe-coffee-pods-decaf-recall-caffei...
1•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinijest, video scrolling experiment no login

1•hnthrowawaste•11m ago•0 comments

Agents Need a Map

https://www.intent-systems.com/learn/intent-layer
2•contextty•11m ago•1 comments

Billion Multiplayer Pixels

https://bmp.grantkot.com/
1•xnx•11m ago•0 comments

Minnesota State Patrol uses long range acoustic device to disperse protesters

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-state-patrol-long-range-acoustic-device/
2•burnto•13m ago•0 comments

Where are all of the big tech competitors?

2•cadabrabra•17m ago•0 comments

Assessing internal quality while coding with an agent

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/ccmenu-quality.html
2•geoffbp•22m ago•0 comments

"Dollars doing great" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XwZxC9uWbXQ
1•SanjayMehta•24m ago•0 comments

Clawdbot: Eval() by default, no rate limiting, 50 attack scenarios

2•Chgdz•25m ago•0 comments

Nigel Richards (born 1967) is a New Zealand Scrabble player

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards
1•doener•26m ago•0 comments

AI benchmark of unsolved math problems, solutions verifiable programmatically

https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/open-problems
2•greghb•27m ago•0 comments

How-To Compile Rust Faster

https://blog.rust.careers/post/compile_rust_faster/
1•behnamoh•28m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Practical scaling laws for multilingual models

https://research.google/blog/atlas-practical-scaling-laws-for-multilingual-models/
1•tzury•30m ago•0 comments

Apple Workers Are Livid That Cook Saw "Melania" Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/
17•cdrnsf•30m ago•11 comments

Germany issued formal travel advisory for US

https://www.newsweek.com/germany-issues-formal-travel-advisory-for-us-11421830
8•testing22321•31m ago•0 comments

One could use less power: The Jeep Wagoneer S EV

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/this-one-could-use-less-power-the-jeep-wagoneer-s-ev/
2•PaulHoule•36m ago•0 comments

Linux is still a developer OS, and that's why it won't go mainstream

https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-is-still-a-developer-os-and-thats-why-it-wont-go-mainstream/
3•firesteelrain•36m ago•0 comments

AgentFlow – Open-source multi-tenant platform for Distributing AI agents

https://github.com/connorbell133/Agentflow
1•connorbelldev•37m ago•1 comments

Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/radio-module-2/
2•Lwrless•38m ago•0 comments

Google suspends ad account of Influencer used to recruit Iranians for Mossad

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/google-suspends-ad-account-of-atlanta
2•belter•41m ago•0 comments