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Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000's of balls, in your terminal

https://github.com/minimaxir/ballin
21•minimaxir•7h ago

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nvader•2h ago
Now, this makes me think of a thing I never knew I wanted: Plasma Pong, but in the terminal.
allenu•2h ago
The effect reminds me of the classic Fishtro demo by Future Crew from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUjRpLn2qWo
nebezb•58m ago
Reading your workflow described in PROMPTS.md was insightful. I appreciate how much thought goes into each follow-up, including the manual steps after each invocation.
minimaxir•20m ago
The prompts turned out significantly better this time!

Level S4 solar radiation event

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026
179•WorldPeas•4h ago•68 comments

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang
51•Scramblejams•3h ago•22 comments

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-i...
174•bikenaga•6h ago•76 comments

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
264•linolevan•7h ago•95 comments

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
13•brogu•50m ago•3 comments

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis
42•mfiguiere•3h ago•6 comments

British redcoat's lost memoir reveals harsh realities of life as a disabled vet

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-british-redcoat-lost-memoir-reveals.html
26•wglb•3d ago•17 comments

From Nevada to Kansas by Glider

https://www.weglide.org/flight/978820
89•sammelaugust•4d ago•14 comments

How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/
23•rbanffy•3d ago•1 comments

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/
60•long•16h ago•49 comments

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/
120•dsr12•6h ago•76 comments

Use Social Media Mindfully

https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/mindful-social-media/
19•mooreds•3h ago•9 comments

Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-microcode-conditions.html
83•diogotozzi•4d ago•22 comments

Weight Transfer for RL Post-Training in under 2 seconds

https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/weight-transfer-for-rl-post-training-in-under-2-seconds
16•jxmorris12•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000's of balls, in your terminal

https://github.com/minimaxir/ballin
21•minimaxir•7h ago•4 comments

Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYTOykSqf2Y
50•evakhoury•3d ago•11 comments

Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks

https://cc-sw.com/find-my-and-find-hub-network-research/
62•findmysanity•5d ago•6 comments

CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024)

https://hawkticehurst.com/2024/11/css-web-components-for-marketing-sites/
97•zigzag312•9h ago•47 comments

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
94•praptak•3h ago•42 comments

Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis

https://radicle.xyz/2026/01/14/radicle-1.6.0
17•zdw•5d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel

https://pipenet.dev/
80•punkpeye•8h ago•15 comments

There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers

https://www.howtogeek.com/theres-a-hidden-android-setting-that-spots-fake-cell-towers/
98•rmason•4h ago•26 comments

Show HN: A creative coding library for making art with desktop windows

https://github.com/willmeyers/window-art
22•willmeyers•4h ago•2 comments

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php
131•kaycebasques•22h ago•40 comments

Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings

https://teendifferent.substack.com/p/apply_chat_template-is-the-safety
95•teendifferent•19h ago•25 comments

Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/
111•bobbiechen•7h ago•67 comments

Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes

https://tangled.org/luthenwald.tngl.sh/splined
71•luthenwald•4d ago•16 comments

Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
414•hn_acker•5h ago•137 comments

GLM-4.7-Flash

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
325•scrlk•9h ago•108 comments

A Brief History of Ralph

https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/brief-history-of-ralph
54•dhorthy•6h ago•30 comments