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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

https://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/
84•alienchow•2h ago•56 comments

'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lo
68•lewww•2h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite
108•OlaProis•4h ago•37 comments

The Concise TypeScript Book

https://github.com/gibbok/typescript-book
10•javatuts•1h ago•1 comments

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix
365•thorel•11h ago•72 comments

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

https://trails.pieterma.es/
291•pmaze•13h ago•84 comments

CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool

https://blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/apple-pmu/
44•verte_zerg•3d ago•0 comments

A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project

https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project/
34•susam•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load

https://github.com/unhaya/vam-seek
16•haasiy•3h ago•0 comments

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

https://www.openchaos.dev/
352•stefanvdw1•14h ago•74 comments

Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

89•jamesponddotco•7h ago•29 comments

Code and Let Live

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
283•usrme•1d ago•103 comments

Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/
416•skadamat•18h ago•168 comments

'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-bandersnatch-real-life-works-influences...
4•rafaepta•5d ago•0 comments

AI is a business model stress test

https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
225•amarsahinovic•13h ago•231 comments

Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework

https://jsdev.space/meet-ripple/
7•javatuts•2h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other

https://llmholdem.com/
97•projectyang•11h ago•47 comments

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america
110•marojejian•10h ago•75 comments

An Experimental Approach to Printf in HLSL

https://www.abolishcrlf.org//2025/12/31/Printf.html
12•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission

https://www.modernretail.co/technology/brands-are-upset-that-buy-for-me-is-featuring-their-produc...
77•spenvo•4d ago•48 comments

Show HN: PrintReadyBook

https://printreadybook.com/
8•cboulio•2h ago•2 comments

Datadog, thank you for blocking us

https://www.deductive.ai/blogs/datadog-thank-you-for-blocking-us
58•binarylogic•1d ago•29 comments

Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals

https://www.fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-w1ga4pk97gxq0hj5
69•SilverElfin•3h ago•6 comments

Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude

https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claude-sisyphus
16•deckardt•4h ago•11 comments

Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli
31•jancurn•4d ago•3 comments

Code Is Clay

https://campedersen.com/code-is-clay
54•ecto•11h ago•26 comments

Visual regression tests for personal blogs

https://marending.dev/notes/visual-testing/
6•beingflo•4d ago•2 comments

ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?

https://consciousdigital.org/chatgpt-health-is-a-marketplace-guess-who-is-the-product/
262•yoaviram•2d ago•251 comments

ASCII-Driven Development

https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
113•_hfqa•2d ago•71 comments

Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE

https://github.com/kalcaddle/kodbox
13•indigodaddy•5h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

https://aman.bh/blog/2025/creating-embroidered-charts-with-r-and-imagemagick
78•speckx•4d ago

Comments

throwaway2046•14h 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•13h 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•13h 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•10h 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•9h 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