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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 86 posts.
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The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive
Once a month, I download roughly 25 gzipped (.gz) files from Apple—these are our Mac App Store sales reports, with one file for each App Store region. I could have Safari expand these files (via the "Open 'safe' files after downloading' item in its preferences), but I prefer to leave that option unchecked. (Why? I…
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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.
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Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
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Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence
In 1997 I received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for work I had done on procedural texture. For example, the NYU Torch on the right is made entirely from procedural textures (except for the text along the bottom). The flame, background, and metal and marble handle…
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Miyazaki Tribute
Read on Dono's experience using Blender to make this beautiful tribute to Hayao Miyazaki.
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RAISR Sharp Images with Machine Learning
Posted by Peyman Milanfar, Research Scientist Everyday the web is used to share and store millions of pictures, enabling one to explore the world, ...
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Principles for smooth web animations
The complete guide to 60fps smooth animations on your website
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Design Principles for Reducing Cognitive Load
Every time you visit a website, a process of learning is initiated in the brain. Whether it’s the navigation, layout, or that auto-rotating image slider on the homepage, your brain has to learn how to use the site while keeping track of the reason you came there in the first place. The mental effort required during…
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Web fonts, boy, I don't know
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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Supercharging Style Transfer
Posted by Vincent Dumoulin*, Jonathon Shlens and Manjunath Kudlur, Google Brain TeamPastiche. A French word, it designates a work of art that imita...
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Nearly there
We’ve spent the past two weeks asking people around the world to think about our four refined design directions for the Mozilla brand identity. The results are in and the ...
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Blender 2.78 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Pixels and voxels, the long answer
Retronator Do It Yourself
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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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What every coder should know about gamma
Personal blog of John Novak
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Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts
“” is published by John Hudson in VariableFonts.io.
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How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame
DOOM pioneered fundamental changes in game design and mechanics back in 1993, it was a world-wide phenomenon which propelled to fame iconic figures …
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3D Printed Camera
The design of the camera body evolved from a simplified massing of functional elements to refinements based on ergonomics and scale, as I learned more about the strength of the material.
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The math of CSS locks
CSS Locks are a Responsive Web Design technique that lets you transition smoothly between two property values when the screen gets smaller or bigger.
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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
Haiku uses a custom vector image format to store icons. This is surprising both because most OSes consider bitmaps to be totally sufficient to represent icons and because there are plenty of vector graphics formats out this (e.g. SVG). The goal of the Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is to make vector icon files as…
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Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour
Hallå! Welcome to my first game devlog. I figured I'd start out talking about graphics, as they are a large source of anxiety for first-time developers. And not without reason! Everyone is a judgy bastard when it comes to how your low-budget game is presented. Oh sure, it's become easier for a solo developer to mask…
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