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a deep dive into ASCII rendering

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Recently, I’ve been spending my time building an image-to-ASCII renderer. Below is the result — try dragging it around, the demo is interactive! One thing I spent a lot of effort on is getting edges looking sharp. Take a look at this rotating cube example: Try opening the “split” view. Notice how well the characters follow the contour of the square. This renderer works well for animated scenes, like the ones above, but we can also use it to render static images: The image…

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originalankur/maptoposter: Transform your favorite cities into beautiful, minimalist designs. MapToPoster lets you create and export visually striking map posters with code.

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Generate beautiful, minimalist map posters for any city in the world. pip install -r requirements.txt python create_map_poster.py --city <city> --country <country> [options] Option Short Description Default --city -c City name required --country -C Country name required --theme -t Theme name feature_based --distance -d Map radius in meters 29000 --list-themes List all available themes # Iconic grid patterns python create_map_poster.py -c "New York" -C "USA" -t noir -d 12000 # Manhattan grid python create_map_poster.py -c "Barcelona" -C "Spain" -t warm_beige -d 8000 # Eixample district…

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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse – Langfuse Blog

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 2026/01/16Our goal continues to be building the best LLM engineering platform ClickHouse has acquired Langfuse. If you’re reading this as a Langfuse user, your first question is probably: What does this mean for me? Our roadmap stays the same, our goal continues to be building the best LLM engineering platform, and we remain committed to open source and self-hosting. There are no immediate changes to how you use Langfuse and how you can reach out to us. What does change is our ability to…

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you have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future. Have you thought about how this is going to play out? I understand you may be at a place where you are insecure about money, and that insecurity is what drives you. But why do you think having more money will fix that insecurity? In the future, when labor is…

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Blocked Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block. You can read Reddit's Terms of…

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Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC — Neodyme

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🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Intro¶ In July 2025, we from Neodyme got together in Munich and did security research on a bunch of IoT devices, ranging from bluetooth headsets, to door locks, to drones. One of these was the Potensic Atom 2. It’s a photo and video drone with a gimbal-stabilized 4K camera and a remote control that you hook up to your own smartphone and the proprietary app. If you’ve ever flown a DJI Mini 4K, this drone will look very familiar to you. Potensic Atom 2 This…

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Gas Town is a glimpse into the future

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I first encountered Gas Town, I was already familiar with some of Steve Yegge’s work, especially his infamous 2011, accidentally public, Google memo. In it, Yegge recounted what Jeff Bezos had mandated at Amazon in 2002: every service from every team everywhere within Amazon must be exposed as an API. This mandate would eventually be what led to AWS’s emergence, invention, and market dominance. It’s no mistake that the AWS platform is the way it is because of this API and team service-oriented…

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Germany’s shut down of nuclear plants a ‘huge mistake’, says Merz

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Germany’s decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants was a “huge mistake” and has come at a high cost to the economy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said yesterday, speaking to the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dessau. His comments reignited debate over the country’s long-term energy strategy and power generation capacity. “It was a serious strategic mistake to phase out nuclear energy … we simply don’t have enough energy generation capacity,” Merz said. Germany’s energy system now relies on state intervention…

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openfunkHQ/reMix: Official documentation for re:Mix, the kitchen mixer good for people and the planet.

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Official documentation for the re:Mix kitchen mixer, maintained by Open Funk. This repository contains a technical description, an assembly guide, a Bill of Materials, as well as STEPs for the CNC milled parts and STLs for the 3D printed parts. License The license "CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal" applies to all parts of the documentation in the repository. 2-phase release re:Mix has been designed internally and the open source release takes place in 2 phases: Body incl. electronics, as a base…

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FLUX.2 [klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: FLUX.2 [klein]: Towards Interactive Visual IntelligenceToday, we release the FLUX.2 [klein] model family, our fastest image models to date. FLUX.2 [klein] unifies generation and editing in a single compact architecture, delivering state-of-the-art quality with end-to-end inference as low as under a second. Built for applications that require real-time image generation without sacrificing quality, and runs on consumer hardware with as little as 13GB VRAM.Try it now for free hereDemo showing editing with FLUX.2 [klein]Why go [klein]?Visual Intelligence is entering a new era. As AI agents…

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