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Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

2026-06-24 @ 03:17:47Points: 73Comments: 20

"Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds

2026-06-24 @ 02:38:47Points: 55Comments: 17

The Teensy Executable Revisited

2026-06-24 @ 02:30:13Points: 29Comments: 3

The war on terror primed America for autocracy

2026-06-24 @ 02:23:39Points: 188Comments: 141

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

2026-06-24 @ 02:21:47Points: 67Comments: 11

DiffusionBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Generative Diffusion Transformers

2026-06-24 @ 02:12:31Points: 31Comments: 0

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

2026-06-24 @ 00:28:41Points: 207Comments: 123

Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

2026-06-23 @ 23:42:46Points: 223Comments: 117

Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

2026-06-23 @ 23:26:43Points: 330Comments: 330

Jerry's Map

2026-06-23 @ 18:40:22Points: 438Comments: 51

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

2026-06-23 @ 18:13:40Points: 461Comments: 278

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

2026-06-23 @ 18:10:47Points: 323Comments: 42

Swift Package Index joins Apple

2026-06-23 @ 18:00:58Points: 198Comments: 66

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

2026-06-23 @ 17:50:22Points: 480Comments: 144

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

2026-06-23 @ 16:30:18Points: 276Comments: 187

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

2026-06-23 @ 14:24:21Points: 376Comments: 71

I built an open-source WYSIWYG TikZ editor (available for web and desktop) that allows you to edit your TikZ source code visually by dragging and resizing elements. It simultaneously shows the source code and the rendered figure, and lets you edit either one while the two views stay in sync. I’m not aware of any other editors that are simultaneously source editors and WYSIWYG (even for editing SVG or HTML), and I’m quite pleased with how well the combination works.

The way the app is implemented is by parsing the TikZ code, and at all times keeping track of the exact source location of each object. Thereby, when a user drags an element to a new position, the app can override just the numbers in the coordinate without changing anything else in the code (such as line breaks or indentation).

This approach essentially required reimplementing a large fraction of TikZ, which is the kind of task that no human would ever want to do. I think building software that doesn’t exist yet because it would be impossibly tedious to code up is one of the great new possibilities thanks to coding agents, and it’s worth brainstorming for other examples. (This app was built almost entirely by Codex.)

Implementing the app came with lots of fun side quests, including building converters from SVG / pptx / ipe to TikZ, re-implementing the LaTeX hyphenation and line-breaking algorithm to support multi-line nodes, and making a color picker that uses the red!20!black color mixing notation used in LaTeX papers.

The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring

2026-06-23 @ 11:40:50Points: 138Comments: 67

The Coming Loop

2026-06-23 @ 11:06:41Points: 382Comments: 266

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison

2026-06-22 @ 18:03:03Points: 148Comments: 84

Rhombus Language 1.0

2026-06-22 @ 17:50:40Points: 141Comments: 32

Inventing the Future, One Lisp Machine at a Time

2026-06-22 @ 15:24:40Points: 96Comments: 10

QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture

2026-06-22 @ 13:46:57Points: 39Comments: 17

Remaking BBC test cards to teach you video processing

2026-06-22 @ 01:20:26Points: 19Comments: 0

F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

2026-06-21 @ 20:44:33Points: 58Comments: 38

Hunting Million-Digit Primes from My Loft

2026-06-21 @ 17:58:49Points: 17Comments: 2

Printing Gaussian Splats

2026-06-21 @ 12:49:02Points: 266Comments: 30

Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine

2026-06-20 @ 19:10:41Points: 68Comments: 24

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

2026-06-20 @ 18:58:14Points: 109Comments: 13

Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

2026-06-20 @ 18:24:55Points: 136Comments: 39

Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit

2026-06-18 @ 14:23:38Points: 133Comments: 26

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