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Show HN: Sticky Icky – a ditherpunk sticker designer for the Zebra LP2844

https://github.com/nastronot/sticky-icky
3•sigspec•40m ago
Browser-based sticker designer for a Zebra LP2844 thermal label printer. I bought an $40 UPS branded LP2844 to print stickers and ended up building this after I couldn't find existing tools that did what I wanted.

GW raster appears to be broken over USB on firmware V4.29, so it prints over serial from a FastAPI backend. More notes on what I ran into are in the README. Image pipeline does XOR compositing, EPX upscale, Otsu/manual threshold, and five dithering algorithms (Bayer 4x4/8x8, Floyd-Steinberg, Atkinson, Riemersma).

Part of this was just an experiment to see if I could use Claude to diagnose the print issues I was running into. Some of the conclusions in the project may be entirely wrong, or entirely specific to my setup. I've arrived at a workflow that works for me but may be based on wrong assumptions. Would love for someone else with an LP2844 to test it out.

'It's super weird, super odd, super rare' meet the twins who have different dads

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/02/rare-twins-different-dads-the-gift-bbc-radio-4
1•gmays•28s ago•0 comments

New York hotel workers union reaches deal to avoid strike ahead of World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/new-york-hotel-workers-world-cup-union-deal
1•Tomte•2m ago•0 comments

CEO of $300M company Bolt says problems disappeared after firing HR team

https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/ceo-of-300-million-company-says-problems-disappeared-afte...
1•randycupertino•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: ContextLens- Highlight any text, get context-relevant meaning instantly

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/contextlens/jdiojebiogbpkigohjijfnmccfniiago
1•qtcapybara•3m ago•0 comments

Between-Device Sharing Still Sucks

https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/between-device-sharing-still-sucks/
1•dTal•3m ago•0 comments

Why do Indian trucks say "Horn OK Please"?

https://www.postoast.com/horn-ok-please-behind-trucks-meaning/
1•thunderbong•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Privacy Focused Voice Journal

1•rahilb•5m ago•0 comments

Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
1•hn_acker•6m ago•0 comments

The Transit Trilemma

https://springbett.substack.com/p/the-transit-trilemma
1•baud147258•7m ago•0 comments

Free, Easy, Dead: The Difficult Birth and Predictable Death of IRS Direct File

https://defector.com/free-easy-dead-the-difficult-birth-and-predictable-death-of-irs-direct-file
2•mattbowen•8m ago•0 comments

Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-...
2•ceejayoz•9m ago•0 comments

Ontario university sues YouTube prankster for viral videos filmed on campus

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-university-going-after-youtube-prankster-for-viral-v...
2•sbdaman•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free AI headshots from one selfie, no signup

https://freeheadshot.org
1•alshanty•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Synthra – I got tired of gluing config sources together in Go

https://github.com/gopherly/synthra
1•atkrad•14m ago•0 comments

Huawei zero-day attack behind last years crash of Luxembourgs telecoms network

https://therecord.media/huawei-zero-day-behind-last-year-luxembourg-telecom-outage
2•DavideNL•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DSCode – A VS Code-compatible editor built as a kit of Rust crates

https://github.com/dipankar/dscode
1•ticktockten•17m ago•0 comments

Russians Fear Ukraine "Slaughterbot" Drones Are Head-Hunting Them

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/05/19/slaughterbots-now-ukraines-head-hunting-dro...
3•dist-epoch•18m ago•1 comments

Scientists reveal how seven days of fasting transforms the human body

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260517030404.htm
2•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/inside-the-fight-to-force-vizio-to-share-linux-based-sour...
3•sohkamyung•19m ago•0 comments

PromptVC, version control for prompts in production

https://www.promptvc.io/blog/introducing-promptvc
1•justicea83•19m ago•0 comments

Active Graph: event-sourced reactive graph runtime for long-running agents

https://twitter.com/yoheinakajima/status/2057099245430222926
2•yoheinakajima•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative

2•Pallavimdb•20m ago•0 comments

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1072657/394b87abd7cc215e/
1•mkesper•23m ago•0 comments

SemOpenAlex: Scholarly RDF Knowledge Graph

https://semopenalex.org/resource/semopenalex:UniversalSearch
1•cernocky•23m ago•0 comments

Vulcan Brands – e-commerce store for rigging and cargo control hardware

https://vulcanbrands.com/
1•techyouknow•24m ago•0 comments

$15 Script. $0.41/Day System. Full Stack Going Open Source

https://alanscottencinas.medium.com/how-i-turned-one-15-python-file-into-a-0-41-day-5b43914a226b
2•encinas88•25m ago•0 comments

Flows vs. Tests: Per-Test Billing Broke QA

https://medium.com/@kkhaag/flows-vs-tests-per-test-billing-broke-qa-720fbfc3b899
1•k4224•25m ago•0 comments

Former congressman Barney Frank has died

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-rep-barney-frank-champion-wall-street-reform-lgbtq-tr...
6•lode•27m ago•0 comments

Google Universal Cart

https://twitter.com/Google/status/2056798395377832214
1•tzury•27m ago•0 comments

Reconciling Enterprise AI Revenue

https://philippdubach.com/posts/reconciling-enterprise-ai-revenue/
1•7777777phil•28m ago•0 comments