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AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
49•sidk24•43m ago•29 comments

RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3092
12•ipnon•30m ago•1 comments

GitHub Agentic Workflows

https://github.github.io/gh-aw/
12•mooreds•1h ago•2 comments

Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox

https://github.com/jingkaihe/matchlock
82•jingkai_he•6h ago•35 comments

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

https://hyperallergic.com/curating-a-show-on-my-ineffable-mother-ursula-k-le-guin/
45•bryanrasmussen•4h ago•14 comments

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/08/last-week-on-my-mac-why-e-cores-make-apple-silicon-fast/
103•ingve•3h ago•102 comments

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

https://github.com/joshuanwalker/Raiders2600
36•pacod•5h ago•1 comments

Dave Farber has died

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/
84•vitplister•3h ago•11 comments

DoNotNotify is now Open Source

https://donotnotify.com/opensource.html
273•awaaz•7h ago•44 comments

Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it

https://derekyan.com/ma-book/
31•zhyan7109•3d ago•7 comments

Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/
124•Ezhik•4h ago•114 comments

Beyond agentic coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
182•RebelPotato•13h ago•67 comments

Rabbit Ear "Origami": programmable origami in the browser

https://rabbitear.org/book/origami.html
52•molszanski•4d ago•3 comments

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

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
274•yi_wang•13h ago•132 comments

A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world

https://sozialhelden.github.io/a11yjson/
30•robin_reala•5d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

https://cinegraphs.ai/
55•graphpilled•3h ago•16 comments

OpenClaw Is Changing My Life

https://reorx.com/blog/openclaw-is-changing-my-life/
41•novoreorx•8h ago•81 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023)

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
337•valyala•21h ago•67 comments

The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman: A Personal View (2025)

https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/1075/753
30•cainxinth•3d ago•8 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
454•ColinWright•20h ago•609 comments

Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-05/bitcoin-drops-below-70-000-as-forced-deleverag...
19•heresie-dabord•1h ago•11 comments

I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
212•valyala•21h ago•230 comments

LLMs as the new high level language

https://federicopereiro.com/llm-high/
160•swah•5d ago•306 comments

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

https://aosabook.org/en/v1/bdb.html
64•grep_it•5d ago•8 comments

Kolakoski Sequence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolakoski_sequence
4•surprisetalk•5d ago•0 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
256•mellosouls•23h ago•412 comments

Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
49•monero-xmr•9h ago•61 comments

Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
10•walterbell•6h ago•0 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
209•surprisetalk•20h ago•218 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
204•AlexeyBrin•1d ago•43 comments
Open in hackernews

CSS Optical Illusions

https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68091/css-optical-illusions
224•ulrischa•2w ago

Comments

moralestapia•2w ago
Wow, this is great!

I want to put some of them in my UIs.

herpdyderp•2w ago
I've often run into these unintentionally messing up my UIs!
encom•2w ago
These are all super dark, for some reason.
christophilus•2w ago
You have to actually run them. Otherwise, they're just a dark CodePen preview.
encom•2w ago
Why the extra step of having to click each one? Only a few of them are interactive.
d-us-vb•2w ago
Because codepens can run javascript. And if a page has 50 of them, it might make the page load time much longer. I know that all these examples are pure CSS, and maybe there is a setting in codepen to disable the "Run" button and automatically run it. Still, getting to decide is generally a better pattern than presuming that that's what the user wants, especially when the fact that the code is inside a codepen makes it explicitly not an integral function of the page. "I thought this was just a blog, and now you want me to run all this javascript??" -- some JS hater, probably.

I appreciate getting to choose as much as possible when code runs.

zamadatix•2w ago
Somewhat ironically, Codepen ended up introducing the JS execution requirement to view the content.
sandpaper26•2w ago
This is cool, but more as a demonstration of interesting CSS techniques than optical illusions in my opinion.

Also, interestingly, I seem to be able to force myself to "see through" all of these illusions except for induced gradients, which I can't stop seeing unless I cover part of the screen.

nilslindemann•2w ago
33 - color fan: There is another interesting optical illusion here: The fan seems to rotate faster when not directly looking at it.
myfonj•2w ago
These "dots appearing only while (not) focused" are known as "extinction illusions", namely

    "25 - Appearing Dots"
is "McAnany's type" [1], and

    "26 - Disappearing Dots"
is known as "Ninio's type" [2], according Akiyoshi Kitaoka's materials. (I have recreated them too few years ago [3][4], before getting to the source.)

[1] https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/kieru3e.html#:~:text...

[2] https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/kieru3e.html#:~:text...

[3] https://codepen.io/myf/full/XjdmJy ( scintillation warning)

[4] https://codepen.io/myf/full/jMqoMW ( scintillation warning)

layer8•2w ago
Heh, I used to do these in Excel.
eulgro•2w ago
They could make capchas out of these.
hiccuphippo•2w ago
"Please select the dancers spinning to the right"
brandon_bot•2w ago
Cool!

I did something similar for my personal favorite illusion, the Ames window illusion. Recreated with CSS: https://brandondong.github.io/blog/ames_window/

aj7•2w ago
What would be most interesting is using optical illusions to help decode how brain visual processing is done.
smusamashah•2w ago
This coca cola illusion is my favourite one https://gagadget.com/en/446542-a-photo-of-a-coca-cola-can-th...

Coca cola appears red when no red at all is used in whole image

flexagoon•2w ago
This is a great illusion, though I often see that people try to explain this (and a similar image of strawberries) as "our brain knows this object is supposed to be red so it fills in red", which is not what's happening - it's based on color contrast like many other optical illusions
mediumsmart•2w ago
The background on the can is a very light red. I know from painting murals that a light color close up looks darker from some distance.
hinkley•2w ago
I thought this was going to go the other way.

Worked on a project that wanted to make everything a different grayscale color. It was out of control already when someone one day complained that two pieces of text were a different color.

They weren’t. They were identical. But they were on two different background colors which make the optical illusion that they weren’t. And I reminded them for the twentieth time that we were using too goddamned much gray.

andredurao•2w ago
On #4 (White's Illusion) it looks like for me that the gray bar that is surrounded by black is brighter than the one surrounded by white instead of darker :#