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Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor

https://files.littlebird.com.au/ascii-sketch.html
53•schappim•3w ago

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prabal97•3w ago
Wow! That was cool to play with.

1. How does one erase the drawings made with the pencil tool? 2. How'd you make this? Is this FOSS?

schappim•3w ago
1. It just removes the char

2. CC + minor tweaks by hand.

3. Yup, go nuts, view source and pull it apart.

dandersch•3w ago
Claude code seems to have gotten the backslashes in your circles mixed up. They look more round when \ is / and vice versa.
ynac•3w ago
Very Monodraw-like, but web-based. Same UI makes it an easy road replacement. I'll put it on my start page for when I'm not on my own machine.
schappim•3w ago
100% inspired by Monodraw.
ChrisArchitect•3w ago
Similar-ish:

Show HN: ASCII based Figma like editor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594292

Both strong efforts.

schappim•3w ago
This is better than what I've thrown together, 100% recommend, would have used it if I'd known about it!
greggman65•3w ago
I've never made one of these so I have no idea what all the issues are but I feel like I want it to act like presentation software. I want to be able to connect boxes with lines/arrows, then drag the boxes and have the lines stay connected to the boxes. I probably also want group things like I can in most structured drawing programs. Maybe that doesn't work well with ASCII

Like a simple example, I expect if have a object selected and press Cmd/Ctrl-C, Cmd/Ctrl-V I get a duplicate.

These interactions seem like basic table stakes

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
197•yi_wang•7h ago•78 comments

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https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
93•RebelPotato•6h ago•24 comments

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17•monero-xmr•3h ago•4 comments

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html
5•awaaz•1h ago•3 comments

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284•valyala•15h ago•55 comments

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223•mellosouls•17h ago•378 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

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95•swah•4d ago•175 comments

The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

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22•grep_it•5d ago•2 comments

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180•surprisetalk•14h ago•181 comments

LineageOS 23.2

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33•pentagrama•3h ago•7 comments

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https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
189•AlexeyBrin•20h ago•36 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
191•vinhnx•18h ago•19 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

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79•gnufx•13h ago•62 comments

uLauncher

https://github.com/jrpie/launcher
19•dtj1123•4d ago•0 comments

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49•witnessme•4h ago•14 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

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352•jesperordrup•1d ago•104 comments

Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)

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45•Rygian•2d ago•16 comments

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3•mooreds•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
97•momciloo•15h ago•23 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
143•samasblack•17h ago•87 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
600•theblazehen•3d ago•218 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

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112•thelok•16h ago•24 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
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FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs

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123•randycupertino•10h ago•250 comments

Selection rather than prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
38•languid-photic•4d ago•20 comments

Where did all the starships go?

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173•speckx•4d ago•258 comments

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https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
307•isitcontent•1d ago•39 comments