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Halftone QR Codes

https://cgv.cs.nthu.edu.tw/Projects/Recreational_Graphics/Halftone_QRCodes/
3•karagenit•1h ago

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phillipseamore•1h ago
I'd like to see effort in creating QR codes that are faster to scan or work better from a distance (or when small in frame). Most of my issues with QR codes is that they are hard to scan fast except under the best of conditions, not that they aren't pretty enough.

Ominomicon: I Shipped by Giving Away the Code

https://www.fixgamingchannel.com/ominomicon-fix-stories-shipped-with-claude/
1•adjustedtwit•1m ago•0 comments

Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies

https://www.reuters.com/world/three-five-americans-favor-stronger-oversight-social-media-companie...
1•jack0111•3m ago•0 comments

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/
3•calmhive•6m ago•1 comments

Writer.computer: Local-first desktop Markdown editor

https://github.com/joelbqz/writer-computer
2•surrTurr•9m ago•0 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
5•Klaster_1•10m ago•1 comments

Adversarial LLM Reversal for hermes-agent

https://github.com/jnorthrup/hermes-jekyl-hyde
1•jn098671234•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe
1•dosinga•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A tool to auto-generate .vscode/settings.json and extensions.json

https://github.com/RKasai127/vscode-autoconfig
1•rkasai•16m ago•0 comments

I8 Engine Swap Project: AI CAN bus reverse engineering [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVKROmuXSN0
1•akoutmos•16m ago•1 comments

An Analysis of Dialogue Silence in 2026's Most-Watched Films

https://medium.com/@carmineds.pro/an-analysis-of-dialogue-silence-in-2026s-most-watched-films-f2e...
1•cadeos•18m ago•1 comments

A2 Milk: New Perspectives for Food Technology and Human Health

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9407547/
1•andsoitis•18m ago•0 comments

A parametric ice cream recipe calculator

https://www.icecreamcalc.app/
1•lersch•18m ago•1 comments

Claim Checks at Scale: Stop Letting Every Consumer Talk to S3

https://james-carr.org/posts/2026-07-29-stop-treating-your-object-store-like-a-shared-database/
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli

https://redmonk.com/videos/charity-majors/
1•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Let Them: A Developer's Guide to UMA for Agents

https://multiplierpartners.ai/blog/2026-08-06-let-them-a-developers-guide-to-u4a/
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/india-is-starting-to-pay-for-apps-not-just-download-them/
3•deepmem•24m ago•0 comments

Trademark Application for "Rails"

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=99727487&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
1•rmoriz•25m ago•1 comments

A puzzle to test your abstract reasoning skills

https://www.decryptiq.net/
1•rochansinha•25m ago•2 comments

Python 3.14.7

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3147/
3•tosh•27m ago•0 comments

Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/waymo-opens-up-robotaxi-service-in-dallas-to-everyone/
3•qikouki•29m ago•0 comments

Solar vehicle built by a programmer. Runs on solar energy, battery, or pedals [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kPNKJnAkoY
1•moltean•29m ago•0 comments

A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/
2•ijustlovemath•34m ago•0 comments

Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-used-ai-to-create-16-new-viruses/
2•ashurandi•34m ago•0 comments

Russia's Starlink replacement. What is known about the Rassvet system?

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2026/08/08/8047858/
2•uxhacker•36m ago•0 comments

Captaining your AI: new human-agent UX paradigm

https://everythingengineer.substack.com/p/captains-read-the-outputs-a-better-human-agent-ux
1•mikecarroll•37m ago•0 comments

Three Ways to Sell the Same Software

https://nicolo.xyz/note/three-ways-to-sell-the-same-software/
2•coconido•42m ago•0 comments

Building Groovie, an Advanced Web-Based Drum Machine / Beat Sequencer

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-06-building-groovie-an-advanced-web-based-drum-beat-sequencer/
2•ibobev•44m ago•0 comments

Differential Heuristics

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-08-08-differential-heuristics/
1•ibobev•44m ago•0 comments

Spritework on the ZX Spectrum: Rendering

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/spritework-on-the-zx-spectrum-rendering/
1•ibobev•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Augmented Violin Finger Choice Recommendation

https://violin-fingering.unstacked.cc
3•lennart-rth•47m ago•2 comments