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Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PioN-CpOP0
57•sandslash•1d ago•16 comments

Third Interstellar Object Discovered

https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25N12.html
65•gammarator•3h ago•23 comments

Trans-Taiga Road (2004)

https://www.jamesbayroad.com/ttr/index.html
93•jason_pomerleau•5h ago•36 comments

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5
79•A_D_E_P_T•6h ago•36 comments

We reimagined Transformer architectures inspired by nature's hidden structures

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10754699
3•subediaarjun•25m ago•0 comments

Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)

https://blog.mgdproductions.com/ikko-activebuds/
485•ajdude•16h ago•184 comments

Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/250521-apl-thermoelectrics-enable-compressor-free-cooling
53•mcswell•2d ago•20 comments

ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art

https://asciimoon.com/
187•zayat•1d ago•66 comments

That XOR Trick (2020)

https://florian.github.io//xor-trick/
85•hundredwatt•2d ago•44 comments

Conversations with a Hit Man

https://magazine.atavist.com/confessions-of-a-hit-man-larry-thompson-jim-leslie-george-dartois-louisiana-shreveport-cold-case/
43•gmays•1d ago•1 comments

Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app

https://www.cnet.com/tech/microsoft-will-delete-your-passwords-in-one-month-do-this-asap/
72•ColinWright•2d ago•71 comments

Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

https://github.com/c4pt0r/gmailtail
46•c4pt0r•6h ago•6 comments

Couchers is officially out of beta

https://couchers.org/blog/2025/07/01/releasing-couchers-v1
181•laurentlb•12h ago•75 comments

Show HN: CSS generator for a high-def glass effect

https://glass3d.dev/
271•kris-kay•14h ago•84 comments

A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/
88•Ne02ptzero•12h ago•9 comments

What to build instead of AI agents

https://decodingml.substack.com/p/stop-building-ai-agents
138•giuliomagnifico•6h ago•89 comments

Vitamin C Boosts Epidermal Growth via DNA Demethylation

https://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(25)00416-6/fulltext
79•gnabgib•10h ago•25 comments

Features of D That I Love

https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/
113•vips7L•13h ago•76 comments

AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/02/ai-note-takers-meetings-bots/
137•tysone•12h ago•143 comments

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-national-assessment-nasa-white-house-057cec699caef90832d8b10f21a6ffe8
311•geox•9h ago•149 comments

The Zen of Quakerism (2016)

https://www.friendsjournal.org/the-zen-of-quakerism/
99•surprisetalk•3d ago•80 comments

The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go

https://maypok86.github.io/otter/blog/cache-evolution/
98•maypok86•3d ago•24 comments

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-patients
318•justacrow•15h ago•77 comments

Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup for an Abelian Hidden Subgroup

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021082
4•boilerupnc•2h ago•0 comments

Sony's Mark Cerny Has Worked on "Big Chunks of RDNA 5" with AMD

https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/sonys-mark-cerny-has-worked-on-big-chunks-of-rdna-5-with-amd/
77•ZenithExtreme•14h ago•82 comments

LLMs as Compilers

https://resync-games.com/blog/engineering/llms-as-compiler
11•kadhirvelm•4h ago•13 comments

Physicists Start to Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-start-to-pin-down-how-stars-forge-heavy-atoms-20250702/
54•jnord•9h ago•3 comments

I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters

https://csferrie.medium.com/im-a-physicist-by-trade-not-by-training-and-that-matters-70cd0e66b2c8
4•MaysonL•1d ago•1 comments

Escher's art and computer science

https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/blob/master/blog/escher.md
53•signa11•1d ago•9 comments

Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)

https://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere
468•theandrewbailey•19h ago•324 comments
Open in hackernews

Revisiting Image Maps

https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-image-maps/
74•thm•1mo ago

Comments

ag8•1mo ago
wow, I used to make so many games with image maps back when I first learned HTML. One still survives: https://andrew.fi/beowulf/game/
bni•1mo ago
Thanks for posting this.

I met the dragon and died I think.

chrismorgan•1mo ago
There is no way to defeat the evil dragon Hrathogwar. View the page sources to more easily traverse the URL graph, and confirm there is no escape. You can wander back and forth forever, but if you try to progress, to make Hrothgar happy, you get stuck.
mikeocool•1mo ago
I feel like you were ahead of the trend with the visual style in this game.
Rendello•1mo ago
I don't like the way Hrothgar's looking at me.
M95D•1mo ago
This is all because of web standards playing catch-up with implementations instead of the other way around.
notarealllama•1mo ago
TFA takes us on this journey and then at the end, "Image maps ended up not working for us" without telling us what they did. My money is on JavaScript for that "expressive" aspect of the hover.
chrismorgan•1mo ago
The last third describes exactly what he did.
chrismorgan•1mo ago
> My first thought was to embed anchors into the external map SVG: […]

> This approach is problematic. Those anchors are only active when SVG is inline and don’t work with an <img> element.

No, this approach is fine: you just need to use <object data=…> instead of <img src=…>. <object> is the correct choice for embedding interactive SVG.

But you probably do want the SVG to be inline anyway, because it will load faster and is in this case actively the content of the page; which is the technical decision he ended up at, though perhaps for partly the wrong reason.

(There’s also <iframe>.)

King-Aaron•1mo ago
> There’s also <iframe>

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...a long time.

zyberzero•1mo ago
Really? I'd say image maps was the name I haven't heard in a long time... As in I read a couple of paragraphs before it dawned on me that it was _that_ type of image maps that post was about - I first thought it was something regarding rasterized maps (like OpenStreetMap or something)
ogou•1mo ago
If you're looking at any web page with ads or tracking, it has many iframe elements. The javascript that loads them usually creates an iframe and the ad appears there. A typical newspaper site could have 5-50 iframes on each page.
patates•1mo ago
Perhaps you confused it with the frameset and frame?

frameset: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

frame: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

iframe: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

mock-possum•1mo ago
How would you embed a pdf view in a page?
chrismorgan•1mo ago
<object>. It’s a better choice than <iframe> because it ensures the PDF will be rendered, and you can control the fallback content if the user agent can’t render it.
seabass•1mo ago
> Anchors positioned absolutely over my map wouldn’t solve the pixel-based positioning problem or give me the irregular-shaped clickable areas I wanted. Anchors within an external SVG wouldn’t work either.

If you're trying something like this and irregular-shaped clickable areas are not a concern (like if only the numbered circles from the article's example would be clickable) then absolutely positioned anchors can be made to work. The trick is to use js to apply a css scale transformation to a relatively positioned parent container whenever the underlying image changes size.

abanana•1mo ago
My thought when reading that in the article was (in cases where, as you said, irregular-shaped clickable areas are not a concern): why do we need pixel-based positioning? What's wrong with percentage-based positioning and sizing? I did exactly that a couple of years ago, and it worked as expected.
danhite•1mo ago
for those of you using something like their technique of opacity animating a clip-path region from one look to another upon ~click ...

if you wish to be visually kind to safari users you can eliminate the default gray selection indication flash animation safari does upon a tap activation with just a tiny bit of webkit-only css , for example ...

#links { -webkit-tap-highlight-color : transparent ; }

added to the css of their codepen fixes it (without causing any issues for other/std browsers afaik)

deanc•1mo ago
I've spent five minutes now, to no avail, trying to find a link to this website.
bigwheeler•1mo ago
I think I read somewhere else that it is not publicly launched yet, but should be very soon.
Mr_Minderbinder•1mo ago
> Image maps date all the way back to HTML 3.2, where, first, server-side maps and then client-side maps defined clickable regions over an image using map and area elements.

Server-side image maps were specified in HTML 2.0, in section 7.6 of RFC1866.