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

https://openciv3.org/
503•klaussilveira•8h ago•139 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
842•xnx•14h ago•506 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
57•matheusalmeida•1d ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
166•dmpetrov•9h ago•76 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
166•isitcontent•8h ago•18 comments

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

https://vecti.com
281•vecti•10h ago•127 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
60•quibono•4d ago•10 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
340•aktau•15h ago•164 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
226•eljojo•11h ago•141 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
332•ostacke•14h ago•89 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
422•todsacerdoti•16h ago•221 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
34•kmm•4d ago•2 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
364•lstoll•15h ago•251 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
12•denuoweb•1d ago•0 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
79•SerCe•4h ago•60 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
59•phreda4•8h ago•9 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...
16•gmays•3h ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
211•i5heu•11h ago•158 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
9•romes•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
123•vmatsiiako•13h ago•51 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
33•gfortaine•6h ago•9 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
160•limoce•3d ago•80 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
258•surprisetalk•3d ago•34 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/
1020•cdrnsf•18h ago•425 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
52•rescrv•16h ago•17 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
44•lebovic•1d ago•13 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
96•ray__•5h ago•46 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
81•antves•1d ago•59 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
36•betamark•15h ago•29 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
10•denysonique•5h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

https://aman.bh/blog/2025/creating-embroidered-charts-with-r-and-imagemagick
89•speckx•1mo ago

Comments

throwaway2046•3w ago
That's quite an authentic looking effect! Using it for charts is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind, but it does make them more appealing in a way.
behnamoh•3w ago
Related: Does anyone know how we can have monochrome plots that look like the ones you see in old books? They were gorgeous, especially with how creative they had to be in an era that had no UNICODE characters. The ink would also leak and often the lines were rounded and spread out a bit.

I was able to get close: https://imgur.com/a/zLiYlnG

amnbh•3w ago
OP of the article here, this looks cool!

Since you're looking at print for reference, it is usually very difficult to get the same imperfections with our nice, optimized-for-clarity digital tools. You already have a nice base layer, which with some similar post-processing can get you what you want. I find it helpful to look at the reference you have in mind and then work backwards from it layer by layer. For example, you can zoom into risograph prints to look at the textures or look at how people recreate print misregistration/ink offset in Photoshop to start with and then try to translate it into code (or just Photoshop if you like!). I gave it a quick shot but more can be done: https://i.ibb.co/QvZvjNpf/output.png

magick input.png \ \( +clone -blur 0x0.6 -roll +1+1 -level 60%,100% \) -compose Darken -composite \ -level 48%,55% \ \( +clone +level-colors grey50 -attenuate 3.5 +noise Gaussian -colorspace gray \ -alpha set -channel A -evaluate set 10% +channel \) \ -compose Hardlight -composite \ output.png

behnamoh•3w ago
thanks for your comment, your version also looks very old-book-y!

I'll try to work on it more. Something that I find tough is the balance between readability of text vs the "FakeBold effect".

1a527dd5•3w ago
I love ImageMagick. I've used it a few times to make a PDF look scanned.

convert -density 90 input.pdf -rotate 0.5 -attenuate 0.2 +noise Multiplicative -colorspace Gray output.pdf