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Show HN: A 2D animation DSL – every line written by Claude, zero human code

https://github.com/frankhart2018/animdsl
1•siddhartha98•1h ago
I wanted to see how far vibe coding could actually go. Not autocomplete, not copilot — I gave Claude Opus 4.6 (running in OpenCode, an agentic CLI) full ownership of building a domain-specific language for generating 2D animated movies from code. The constraint: I describe what I want, the agent builds it. I critique the output, the agent iterates. No human touches the code at any point. Not the parser, not the renderer, not the 3,300-line procedural character drawing module. Not even the demo scripts or SVG backgrounds. It went through three major rewrites: - V1: Rigid SVG characters sliding around. Puppet show. - V2: Bone-based rig system. Still puppet-like. - V3: Fully procedural — characters drawn frame-by-frame from bezier curves with body angle perspective, staggered joint timing, and spring physics on hair/clothing. The most interesting parts of the process: 1. The agent kept over-engineering infrastructure while the actual visual output stayed at stick-figure quality. It took direct, blunt feedback ("this looks like a puppet show, you keep building the same thing") to break the pattern. 2. Poses were originally 9 hardcoded words in Rust. After I pointed out this was a limitation, the agent added a full custom pose system to the DSL — 23 controllable joint/expression parameters defined in the script file. 3. The agent added overlap detection after characters kept walking through each other. It now refuses to render if two characters would intersect at any point. The output still looks like what it is — procedurally generated cartoon figures drawn with math. But 7,665 lines of Rust, a PEG grammar, procedural character rendering, camera systems, scene transitions, and a working demo — all from an AI agent that never saw a reference implementation. Repo policy: only agent-generated code accepted. Bug reports welcome, but all implementation must come from agents. Tech: Rust, tiny-skia for 2D rendering, pest for parsing, FFmpeg for video encoding.

Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?

1•sujayk_33•2m ago•0 comments

No LLM, No training data, No cloud – Engine that understands architecture

1•twoelf•5m ago•0 comments

WebMCP: A Browser-Native Execution Model for AI Agents

https://insforge.dev/blog/webmcp-browser-native-execution-model-for-ai-agents
1•astro_09•7m ago•0 comments

Mini Claw Code – Write your own mini coding agent

https://github.com/odysa/mini-claw-code
2•agentforce•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: X-Ray – Filter your X (Twitter) timeline by country

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-ray-block-tweets-by-rea/pmjfhfleckpdbhfblgeiihihddlbifaf
1•batudotpy•10m ago•0 comments

Estonias Tiger Leap: the schools project that wired a nation for the digital age

https://estonianworld.com/technology/estonias-tiger-leap-the-schools-project-that-wired-a-nation-...
1•atlasunshrugged•11m ago•0 comments

DHS pausing TSA PreCheck, Global Entry programs amid funding lapse

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-pausing-tsa-precheck-global-entry-programs-funding-lapse...
1•LopRabbit•14m ago•0 comments

Microsoft throws spox under the bus in ICC email flap

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/
1•abdelhousni•14m ago•0 comments

U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974

https://ielp.worldtradelaw.net/2026/01/guest-post-president-trump-cannot-legally-impose-tariffs-u...
1•JumpCrisscross•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fan Meter – A movie quiz game where you guess films from frames

https://fanmeter.in
2•raahelb•18m ago•3 comments

Optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing Any Text Parameter

https://gepa-ai.github.io/gepa/blog/2026/02/18/introducing-optimize-anything/
1•LakshyAAAgrawal•18m ago•1 comments

So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?

3•arm32•19m ago•4 comments

Laws of Thermodynamics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics
1•downboots•19m ago•0 comments

Giving Claude Code Eyes: Round-Trip Screenshot Testing

https://medium.com/@rotbart/giving-claude-code-eyes-round-trip-screenshot-testing-ce52f7dcc563
2•rotbart•20m ago•1 comments

We Have (Software) Replicators

https://schappi.com/blog/we-have-software-replicators
1•schappim•23m ago•0 comments

Iterflow – Composable streaming statistics for JavaScript/TS

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mathscapes/iterflow
1•gvsh_maths•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Madari: CLI tool to install, sync and manage local MCP servers

https://github.com/ankitvg/madari/releases/tag/v0.1.1
1•rajma•26m ago•0 comments

Mathematics in the Library of Babel

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/20/mathematics-in-the-library-of-babel
1•owenpayton•27m ago•0 comments

Tech Influencers Slam Hacker News Toxicity After OpenAI Hire Attacks

https://x.com/i/trending/2025399179196203524
1•make_it_sure•29m ago•0 comments

HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with Nginx in a Bastille Jail

https://blog.hofstede.it/http3-on-freebsd-getting-quic-working-with-nginx-in-a-bastille-jail/
1•todsacerdoti•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is HN becoming more toxic?

3•make_it_sure•36m ago•2 comments

Show HN: TurboDraft – fast Ctrl-G prompt editor for Claude Code and Codex CLI

https://github.com/gradigit/turbodraft
2•gradigit•47m ago•0 comments

Built a Tinder-style investing app for all investors! Need 7-day beta testers

https://investswipe-demo-v1.vercel.app/
1•barelybushy•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sketch Paint for Apple

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sketch-paint/id6753883078
1•Codegres•51m ago•0 comments

DHS Will Suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/02/21/tsa-precheck-global-entry-shutdown/
2•jbegley•52m ago•2 comments

Welcome to the Era of Anarchic Antitrust

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/18/welcome-to-the-era-of-anarchic-antitrust
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LogSnap – CLI tool for analyzing logs locally

https://github.com/Sonic001-h/logsnap
1•baba_yaga070•57m ago•0 comments

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds

https://www.quantamagazine.org/climate-physicists-face-the-ghosts-in-their-machines-clouds-20260220/
1•tzury•58m ago•0 comments

Calculemus: Why policy has correct answers and nobody wants to find them

https://kunnas.com/articles/calculemus
1•ekns•1h ago•0 comments

Today is my last day at Anthropic

https://twitter.com/mrinanksharma/status/2020881722003583421
1•RyanShook•1h ago•1 comments