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Re:Show HN: Epistolary – Respond to your emails in handwriting on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:50AM (#41442596)
Sites like [calligraphr](https://www.calligraphr.com/en/) can help you create fonts from your handwriting. Also, here's an old project for creating something that looks handwritten on paper.

https://github.com/sherlockdoyle/Handwriter

Show HN: A collection of CTF type puzzles

Posted by sherlockdoyle on Monday May 27, 2024 @04:38AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://sherlockdoyle.github.io/cStDf/

Hello HN, I am pleased to introduce my side project, cStDf. This is a set of puzzles, similar to Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges. However, note that these puzzles are not necessarily related to cybersecurity.The essence of these puzzles lies in the discovery of hidden elements within them, much like solving riddles. They encompass a broad range of computer-related technologies. The concept...

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Show HN: Bin Ocular – Encode images in random noise

Posted by sherlockdoyle on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:07AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://sherlockdoyle.github.io/bin-ocular/

Some time ago, I came across a fascinating demonstration (likely on HN) that involved two clear plastic sheets, each printed with a random distribution of points. When overlaid, the density of points varied in certain areas, revealing a distinct shape.I've been unable to locate the original demo. Here, I decided to create my own version.While the website is mobile-friendly, I recommend viewing...

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Re:Show HN: Antonemo – A Game of Words and Their Opposites on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:57AM (#37726489)
I have three word lists of different sizes. The smallest one contains the most common English words. The word 'DAD' is apparently not common enough :). The larger two lists are from different machine learning datasets (you can find the sources in GitHub). The easy and hard mode also has different words.

I will add the word 'DAD' to the hand-picked list.

Show HN: Antonemo – A Game of Words and Their Opposites

Posted by sherlockdoyle on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:33AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://sherlockdoyle.github.io/antonemo/

I had the idea to build this game when the Wordle craze was going on. Antonemo is somewhat inspired by the hard mode of Wordle. I finally built the game now as I wanted to learn some new web frameworks. To my knowledge, no other similar game exists.In Antonemo, your goal is to construct words and unlock letters by finding their antonyms, which then allows you to create even more words. For a...

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Re:Show HN: Handwriter – Make Writing Easier on Sunday May 30, 2021 @01:54PM (#27335052)
Out of the unwantedness of writing assignments came Handwriter, generating handwriting style text from an image. Write something with a handwriting font in a word processor, save the pages as images, run the code; get a realistic-looking handwritten text.