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2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

https://jkm.dev/posts/how-2004-runescape-fit-a-multiplayer-rpg-into-56k-dialup/
56•fagnerbrack•3h ago•32 comments

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

https://antigravity.google/docs/boost/
10•simonpure•56m ago•0 comments

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-s...
400•speckx•11h ago•99 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/
539•cutoff•13h ago•195 comments

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
247•keithcarolus•9h ago•32 comments

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
271•matthewsinclair•1d ago•31 comments

Lion-man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man
75•gurjeet•2d ago•34 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extend...
331•Tomte•4d ago•123 comments

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

https://datacolada.org/138
99•Anon84•4h ago•76 comments

Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk

https://cgicoffee.com/blog/2026/04/tcl-tk-develop-cross-platform-cli-gui-tools-tutorial-guide
62•aryonoco•5h ago•34 comments

Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/labirinto-borges-venice-reopening
24•gone35•3d ago•3 comments

Fastpotify

https://fastpotify.rocks/
6•nreece•1h ago•0 comments

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
335•thm•15h ago•382 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de
143•con•2d ago•29 comments

Run macOS Software on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/
154•Bluestein•5h ago•51 comments

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2026/08/30/SBFXUIJQYZEARKP5T4FBAY25HQ/
170•geox•1d ago•49 comments

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

https://www.wsj.com/tech/gps-jammers-dead-zones-e76f3261
85•vinnyglennon•1d ago•95 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
282•jcurbo•16h ago•159 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring engineers

1•dkobran•7h ago

RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/
180•Bluestein•11h ago•105 comments

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/
197•ijidak•13h ago•52 comments

Tailcat: Tailscale Without Tailscale, by Tailscale

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailcat
8•ricochet11•1h ago•0 comments

'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-mad-honey-heart-sold-online.html
162•samizdis•3d ago•99 comments

Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24j5192j7jo
59•1659447091•1h ago•21 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html
195•robinpie•1d ago•151 comments

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test
166•hazebooth•4d ago•91 comments

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell
4•jombib•1h ago•1 comments

Snakes and Ladders

https://entropicthoughts.com/snakes-and-ladders
19•surprisetalk•5d ago•10 comments

Visualizing Combos in Judo in R

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/the-dynamics-of-the-gentle-way-exploring-judo-attack-combinati...
15•asaiacai•5d ago•0 comments

No country for mediocre mathematicians

https://garvvee.substack.com/p/no-country-for-mediocre-mathematicians
174•reasonableklout•2d ago•101 comments
Open in hackernews

Optimal transport is art: images to collection of optimally placed particles

https://blog.wolfram.com/2016/05/06/computational-stippling-can-machines-do-as-well-as-humans/
3•adec314•2d ago

Comments

adec314•2d ago
- Source of the blog (not me): https://blog.wolfram.com/author/silvia-hao/

Stippling is an old topic. The question is simple: how to optimaly place points to fit a target distribution. Artists do that, and mathematicians search for algorithms to do it with computers, which is quite a challenge because naive formulations are intractable.

- Implementation based on Gaussian Blue Noise (me, both notebook and package): Feel free to explore stippling on your own images, from google Colab https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1W15QE8Boj0-Ld4Dx3N2... or directly by using the package from github https://github.com/For-a-few-DPPs-more/Recursive-Gaussian-Bl...

-Source for the theory of Gaussian Blue Noise (not me): Ahmed, Abdalla G. M. and Ren, Jing and Wonka, Peter (2022, doi 10.48550/arXiv.2206.07798)

markstock•48m ago
This seems very related to adaptive meshing algorithms, for which there are many naive formulations, and not all are intractable.