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Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/
27•razodactyl•5h ago

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jayknight•5h ago
I remember the promise of VRML, but never had a machine powerful enough to render anything but the simplest examples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

Keyframe•3h ago
I worked on SGI machines at the time and even that wasn't powerful enough. Even though Indy was dubbed as "the web machine" (I worked on Indigo2). It was a bit too early when it was promised.
doawoo•1h ago
wild that I booted up my SGI O2 the other night just to remember the name of the tech used in the demos that ran inside Netscape! And then spent a whole while reading about VRML.

I wish we had something as easy to deploy interactive experiences on the web like that today.

socalgal2•1h ago
the VRML people migrated to X3D https://webx3d.org/

I don't believe it ever had any real uptake. It arguably has (had?) lots of issues.

Keyframe•3h ago
My guy here did what Sega Saturn's VDP1 did. Instead of triangle based rendering, which most did, Saturn used quads, or "distorted sprites" to do 3D. Trivia: Nvidia's first accelerator NV1 was based on what VDP1 did and also used quads and failed on the market (mostly due to it).
jauntywundrkind•3h ago
Both three.js and Lume have css 3d renderers, fwiw. I forget where there.js is but Lume's also supports a mixed mode too.

https://docs.lume.io/guide/rendering-modes https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRendere...

I don't think either has lighting though! Holy macrel!

Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)

https://github.com/Growth-Kinetics/DiffMem
19•alexmrv•53m ago•0 comments

Code review can be better

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-08-04-code-review-can-be-better/
225•sealeck•8h ago•114 comments

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)

https://www.tedinski.com/2018/01/23/data-objects-and-being-railroaded-into-misdesign.html
27•dvrp•2h ago•1 comments

Epson MX-80 Fonts

https://mw.rat.bz/MX-80/
65•m_walden•3d ago•11 comments

Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization

https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/
730•damarberlari•17h ago•122 comments

SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08-15/business/tech/Thanks-Nvidia-SK-hynix-dethrones-Samsung-as-worlds-top-DRAM-maker-for-first-time-in-over-30-years/2376834
119•ksec•3d ago•44 comments

A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/is-rotten-tomatoes-still-reliable
113•m463•7h ago•43 comments

Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis.html
444•taviso•16h ago•455 comments

Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)

https://github.com/universal-tool-calling-protocol/python-utcp
14•edweis•2d ago•4 comments

Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19310-mirror-ball-emoji.pdf
23•michalc•3d ago•7 comments

Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering

https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/12_gemma3
360•ModelForge•17h ago•52 comments

Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)

https://fstring.help/cheat/
12•shlomo_z•2h ago•1 comments

'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0820/1529397-denmark-book-tax/
50•austinallegro•1h ago•40 comments

Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet

112•glawrence13•15h ago•64 comments

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetition-in-art-pleases-the-brain/
23•prismatic•3h ago•2 comments

Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts

https://petapixel.com/2025/08/20/home-depot-sued-for-secretly-using-facial-recognition-technology-on-self-checkout-cameras/
99•mikece•15h ago•86 comments

SimpleIDE

https://github.com/jamesplotts/simpleide
61•impendingchange•7h ago•26 comments

Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

https://github.com/plutoprint/plutoprint
113•sammycage•10h ago•25 comments

Sequoia backs Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed
367•vquemener•19h ago•225 comments

French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/gouach-wants-you-to-insert-and-pluck-the-cells-from-its-infinite-e-bike-battery/
90•pabs3•3d ago•71 comments

Show HN: Luminal – Open-source, search-based GPU compiler

https://github.com/luminal-ai/luminal
108•jafioti•15h ago•52 comments

Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem prover

https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/FLT/
106•ljlolel•12h ago•71 comments

An Update on Pytype

https://github.com/google/pytype
169•mxmlnkn•14h ago•56 comments

Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

https://github.com/zedless-editor/zed
466•homebrewer•12h ago•259 comments

Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs/rqO40yy-ai-engineer
1•smaddali•10h ago

Introduction to AT Protocol

https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/
156•psionides•12h ago•80 comments

Advice for Tech Non-Profits

https://mitchellh.com/writing/advice-for-tech-nonprofits
37•ksec•6h ago•9 comments

OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple

https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/note-from-teemu-tim-and-torin-to-the-open-policy-agent-community-2dbbfe494371
126•crcsmnky•15h ago•42 comments

Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-web-phoenix-rails
280•kieloo•21h ago•52 comments

Pixel 10 Phones

https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-10-pro-xl/
388•gotmedium•13h ago•771 comments