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coinfusedon Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

This is much appreciated! Thanks for making this decision

coinfusedon Planet Labs' open satellite feed

I am using DuckDB + Parquet + HTTP range requests for a current project and it's a great combination for data exploration tools that run in the browser.

coinfusedon Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

Nice website! Could you tell use a bit more about this project? What prompted you to make it? I've been looking for a good ad-free, account-free minimal flag learning website and this looks like a good fit.

coinfusedon Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband

The 24-hour run (counterpart of this event from University of Leuven) has their counting system open-sourced here (although it's no longer used I think):

https://github.com/ULYSSIS-KUL/ipp/

Great blog post @robinpdev!

coinfusedon 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results

Hadn't thought about it that way, but when I look back at the mostly single player/story-based games I play I agree!

coinfusedon 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results

Agree, I'm not at all looking for #1, at all. Good dialogue is an art form.

coinfusedon Jfsendit – A dead-simple way to send files straight from one browser to another

AI probably

coinfusedon Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I.

Sounds horrible and mind-numbing to me.

But yes you're right, some people are probably seeking that in their media consumption.

coinfusedon Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I.

Why would anyone want that? I don't want infinite movies, I don't have infinite time. I'd rather have intent over quantity. There is already an abundance of content, a century of cinema. Who actually wants this and why?

coinfusedon Do I belong in tech anymore?

I think a lot of people relate with this but kind of sit with this silently for reasons the author mentioned:

“ Would initiating these discussions result in interpersonal stress? Should I just let things slide? Would I become known as a “difficult” coworker for pushing back on AI use? Does any of it really matter? Does anyone really care? “

coinfusedon Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work

Yikes and a link in their post just downloads a file. I don't like this.

coinfusedon C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don't Use

Looking forward to when Unity will migrate to CoreCLR. Soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6xVfrmEWU

coinfusedon Framework? I sure hope it does

I like your site a lot!

coinfusedon Marvin Hagemeister, Luca Casonato, David Sherret and Phil Hawksworth left Deno

David Sherret leaving as well

https://bsky.app/profile/dsherret.bsky.social/post/3mhbms5ph...

And Phil Hawksworth leaving as well

https://bsky.app/profile/philhawksworth.dev/post/3mhbamlutok...

Something is going on.

coinfusedon [dead]

37signals has open sourced theirs here

https://github.com/basecamp/policies

It hasn’t been updated in a while but they are a good starting point.

coinfusedon Ask HN: Can you access old HN posts?

I got the same issue, it returns a HTTP 429 Too Many Requests

coinfusedon Launch HN: Prism (YC X25) – Workspace and API to generate and edit videos

Why was the original comment flagged? They had a valid and relevant point.

coinfusedon Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game

Fun game! I could never quite clear the 0.0030 threshold. I wonder how much screen quality/calibration impacts it.

coinfusedon Your AI Slop Bores Me

Didn't know, feel free to delete

coinfusedon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://ameye.dev

I write about computer graphics, rendering and Unity! Sometimes other stuff

coinfusedon Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

Interesting! I’ve been working on a tracker for the Belgian parliament [0]. Similar story: very old site + data mostly gets published as a weekly pdf report (including votes and discussions).

I have

1. A scraper/parser that ingests the data daily and transforms it into .parquet files.

2. A LLM summarizer to summarize larger discussions.

3. A static site that gets automatically generated (based on the .parquet files) to provide insight.

What makes your tracker ‘real-time’? Does it ingest the livestream of a parliamentary session while it is happening?

[0]: https://zijwerkenvooru.be/

coinfusedon Migrating my web analytics from Matomo to Umami

For things like my personal blog I don’t really need complex analytics, just page views is fine so I’m using goatcounter which has been really great so far. It has all I need and nothing more.

https://www.goatcounter.com/

coinfusedon Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)

Very nice post! Thanks for writing, I love how detailed it goes.

I use box/gaussian blurs often, but for rendering outlines/highlights of objects.

https://ameye.dev/notes/rendering-outlines/#blurred-buffer

coinfusedon Show HN: A Tool to Summarize Kenya's Parliament with Rust, Whisper, and LLMs

Not at the moment but maybe in the future. While I'm sure the code could be of interest, the code definitely isn't a template that would fit for other countries. It is tightly coupled to the format of the Belgian parliament since most of it is parsing their PDF reports. In detail my tech stack is like this:

- Rust + reqwest crate + scraper crate to download reports and parse data from it into parquet files

- 11ty + @duckdb/node-api to parse the parquet files at build time and generating pages automatically, I have for example a 'meeting' template and then for each meeting a html page gets built

- summarize certain data using mistral API

- deploy on cloudflare free plan

coinfusedon Show HN: A Tool to Summarize Kenya's Parliament with Rust, Whisper, and LLMs

Nice! Love to see initiatives like these.

I've been working on something in the same space for the Belgian federal parliament. The Belgian parliament livestreams sessions and publishes a single (long, bloated, dual-language) PDF report[0] for each session and that's it.

This means no search across sessions, no details of which parties voted how, no API etc. The only view you get is from the perspective of a single session which is not very useful when you're trying to figure out who to vote for.

I made 'zij werken voor u' (TheyWorkForYou[1] in Dutch) by scraping the PDFs file and parsing it with a Rust script automatically.

The scraped data (votes, questions, topics, dossiers) get put into .parquet files. I also compute some additional things like voting patterns, attendance and which topics interest specific PMs the most.

These parquet files are then fed into a static site generator and a search index is built. I also sprinkle in some summarization using Mistral[2]

The result is https://zijwerkenvooru.be/nl/votes/ (in Dutch) which allows you to look at the data from multiple viewpoints such as

- what questions did member X ask?

- how did party Y vote?

- what is happening around topic Z?

I also post new votes/questions on Bluesky[3]. The whole process (downloading, scraping, publishing, posting) is automated to run through GitHub Actions. I literally have to do nothing now.

I'm hoping the Belgian government will step up and improve their archaic and almost unusable site[4].

Thanks for sharing this project, I'm already getting inspired by it to improve zijwerkenvooru.be!

Edit: I’m thinking it might be good to have an overview of initiatives like these somewhere? Public initiatives to help with political transparency for each country?

[0]: https://www.dekamer.be/doc/PCRI/html/56/ip052x.html

[1]: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

[2]: https://mistral.ai/

[3]: https://bsky.app/profile/zijwerkenvooru.be

[4]: https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/index.cfm

coinfusedon Some Love for Interoperable Apps

This post from Steph Ango (CEO of Obsidian) shares the same sentiment

https://stephango.com/file-over-app

coinfusedon How to draw an outline in a video game

They reversed it, I don’t think a huge amount of people changed over but definitely substantial! Godot has been growing quickly.

coinfusedon How to draw an outline in a video game

Interesting! I’ll try it out. Thanks for sharing.

coinfusedon How to draw an outline in a video game

They used edge detection with a custom input buffer, a bit like this

https://linework.ameye.dev/section-map/

coinfusedon How to draw an outline in a video game

In my own projects I use JFA/SDF-based outlines the most because of their quality as well as the possibility to render distance-based effects like pulsating outlines.

This (https://x.com/alexanderameye/status/1663523972485357569) 3D line painting tool also uses SDFs that I then write to a tiny texture and sample at runtime.

SDFs are very powerful!