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What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/
22•bovermyer•1h ago

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xp84•53m ago
Tangent, but I deeply appreciate the treatment of footnotes on this article, just floating alongside the text in the right gutter instead of at the bottom of the article. It seems so obvious (at least on desktop) but I haven't seen it before. It's so nice to be able to see whether it's something I want to read, or just a citation, without clicking and losing my place (yes, I know there's usually a link back to the article flow, but especially in the "sticky header" era we've been in for decades, that rarely works well).
bovermyer•50m ago
Thanks! Also, if you squish the browser down to mobile-size, they turn into end notes. It took me a bit of experimentation to get it like this!
card_zero•40m ago
On my tablet (always in landscape, not lacking space), with "desktop site" mode on, the sidenotes are turned into footnotes anyway. (The text is unnecessarily large: perhaps what happened was like mobile device? -> make text big -> no room for side notes now.)
bardackx•32m ago
I was slightly disappointed of them still being labeled as "side notes" even if they were at the bottom
bovermyer•24m ago
Yeah, there is room for improvement there.
yencabulator•7m ago
Quick visual on some mon:

https://mon.xavid.us/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/
56•zazuke•22m ago•21 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates
26•piotrgrabowski•39m ago•3 comments

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley
218•davidcollantes•6h ago•108 comments

What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/
22•bovermyer•1h ago•6 comments

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream

https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/
11•ibobev•58m ago•0 comments

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript
55•simonpure•58m ago•31 comments

Coding Is Not Solved

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved
252•firstSpeaker•2h ago•249 comments

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld
122•nicocarsui•7h ago•28 comments

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

https://github.com/seamusc/papermono-shopping-list
71•seamus_c•6h ago•25 comments

Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

https://bookofrevenue.com/blog/6ab81e9a97a13f0001f7e4e1/postgres-at-time-zone-u-does-not-do-what-...
120•birdculture•1d ago•63 comments

Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

https://github.com/ahmd-sh/hntui
91•ahmd-sh•4h ago•42 comments

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html
959•Eric_Gullichsen•14h ago•410 comments

What makes Lisp difficult to read?

https://paultm.nl/paren-thesis
3•ibobev•1h ago•2 comments

What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like?

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html
22•lumpa•5h ago•5 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1
554•gmays•23h ago•238 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
1621•sancho-panza•20h ago•872 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/
132•mroche•14h ago•292 comments

Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

https://scissor.studio/
39•sia_xi•7h ago•10 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834
154•teleforce•13h ago•60 comments

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425
31•slowin•1h ago•5 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/
309•mooreds•20h ago•104 comments

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
138•evakhoury•21h ago•68 comments

MongoDB CEO resigns "effective immediately" to join Meta, stock drops 20%

https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-20...
86•diek•1h ago•88 comments

Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

https://madrobot.blog/2026/09/28/nvidia-open-agent-safety-platform-openshell-sentry-rogue-ai-agents/
29•jonbaer•47m ago•45 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11
171•midnightfish•20h ago•56 comments

Functional Mechanical Sympathy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHmDnUZCm8
59•surprisetalk•2d ago•11 comments

Guitar amp and effects pedal built on the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-2.06

https://github.com/dashersw/coyopedal
139•arbayi•2d ago•70 comments

Lunar Terminator Paradox

https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html
96•dima55•19h ago•64 comments

Made by Mechanical Means

https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
61•cocoflunchy•9h ago•23 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github
306•birdculture•23h ago•164 comments