Hacker News

Top stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)
    30comments
  2. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    8comments
  3. Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody) (definitelynotwindows.com)
    —discuss
  4. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream (yashgarg.dev)
    9comments
  5. Claude Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)
    4comments
  6. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)
    12comments
  7. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
    118comments
  8. Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP (vespper.com)
    2comments
  9. When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)
    916comments
  10. What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators (benovermyer.com)
    12comments
  11. I made a visual workspace for AI Automations (biom.dev)
    1comments
  12. OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity (techcrunch.com)
    15comments
  13. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (reuters.com)
    157comments
  14. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API (cloudflare.com)
    8comments
  15. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent (ssp.sh)
    175comments
  16. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)
    31comments
  17. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com/seamusc)
    41comments
  18. Solving a corn puzzle with CP-SAT (thill.me)
    4comments
  19. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)
    81comments
  20. Coding Is Not Solved (alexewerlof.com)
    329comments
  21. What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like? (glyph.im)
    21comments
  22. Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
    78comments
  23. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)
    424comments
  24. 13 Months Sober (2025) (bobbytables.io)
    52comments
  25. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants (scissor.studio)
    26comments
  26. Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)
    241comments
  27. Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)
    321comments
  28. Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)
    67comments
  29. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (alvarezrosa.com)
    106comments
  30. How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work (pewresearch.org)
    3comments

Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

61 pointsby 9h agoscissor.studio
25 comments
A webassembly web based app that help editing raster and vector on browser without any subscription or signups
3h agoHN ↗

Tip: you are blocking text selection for the terms of use and in a number of other spots. People often use text selection to copy and paste words for a variety of reasons. Some people select blocks of text to help mark what they are reading, and some people use it to paste the words in a dictionary or translation service of their choice. (Or when making a bug report to copy the version number from the about screen.)

Don't block text selection for prose, only for UI elements.

3h agoHN ↗

thanks for the feedback and reporing the bug, the goal was to have the custom context menu instead of the browser one; but seems like that casued an error, will fix it asap.

3h agoHN ↗

FYI the initial modal sounds extremely AI generated.

3h agoHN ↗

thanks for the feedback, the Fox is a traced vector from a raster image and it's been added just to great users with some good vibes, and give user a wam feeling :D .

2h agoHN ↗

hopefuly I get some time and I personally create a nice vector and add it to the samples, some isometric catroon and doing it manually (there is a iso berlin that I am working but manual labor takes so much time...).

2h agoHN ↗

Really fast ! Do you plan to make this a local only app ?

2h agoHN ↗

It's a PWA and you can install it like a Native app, and as it's writen in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly it's almost as fast as a native app (and it does not send any user data to anywhere all the artwork stuff are fully local; the only thing that it send to the backend is no of users for analytics and users can opt-out in the setting).

haven't thought about it to be hoest, but now that we have AI I might be able to transalte it to Swift to make some MacOS version, or create a desktop app for Linux/... using Tauri

1h agoHN ↗

It's a static SinglePage web applicaiton that runs everything completely locally on your machine. it also mean the better computer you have the better performance.

1h agoHN ↗

what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? you've totally missed a basic feature of the app that you're trying to replicate

26m agoHN ↗

It's a bit far fetched to imply rendering clouds is a core feature. This app is not even trying to be photoshop, where that would be expected, it's a design app, ala Figma.

15m agoHN ↗

Exactly, the primary idea is to edit vector files; Hoewever, I am trying to add features for raster files as well.

currently the raster editing features are not quite there yet, and I need time (a lot of time) to make it in a quality that doesn't drive user crazy (I'm first user to this app in the first place and I don't like it when it's not snappy and smooth)

17m agoHN ↗

I don't replicate, I am creating an aleternative for myself and people like me that they need an advanced app but can't afford to give an arm and a leg.

1h agoHN ↗

I think they mean the Filter > Render > Clouds feature in Photoshop rather than local vs cloud

19m agoHN ↗

firstly I'm not a bot! I didn't understand the question correctly. Anyway thanks for pointing the gap, I will look into it

1h agoHN ↗

Gave it a quick try. The fact that it’s fully local and installable as a PWA is appealing. Performance felt solid in a short test.

1h agoHN ↗

This looks really promising. Very snappy.

I might be missing it but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Illustrator's direct selection tool, for moving individual anchor points? There's the anchor point tool for adjusting the curve of an anchor point, but I can't move the anchor points themselves. I expected to find it under the pen tool menu.

57m agoHN ↗

I am not getting the sub menus to expand, e.g. create > pattern >

22m agoHN ↗

This is so fast in the browser, really impressive. Congrats G!