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WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI
Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
Seeking recommendations for books about how hard things got done. I like the Acquired podcast, but am looking for reading deeper than it.<p>I’m reading The Big Rich about the oil boom in Texas and like it. I also liked Barbarians at the Gate about how private equity got created and how deals went down.<p>Less interested in people and character studies. More interested in the mechanics of how things that we take for granted actually got built and what the world they were made in was like.
I've acquired a new superpower
I've acquired a new superpower
Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer
Hey there, I'm a big fan of the game Factorio and the beauty of factories in the game. That's why I created a website to artfully visualize Factorio blueprints a few years ago. With the new 2.0 update, a few things broke. I took the opportunity to rewrite everything from Python to JavaScript and support Factorio 2.0 and the Space Age DLC. It's now also possible to easily modify the style of the drawings. Let me know if you find any bugs or if you have ideas for features.
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You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff
NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation
Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
I realized that the PDF engines of modern desktop browsers (PDFium and PDF.js) support JavaScript with enough I/O primitives to make a basic game like Tetris.<p>It was a bit tricky to find a union of features that work in both engines, but in the end it turns out that showing/hiding annotation "fields" works well to make monochrome pixels, and keyboard input can be achieved by typing in a text input box.<p>All in all it's quite janky but a nice reminder of how general purpose PDF scripting can be. The linked PDF is all ASCII so you can just open it in a text editor, or have a look at the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/ThomasRinsma/pdftris/blob/main/gengrid.py">https://github.com/ThomasRinsma/pdftris/blob/main/gengrid.py</a>
Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
I realized that the PDF engines of modern desktop browsers (PDFium and PDF.js) support JavaScript with enough I/O primitives to make a basic game like Tetris.<p>It was a bit tricky to find a union of features that work in both engines, but in the end it turns out that showing/hiding annotation "fields" works well to make monochrome pixels, and keyboard input can be achieved by typing in a text input box.<p>All in all it's quite janky but a nice reminder of how general purpose PDF scripting can be. The linked PDF is all ASCII so you can just open it in a text editor, or have a look at the source code here: <a href="https://github.com/ThomasRinsma/pdftris/blob/main/gengrid.py">https://github.com/ThomasRinsma/pdftris/blob/main/gengrid.py</a>
Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
Show HN: Atlas of Space
Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System.<p>As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun.<p>The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits and replaying different spacecraft missions.<p>Hope you have fun clicking around, and curious to hear what I should improve next!
Show HN: Atlas of Space
Hello HN! Sharing a recent side project of mine, the Atlas of Space, that I built out to explore the Solar System.<p>As a long-time space nerd, I realized recently that I didn't have a good intuition on the scale, speed, and relative orientation of the celestial bodies around us. So over the break I built out a kind of spatial Wikipedia to click around and learn about planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun.<p>The physics is all simulated in the browser using simple Newtonian mechanics. There's a lot left to do from here, including modeling objects in non-Keplerian orbits and replaying different spacecraft missions.<p>Hope you have fun clicking around, and curious to hear what I should improve next!
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