16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive
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#12Peak rank
2Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 29, 2026First seen
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- Points
- 100
- Comments
- 8
- Submitted by
- memalign
- Posted
- Oct 29, 2026
- Site
- 16colo.rs
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Trending history
16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 55 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #12 of 30, reached on Oct 30, 06:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 11:07 UTC.
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ANSI art is still alive. We have some great modern editors, like Moebius, Durdraw, Icydraw and Pablodraw. Some of them, like Durdraw, have fully embraced the extended Unicode character set (Utf-8 encoding instead of IBM's Code Page 437) and extended colors (xterm 256 colors instead of the traditional 16 colors),…
I enjoyed this new one. https://16colo.rs/pack/codi_01/CODI01.ans
My favorite ASCII art group is Galza, some examples: https://16colo.rs/pack/galza-13/Shd-dphn.ans https://16colo.rs/pack/galza-13/zj-humming.txt
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Is 16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 30, 11:07 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank 16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive reached?
#12 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 30, 06:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has 16colo.rs – ANSI/ASCII art archive been trending?
It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (55 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
100 points and 8 comments; submitted by memalign on Oct 29, 2026.