How to Draw a Space Invader

48•abdusco•1h ago•4 comments

How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos

https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2025/08/19/how-we-exploited-coderabbit-from-a-simple-pr-to-rce-and-write-access-on-1m-repositories/

468•spiridow•8h ago•161 comments

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

https://d2lang.com/blog/ascii/

183•alixanderwang•6h ago•26 comments

Drunken Bishop (2023)

https://re.factorcode.org/2023/08/drunken-bishop.html

28•todsacerdoti•2h ago•2 comments

Emacs as your video-trimming tool

https://xenodium.com/emacs-as-your-video-trimming-tool

174•xenodium•7h ago•91 comments

Without the futex, it's futile

https://h4x0r.org/futex/

223•eatonphil•10h ago•111 comments

CRDT: Text Buffer

https://madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer/

48•skadamat•4h ago•2 comments

Tiny Microbe Challenges the Definition of Cellular Life

https://nautil.us/a-rogue-new-life-form-1232095/

4•jnord•1h ago•0 comments

The forgotten meaning of "jerk"

https://languagehat.com/the-forgotten-meaning-of-jerk/

73•aspenmayer•2h ago•67 comments

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock

https://cpldcpu.com/2025/08/13/candle-flame-oscillations-as-a-clock/

234•cpldcpu•3d ago•49 comments

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/

102•redbell•3d ago•35 comments

Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life

https://github.com/openai/openai-reflect

37•Sean-Der•4h ago•19 comments

AnduinOS

https://www.anduinos.com/

66•TheFreim•5h ago•98 comments

Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)

https://motherduck.com/blog/semantic-layer-duckdb-tutorial/

78•secondrow•7h ago•17 comments

Fast Type-Aware Linting in Oxlint

https://oxc.rs/blog/2025-08-17-oxlint-type-aware

5•manniL•1d ago•0 comments

Perfect Freehand – Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines

https://www.perfectfreehand.com/

94•NikxDa•4h ago•8 comments

Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32

https://www.svendewaerhert.com/blog/telescope-mount/

258•waerhert•14h ago•95 comments

The joy of recursion, immutable data, & pure functions: Making mazes with JS

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2025/joy-of-immutable-data-recursion-pure-functions-javascript-mazes/

40•jrsinclair•1d ago•8 comments

Notion releases offline mode

https://www.notion.com/help/guides/working-offline-in-notion-everything-you-need-to-know

162•ericzawo•5h ago•120 comments

Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

83•zaidqureshi•12h ago•38 comments

A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/derinkuyu-turkey-underground-city-strange-maps

61•areoform•8h ago•17 comments

Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature

https://sso.tax/

198•vinnyglennon•4h ago•136 comments

Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry

https://3d.ameo.design/geotoy

99•Ameo•1d ago•20 comments

Passive Microwave Repeaters

https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html

74•BallsInIt•2d ago•12 comments

Show HN: Chroma Cloud – serverless search database for AI

https://trychroma.com/cloud

78•jeffchuber•1d ago•25 comments

CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crlite-fast-private-and-comprehensive-certificate-revocation-checking-in-firefox/

55•TangerineDream•8h ago•5 comments

Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2025q3/018288.html

114•westurner•11h ago•83 comments

Prime Number Grid

https://susam.net/primegrid.html

271•todsacerdoti•16h ago•91 comments

Positron, a New Data Science IDE

https://posit.co/blog/positron-product-announcement-aug-2025/

131•kgwgk•10h ago•42 comments

Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

51•ariavikram•9h ago•21 comments

Open in hackernews

How to Draw a Space Invader

https://muffinman.io/blog/invaders/

44•abdusco•1h ago

Comments

joemasilotti•1h ago

This would be awesome as a random avatar generator!

Waterluvian•42m ago

I’m surprised and impressed that it built a vector that it rasterized.

I wonder how well you can do by having a pseudo-random kernel walk and then mirroring it.

pachevjoseph•39m ago

This is one of the best mobile experiences I’ve had reading an article.

scotty79•14m ago

If you refresh the page the invader that gets generated as you read changes.