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Creating a Color Palette from an Image

https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-an-image
25•evakhoury•1d ago

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comradesmith•48m ago
This is cool, I’m going to try write my own implementation to follow along as a learning exercise
firebot•44m ago
Interesting design choices.

Have you ever tried allrgb.com? The idea is to use every 24-bit RGB triplet once and only once. Many people naturally choose 4096x4096 as the final image size.

aardvarkdriver•27m ago
Related from same author: Generating a color spectrum for an image https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783062

Where the Goblins Came From

https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
102•ilreb•47m ago•31 comments

Craig Venter has died

https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-ge...
128•rdl•2h ago•27 comments

Zed 1.0

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0
1633•salkahfi•13h ago•523 comments

Copy Fail

https://copy.fail/
706•unsnap_biceps•9h ago•293 comments

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito
18•the-mitr•44m ago•2 comments

Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code
15•reconnecting•57m ago•1 comments

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/
756•bpierre•12h ago•127 comments

Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig

https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html
15•xngbuilds•57m ago•1 comments

OpenTrafficMap

https://opentrafficmap.org/
174•moooo99•8h ago•36 comments

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies
278•agwa•11h ago•67 comments

Zulip 12.0 Released

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/
11•tabbott•2h ago•0 comments

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262
1032•homebrewer•9h ago•444 comments

Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260427-00/?p=112271
31•aragonite•2d ago•15 comments

Creating a Color Palette from an Image

https://amandahinton.com/blog/creating-a-color-palette-from-an-image
25•evakhoury•1d ago•3 comments

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/
218•bobbiechen•11h ago•31 comments

Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/...
177•jjba23•19h ago•77 comments

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope
221•0x54MUR41•13h ago•89 comments

DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

https://www.eetimes.com/what-the-dram-crunch-teaches-us-about-system-design/
39•giuliomagnifico•1d ago•3 comments

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/ztgY6bD-founding-growth-engineer
1•shivsak•6h ago

The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
24•lumpa•1h ago•2 comments

A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust

https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/a-grounded-conceptual-model-for-ownership-types-in-rust/
12•tkhattra•2h ago•0 comments

Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials
120•takira•10h ago•35 comments

We need a federation of forges

https://blog.tangled.org/federation/
533•icy•14h ago•338 comments

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

https://github.com/aallan/vera
68•unignorant•6h ago•58 comments

Mike: open-source legal AI

https://mikeoss.com/
32•noleary•3h ago•9 comments

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom
287•momentmaker•8h ago•82 comments

Show HN: Qumulator – quantum circuit simulator, 1000 qubits, no GPU

https://github.com/qumulator/qumulator-sdk
7•nnoorbakhsh•2d ago•3 comments

Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

https://status.claude.com/incidents/2gf1jpyty350
102•rob•2h ago•93 comments

Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL

https://bensimms.moe/postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/
72•nitros•2d ago•15 comments

Online age verification is the hill to die on

https://x.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560
830•Cider9986•12h ago•526 comments