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Show HN: Isopolis renders San Francisco as an isometric pixel map
A developer has shared Isopolis, a browser-based project that depicts San Francisco as an isometric, pixel-art map. Posted to Hacker News under the Show HN conv
ssh.place: A Shared Pixel Canvas You Draw On Over SSH — No Account Needed
ssh.place is a communal drawing board reachable entirely through SSH. Running `ssh ssh.place` drops you onto a single shared 200×60 grid where anyone can place
Stop Being a 'Meat Proxy' for Your AI
A common workplace pattern has emerged where people paste a question into Slack, a pull request, or a group chat and reply only with a raw, verbatim block of Cl
SwiftUI at 7: Still a Perpetual Beta, and a Symptom of Apple's Decline
A senior Apple-platform engineer argues that SwiftUI, launched with fanfare in 2019 as the declarative, cross-platform future of Apple UI development, has faile
The Habsburg Frog: How a Deformed-Jaw SVG Became a Quirky LLM Benchmark
A developer has turned an absurd prompt — draw an SVG frog with a Habsburg jaw, the exaggerated protruding mandible associated with the inbred Habsburg dynasty
Why Devs Trust Their Editors but Not Their AI: Tools Encode Process, Not Fixes
Developer loyalty to tools like Vim, Emacs, or a finely tuned IDE isn't nostalgia—it's accumulated trust. Years of muscle memory turn a tool into an extension o
Why Hollywood Films Everywhere Except Hollywood
Film production has steadily drained out of Los Angeles, a trend crystallized after the 2023 labor strikes and 2025 wildfires and now fueling grassroots campaig
Wind and solar edge past fossil fuels in Germany's grid for the first time
In 2025, wind and solar together supplied more of Germany's electricity than fossil fuels did — 225 TWh (44%) versus 217 TWh (43%). It's a first for the country
AMD's MI355X Beats NVIDIA's B300 on Cost-per-Token for the 2.8T Kimi K3
The latest wave of open-source models has grown too large for NVIDIA's densest nodes. Kimi K3 carries 2.8T parameters — over 1.5TB of weights before any KV cach
BMW Pushes Full-Screen Spider-Man Ad to Dashboards of Cars People Already Own
On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day advertisement to the central Control Display of customer vehicles across more tha
Bor v0.8.0 brings GPO-style fleet policy management to Linux desktops
Bor, an open-source tool for centrally managing Linux desktop configuration the way Group Policy handles Windows fleets, shipped v0.8.0 with three new policy ty
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 stretches AI video to 30-second one-take clips
ByteDance has released Seedance 2.5, an update to its audio-video generation model that doubles single-pass output from 15 to 30 seconds and adds multi-round ex