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Former Tumblr Head Jeff D'Onofrio Steps in as Acting CEO at the Washington Post

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875433/tumblr-jeff-donofrio-ceo-washington-post-layoffs
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

Bounded Flexible Arrays in C

https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
1•fanf2•3m ago•0 comments

The Invisible Labor Force Powering AI

https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-invisible-labor-force-powering-ai/
1•pseudolus•5m ago•0 comments

Reading Recursion via Pascal

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-recursion-via-pascal
1•AlexeyBrin•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a website that finds patterns on your spreadsheet

https://analyzetable.com
1•kouhxp•6m ago•0 comments

Jokes on You AI: Turning the Tables – LLMs for Learning

https://www.dev-log.me/jokes_on_you_ai_llms_for_learning/
1•wazHFsRy•6m ago•0 comments

You don't need RAG in 2026

https://ryanlineng.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-rag-in-2026
1•kareninoverseas•7m ago•0 comments

WatchLLM – Cost kill switch for AI agents (with loop detection)

https://www.watchllm.dev/
1•Kaadz•10m ago•2 comments

I turned myself into an AI-generated deathbot – here's what I found

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wjywz5p5o
1•cmsefton•21m ago•0 comments

Management style doesn't predict survival

https://orchidfiles.com/management-style-doesnt-predict-survival/
1•theorchid•22m ago•0 comments

One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed in on Crypto

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-sons-crypto-billions-1e7f1414
1•impish9208•23m ago•1 comments

"I Was Wrong": Why the Civil War Is Running Late [video][2h21m]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmkKZ7vAkI
1•Bender•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A sandboxed execution environment for AI agents via WASM

https://github.com/Parassharmaa/agent-sandbox
1•paraaz•27m ago•0 comments

Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches to Help Adobe Photoshop on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.2
2•doener•27m ago•0 comments

The Nature of the Beast

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/02/07/the-nature-of-the-beast/
1•jjgreen•28m ago•0 comments

From Prediction to Compilation: A Manifesto for Intrinsically Reliable AI

1•JanusPater•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Curated list of 1000 open source alternatives to proprietary software

https://opensrc.me
1•ZenithSoftware•30m ago•0 comments

AI's Real Problem Is Illegitimacy, Not Hallucination

1•JanusPater•31m ago•1 comments

'I fell into it': ex-criminal hackers urge UK pupils to use web skills for good

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/08/i-fell-into-it-ex-criminal-hackers-urge-manche...
1•robaato•32m ago•0 comments

Why 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Corning Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•bookofjoe•32m ago•1 comments

Keeping WSL Alive

https://shift1w.com/blog/keeping-wsl-alive/
1•jakesocks•34m ago•0 comments

Unlocking core memories with GoldSrc engine and CS 1.6 (2025)

https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/43-unlocking-core-memories-with-goldsrc-engine
3•foxiel•34m ago•0 comments

Gtrace an advanced network path analysis tool

https://github.com/hervehildenbrand/gtrace
2•jimaek•34m ago•0 comments

America does not trust Putin or Trump

https://re-russia.net/en/review/809/
1•mnky9800n•38m ago•0 comments

Let's Do Music in Linux [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgsOdoLuBU
1•mariuz•39m ago•0 comments

"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work

https://www.vangemert.dev/blog/nothing
1•spmvg•43m ago•0 comments

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder

https://www.blundergoat.com/articles/ai-makes-the-easy-part-easier-and-the-hard-part-harder
1•birdculture•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphs

https://cinegraphs.ai/
1•graphpilled•45m ago•1 comments

A failed wantrepreneur's view on common startup advice

https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202602/startup-advice/
1•mmarian•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BestClaw Simple OpenClaw/MoltBot for non tech people

https://bestclaw.host/
2•nihey•45m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Rendering flame fractals with a compute shader (2023)

https://wrighter.xyz/blog/2023_08_17_flame_fractals_in_comp_shader
67•ibobev•5mo ago

Comments

reactordev•5mo ago
This bring back memories of Apophysis
Scene_Cast2•5mo ago
I love the look of flame fractals, but I never figured out how to tweak things to get them to look more like how I want. I could never predict what a particular change would do to the look, or which change is needed to get a particular look.

I tried Apophysis (or one of the many spinoffs), but it never quite clicked.

greatepee•5mo ago
Here's a web editor that has a fairly simple interface: https://fractalar-app.web.app

It might not run very well depending on your hardware, though.

Ono-Sendai•5mo ago
Cool. If you want to try rendering some flame fractals, you can try our Fractal software Chaotica (https://www.chaoticafractals.com/) which was used to make the first image in the linked post (Vorpol Dawn By technochroma).

We didn't exactly use compute shaders for Chaotica, we used OpenCL instead, which is a more general GPGPU framework like CUDA.

pixelpoet•5mo ago
Oh hey Nick, fancy seeing you here :)
moritonal•5mo ago
Honestly, this is such a good rewrite of Apophysis. Congrats to you all for bringing back some happy memories.
chromakat•5mo ago
Fractal creative method of choice >^•¥•^<
schindlabua•5mo ago
Fractal flames is such a cool algorithm. They're what got me into programming many moons ago :)
pixelpoet•5mo ago
Oh wow, it really has been many moons! You might recall a guy called lycium/lyc from those days :D

We're lurking on Discord these days, there are some new people from Austria sometimes joining our meetups, you should come along :)

_gaxe•5mo ago
Got a link to that Discord group?
pixelpoet•5mo ago
Do you remember the email you sent me 12 years and 1 month ago, in which (among much other unhinged stuff) you called me a nazi because I mentioned I'm (part) German? I remembered your name; hello again! I see your project didn't go anywhere, that's too bad. I'm sure you'll understand if I decline to invite you to my Discord server :)
schindlabua•5mo ago
Haha hey lyc! I didn't forget, you guys were second family! You taught me a lot about maths and code, not sure where I'd be without you :) Learnt more while messing around with fractals and gfx than in all my time at uni.

Honestly I try not doing much computer stuff in my free time because I'm doing so much in my day to day but I'll stop by some time! I've been in the Chaotica discord for years but never said hello.

pixelpoet•5mo ago
That's kind of you to say, and I'd love to meet up sometime just for the lolz, it's really far too close (with lots of other cool fractal ppl nearby) not to :)