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DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 2,924 posts.
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Math breakdown: Anime homing missiles
Tech Notes on Cubic Bezier Curves, Perlin Noise, and Minimal Rotation Frames
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It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
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The Polygons of Another World
There is a playful way to study the architecture of computers of the past. Find a piece of software you know well and try to find out how it was ported to these machine you don't. A good choice would be DOOM. id Software's 1994 mega-hit has been ported to everything. It is designed around a core with no layering…
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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
Jungle music was found in countless games from the early 90s. This article goes over what jungle is, where it comes from, and why it was the perfect match for PlayStation & Nintendo 64 games.
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RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.
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Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess
Are they good or bad?
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Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
A continuous version of Conway's Life, using floating point values instead of integers: supports many interesting phenomena such as gliders that can travel in any direction, rotating pairs of gliders, wickstretchers and the appearance of elastic tension in the 'cords' that join the blobs. Slides showing how the rule…
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Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
The origin story of a 3D Modeler made very quickly
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Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs
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Show HN: Metaballs
Generating gooey metaballs as a single SVG path — locating the tangent points between two circles, spreading and curving the connector with polar coordinates, and handling overlap, after Hiroyuki Sato's Illustrator script.
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How video games use lookup tables
How to implement 1D LUTs to color grayscale thermal vision videos, 3D LUTs for color correct and smart hacks from video games
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Why fastDOOM is fast
During the winter of 2024, I restored an IBM PS/1 486-DX2 66Mhz, "Mini-Tower", model 2168. It was the computer I always wanted as a teenager but could never afford. Words cannot do justice to the joy I felt while working on this machine.
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3dfx: So powerful it’s kind of ridiculous
the history of 3dfx Interactive
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World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
Tomorrow Corporation is an independent game developer behind indie games Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine
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A video game where you are an operating system
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an OS?
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Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
This blog is all about astrophotography and it works mainly as an imaging diary. J-P Metsavainio is a Finnish astrophotographer,
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Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
Accurately transform digital cinema footage to exhibit the grain, halation, and soul of motion picture film. Plugin for DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, Livegrade Frontier, Colorfront, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro.
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Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
I am an unusual beast. All my solo project games I've been making recently have been written in 'vanilla' C. Nobody does this. So I think it might be interesting to explain why I do.
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Valve is about to win the console generation
Valve does nothing and still wins
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OpenAI Five
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder
There is nothing unusual about the outside of these disks, but there is something unique about the data that is stored on them, something that Sierra On-Line would have been totally unaware of and certainly wouldn’t have wanted them to include.
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Microsoft makes Zork open-source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
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LiChess: Learn from your mistakes
New feature: train tactics from your own games
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Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
A version of Flappy Bird that runs entirely inside MacOS Finder. It runs at 4 frames a second! That's a lot of frames!!
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Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam
The ultimate list of (almost) everything we used to create our premium Steam hit game Curious Expedition.