Best of 2016

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2016. 154 posts.

Games & Graphics
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Weep for Graphics Programming

The mainstream real-time graphics APIs, OpenGL and Direct3D, make miserable standard bearers for the age of hardware heterogeneity. Their approach to heterogeneous programming leads to stringly typed interfaces, a huge volume of boilerplate, and impoverished GPU-specific programming languages.