A simulated paint canvas for Opus 5.5 leads Show HN
1 October to 7 October 2026
Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas drew 390 points and 113 comments, well ahead of Bigwords.page at 238 and a pendulum clock made from trash at 234.
Posts ranked by points
- 1Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas390 points+152 ahead of No. 2
Hacker News | 113 comments.
- 2Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app238 points+4 over No. 3
Hacker News | 77 comments.
- 3Glashütte Trash Clock – A 30-minute pendulum clock made from trash234 points+57 over No. 4
Hacker News | 42 comments.
- 4AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS177 points+11 over No. 5
Hacker News | 74 comments.
- 5Made an open-source Lego AI generator166 points+13 over No. 6
Hacker News | 52 comments.
- 6Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor153 points+17 over No. 7
Hacker News | 47 comments.
- 7A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia136 points+15 over No. 8
Hacker News | 59 comments.
- 8Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server121 points+15 over No. 9
Hacker News | 47 comments.
- 9Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia106 points+1 over No. 10
Hacker News | 19 comments.
- 10Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors105 points+9 over No. 11
Hacker News | 9 comments.
- 11Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?96 points+1 over No. 12
Hacker News | 59 comments.
- 12Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux95 points+9 over No. 13
Hacker News | 36 comments.
- =13AstroHelm – Use your phone camera to aim a telescope or telephoto lens86 pointslevel tied
Hacker News | 30 comments.
- =13Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear86 pointslevel tied
Hacker News | 27 comments.
- 15Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min84 points+1 over No. 16
Hacker News | 24 comments.
- 16I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer83 points+5 over No. 17
Hacker News | 38 comments.
- 17Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace78 points+14 over No. 18
Hacker News | 66 comments.
- 18Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly64 points+1 over No. 19
Hacker News | 51 comments.
- 19Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers63 points−327 behind No. 1
Hacker News | 11 comments.
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