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ARMSX2 Refresh brings great news for PS2 emulation on older Pixels (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-23 | get PlayStation 2 Emulator Software → | tags: armsx2, ps2 emulator, mali gpu

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Open-source Vulkan driver NVK gains experimental DLSS support — bringing Nvidia’s upscaling tech to Linux via imported CUDA binaries (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-21 | by Luke James | get NVIDIA DLSS Linux Plugin → | tags: nvidia, nvk, vulkan

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A 3D voxel game engine written in APL (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | tags: voxel game, apl, vulkan

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Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding (slashdot.org)

2026-06-08 | get Firefox Vulkan Video Decoder Plugin → | tags: firefox, nvidia, va api

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The slimmest Galaxy Z Fold 8 competitor is going global with a huge battery in tow (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-04 | get Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Case → | tags: honor magic v6, samsung galaxy z fold 8, qualcomm snapdragon 8 elite gen 5

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Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-03 | get GPU-Accelerated UI Framework Book → | tags: gooey, zig, metal

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One of the best PC gaming apps for Android just hit its v1 milestone (androidauthority.com)

2026-06-01 | get Steam Link App → | tags: gamenative, epic games, vulkan renderer

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Steam Machine appears in Vulkan’s conformant product database — upcoming Valve console is certified compliant with the graphics API (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-24 | by Jowi Morales | get Vulkan API Developer Kit → | tags: steam machine, valve, vulkan

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GameHub is one of the best PC gaming apps, but it’s now accused of copying (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-14 | get Game Controller for PC → | tags: gamehub, gamesir, vulkan

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This handy feature gives PC gaming on Android a major boost (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-11 | get Game Controller for Android → | tags: lossless scaling, vulkan, gamenative

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GameNative unlocks up to 100 fps gameplay for PC games on Android devices by adding multi-frame generation — Vulkan version of Lossless Scaling boosts performance (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-07 | by Aaron Klotz | get Vulkan Lossless Scaling → | tags: gamenative, lossless scaling, android gaming

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Valve engineer develops Linux VRAM fix that boosts gaming on 8GB GPUs (techspot.com)

2026-04-13 | get Linux VRAM Optimization Tool → | tags: valve, linux, vram

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Cooperative Vectors Introduction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get Vector Mathematics Textbook → | tags: neural networks, vulkan cooperative matrix, neural radiance caching

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Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-22 | by Chester Lam | get Microbenchmarking Tool Kit → | tags: chipsets, amd, asus

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Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-17 | by Lynne | get Vulkan API Developer Kit → | tags: vulkan compute shaders, ffmpeg, video encoding

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MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-08 | get Unity → | tags: mono game, xbox, directx

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Graphics Programming Resources (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get Graphics Programming Resources → | tags: opengl, ray tracing, pbr

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Minecraft Java Is Switching From OpenGL To Vulkan (slashdot.org)

2026-02-19 | get Vulkan → | tags: away, away opengl, modders

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Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | by Liam Dawe | get Vulkan → | tags: away, minecraft, opengl

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Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-10 | by Tobias Hector - Amd Software Architect | get NVIDIA GPU → | tags: extension, extensions, vulkan

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Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-10 | by Tobias Hector - Amd Software Architect | get GPU → | tags: extension, extensions, vulkan

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Wine 11.0 Released (slashdot.org)

2026-01-13 | tags: better, handling, improvements

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No Graphics API (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | by Sebastian Aaltonen | get Graphics API → | tags: buffer, descriptor, metal

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How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-21 | get Graphics Engine → | tags: const, draw, engine

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I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-21 | get Graphics Card → | tags: const, draw, engine

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A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get iPhone → | tags: compute, device, enabling

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A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset – Maister's Gr (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get iPhone → | tags: compute, device, enabling

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Blender 4.5 brings big changes (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: 3d, blender, nodes

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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Meta Quest → | tags: apple, driver, linux

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KosmicKrisp a Vulkan on Metal Mesa 3D Graphics Driver (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Randi Rost | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: android, khronos, kosmickrisp