GoKawiil - Tech News

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I switched to this SSD enclosure - and immediately saw faster rendering speeds (zdnet.com)

2026-08-04 | by Jack Wallen | tags: terramaster, nvme ssd, mac studio

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Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cwbrowser, zig, acid3

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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing 'correspondence chess with a shotgun' — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: doom, regular expressions, artem lytkin

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Nvidia is giving developers more control over DLSS 5, after accusations it turns games into "AI slop" (techspot.com)

2026-07-21 | by Rob Thubron | tags: nvidia, dlss 5, siggraph 2026

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Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: firefox, rendering, server

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Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: typography, arabic script, font rendering

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What to Learn to Be a Graphics Programmer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | get OpenGL Programming Guide → | tags: rendering, things

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The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-01 | tags: algorithm, algorithm pdf, glyph

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Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | get QR Code Font Generator → | tags: qr code font, truetype, jim

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Show HN: An ASCII 3D Rendering Engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get ASCII Art 3D Renderer → | tags: ascii 3d rendering engine, glyph css, webgl

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The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get Arabic Typography Font Pack → | tags: arabic typography, gutenberg, script rendering

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Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get Arabic Typography Rendering Guide → | tags: arabic typography, nastaʿlīq font, persian script

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Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-12 | get ASCII Art Video Display → | tags: asciline, ascii video, html canvas

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Fluid Simulation for Dummies (2006) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-30 | get Fluid Dynamics Simulation Software → | tags: navier-stokes, jos stam, real-time fluid dynamics

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Voxel Space (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-30 | get Voxel Space 3D Art Kit → | tags: voxel space, nova logic, comanche

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On Rendering Diffs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | by Amadeus Demarzi | get Diff Checker Tool → | tags: diff rendering, github, code review

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End of ‘The Line’: A timeline of Saudi Arabia’s failed rendering city (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-29 | get Saudi Arabia Render Kit → | tags: the line, saudi arabia, megacity

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Why Ideogram stands out in the AI image boom (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-17 | get AI Art Generator Software → | tags: ideogram, ai image generator, wonder tools

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Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-17 | get ZX Spectrum 48K Emulator → | tags: zx spectrum, z88dk, 3d rendering

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Surfel-based global illumination on the web (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | get WebGL Surfel Rendering Kit → | tags: webgpu, surfels, global illumination

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Optimize for change not application performance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-09 | by Christian Rackerseder | tags: rendering benchmarks, bundle size, hydration speed

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You’re not alone: a bug is sending YouTube’s web player into an infinite loop of lag (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-01 | get YouTube Web Player Repair Tool → | tags: youtube, mozilla, web player

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Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-29 | get Blender Compositing & Blend Modes Guide → | tags: css, blend modes, compositing

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How to Implement an FPS Counter (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | get FPS Counter Display Software → | tags: fps, game performance, game jam

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 is better at rendering non-Latin text (engadget.com)

2026-04-21 | tags: openai, chatgpt images 2.0, non-latin text

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Nvidia research promises 2x to 3x faster path tracing with better visuals (techspot.com)

2026-04-21 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, restir, path tracing

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Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-13 | get Spherical Harmonics Lighting Kit → | tags: spherical harmonics, computer graphics, real-time rendering

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Introduction to Spherical Harmonics for Graphics Programmers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-13 | get Spherical Harmonics DVD → | tags: spherical harmonics, computer graphics, realtime rendering

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Nvidia AI tech claims to slash gaming GPU memory usage by 85% with zero quality loss — Neural Texture Compression demo reveals stunning visual parity between 6.5GB of VRAM and 970MB (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-04 | by Hassam Nasir | get Nvidia Neural Texture Compression → | tags: nvidia, neural texture compression, vray

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Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | get Sycamore Rust Web UI Library → | tags: sycamore, rust, webassembly