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Why every drawing app still looks like MacPaint [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TedaOiRo_Qg
1•gdubs•1h ago

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gdubs•1h ago
Putting this video together was fun, and as always I ended up learning a bunch of new stuff and seeing things in a new perspective. Kind of a bookend to the HyperCard video that launched my channel last year.

Wish I'd gotten to meet Atkinson, but his influence is still everywhere. More on Kare in this one, as well as some of the really cool innovations that came before.

What was your first digital painting program?

marssaxman•11m ago
My first digital painting program literally was MacPaint! We had the 512k Mac, not the original 128k, with the external drive, so there was just a little bit less floppy-swapping to deal with. I spent hours using that program - much of it just messing about, but I also had a few detailed scenes I came back to over and over, working on them carefully over time.

Make an Origami Circuit Board

https://spectrum.ieee.org/origami-circuit-boards
3•ohjeez•1m ago•0 comments

Terminal-native music and video player

https://github.com/dangerous-person/dopogoto-terminal-player
1•jimsojim•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

https://github.com/gmrandazzo/CheapSecurity
1•zeldone•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A client side PDF and article reader backed by Google Drive

https://pdf-reader-peach.vercel.app/
1•northfield27•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is an in-page speed reader useful?

1•jvbotelho•3m ago•0 comments

We Are Not Special (2021)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/
1•birdculture•4m ago•0 comments

Design Is Compromise

https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise
2•ankitg12•6m ago•0 comments

Who's afraid of open source AI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siy0744Ykys
1•frag•7m ago•0 comments

Tools and Rituals for Reflecting

https://ask.metafilter.com/254216/What-are-your-tools-and-rituals-for-reflecting-on-the-past-year
1•ankitg12•8m ago•0 comments

DROS-VEP – A <1μs C-ABI binary circuit breaker for AI agents

https://github.com/Top-Celestial-Company-Ltd/DROS-VEP-lite
2•dros_jimmy•11m ago•0 comments

Car Plows into Crowd at Berlin Pride Event in Suspected Terror Attack

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/europe/berlin-car-attack.html
3•whack•12m ago•1 comments

What Sam Altman will tell the White House this week

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/26/sam-altman-openai-trump-white-house-visit?mrfcid=202607266a5afa4...
1•flurly•16m ago•0 comments

Iran calls Ukraine's strikes on Iranian vessels 'hostile and criminal'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/26/ukraine-strikes-iranian-vessels-tehran-accuses-kyiv-of-hostile-ac...
3•MilnerRoute•17m ago•0 comments

Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets

https://www.city-journal.org/article/los-angeles-streets-repaving-disability-rules
1•toomanyrichies•18m ago•0 comments

108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering

https://brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrjj34puva23-108-prs-in-eight-days-accidentally-discoveri...
1•overcommitted•18m ago•0 comments

Canada must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer – forever

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/our-smoke-filled-future-how-canada-must-prepare-for-bigger-wi...
2•Teever•21m ago•2 comments

AI agents are eating the Web, growing by 8,000% and rewiring business models

https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/
1•CharlesW•26m ago•0 comments

A Love Letter to Object Orientation

https://blog.mempko.com/a-love-letter-to-object-orientation/
1•mempko•28m ago•1 comments

The Question Is the Hard Part

https://seriousmountain.substack.com/p/the-question-is-the-hard-part
1•mc-serious•28m ago•0 comments

Installing Verified Facts into Transformer Weights by Direct Construction

https://zenodo.org/records/21502811
1•yogthos•30m ago•0 comments

Reviewing AI Code Is Not a Viable Argument

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/reviewing-ai-code
2•watermelon0•32m ago•0 comments

China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-considers-tighter-export-controls-ai-models-chip...
1•VWWHFSfQ•34m ago•1 comments

Office Deployment Tool for Free

https://office-deployment-tool.pages.dev
3•rrrpro123•37m ago•20 comments

Surge: Blazing fast TUI download manager (outperforms aria2c by ~1.4x)

https://github.com/SurgeDM/Surge
1•maxloh•37m ago•0 comments

An Inside Look at the Token Reseller Market

https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market
5•mlenhard•40m ago•1 comments

SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/spacex-eyes-tower-catch-for-next-starship-after-auspicious-...
2•Brajeshwar•43m ago•0 comments

Robotics development made dead simple (open source)

1•Ekami•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minnarone – Multimodal agents that watch, listen, and react live

https://github.com/carlitose/minnarone
1•carlitose•46m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I spent personal money on game dev. How to turn stalled project around?

2•pixelbyindex•47m ago•0 comments

Skill Router – a local-first router for large agent skill libraries

https://github.com/torakagemusha-sudo/torafirma-skill-router
1•torafirma•47m ago•0 comments