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

https://openciv3.org/
631•klaussilveira•12h ago•187 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
16•theblazehen•2d ago•0 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
930•xnx•18h ago•547 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
34•helloplanets•4d ago•26 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
110•matheusalmeida•1d ago•28 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
43•videotopia•4d ago•1 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
10•kaonwarb•3d ago•9 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
222•isitcontent•13h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
213•dmpetrov•13h ago•103 comments

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

https://vecti.com
323•vecti•15h ago•142 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
372•ostacke•19h ago•94 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•19h ago•181 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
478•todsacerdoti•20h ago•234 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
275•eljojo•15h ago•164 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
404•lstoll•19h ago•273 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
85•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
56•kmm•5d ago•3 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
16•jesperordrup•3h ago•9 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
244•i5heu•15h ago•189 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
13•bikenaga•3d ago•2 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
53•gfortaine•10h ago•22 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
141•vmatsiiako•18h ago•64 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
281•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 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/
1060•cdrnsf•22h ago•435 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
133•SerCe•9h ago•118 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
177•limoce•3d ago•96 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
70•phreda4•12h ago•14 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...
28•gmays•8h ago•11 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
63•rescrv•20h ago•23 comments
Open in hackernews

JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool

https://justsketch.me
223•surprisetalk•3mo ago

Comments

rspoerri•3mo ago
dont i see it or is it missing inverse kinematics? from my experience people will want this desperately.
HermanMartinus•3mo ago
It is a highly requested feature. I just seem to have painted myself into a corner dev wise, and it's a pretty difficult feature to build without significant re-architecture. It's on my to-do list though.
Ecco•3mo ago
How is this any better than a Blender file with a rigged human model?
yreg•3mo ago
Ease of use.
Ecco•3mo ago
Because of a lack of features? It doesn't even have IK so I would argue Blender is in fact easier to use (as in, will get you to the result faster even if you need a bit more time to learn the interface).
syntaxterror•3mo ago
This has pre-built poses, props and a bunch of other easy to use features. This is classic hacker-news ‘Less intuitive and more complicated X is better because I already know how to use X’
yreg•3mo ago
I must have spent a hundred hours in Blender over the years, and I'm still not competent enough to do even some of the most basic things on my own when I pick it up.

Blender is an amazing project, but I would not suggest it as an alternative to OP's tool if asked by someone who practices drawing and has zero Blender experience or interest.

HermanMartinus•3mo ago
Literally just ease of use. Blender you have to learn to use, whereas JSM is built to be pick-up-and-go for even the least tech-savvy users.
JKCalhoun•3mo ago
And feature-wise, that's all it needs.
wateralien•3mo ago
Try get a non technical artist to pick up Blender and work out a rigged human model.
wiz21c•3mo ago
first question why: where do you get a rigged human models with the same level of detail, for free ?
gh0stcat•3mo ago
haha this was mine as well, would love to see some recommendations where people are getting some nice models to draw from.
engeljohnb•3mo ago
I wanted to use blender for quick pose reference yesterday and I was able to find several good ones and even one great one within 5min. They're around.
Fokamul•3mo ago
Would be cool, if you could upload the scene into image gen. model and it would create picture for you but with hard defined objects from the scene.

You know, for us people who can't draw a ... nothing :)

(I still support creative people though)

HermanMartinus•3mo ago
It's entirely possible to export an image of the scene and upload that to your genAI of choice.
heroprotagonist•3mo ago
Is there an OpenPose format json export option, for use with ControlNet tools? Or is the only option as an image to image reference?
HermanMartinus•3mo ago
Creator of JustSketchMe here! I was very surprised to see this on HackerNews this morning. Very cool to see this doing the rounds 6 years into running this :)
huflungdung•3mo ago
Cute little app, very nice
wateralien•3mo ago
Very nice. Well done :) I could have used this a lot when I was an Art Director in advertising sketching storyboards all day long. I guess these days Art Directors are just asking AI to do it?
gregsadetsky•3mo ago
Incredibly fun to play around with it, and really incredible mobile web support..! Two finger dragging worked without interfering with the browser’s usual handling of it.

Super cool, congrats! I was just reminiscing about the old school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser_(software) software recently, wondering if there were other contenders in the space.

Cheers

HermanMartinus•3mo ago
Thanks, it also runs well as a PWA. It's Threejs under the hood, plus some rendering optimisation to ensure it performs well in mobile browsers.
ChrisMarshallNY•3mo ago
Cool stuff, but I'll bet a lot of folks will use it to act out their Id.
junon•3mo ago
Incredible mobile support. Very well done.
Hexigonz•3mo ago
As someone who is getting into character art again after a very long time, this tool looks amazing. I've bookmarked it, and after I use it for a few references, I'll likely end up getting pro.
neilellis•3mo ago
Be nice to have AI integration for natural language: (i.e. 'show the character running and looking away from camera')
shortrounddev2•3mo ago
For some reason reminds me of making stop motion animation with Garry's mod
kkukshtel•3mo ago
There should be a HN name for posts like this - things that are clearly influenced by what was popular yesterday. The creator of this is the same person that wrote the blog post on being present without phones that was top ranked yesterday. It's clear that someone looked at that post, read about the creator, then posted their other project here.

Not saying it's bad or anything, just funny to see the link-browsing tendency of HN often manifest in such a direct way. It happens more than you would think as well!

CaptainOfCoit•3mo ago
Happens all the time :)

I think it's exaggerated by the automatic upvoting when submitting something that was recently submitted too. So as people discover the same thing, they submit it to HN and each submission upvotes the first submission.

We're all discovering the same things seemingly :)

ge96•3mo ago
Tangent

There is a guy on YT/Japanese Cafe that has real robotic Chobits they use wheels to move around but they have face tracking/digital eyes that look at you and moving arms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LNthFGX4aM

m4rtink•3mo ago
Mashiro (and others) are super cute and the whole project is very interesting, seeing how they improve them incrementally over time. :)
qustrolabe•3mo ago
Inverse kinematics would be nice here, to just move hand in certain position instead of editing several joints.
xnx•3mo ago
Cool. Might be able to get a quick approximate pose for manual finetuning by integrating Mediapipe: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/pose_l...