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The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf]

https://rookandpossum.com/papers/scanline_sweeper_preprint.pdf
7•kouosi•2d ago

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kouosi•2d ago
YT video: https://youtu.be/B9bztU1sTFA
speps•54m ago
Well done on the paper, I saw your Reddit post a few days ago. Are you getting it through JCGT for example?

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/
251•gslin•3h ago•158 comments

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/
14•jnord•1h ago•1 comments

Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era

https://mirtitles.org
85•clmul•3d ago•28 comments

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island

https://danluu.com/ai-coding/#appendix-agentic-loops-and-writing-this-post
94•gm678•5h ago•40 comments

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd
249•latchkey•12h ago•88 comments

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/
237•programLyrique•11h ago•69 comments

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

https://www.databricks.com/blog/lakebase-ltap-rethinking-database-storage
27•andrenotgiant•2d ago•10 comments

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-...
205•hhs•11h ago•94 comments

Maybe you should learn something

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/
100•tylerdane•6h ago•34 comments

Synthesis is harder than analysis

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/synthesis-is-harder-than-analysis/
94•azhenley•7h ago•21 comments

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV

https://github.com/FossPrime/Steam-Controller-Auto-Charge
142•zdw•11h ago•29 comments

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds

https://mrbruh.com/msicenter/
91•MrBruh•9h ago•28 comments

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

https://github.com/searxng/searxng
217•theanonymousone•14h ago•58 comments

FreeBSD ate my RAM

https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/
140•theanonymousone•15h ago•49 comments

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm
349•livestyle•19h ago•153 comments

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-amsterdam-invented-the-fire-department/
96•zdw•11h ago•16 comments

Show HN: Morph Reflexes – Multi-head classifiers for agent traces

14•bhaktatejas922•3d ago•2 comments

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/
156•stock_toaster•11h ago•207 comments

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models

https://soatok.blog/2026/06/30/soatoks-informal-guide-to-threat-models/
92•zdw•9h ago•12 comments

The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf]

https://rookandpossum.com/papers/scanline_sweeper_preprint.pdf
7•kouosi•2d ago•2 comments

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

https://epoch.ai/data-insights/cve-severity-spike
109•cubefox•13h ago•34 comments

Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining

https://github.com/adam-s/car-diagnosis
16•dataviz1000•2d ago•0 comments

Costco is the anti-Amazon

https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/
414•bookofjoe•19h ago•382 comments

David Beazley – Programming Courses

https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html
85•gregsadetsky•4h ago•26 comments

Reverse-engineering Codemasters' BIGF archive format in Ruby

https://davidslv.uk/2026/06/30/reading-binary-in-ruby.html
19•davidslv•3d ago•5 comments

Study reveals what people see when they read lips

https://news.ku.edu/news/article/study-reveals-what-people-really-see-when-they-read-lips
14•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•2 comments

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/
69•wslh•3d ago•21 comments

Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/index.html
111•measurablefunc•13h ago•8 comments

Factories are just rooms

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories
248•arbesman•19h ago•103 comments

Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead to Shift FinOps Left

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/YTJcFwr-marketing-lead
1•akh•13h ago