Show HN: Screenwriting Software

After spending the past year immersed in filmmaking and experimenting with various screenwriting platforms, a developer decided that existing tools didn't quite meet their needs. Rather than settle for available options, they chose to build their own solution from scratch.

The foundation of this custom screenwriting application relies on Rust and WebAssembly, leveraging wasm-bindgen to create a performant text processing engine. This technical architecture enables the software to deliver responsive editing capabilities directly in the browser while maintaining the speed and reliability benefits of compiled code.

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Show HN: HN Firebase API client for Go with support for reading flagged posts

A Go developer has released hnscrape, a client library for the Hacker News API that can recover data from removed or flagged posts by scraping their HTML pages. The tool supports standard API operations while adding the ability to access deleted content through authentication and HTML parsing, though this depends on user account settings and is somewhat fragile to Hacker News markup changes. ---

Show HN: I built a distributed file store on top of AWS CloudShell

A developer created a distributed file storage system by linking AWS CloudShell instances across multiple regions, using Reed-Solomon erasure coding and AES-256 encryption for redundancy and security. The project overcame CloudShell's limitations—including the lack of a public API and NAT restrictions—through reverse engineering, STUN-based hole punching, and custom Python agents to create a fault-tolerant storage pool where losing entire regions won't result in data loss. ---

Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators

A rediscovered text-based game called Drugwars, which ran on TI-82/83 graphing calculators, has resurfaced online as a snapshot of early 2000s hobbyist programming culture. The discovery highlights how programmers creatively repurposed educational technology for gaming and entertainment, pushing the capabilities of limited hardware through ingenuity. The find appeals to retro computing enthusiasts and represents an important piece of documented computing history from the calculator gaming era.

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