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Show HN: Master Golang, Fullstack Go web dev course, scratch to production

https://mastergolang.com/
1•mbvisti•32s ago•0 comments

How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/how-the-us-won-back-chip-manufacturing
1•iamnothere•1m ago•0 comments

Buses should not be "free"

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/no-buses-should-not-be-free
2•bko•2m ago•0 comments

The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biophysical-world-inside-a-jam-packed-cell-20260218/
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: VibeScan – Free client-side security scanner for AI-generated code

https://tools.pinusx.com/vibescan
1•dbhariprakash•2m ago•0 comments

The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/18/the-human-exposome-project-will-map-h...
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/18/brain-like-computers-could-be-built-o...
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

New GoDaddy Terms of Service: we no longer serve "consumers"

https://domainnamewire.com/2026/02/19/new-godaddy-terms-of-service-we-no-longer-serve-consumers/
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence

https://cbmg.umd.edu/news-events/news/brantley-hall-umd-scientists-create-smart-underwear-measure...
1•ohjeez•3m ago•0 comments

The biggest app in the whole wide world

https://www.theverge.com/tech/876196/top-app-store-apps-developers
1•aarvinroshin•3m ago•0 comments

Google AI Studio and NBP are down

https://aistudio.google.com/status
3•boriskourt•3m ago•0 comments

Datadog: Give Your Agent a Puppy: Introducing Pup CLI

https://github.com/datadog-labs/pup
1•dpflan•3m ago•0 comments

Adquira agora Controle de VIPs e seguros para DayZ

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1•Baruki•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Design and print allergy cards for free in multiple languages

https://allergysafe.co/
1•dreadsword•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Feuxo – Real-Time hiring posts and contacts and personalized outreach

https://feuxo.com
1•KrishnaTorque•5m ago•0 comments

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

https://console.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/publishers/google/model-garden/gemini-3.1-pro-preview?...
1•MallocVoidstar•6m ago•0 comments

Efficient Ralph Wiggum Loops on a Raspberry Pi

https://mfbt.ai/blog/efficient-ralph-wiggum-loop-raspberry-pi-mfbt/
1•shuss•6m ago•0 comments

You had a story

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/18/you-had-a-story/
1•MindGods•6m ago•0 comments

AICode: A VSCode methodology for long-term maintainable AI coding

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=joelabenhaim.aicode-ja
1•bonjourjoel•7m ago•1 comments

Token Compression, achieving more with less

https://www.edgee.ai/blog/posts/2026-02-19-achieving-more-with-less-using-token-compression
6•sachamorard•9m ago•2 comments

Warning to Humanity: Why We Must Not Trust the AI "Fluency Trap"

2•jariamaria•9m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Frameworks for 2D Browser Games?

3•tmaly•10m ago•1 comments

People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You

https://aella.substack.com/p/people-will-sometimes-just-lie-about
2•iamnothere•10m ago•0 comments

Waymo Faces Setback as New York Withdraws Robotaxi Service Plan

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/new-york-s-robotaxi-plan-pulled-in-setback-to-...
2•helsinkiandrew•10m ago•0 comments

The State of Machine Learning Competitions – 2025 Edition

https://mlcontests.com/state-of-machine-learning-competitions-2025/
1•willis77•11m ago•0 comments

How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/how-i-launched-3-consoles-and-found-true-love-at-babbages...
3•zepearl•11m ago•0 comments

Can LLMs Play Catan?

https://visakhmadathil.com/blog/2026-02-09-can-llms-play-catan
1•forwardalways•11m ago•0 comments

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of AI

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publication/canaries-in-the-coal-mine-six-facts-about-the-rec...
1•DGAP•12m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-banned-by-tech-companies-as-security-concerns-mount/
1•voxadam•12m ago•0 comments

Running Cosmos-Reason2-2B on 8GB Jetson Orin Nano

https://huggingface.co/embedl/Cosmos-Reason2-2B-W4A16
1•Embedl-Wilhelm•13m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Famous Signatures Through History

https://signatory.app/#famous-signatures
18•elliotbnvl•1h ago

Comments

elliotbnvl•1h ago
Made this last night because I needed a signature drawing tool but a Google didn’t reveal any mobile friendly pages with a <15s interaction and no email gate, to get a nice looking signature.

The historical signatures were a nice touch Claude helped me put together for SEO.

whycome•53m ago
This is cool. It seems hard to add just dots to signature? It may be some kind of delay waiting for a touch action.
elliotbnvl•19m ago
This was surprisingly tricky, but fixed! The issue was that short tap strokes were being fed through the stroke-rendering library (perfect-freehand), which applies start/end taper over a configurable length. When the total stroke distance is shorter than the combined taper length, the stroke tapers to nothing — so dots just disappeared. The fix detects tap-like strokes and renders them directly as small ellipses, bypassing the stroke pipeline.
pimlottc•13m ago
The Preview app in macOS includes a nice signature tool. You can create a signature using the touchpad or digitize a written signature using a webcam

https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/fill-out-and-sign-pd...

Antibabelic•1h ago
Famous signatures or just signatures of the famous? Because I'm surprised there's no Lucas Cranach the Elder dragon signature for example.
elliotbnvl•1h ago
The latter, but now it’s going to be the former because you just nerdsniped me with the precision of a Navy SEAL.
elliotbnvl•17m ago
Ok, got Cranach's in (plus some more "famous" signatures, about 10 more). Cranach's might be my personal favorite signature of the lot. Dragon imagery, minimalism, cool backstory.

There were no SVGs of it available online so I had to trace a PNG but Claude handled that like a champ with a combination of imagemagick and potrace:

  magick cranach-autograph.png -colorspace Gray -threshold 70% cranach.pbm
  potrace cranach.pbm -s -o cranach.svg --tight --alphamax 1.0 --opttolerance 0.5
donkeyboy•1h ago
Its missing the funniest signature. Back when Spain still had monarchy, King Ferdinand VII simply signed his signature “Yo el Rey” - literally “I, the king”.
lopis•43m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain_si...

This is hilarious

InitialLastName•42m ago
What am I missing? Spain is still a monarchy [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_VI

pimlottc•15m ago
Presumedly they meant when Spain was an absolute monarchy, instead of a constitutional monarch
elliotbnvl•20m ago
Ahh good one, I added this in! That is amazing.
the_gastropod•36m ago
“That's not sloppiness — that's your signature finding itself.”

Thanks ChatGPT…

elliotbnvl•33m ago
Good catch, missed that.

edit: went through and de-LLMified it, mostly, just for you :)

laweijfmvo•22m ago
The closing was obviously written by AI regardless of the punctuation. Also gave me a laugh about adding a flourish to make the signature harder to forge
PopAlongKid•20m ago
>Fifty repetitions usually gets you there.

I think that's on the low side. My signature got locked in during my early twenties, when I worked at a commercial AM/FM radio station. I had to sign various transmitter logs (FCC requirement), about six times every three hours as I recall, and I worked six days a week, so a lot of signatures. It still took a while before I could sign consistently without thinking about it (muscle memory).

>One last thing: consider where you'll use it. Legal documents and contracts need a signature that's at least partially legible — someone should be able to connect it to your printed name.

I don't think this is true, although you may need witnesses to your legal signature if the best you can do is sign with an "X". After all, there are people without hands, blind, or other disabilities that might prevent a "normal" signature.

And these days, with paper checks becoming uncommon and credit card payments skipping the paper receipt to sign, how often do people get the chance to sign anything on paper?

>But for everyday use, emails, creative work? It can be as abstract as you like.

I don't think trying to maintain two different signatures makes a lot of sense, but if you are pasting an image (e.g. emails), I suppose it's not that much trouble.

v4r•6m ago
I remember there was a very nice website to draw things with touchpad that was mentioned on HN but I couldn't find it in my history. It could be used for signature too I suppose.
mobilene•4m ago
Having a graphic file of your signature is hella useful. I did it the old school way thirty years ago -- I signed my name on paper until I liked it, scanned it, created .gif and .bmp files. Still use that.