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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
469•nar001•4h ago•224 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
156•bookofjoe•2h ago•137 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
447•theblazehen•2d ago•161 comments

Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
33•thelok•2h ago•2 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
33•mellosouls•2h ago•27 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
93•AlexeyBrin•5h ago•17 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
782•klaussilveira•20h ago•241 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
42•samasblack•2h ago•28 comments

StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
26•simonw•2h ago•24 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
36•vinhnx•3h ago•4 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
59•onurkanbkrc•5h ago•3 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1034•xnx•1d ago•583 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
180•alainrk•4h ago•255 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
27•rbanffy•4d ago•5 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
171•jesperordrup•10h ago•65 comments

Vinklu Turns Forgotten Plot in Bucharest into Tiny Coffee Shop

https://design-milk.com/vinklu-turns-forgotten-plot-in-bucharest-into-tiny-coffee-shop/
10•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
16•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
107•videotopia•4d ago•27 comments

What Is Stoicism?

https://stoacentral.com/guides/what-is-stoicism
7•0xmattf•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
266•isitcontent•20h ago•33 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
152•matheusalmeida•2d ago•43 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
278•dmpetrov•20h ago•148 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
36•matt_d•4d ago•11 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
546•todsacerdoti•1d ago•264 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
421•ostacke•1d ago•110 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
365•vecti•22h ago•166 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
65•helloplanets•4d ago•69 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
338•eljojo•23h ago•209 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
460•lstoll•1d ago•303 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
373•aktau•1d ago•194 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: I made a screenshot beautifier

https://moocup.jaydip.me/
43•jdsane•7mo ago
I’ve always seen talented designers and developers post their work, only for it to get lost in the noise. I realized a major reason is that they often just post a simple, unstyled screenshot. As a result, nobody pays attention.

My solution is a tool where you can drop in a screenshot, pick from a collection of hand-picked gradients, style it, and export it—all in a few seconds. I’ve carefully designed every element of the app to be efficient, simple, and intuitive.

On making it "Free, Forever": I don't plan on ever charging a subscription for Moocup. I dislike the subscription model as much as you do. Instead, my plan is to include a donation option for those who wish to support the project. This allows me to keep my promise of making the app free and useful for everyone, without being burdened by hosting and maintenance costs.

My goal is simple: to provide a high-quality tool that is genuinely useful and doesn't waste your time. If you find it helpful, the best thing you can do is share it with others. I've included all my contact links for feedback and suggestions.

Happy designing :)

Comments

asipasip•7mo ago
What is this for? I don't see the use case.
zdc1•7mo ago
I'm equally confused. Why would I want to take a perfectly good screenshot and then shrink it down so it fits within a square and fill >50% of the canvas pixels with a gradient background?
Elfener•7mo ago
I think this is some (new?) social media trend, my school started doing it too with their images on facebook. Half the image is just a border so the actual image is really low res. I have no idea why they do it though.
Hendrikto•7mo ago
Some social media sites and apps like to cut off the sides to fit content onto different screen sizes and aspect ratios.

I think adding a border is an attempt to preserve the essential parts of the images in those situations. It really should not be necessary, but alas modern/stupid problems require modern/stupid solutions.

al_borland•7mo ago
This is a more generous explanation than my cynical first assumption, that they were trying to get away with saving lower res pictures to save on storage costs.
jdsane•7mo ago
It's optional you can turn it off at bottom floating navbar.
jan_Sate•7mo ago
so it's for drawing attention on social media?
benjaminwootton•7mo ago
Because it looks nice and makes it pop in a social media feed.
jdsane•7mo ago
this is current way of showing design screenshots, as plain screenshots gets buried under and most of the time designer, or frontend devs generate their own workflow for handling this grunt work of beautifying their work. it's tool to remove that pain point.
brokariim•7mo ago
As a dev who loves sharing stuff on X, this is super useful. You can use it to post clean screenshots for: - showing off a new UI component you built - sharing code snippets or errors with context - bug reports that don’t look like chaos
asipasip•7mo ago
But it's not a clean screenshot. There's a space-wasting gradient fill behind it.
rikroots•7mo ago
I can maybe see some value for opening a web page like this, then taking a set of screenshots (for me CMD+SHIFT+4) which automatically get added to the web page, which the user can then curate in some way to generate a final image for download. If the dev who built this web page can work out a way to get the web page to automatically ingest user screenshots while the page is open then I think this tool becomes a lot more interesting.

I did a similar thing for generating a video from multiple screen captures - GitHub repo here: https://github.com/KaliedaRik/sc-screen-recorder

8mobile•7mo ago
hello compliments for moocup, your screenshot generator is convenient, fast and really easy to use for example for X o bsky. Some tips, currently there are only a few colors for the borders, I would also like to have the possibility of a movement or transaction and export to gif. what do you think would be possible? thanks
jdsane•7mo ago
hey, thank you for the kind words. I'm planning to add a color picker so users can pick color of their choice. currently, I have no plans of adding option for any video format. as it is my hobby project, i'd like to focus more on the primary features that might be needed. although i like the possibility of it.
DidYaWipe•7mo ago
How is this a screenshot generator? You have to drag an existing image onto it...
stavros•7mo ago
The title is a bit misleading, he actually generated a screenshot beautifier.
jdsane•7mo ago
yeah, it is a screenshot beautifier in a sense.
benjaminwootton•7mo ago
It's nice. I actually pay for something like this.

The only thing I think I would need to switch is canvas size, ideally where I can select sizes for Twitter, Instagram etc.

Being able to paste an image would be nice too.

Nice work!

afandian•7mo ago
What value does it provide? (Genuine question, not intended as snarky!)
petepete•7mo ago
I use a similar tool, Gradia.

https://github.com/AlexanderVanhee/Gradia

The border can look nice in certain settings, the annotation tools are handy for drawing attention to specific elements. It has the ability to hide/mask things too. All wrapped in a nice intuitive interface.

jdsane•7mo ago
Hi; i'm the creator of tool. it's supposed to be sharing your product screenshots as input, using gradient backgrounds and some borders; which it'll automatically try to assign ass some curvatures and such. and export.

This process is repeated daily by designers, frontend devs, indie builders who creates products, ui snippets that they want world to see and grab their attention. as if you share a normal screenshot, most of the people would simply ignore it. in the sense, sometimes if you present your output wrapped in a good wrapper people would perceive it to be of high value and assess further results as such.

hopefully that clears up!

jdsane•7mo ago
great to hear, i plan to keep moocup free, forever. it is my hobby project and accept coffee payments to support it. but no plans of any kind of monthly plans whatsoever. I want user to come, drop some photos and within few seconds produce beautiful output. i hate subscriptions myself, and do not want to burden users with it. let me know of possibility of supporting it via coffee payments, which users would support if they wish to.
thih9•7mo ago
Looks great, congrats on the launch.

Could you tell us more about how you made it? What libraries did you use, or did you code it with an AI?

DrHoenikker•7mo ago
This is a frame generator. It accepts images, assumed to be screenshots, as an input.
jdsane•7mo ago
yup, that's exactly right.
erikgahner•7mo ago
Looking good! What does it mean that it is free forever? That the code is available on GitHub and we should not have to be concerned about the site going offline or moving to a different place (that is not free)? Or, if it takes off, that we should begin to see ads? Or that this is the free tier option and future iterations can expect you to pay to, say, remove a watermark?
jdsane•7mo ago
this is free in the sense that users don't have to worry about paying a dime for using it. i have no current plan for any kind of monetization. it's my hobby tool that i use and expect people to use without worrying.
bapak•7mo ago
> free forever

conflicts with

> no current plan

jdsane•7mo ago
no plan meaning adding features, not in the sense adding monetization.

Free forever as asking NEVER to users for any kind of money for using service.

unixhero•7mo ago
I liked its output. Maybe there is a use for it?
ezekg•7mo ago
I was recently looking for something like this to share some fun screenshots of a new UI. Would be cool to see some depth of field or bokeh effects.
ravdar•7mo ago
nice! I was looking for a tool like this a while ago. All I could find were either nice paid ones or some pretty crappy free options. I have to shamefully admit I ended up using the free version of Pika and just cropped out the watermark :D Yours looks solid and free. I'd suggest adding a few things like slider for corner radius, shadows, and frames (like macOS, browser, etc.)."
jdsane•7mo ago
glad you liked it. In bottom navbar, there is "Border" section where you can adjust border radius, color. If possible follow me on my socials so I can provide updates and receive feedback. my dm's are always open :)
skeptrune•7mo ago
Shoutout to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43719833

which is another nice one I like