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Show HN: Kurvengefahr – browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters

https://kurvengefahr.org/
2•tibordp•1h ago
A few years ago I made a pen plotter attachment for Prusa MK4 (https://www.printables.com/model/827264-pen-plotter-attachme...) and at the time I didn't have a good way to turn artwork into G-code for it, and I put the project on ice for a while.

I recently wanted to dabble in line art again and made a small browser app to make it easier. As agentic AI tools of 2026 are quite addictive, it rather quickly grew into something quite a bit more - an integrated browser CAD/CAM for pen plotters that covers everything from importing existing artwork, creating artwork from scratch, preparing for plotting and hardware integration. It includes some off-beat features like a Logo interpreter for turtle art and Graves RNN for handwriting synthesis and in addition to 3D printer pretending to be pen plotters it now also supports actual pen plotters based on EBB (AxiDraw) and GRBL firmwares through Web Serial.

If you own an AxiDraw or a GRBL plotter, I'd very much appreciate it you gave it a try and give feedback. As I don't own those, I did all the testing with a hardware mock on STM32, so I am not sure how well it works attached to an actual plotter.

Source code and docs are on GitHub: https://github.com/tibordp/kurvengefahr

Ask HN: Is looking at the code slowing us down?

1•rstagi•48s ago•0 comments

OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/11/openai-bets-on-families-as-chatgpt-goes-deeper-into-households/
2•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Why Ballads Still Dominate Chinese Pop Music

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-09/why-ballads-still-dominate-chinese-pop-music
1•coloneltcb•5m ago•0 comments

Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/
1•mpweiher•5m ago•0 comments

Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20151120-batchattacks.html
1•cold_pizz4•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pickle Tasks – a virtual pickle jar that randomly picks your next task

https://pickletasks.com
1•thip•8m ago•1 comments

Sears Modern Homes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes
1•aragonite•9m ago•0 comments

Ground Writing

https://www.sourcetype.com/editorial/14248/ground-writing
1•kmooney•9m ago•0 comments

The Highway Code: Using the road (Rules 159 to 203)

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-159-to-203
1•susam•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Itara – Distributed system topology as an explicit, executable layer

https://github.com/itara-project/itara
1•gkiss0001•18m ago•2 comments

Data centres account for almost a quarter of Irish electricity usage in 2025

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/07/07/data-centres-account-for-almost-one-quarter-of-iri...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•19m ago•0 comments

Apple sues OpenAI and two former employees for alleged theft of trade secrets

https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-and-two-former-employ...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•20m ago•0 comments

The ChatGPT "Super App" Sort of Super Sucks

https://spyglass.org/chatgpt-gets-to-work/
2•soheilpro•22m ago•0 comments

New FIRE study finds narrowing range of political views among faculty donors

https://www.fire.org/news/new-fire-study-finds-narrowing-range-political-views-among-faculty-donors
5•like_any_other•23m ago•2 comments

Apple files lawsuit, accuses OpenAI of stealing trade secrets

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/apple-lawsuit-open-ai-trade-secrets-9.7266470
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•24m ago•0 comments

Linux of AI open-source tools for reducing AI vendor lock-in

https://github.com/sekacorn/Linux-of-Ai
1•Saya24f•24m ago•0 comments

Visualization of the OpenAI Proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture

https://blog.asrpo.com/cdc.html
1•asrp•25m ago•1 comments

This Factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/08/nx-s1-5876084/manufacturing-flexible-part-time-work
1•andrewl•26m ago•0 comments

Undeniable proof that time travel is real

https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/2076233674648088760
3•delichon•26m ago•0 comments

A BCI That Lasts 20 Years Requires Solving 4 Biological Problems

https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/what-would-a-bci-that-lasts-actually
1•u1hcw9nx•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A dark fantasy short story

https://lawfully.netlify.app/
1•darkhorse13•28m ago•0 comments

You can write docs in LLMese, but you don't have to

https://passo.uno/write-docs-llms-language/
1•theletterf•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Containix – Run Nix flakes as Kubernetes pods without images

https://containix.dev/
1•atmask•30m ago•0 comments

An new try: C++ like program with the same characteristics as rust

1•juntz•30m ago•0 comments

Indio Solari, Argentine Rocker Who Packed Stadiums, Dies at 77

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/arts/music/indio-solari-dead.html
2•bookofjoe•32m ago•1 comments

LLMs might not learn concepts

https://pastebin.com/w1HcfHvp
3•ffwd•33m ago•0 comments

Is vibe coding worth it? What the numbers say

https://okaneland.com/study/is-vibe-coding-worth-it/
1•ermantrout•33m ago•1 comments

Perfectly Hitting the Wrong Target: The Story of an AI Code Review Benchmark

https://shrsv.hexmos.com/post/perfectly-hitting-the-wrong-target
3•atomicnature•36m ago•0 comments

DNA signatures preserved in the 1978 sample collection of the Shroud of Turin

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-60684-7
2•alchemist1e9•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Introducing: Zotfile Agents

https://www.zot.sh/docs/zotfiles
7•patriceckhart•42m ago•0 comments