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French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-27 | tags: mitra-15, simh, cii

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Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Luke James | tags: rust, webassembly, webgl

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This fully walkable 3D city was built entirely out of ASCII art (techspot.com)

2026-08-21 | by Shawn Knight | tags: ascii art, grow now games, javascript canvas

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This 3D ASCII Cyberpunk City Should Absolutely Be Turned Into a Full Game (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: 3d ascii, cyberpunk city, game development

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‘Flesh-Eating’ Bacteria Is Having a Killer Summer (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: necrotizing fasciitis, flesh-eating bacteria, summer

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In situ structures of plant photosystem supercomplexes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Li | tags: photosystem supercomplexes, plant psii, lhcii trimers

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Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: late.sh, ssh, cli

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ascdraw: Editor for ASCII/UTF-8 diagrams (in 144FPS) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: ascii, unicode, asciidraw

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Making ASCII Art in Vim (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: vim, ascii art, neovim

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Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get ASCII Art 3D Renderer → | tags: ascii 3d rendering engine, glyph css, webgl

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About ASCII art and Jgs font (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get ASCII Art Text Generator → | tags: ascii art, velvetyne, joan g. stark

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Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | get Typography Art Print → | tags: garden of flowers, ascii art, typography

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Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-13 | by Mark Tyson | get ASCII Video Streaming Software → | tags: asciline engine, ascii video streaming, unblockable ads

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Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | get ASCII Art Video Display → | tags: asciline, ascii video, html canvas

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Enhance RAW image processing with Core Image [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-11 | by Apple Inc. | get Adobe Photoshop Lightroom → | tags: core image, raw image processing, apple cameras

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Scientists Intrigued by Chunk of Flesh That Refuses to Die After Several Years (futurism.com)

2026-05-30 | by Frank Landymore | get Biohazard Safety Gloves → | tags: sea cucumber, psolus fabricii, science

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Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-29 | get Sea Cucumber Regeneration Kit → | tags: sea cucumber, psolus fabricii, organ transplants

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Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | by Thalia Archibald | get C Programming Book → | tags: unix, teletype, ascii

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Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Marcin Wichary | tags: ascii, mockdown, wiretext

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"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by Marcin Wichary | get Markdown Plain Text Editor → | tags: ascii, mockdown, wiretext

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ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get Unicode Quotation Mark Set → | tags: unicode, quotation marks, iso 10646

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40-year-old Arcade classic shoot ‘em up Gradius gets pure ASCII PC remake — you can even save your gaming screenshots as .TXT files (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-15 | by Mark Tyson | get Gradius ASCII PC Game → | tags: arcade, gradius, ascii

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You can use newline characters in URLs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-28 | by Https | get HTML → | tags: newline characters, whatwg url specification, ascii tab

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Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-15 | by Mark Tyson | get Weather Display → | tags: ascii, real, real time

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Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-29 | get ASCII Art → | tags: abc def, alternative, alternative usage

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Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-29 | get SVG ASCII Art → | tags: ascii, beautiful, colors

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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-17 | get ASCII Art → | tags: ascii, character, characters

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‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores (theverge.com)

2026-01-15 | by Robert Hart | get Smartwatch → | tags: apple, google, grok

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ASCII-Driven Development (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-08 | get ASCII Art → | tags: ascii, ascii driven, development

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Markdown is holding you back (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-22 | by Sept. | get GitHub → | tags: asciidoc, docbook, library