Articles by selvan
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Adopt Unicode Characters (unicode.org)

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A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera (bbc.com)

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Penpot: The Open-Source Figma (github.com/penpot)

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Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies (github.com/wailsapp)

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Python library for quantum computing, quantum ML, and quantum chemistry (github.com/pennylaneai)

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Ungoogled Chromium: Google Chromium, Sans Integration with Google (github.com/ungoogled-software)

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Create 1M AI powered apps a day (twitter.com/officiallogank)

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Static analysis tool for prompt templates (github.com/inworld-ai)

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Next-generation JavaScript analysis tooling (github.com/google)

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The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems [video] (youtube.com)

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A MCP server for solving optimization problems with constraints (github.com/sdiehl)

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Real-time neural video codec – 100 FPS 1080p and 4K videos (github.com/microsoft)

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Open music foundation models for full-song generation (map-yue.github.io)

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SOTA multilingual TTS with zero-shot voice cloning and speaking style control (inworld-ai.github.io)

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Customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead (asmartbear.com)

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JavaScript retro sound effects generator (grumdrig.com)

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Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models (modal.com)

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Machine Learning Compiler (mlc.ai)

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WebAssembly binding for llama.cpp – Enabling on-browser LLM inference (github.com/ngxson)

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A TypeScript library for creating animated videos using the Canvas API (motioncanvas.io)

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WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser (blog.mozilla.ai)

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Content as structured data – Compile content to syntax trees and vice versa (unifiedjs.com)

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Sprite – 2D scene graph for rendering and animation (go lang) (go.dev)

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Art with Code for Curious Minds (alexcodesart.com)

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Whimsy – A small game engine and fantasy console for making interactive stories (whimsy.rocks)

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Write documentation in Markdown and create a professional static site in minutes (squidfunk.github.io)

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Nanoemoji – A wee tool to build color fonts (github.com/googlefonts)

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Awesome Selfhosted (awesome-selfhosted.net)

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Extensions for VS Code Compatible Editors (open-vsx.org)

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Making video games (without an engine) in 2025 (noelberry.ca)

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Ink and Algorithms: Techniques, tools and the craft of pen plotting (penplotter.art)

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Synfig Studio: A free and open-source 2D animation software (github.com/synfig)

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Open Source Image-to-Video Model with Customizable Special Effects (github.com/tencent)

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Faster, cleaner, easier Tailwind CSS development (daisyui.com)

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Real Time Communication for AI Apps in Python (huggingface.co)

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Awesome DeepSeek Integrations (github.com/deepseek-ai)

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Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Rust (feldera.io)

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DeepSeek-VL2: MoE Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding (github.com/deepseek-ai)

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Enable Copilot Free in VS Code (visualstudio.com)

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Cloud Backed SQLite (sqlite.org)

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Ask HN: DAO for health insurance – A human collective for betterment

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Natural Speech Programming Assistant (voqal.dev)

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Multimodal Live API with Gen AI SDK (github.com/googlecloudplatform)

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Gemini 2.0: Multimodal Live API (ai.google.dev)

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Live Video Mixer in Python (github.com/voc)

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With Only Voice Use Emacs to Write Go Code (utterlyvoice.com)

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Open source editor for video subtitles (nikse.dk)

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Open source graphics library for creating vector-based scenes and animations (github.com/thorvg)

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Cross-platform WebView rendering library in Rust (github.com/tauri-apps)

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Build real-time multimodal AI applications (github.com/livekit)

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An interactive guide to the game theory of why and how we trust each other (ncase.me)

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Writing a Lisp compiler (Lisp to assembly) from scratch in JavaScript (2018) (eatonphil.com)

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Rate limiting library for serverless runtimes (github.com/upstash)

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The speed of a single-page web app without having to write any JavaScript (hotwired.dev)

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A chat interface using open source models, e.g. OpenAssistant or Llama (github.com/huggingface)

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The Lorem Ipsum for Photos (picsum.photos)

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What memory ownership is about: a mental model approach (modular.com)

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Open Source Twitch for Developers (github.com/algora-io)

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SaaS Economics (forentrepreneurs.com)

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Flutter GPU (github.com/flutter)

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Simulate interactions of AI agents in physical, social, or digital space (github.com/google-deepmind)

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AI Voice Agents: Opensource, Pre-Trained Voice Activity Detector (github.com/snakers4)

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Amulet – open-source audio/visual toolkit for small games and experimentation (amulet.xyz)

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Ray: Unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications (github.com/ray-project)

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Dimensional Analysis in Programming Languages (gmpreussner.com)

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LLMs with Perl 6(Raku): Processing Biden's State of the Union Address (github.com/antononcube)

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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) (norvig.com)

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An open-source static site generator for data apps (observablehq.com)

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Game developer's guide to graphical projections (medium.com/retronator-magazine)

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Things I Learned About Leadership from the Death and Rebirth of Microsoft (dareobasanjo.medium.com)

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Hugging Chat Assistants - Open Source GPT Store (twitter.com/julien_c)

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Flutter CodePush for Android and iOS (shorebird.dev)

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Litestream – Opensource disaster recovery and continuous replication for SQLite (litestream.io)

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Peer-to-Peer decentralized networks for economic transactions (becknprotocol.io)

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Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models (github.com/lutzroeder)

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WasmGC – Run GC languages such as Kotlin, Java in Chrome browser (chrome.com)

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MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer (ephtracy.github.io)

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Drawing Patterns with CSS (css-doodle.com)

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Making a 3D shape which looks like different shapes from different angles (jasmcole.com)

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Steam rejects games translated by AI (reddit.com)

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Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with semantic code analysis engine (codeql.github.com)

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CodeGen2.5: Small, but Mighty (salesforceairesearch.com)

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What Happened to the Creator Economy? (indiehackers.com)

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Examples and recipes for Llama 2 model (github.com/facebookresearch)

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A multi window layout manager for webapps (golden-layout.com)

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Pseudo 3D engine for canvas and SVG (zzz.dog)

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Safeguarding artifact integrity across any software supply chain (slsa.dev)

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Machine learning for programming languages and code generation (github.com/facebookresearch)

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TextSQL: Using LLMs to democratize access to data analysis (github.com/caesarhq)

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Wgpu – Portable graphics library for Rust based on the WebGPU API (wgpu.rs)

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Ask HN: How did risks of SVB's investments gone unnoticed?

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Open source models for various Machine Learning tasks (huggingface.co)

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Content as structured data, Compile content to syntax trees and vice versa (unifiedjs.com)

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How to get Codex to produce the code you want (microsoft.github.io)

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Prompt Marketplace: Find top prompts, save on API costs, sell your own prompts (promptbase.com)

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Millions of active WebSockets with Node.js (unetworkingab.medium.com)

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OpenAI: Explore what's possible with some example applications (openai.com)

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R Language Support for IntelliJ (jetbrains.com)

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Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language (quicktype.io)

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Turn data analyses into websites, documents, presentations, dashboards and books (rstudio.com)