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Show HN: A working 3D model of an Enigma machine I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work. I used Astra to build out the inner components through a combination of reference images, writing out hundreds of extremely detailed prompts, and building my own inspection tools to ensure that every part is sized and positioned in a historically accurate way. It's still a work in progress, but would love any feedback on the experience so far! 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsBZOcqZerk 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkkiGtJmkM https://enigma.design September 30, 2026 at 12:15AM

Show HN: Free browser games designed for 80-year-old eyes and hands https://ift.tt/x8FgMZN September 29, 2026 at 10:45PM

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts Hi HN, I’m Per, founder of Scrimba (YC S20). We’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to code with an HTML-based video format. We’ve now plugged an LLM into it, so that people can create explainer videos about anything. It’s called “Scrimba Explain”. To demo this technology for Hacker News, we built HN.watch. It’s like HN, but with explainer videos instead of articles. We create them on-the-fly the first time someone clicks on a link. While there are obvious visual drawbacks of using HTML instead of diffusion models, there are three big benefits: - Speed: Much faster to generate than pixel-based videos (just a few seconds from click to playback) - Cost: Our cost per video is ~$0.04. (Excluding image generation, which some videos utilize. Quickly blows up the cost) - Easy editing: the above benefits also make AI-assisted editing cheap & fast Our hypothesis is that if video creation goes from “dollars and minutes” to “cents a...

Show HN: Geneva – CLI video editor and compositor with a native HTML/CSS engine https://ift.tt/D94IbcX September 28, 2026 at 08:51PM

Show HN: Gat – Version large files with Git, without an LFS server Hi HN, I built Gat because I wanted one thing from data versioning: check out an old Git commit and recover the datasets, model weights, or assets that belong to it. It's basically a lock file for large files. I’d appreciate any feedback! https://ift.tt/chR4vmq September 28, 2026 at 12:20AM

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi https://loficities.com/ September 28, 2026 at 01:44AM