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javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

Also, you can try reducing the "contrast" and "definition" settings. I think in this case the hoodie is taking a lot of the lines, I'll take a look, thanks!

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

Yes, in this case the SVG is a list of coordinate pairs, should be fairly easy to extract.

https://github.com/javierbyte/pintr/blob/master/lib/svg.js#L...

* Update to add a link to the code that generates the SVG.

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

Author here, that sounds soo cool! If you decide to try please let me know if you need any support!

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

Thanks! Author here, are you testing with the HEIC files from your computers? To me it seems that iOS does not have issues with HEIC but probably it is doing some conversion before.

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Google is going to turn on 2FA by default

I lost one of my accounts last month to something similar to this. I used to have a secondary email as 2FA and then it got changed to "use one of my active devices", honestly I don't remember if there was some popup asking me to confirm the change, but one day I changed my iOS devices and the account was lost for good as I could not "tap confirm".

I tried to contact them from the email that used to be the 2FA, but no one could help me. It was a sad and eye-opening experience as I could have lost google domains and more.

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

Also getting a faster machine means everything is faster, not just web browsing.

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

I came to ask the same thing. "Each browser instance gets 16 vCPUs using state-of-the-art Intel CPUs running at up to 4.0 GHz." given how important single core performance is for most web apps + added streaming I doubt the Xeon setup gets close to the M1 performance.

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why does Apple force users to upgrade macOS to use AirPods?

You should still be able to connect to them by clicking the button and pair like any other bluetooth headset. You may lose some features but that is expected for a non updated software and OS.

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Twitter Is Down

Update: seems to be back up! Update2: Maybe not

javierbyte | 4 years ago | on: Zoom zero-day discovery

Agree, but instead of "that would have put" it should be "that could be putting", we don't know if there are people currently exploiting the vulnerability and without a patch very well could be happening now.

javierbyte | 5 years ago | on: Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink

Looks like so, weird. I currently see "Bitcoin as a Battery" in the front page, which is older and has less points, with 121 points and posted 7 hours ago.

javierbyte | 5 years ago | on: 1MB Club

I hate how people have to use "cancerous" everywhere. Out of respect please use a different word.

javierbyte | 5 years ago | on: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

It was restored to the original owner, I'm not sure when.

javierbyte | 5 years ago | on: Someone has stolen my Instagram account

Danny was deleted a minute or two ago https://www.instagram.com/danny/

javierbyte | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Sombras.app, toy to play with shadows and 3D, TensorFlow logo style

I really liked the original Tensorflow logo and wanted to make a generator for graphics like that.

You can select which shadows to cast, the color of the lights and a 3D object is generated for you. The app can export images and be shared and generate a thumbnail with the design.

I made this app to test `react-three-fiber` and `useCannon`.

javierbyte | 6 years ago | on: Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment

> Just consider that all it takes to become 100 lbs overweight by age 50 is an extra 38 calories a day starting at age 25. Source? Sounds very hard to believe, when you starting getting weight from that 38 calories you also start to require more energy to do the same thing, just because you weight more. And there are a ton more factors to add, the human body is not as simple as that.

javierbyte | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: 'Hack' the user cursor

I was thinking about this. You can accumulate the position difference and trick the user into clicking anywhere. I'll try to do that right now and update the demo :)

javierbyte | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

I'm proud of a tool that I did to find the visual center of images (http://javier.xyz/visual-center/) and one to make random color schemes more cohesive (http://javier.xyz/cohesive-colors/). I find those two really useful.

I'm not so proud of a tool that transforms images to pure css (http://javier.xyz/img2css/) but it's by far my most popular tool ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

javierbyte | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?

I'm posting my own too:

http://javier.xyz/

It's an auto updated portfolio with my github, dribbble, and some other social networks.

javierbyte | 9 years ago | on: Battlecode – AI Programming Competition

Cool! Reminds me of something that I did http://javier.xyz/clashjs/ a JS AI battle game :)