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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
193•theblazehen•2d ago•56 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
679•klaussilveira•14h ago•203 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
954•xnx•20h ago•552 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
125•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
25•kaonwarb•3d ago•21 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
62•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
235•isitcontent•15h ago•25 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
39•jesperordrup•5h ago•17 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
227•dmpetrov•15h ago•121 comments

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

https://vecti.com
332•vecti•17h ago•145 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
499•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
384•ostacke•21h ago•96 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
360•aktau•21h ago•183 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
292•eljojo•17h ago•182 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
21•speckx•3d ago•10 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
413•lstoll•21h ago•279 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
6•matt_d•3d ago•1 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
20•bikenaga•3d ago•10 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
66•kmm•5d ago•9 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
93•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
260•i5heu•17h ago•202 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
33•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
38•gmays•10h ago•13 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1073•cdrnsf•1d ago•459 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
60•gfortaine•12h ago•26 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
291•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•71 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
8•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
154•SerCe•10h ago•144 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
187•limoce•3d ago•102 comments
Open in hackernews

Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

https://ednamode.xyz/blogs/2.html
64•chilipepperhott•7mo ago

Comments

Jonovono•7mo ago
Reminds me of rasterbation!
mrkramer•7mo ago
Reminds me of those videos where people make computers and games within Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDiapbD0Xfg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I
retsibsi•7mo ago
Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate (why??) or a side effect of something else.
banana_giraffe•7mo ago
The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.
peeters•7mo ago
Yeah that's a very bad idea.
ednaordinary•7mo ago
hi! This is mostly due to my opinions around scaling but I didn't realize it impacted zoom so much, I'm not primarily a web dev. I'll change this to conform soon.
lxe•7mo ago
This is cool but was hard to read because I think it lacks some context... so "one of my friends" made a site where anyone could toggle a checkbox on a large canvas of checkboxes?

And you (author?) set up a script to automatically toggle a bunch of them at a at a time to anime a short video of Jake Gyllenhaal?

Was this done via rendering the site and toggling appropriate coordinates, or through an endpoint/API?

pieterr•7mo ago
More context:

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...

lxe•7mo ago
Aaaah this fills in the gaps! Thanks!
ednaordinary•7mo ago
author here! I mostly assumed the reader had some context for this blog around omcb since it had gone viral and I posted it in circles already familiar, but looking back that wasn't a great decision. I'll likely revise this blog soon as there's a few other things I thought I didn't explain well. thanks for your feedback!
keysdev•7mo ago
Is there a demo or git of the page?
ednaordinary•7mo ago
omcb is available but only in single player mode now: https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
keysdev•7mo ago
Ah I thought I was gonna see the sexy Gyllenhaal in checkboxes. Is there a public page of that?
ednaordinary•7mo ago
the multiplayer version is offline now and you couldn't see it without converting the underlying bytes to the 1000x1000 canvas. I do have a timelapse of the full time it was running though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8zg6cKxHFs
j0rd72•7mo ago
Not to pile on, but I wasn't expecting your "what's this" link to be a magnet link to Discord. Could be worth specifying that, or at least using a pop-out/magnet icon beside it.
deadbabe•7mo ago
excellent choice in gif
XiS•7mo ago
It's JinglePing all over again
kalleboo•7mo ago
Classic! Reminds me of animating Bad Apple on the pixel canvas (although this was heavily rate-limited and required a team of dozens of people collaborating) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grp6m57IRdg
sameermore•7mo ago
Check Gyllenhaal!