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How to Make a Planet, by Jim Blinn

https://archive.org/details/how-to-make-a-planet-jim-blinn
3•gdubs•2w ago

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gdubs•2w ago
Jim Blinn is one of the pioneers of computer graphics. In the early days of the Voyager mission, he was tasked by JPL to create animations illustration Voyager's mission through the solar system.

Created on a PDP, with absurdly limited capabilities by today's standard, Blinn was able to create amazing CG for the time. A lot of this was entirely groundbreaking.

17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System

https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xbox_Security_System
1•davikr•40s ago•0 comments

Coinbase Wallet is now the Base App

https://join.base.app/
1•bcooney_info•4m ago•0 comments

The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell
1•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

What to Learn

https://danluu.com/learn-what/
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

How does the World Bank classify countries by income?

https://ourworldindata.org/world-bank-income-groups-explained
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Stepanov's Biggest Blunder

https://mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

Gwern's Perfume Reviews

https://gwern.net/blog/2025/perfume
1•surprisetalk•7m ago•0 comments

PromptChecks is nice name for an AI company? or it sounds okayish?

http://www.promptchecks.com/
1•AsDivyansh•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CybertraceAI-Ops – Natural Language Queries for Your IT Network

https://github.com/PovedaAqui/cybertraceai-ops-2
1•povedaaqui•10m ago•0 comments

Running your story like the business it is

https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847
1•Frummy•10m ago•0 comments

Occupancy Measurement in Open Offices Using Multi-View 3D Pose

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352710225012744
1•gnabgib•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a simple rain sounds app to help myself fall asleep

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rainbytes-nature-rain-sounds/id6444327927
1•dominichuang•14m ago•0 comments

Memes Are Smarter Than AI (and That Should Terrify Silicon Valley)

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168500363
1•anonym29•16m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How did you find your early adopters?

1•dearilos•16m ago•0 comments

Why walking backwards can be good for your health [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0lnm3vz/why-walking-backwards-can-be-good-for-your-health
1•wjb3•17m ago•1 comments

Japan sets new internet speed record – it's 4M times faster

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/japan-sets-new-internet-speed-record-its-4-million-times-faster-than-average-us-broadband-speeds
2•domofutu•18m ago•0 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-geometry-for-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-20250716/
1•pseudolus•19m ago•0 comments

Largest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M

https://www.popsci.com/science/largest-chunk-of-mars-on-earth-sells-for-5-3-million/
2•domofutu•20m ago•0 comments

Mysterious 'ship goo' contains new life forms

https://www.popsci.com/science/ship-goo-great-lakes-mystery/
2•domofutu•20m ago•1 comments

Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-and
1•chmaynard•22m ago•0 comments

A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

https://maxread.substack.com/p/a-literary-history-of-fake-texts-db8
2•jbegley•24m ago•0 comments

Wrench (2015)

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/wrench-mis
1•erickhill•28m ago•0 comments

Invictus – Europe's new hypersonic test platform

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Shaping_the_Future/INVICTUS_Europe_s_new_hypersonic_test_platform
1•ndsipa_pomu•33m ago•0 comments

Alt text is required for figures in all articles published in ESA journals

https://ecoevo.social/@entsocamerica/114864292912866264
2•sohkamyung•34m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Draws Investor Interest at More Than $100B Valuation

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/anthropic-draws-investor-interest-at-more-than-100-billion-valuation
1•mfiguiere•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Reeyee – Build and publish a website from a customizable dashboard

https://reeyee.ai/playground
1•jokera•36m ago•0 comments

Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI

https://www.infoq.com/articles/effective-practices-ai-chat-based-coding/
2•NomDePlum•39m ago•0 comments

TTY RL toy game engine

https://github.com/ivanbelenky/tty_games
1•ivanbelenky•41m ago•1 comments

Does the UK video games industry have a class problem?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9jeg2nxgo
2•dabinat•41m ago•0 comments

Crates.io Trusted Publishing

https://crates.io/docs/trusted-publishing
2•gnabgib•41m ago•0 comments