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3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power (❄️ Score: 151+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6waR3
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AMD's CDNA 4 Architecture Announcement (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgP6
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What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6whcG
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Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024) (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wggU
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Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6whmt
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Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court (Score: 160+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgLf
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Should we design for iffy internet? (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wfRs
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Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers (🔥 Score: 157+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgPy
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Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgwf
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wgwf
GitHub CI/CD observability with OpenTelemetry step by step guide (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vXpn
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Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (Score: 150+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6weDx
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No Hello (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wftz
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Dull Men’s Club (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wdGE
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What happens when clergy take psilocybin (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wefk
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Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wezB
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Make little apps for you and your friends (Score: 155+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6witV
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LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers (Score: 150+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6whbp
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O3 Turns Pro (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wggv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wggv
Now might be the best time to learn software development (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgh5
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Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6whaA
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Building Effective AI Agents (Score: 154+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgRK
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The Grug Brained Developer (2022) (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6whqG
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The magic of through running (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wfkF
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Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusable Rocket (🔥 Score: 157+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wgjg
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Show HN: I recreated 90s Mode X demoscene effects in JavaScript and Canvas (Score: 152+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6weU5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6weU5
After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch.
The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a <canvas> element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like:
* The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo.
* The buffer-averaging algorithm for the Fire effect to make the flames feel more natural.
* The distance-based texture crossfading in the Tunnel to create the illusion of flying through different sections.
* A 2D scalar field for the Metaballs to calculate the surface normals for that classic blended, metallic look (I did the best I could with the given constraints).
It was a great exercise in getting back to first principles and a reminder of how much those early demo programmers could accomplish with so little. I hope it brings back some good memories for others who grew up with this stuff.
I'd love to hear about your favorite classic demos or if there are any other iconic effects you think would be a fun challenge to add.
Cheers!
How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video] (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wbtp
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Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wfc6
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Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wbpt
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OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wen6
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Snorting the AGI with Claude Code (Score: 157+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wczT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wczT