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LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop

https://github.com/TechPaula/LT6502
151•classichasclass•2h ago•36 comments

I Fixed Windows Native Development

https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/
485•deevus•8h ago•252 comments

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-destruction-unsold-clothes-and-shoes-2026...
349•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•248 comments

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

https://gwern.net/gwtar
92•theblazehen•4h ago•19 comments

Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10177
22•gmays•1h ago•2 comments

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/15/palantir-contract-new-york-city-health-hospitals/
122•cdrnsf•2h ago•37 comments

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hideki-sato-designer-of-segas-consoles-dies-age-75/
188•magoghm•3h ago•14 comments

I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/
817•panic•18h ago•145 comments

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/
43•tobr•3d ago•7 comments

Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

https://flashpointarchive.org
287•helloplanets•13h ago•72 comments

Oat – Ultra-lightweight, semantic, zero-dependency HTML UI component library

https://oat.ink/
350•twapi•11h ago•99 comments

Palantir vs. the "Republik": US analytics firm takes magazine to court

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-vs-the-Republik-US-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court-1...
101•cdrnsf•2h ago•28 comments

(Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-qu...
41•bikenaga•1h ago•26 comments

Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986)

https://github.com/s-macke/starflight-reverse
80•tosh•8h ago•40 comments

How Is Data Stored?

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how-is-data-stored
100•tzury•5d ago•7 comments

An Enslaved Gardener Transformed the Pecan into a Cash Crop

https://lithub.com/how-an-enslaved-gardener-transformed-the-pecan-into-a-cash-crop/
54•PaulHoule•3h ago•35 comments

1940s Irish sci-fi novel features early mecha and gravity assists

https://github.com/cavedave/Manannan
33•donohoe•4h ago•16 comments

The Spy Who Found T. Rex

https://nautil.us/the-spy-who-found-t-rex-1267359/
6•speckx•3d ago•0 comments

RynnBrain

https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/RynnBrain
55•jsemrau•4d ago•5 comments

My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker

https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
569•minimalthinker•1d ago•239 comments

Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly
509•mikece•6h ago•357 comments

The seam through the center of things

https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/the-seam-through-the-center-of-things
34•surprisetalk•2d ago•5 comments

Build Gaussian Splat Experiences with SuperSplat Studio

https://blog.playcanvas.com/build-gaussian-splat-experiences-with-supersplat-studio/
26•ovenchips•4d ago•5 comments

A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment

https://stargazingbuddy.com/
106•constantinum•3d ago•19 comments

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

https://www.seangoedecke.com/fast-llm-inference/
142•swah•10h ago•64 comments

Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door

https://knock-knock.net
6•djkurlander•2h ago•4 comments

Constraint Propagation for Fun

https://eli.li/constraint-propagation-for-fun
47•rickcarlino•5d ago•0 comments

Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

https://github.com/alibaba/zvec
206•dvrp•2d ago•35 comments

Instagram's URL Blackhole

https://medium.com/@shredlife/instagrams-url-blackhole-c1733e081664
290•tkp-415•2d ago•46 comments

DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/djvu-and-its-connection-to-deep-learning/
63•tosh•10h ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/
43•tobr•3d ago

Comments

pixelpoet•1h ago
Pretty great demos, and they do indeed run well on my phone; I suspected it might be an AI thing because of the tautology in the title, but it seems hand written.

Particularly cool is the recreation of that classic scene from Kajiya's rendering equation paper, with the glass spheres and caustics.

modeless•1h ago
This is neat. In the demos I would suggest making mouse/finger drag orbit the camera around the scene instead of panning. Panning can be done by a 2D image transformation so it doesn't show off the 3D nature of the renderer.
dahart•46m ago
I second the vote for orbit cam! Add double-click to choose the orbit point, and add a zoom control that is proportional to distance to orbit point, and it suddenly gets insanely easy to navigate the scene and find good views. It’s too hard to control using translate and look-around angles.

The demos I tried so far have translate and not pan, and those are fully 3d…

pjmlp•1h ago
Lots of cool demos.
ttul•57m ago
Reminds me of the old POV-Ray stuff I did in the early-1990s. But... in realtime and in my browser. WTF!
flowerbreeze•42m ago
It's very interesting and I'm also impressed that most of the demoes run on my potato-phone.
LoganDark•5m ago
Huh. I've seen space/shift-or-ctrl, Z/X, and Q/E for up/down movement... but never Q/Z