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Re:WebUSB Extension for Firefox
on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:59PM (#47838975)
BBC Microbit kids hardware platform uses WebUSB. It’s a game changer for introducing hardware to students. Just works.
Makecode.microbit.org is the web IDE. Reference URLs for the code make sharing and debugging easy.
Re:Show HN: Weird Clocks
on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:44PM (#47665939)
So cool!
Re:Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser
on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:01AM (#47003479)
very cool! FYI the original project mentioned is at https://solvingsol.com/. open contribution at https://github.com/wholepixel/solving-sol
Re:SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs
on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:19PM (#46819828)
Generative AI image bitmaps lack internal detail to enable effective collaboration.
Designers can label SVG elements in their design tools for effective coding collaboration with LLMs. A tool is presented to make this easier.
Re:An SVG is all you need
on Friday December 12, 2025 @11:11AM (#46245481)
Of course, but in comparison to bitmap tools like midjourney, you can communicate with an AI by specifying a SVG element to be manipulated. "Rotate ID "logo" 30 degrees" is very legible to the AI
Re:An SVG is all you need
on Thursday December 11, 2025 @03:14PM (#46236532)
I just went down the same rabbit hole, it is totally fun! https://turbek.com/Designing-Interactive-SVGs-with-AI/
TLDR:
- SVG image files: powerful like HTML
- Supported widely in browsers
- Designer tools make SVGs
- SVGs are written in a language
- LLMs are great at manipulating language
- Designers can collaborate interaction into life
Re:Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts
on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:41PM (#46038308)
I’ve been saying “There is a real you, unfortunately, you’re not it.”
Re:Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students
on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:18PM (#43873707)
This is above my expertise, might be a better comment for this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859464
Re:Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students
on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:14PM (#43873657)
YES! he is the OG of these animations.
There are also cool sites like https://507movements.com
In some ways we are all building from the same source material. I put as much of the historical resources into this custom research page https://mechanical-library.org/mechanical-wonderland
Show HN: Exhibit and Site on Mechanisms for Students
https://mechanical-library.org/
Just finished a super-nerdy amateur hobby project: An exhibit and website to show kids how cool mechanisms are!Sadly, kids don't get much tangible experience with machines anymore. Ideally, this exhibit will inspire some to explore engineering, even if they are not "book learners". The website provides content to back up the exhibit, with videos and 3D printing files.The project is inspired by...
Re:Ask HN: Good teen books/sites/resources for mechanisms?
on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:26AM (#37305570)
Very nice, thank you!
Ask HN: Good teen books/sites/resources for mechanisms?
There appear to be infinite resources for learning software, any suggestions on the mechanical side (besides Lego+FIRST)?Perhaps something like the Boston Museum of Science Clark Collection of Mechanical Movement
Ask HN: Research on Teaching Programming?
I’m helping some kids learn coding via Lego Mindstorms, and am shocked how complex the visual coding is, and how non transferable it is to “real” (text) coding. Are the mindstorms / Scratch based tools supported by research?Have we seen good examples of UIs that start with text? Thanks!