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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
58•theblazehen•2d ago•11 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
638•klaussilveira•13h ago•188 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
936•xnx•18h ago•549 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
35•helloplanets•4d ago•31 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
113•matheusalmeida•1d ago•28 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
13•kaonwarb•3d ago•12 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
45•videotopia•4d ago•1 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
214•dmpetrov•13h ago•106 comments

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

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

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
479•todsacerdoti•21h ago•238 comments

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

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

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
279•eljojo•16h ago•166 comments

An Update on Heroku

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

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
17•jesperordrup•3h ago•10 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

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

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
58•kmm•5d ago•4 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
245•i5heu•16h ago•193 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
14•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/
54•gfortaine•11h 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
143•vmatsiiako•18h ago•65 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/
1061•cdrnsf•22h ago•438 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

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

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
284•surprisetalk•3d ago•38 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
137•SerCe•9h ago•125 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...
29•gmays•8h ago•11 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
63•rescrv•21h ago•23 comments
Open in hackernews

Drawing with zero-width characters

https://zw.swerdlow.dev
122•benswerd•1mo ago

Comments

benswerd•1mo ago
Figured this out a couple weeks ago, hoping it can lead to some cool new art.
mkl•1mo 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•1mo 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•1mo ago
I agree, a few screenshots would be helphful for users of unsuported browsers.
5-0•1mo ago
Neat! Sparklines could also benefit.
chrisfrantz•1mo 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•1mo ago
What browser was it in?
chrisfrantz•1mo ago
Chrome, latest stable
benswerd•1mo ago
MacOS Linux Windows or other?
bawolff•1mo 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•1mo ago
which browser are you using?
gabcoh•1mo ago
I’m also not seeing the purported images on iOS 26.1 safari
frizlab•1mo ago
It apparently only works correctly on chromium-based browsers.
kibwen•1mo ago
Appears to mostly work in Firefox, including in the browser tab title, which is funny.
frizlab•1mo ago
It did not work at all for me on latest Firefox (macOS).
ilaksh•1mo ago
I am on Chrome on Android and it does not work. Although some of them it's like halfway there.
marginalia_nu•1mo ago
Does not work for me with Chrome, though I guess it's missing some font.
benswerd•1mo ago
It does not work on iOS Safari at all, it should show a warning at the top saying so
doodpants•1mo ago
I do not miss the days of "This site best viewed with browser X".
egypturnash•1mo ago
Nor on MacOS Safari.
bawolff•1mo ago
Android chrome and firefox.
esperent•1mo ago
Same here, Brave on Android. I see a load of wavy vertical lines with some striations that could pass for abstract art, but no obvious image.
krackers•1mo ago
Seems like a more advanced version of zalgotext (which also uses combining marks)
benswerd•1mo ago
This is beautiful and I did not know it existed until now tx
achairapart•1mo ago
Testinۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗۗ ings۪۪۪۪۪۪۪۪۪۪۫۫۫۫۫۫۫۫۫۫...
araes•1mo ago
Also,

Tۜۜۜۜۜeۢۢۢۢۢsۛۛۛۛۛtۙۙۙۙۙiۚۚۚۚۚnۨۨۨۨۨg۫۫۫۫۫

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Tۜۜۜۜۜeۢۢۢۢۢsۛۛۛۛۛtۙۙۙۙۙiۚۚۚۚۚnۨۨۨۨۨg۫۫۫۫۫

Author's specific examples: Aۜۢۛۜۢۛۜۢۛۜۢۛۜۢۛ Bۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ۙۚۨ۫ Cۣۣۣۣۣۣۣۭۭۭۭۭۭۭ Dۣۭۣۭۣۭۣۭۣۭۜۢۜۢۜۢۜۢۜۢ

Further Tॅॅॅॅॅeॆॆॆॆॆsेेेेेtैैैैैiॉॉॉॉॉnँँँँँgॄॄॄॄॄ with oೄೄೄೄೄtೋೋೋೋೋhೌೌೌೌೌe్్్్్rඃඃඃඃඃ lិីឹឺុូួើឿៀេែៃោៅំះៈ៉៊់៌៍៎៏័៑្៓aᢅᢅᢅᢅᢅᢆᢆᢆᢆᢆn଼ାିୀୁୂୃେୈୋୌ୍ୖୗg֒ ֓ ֔ ֕ ֖ ֗ ֘ ֙ ֚ ֛ ֜ ֝ ֞ ֟ ֠ ֡ ֣ ֤ ֥ ֦ ֧ ֨ ֩ ֪ ֫ ֬ ֭ ֮ ֯ ְ ֱ ֲ ֳ ִ ֵ ֶ ַ ָ ֹ ֻ ּ ֽuﬞ ﬞ ﬞ ﬞages .

Now attempts with superscript A Bⷠⷡⷢⷣⷤⷥⷦⷧⷨⷩⷪⷫⷬⷭⷮⷯⷰⷱⷲⷳⷴⷵⷶⷷⷸⷹⷺⷻⷼⷽⷾⷿꙴꙵꙶꙷꙸꙹꙺꙻꚞꚟ Cꙷꙷꙷꙷꙷꙷꙷ Dⷶⷠⷡⷢⷣⷷⷤⷥⷦⷧⷨⷩⷪⷫⷬⷭⷮⷯⷰⷱⷲⷳⷻ E F G H (Some kind of work, U+32x thru U+34x were E-G, U+20Dx was H, work on websites, just won't copy/paste to forum)

Edit: Apparently, you cannot write direct html entities.

Edit: And you cannot directly write the characters either. Rendering seems rather finicky on Firefox, while Chrome seems somewhat consistent.

Actually, on Chrome, copying the characters directly "kind of" worked. They're still shown next to each other, yet some of them combined and actually created towers.

Writing the HTML entities on a private webpage and then copying them over seemed to work the best.

Edit: Apparently, at least some of the Devanagari unicode behaves similarly.

Edit: Several other languages combining marks taken from https://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/unicode-sample-3-2.html and https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Mn seem to also work.

After further testing, Both browsers are really finicky, and have wildly different interpretations of pasting combining characters directly, vs writing HTML entities, vs copying the combined stack from an existing site.

senfiaj•1mo ago
When I visit such pages, my impression is that someone want to break my browser.
benswerd•1mo ago
thats the vibe i was going for
ilaksh•1mo 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/

NooneAtAll3•1mo ago
firefox refuses to render these and maxes out my CPU fans xD
weare138•1mo ago
Warning: This article is best viewed in a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, etc.) for intended rendering of stacking marks.

Chromium is the new Internet Explorer.