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Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app 599 by Keavon | 84 comments on Hacker News. For the past three years I've been building what I hope will be the next Blender, tackling the lack of any good 2D design or image editing tools outside the Adobe monopoly. This was our first year participating in Google Summer of Code and this Q3 update includes the big payoff from that, covering the most progress we've made so far as a project. If you're a Rust dev, consider getting involved as we apply for the next GSoC in the new year— you could be our intern next summer :) Q3 progress report: https://ift.tt/SAmeJWy

Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX 582 by judell | 231 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator 614 by klimeryk | 119 comments on Hacker News. Hi, all! Author here. What started as a small tool I built for a job interview, became "The Most Over-engineered Deal With It Emoji Generator": - All operations done fully client-side - no backend, no private data leaves your browser. - Uses machine learning models (MediaPipe Face Detector task) to automatically scale and position glasses on the detected faces. - Extensive customization options for glasses: - Placement of glasses anywhere on the input image (including slightly going outside it). - Change the size of glasses. - No limit on the number of glasses. - Flip the glasses vertically or horizontally. - Customize the direction from which the glasses appear on the image. - Different types of glasses. - GIF output options: - Looping mode. - Number of frames. - Frame delay. - Separate delay setting for last frame. - Output size. - Celebration confetti -

Web Browser Engineering (2021) 587 by MrVandemar | 98 comments on Hacker News.

Busy Status Bar 773 by aleksi | 258 comments on Hacker News.

The quiet art of attention 741 by billwear | 263 comments on Hacker News.

Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail 590 by mpweiher | 566 comments on Hacker News.

How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video] 568 by Tomte | 94 comments on Hacker News.

Working from home is powering productivity 554 by rwmj | 418 comments on Hacker News.

1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor 553 by mmsc | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: HTML for People 594 by blakewatson | 207 comments on Hacker News.

The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications 555 by sebnun | 139 comments on Hacker News.

AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux 575 by 6a74 | 187 comments on Hacker News.

DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing 538 by geerlingguy | 89 comments on Hacker News.

Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom 573 by creatonez | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Dookie Demastered 511 by nickthegreek | 148 comments on Hacker News.

John Carmack on inlined code (2014) 494 by bpierre | 335 comments on Hacker News.

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] 615 by drpossum | 580 comments on Hacker News.

Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge 582 by dblitt | 441 comments on Hacker News.

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? 578 by 1317 | 133 comments on Hacker News.

Sq.io: jq for databases and more 523 by stavepan | 108 comments on Hacker News.

Were RNNs all we needed? 503 by beefman | 258 comments on Hacker News.

Noise 565 by amadeuspagel | 73 comments on Hacker News.

It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word 560 by redwoolf | 453 comments on Hacker News.

Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing 537 by cernocky | 104 comments on Hacker News.

Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 529 by chrisdemarco | 165 comments on Hacker News.

Meta Movie Gen 551 by brianjking | 483 comments on Hacker News.

Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation 529 by tosh | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public 579 by jgrahamc | 179 comments on Hacker News.

The Fastest Mutexes 553 by jart | 216 comments on Hacker News.

A $1k Wheelchair 539 by bo0tzz | 222 comments on Hacker News.

Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth 506 by SvenSchnieders | 240 comments on Hacker News.