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How uv got so fast

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html
478•zdw•7h ago•161 comments

Exe.dev/

https://exe.dev/
29•achairapart•58m ago•17 comments

The Best Things and Stuff of 2025

https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.html
88•adityaathalye•3d ago•10 comments

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations
279•astronads•7h ago•124 comments

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/10/lewis-carroll-determinants/
131•tzury•5h ago•26 comments

Always Bet on Text

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
21•jesseduffield•1h ago•5 comments

-tucky (2023)

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=58650
19•benatkin•2d ago•13 comments

Drawing with zero-width characters

https://zw.swerdlow.dev
53•benswerd•5h ago•22 comments

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html
559•birdculture•11h ago•319 comments

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr
170•pranshuparmar•9h ago•23 comments

LearnixOS

https://www.learnix-os.com
192•gtirloni•11h ago•70 comments

Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-roman-soldiers-battled-parasites-at-hadrians-wall/
35•sipofwater•1w ago•21 comments

My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1puojsr/the_device_that_controls_my_insulin_pump_uses_the/
285•davisr•5h ago•106 comments

Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways

https://github.com/NullandKale/NullSplats
42•nullandkale•5h ago•3 comments

Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_GxPHwqkA
70•surprisetalk•6d ago•22 comments

Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment

https://ibrahimcesar.cloud/blog/grok-and-the-naked-king/
50•ibrahimcesar•5h ago•23 comments

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984
364•merlindru•6h ago•107 comments

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

142•kwar13•11h ago•187 comments

MongoBleed

https://github.com/joe-desimone/mongobleed/blob/main/mongobleed.py
48•gpi•6h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700
85•isitcontent•9h ago•16 comments

Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami

https://stanislas.blog/2025/12/migrating-matomo-to-umami-web-analytics/
33•angristan•2d ago•3 comments

How I think about Kubernetes

https://garnaudov.com/writings/how-i-think-about-kubernetes/
63•todsacerdoti•3h ago•36 comments

Moravec's Paradox and the Robot Olympics

https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/olympics
5•beklein•3d ago•0 comments

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23/
98•rcarmo•12h ago•13 comments

Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&...
1182•christoph-heiss•10h ago•1459 comments

The Algebra of Loans in Rust

https://nadrieril.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/the-algebra-of-loans-in-rust.html
182•g0xA52A2A•4d ago•90 comments

Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast

https://github.com/PwnFunction/sandbox
50•vortex_ape•1w ago•13 comments

A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Dec/a-proclamation-regarding-the-restoration-of-the-dash/
102•BeetleB•7h ago•110 comments

What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985)

https://www.straightdope.com/21341789/what-happened-to-all-the-gold-spain-got-from-the-new-world
65•titaniumtown•4d ago•102 comments

Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago

https://acadlisp.de/noscript.html
103•holg•8h ago•31 comments
Open in hackernews

Drawing with zero-width characters

https://zw.swerdlow.dev
53•benswerd•5h ago

Comments

benswerd•5h ago
Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some cool new art.
mkl•1h ago
Images of what it's supposed to look like would really help, as I'm pretty sure none of my browsers are rendering it as you hoped. For me in Chrome the first image looks vaguely like a landscape, with no identifiable features, and in Firefox it looks like grass (both on Android). The dog and tree shapes look distorted and glitchy, but recognisable if you know what they're supposed to be.

I spotted a typo: "font's like".

benswerd•1h ago
Just pushed fix to typo — can you let me know which chromium browser on which platform?

I'm primarily testing on Vivaldi on MacOS but also confirmed working on Chrome on MacOS.

gus_massa•11m ago
I agree, a few screenshots would be helphful for users of unsuported browsers.
5-0•43m ago
Neat! Sparklines could also benefit.
chrisfrantz•2h ago
Love that this exists now, thank you and nice read.

FWIW, didn't have any luck with the generator at the bottom, could be user error.

benswerd•2h ago
What browser was it in?
chrisfrantz•1h ago
Chrome, latest stable
benswerd•1h ago
MacOS Linux Windows or other?
bawolff•2h ago
I can't tell if the results are just very bad or my browser is just not rendering properly. I feel like its probably the later but it would be cool to have a reference picture to be sure.
benswerd•1h ago
which browser are you using?
gabcoh•1h ago
I’m also not seeing the purported images on iOS 26.1 safari
frizlab•1h ago
It apparently only works correctly on chromium-based browsers.
kibwen•1h ago
Appears to mostly work in Firefox, including in the browser tab title, which is funny.
ilaksh•10m ago
I am on Chrome on Android and it does not work. Although some of them it's like halfway there.
benswerd•1h ago
It does not work on iOS Safari at all, it should show a warning at the top saying so
krackers•2h ago
Seems like a more advanced version of zalgotext (which also uses combining marks)
benswerd•1h ago
This is beautiful and I did not know it existed until now tx
achairapart•1h ago
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senfiaj•1h ago
When I visit such pages, my impression is that someone want to break my browser.
benswerd•1h ago
thats the vibe i was going for
ilaksh•1m ago
Another thing in the category of abusing font capabilities is Harfbuzz (OpenType engine) WASM, which if compiled into an application allows fonts to basically run any code. A few examples are an LLM or a Tetris font. Apparently this WASM support is in the font rendering for Chrome and Firefox supposedly.

I was really tempted to try to use it to make a Harfbuzz OS.

https://fuglede.github.io/llama.ttf/